Good! www.eenews.net/articles/eur...

Extraordinary: on the 4 year anniversary of a war financed from oil and gas sales, Germany rolls out the red carpet for new oil and gas boilers

Joined a big crowd at Brandenburger gate tonight after talking EU-UA clean power trade with @razomwestand.bsky.social and good seeing 2 out of 3 previous ampel parties united again in support of Ukraine, pity that neither of them are in government right now

Switch from Berlin winter to Brussels ‘winter’ this weekend been absolutely brutal

Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline. All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...

Excellent thread on why and how Europe must plan and govern energy better; together it is more resilient and cost-effective – see the synergy in the maps below.

This is of course all really fascinating but I do worry about the effect this will have on the modern day inhabitants of said swamp, in particular their widely known tendency toward modesty and humbleness www.zmescience.com/medicine/gen...

Policymakers: If you want electricity to be cheap - you should not drive up capital cost by 'in passing' creating additional uncertainty over the future electricity market design, or energy pathways. Every small increase in risk premia will show up on the bills.

Sehr Lesenswert 👇🏼

This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.

5/ "This could be the start of something big. Combine the EU and India, add Brazil and Indonesia, throw in Nigeria, Argentina, Japan and South Korea. Drive a common agenda (trade, tech, climate, security) through the whole thing. And you get the beginnings of a new geopolitical pole"-@JeremyCliffe

Clean energy isn’t a talking point. It’s already powering Europe. 💡 Nearly half of Europe's electricity came from renewables in 2024. 💡 We saved €120 billion through energy efficiency measures. 💡 And in June 2025, solar became the EU's largest power source for the first time in history.

Not everything anyone ever does in the world is about Trump and the stuff he sells But doing something that ‘winds him up’ is certainly a healthy indicator of being on the right track www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Suspect it’s a big factor in MAGA/Russia’s all out war against the global energy transition

My favorite graph from the brand new EU Electricity Review by @ember-energy.org 🔌💡 It shows new battery storage capacity is coming, especially to the countries that need it to integrate their solar and wind. Good for consumers, and sign that market signals work. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

This is unbelievably sad news. Oleksii Brekht was acting CEO of Ukraine’s transmission system operator, Ukrenergo, during the turbulent and challenging first half of 2025. He died defending his country’s power system - a role that no civilian energy professional should ever be forced to assume.

US government representatives continue to find themselves isolated when pitching for coal and against renewables www.ft.com/content/e2ae...

Seeing Europes most beloved professional group, farmers, doing their utmost to lose that status and probably still failing at it

And not only to the big firms but to the two countries east and west of Europe who still don’t seem to fathom that this could actually happen, and is in fact happening

One of those rare cases where all the hyperbole over a speech is not actually hyperbole Its a doctrine that many, EU included even if they will struggle with the honesty bit, should be able to get behind, that could work and, crucially, outlast Donroe paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Batteries are an increasingly cheap way to bypass the erosion of the price commanded by already installed solar. No way of suppressing this demand.

As Rasmussen says: “the world’s attention is now focused on something that does not represent a threat — namely Greenland, a friendly ally of the US — instead of focusing on what should be the focal point right now: namely, how can we force Putin to the negotiation table in Ukraine?”

As I am seeing a lot of excitement in certain circles over these remarks, this will not mean that Germany will now embrace nuclear, it can’t afford it. It’s tactical manoeuvring to put the blame for relatively high energy costs, which Germany has always had, elsewhere.

Trump is trying to kill clean energy. The market has other plans. #Climate

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Whatever the outcome of this, it’s already mission accomplished for Russia

Better known as the Mearsheimer doctrine

It isn't just Europeans understanding the new world order. The ECFR survey found that most Russians now no longer see America as an enemy - they have switched to seeing Europe as an enemy. Ukrainians, in turn, no longer see America as a friend. www.politico.eu/article/the-...

Trade deals are the battle farmers love to lose. Remember well during TTIP how a COPA rep literally told DG Trade they supported a deal but would have to criticise it publicly to keep their constituency happy and asked for their understanding www.politico.eu/article/euro...

To think there are still governments who think it’s in their best interest to control more oil resources

This is more about consumer confidence in EVs translating into better then expected sales figures but still another proofpoint that writing off Germanys car industry would be premature: www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...

"Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year..." How many people know this? The economics are on the side of clean energy. The petrofascists know. Can they stop it?

“The neo-royalist order centers on an international system structured by a small group of hyper elites who seek to legitimize their authority through appeals to their exceptionalism in order to generate durable material & status hierarchies based on the extraction of financial & cultural tributes.”

Zehlendorfer natives reflecting on their imperial lifestyles* - 2026 oil on canvas *following a 5 day black out caused by a sabotage attack on local power lines, one of many attacks on Germanys energy transition, in this case from the far left.

To put it in perspective: this is the climate equivalent of sabotaging a vaccination centre to fight a pandemic. You need to be either excessively dumb, ideologically blinded or pursuing other objectives, all of which seem like plausible possibilities at this point

Knock me down with a feather table.media/ceo/news/kra...

"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes. "He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise" open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...

My colleagues @susieelks.bsky.social and @edmatthew.bsky.social are pointing out that Ofgem's new network plans will save money! Once again the media getting things wrong about renewables...

Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...

EU strategic autonomy in practice: ‘The fossil fuel companies, aimed to “divide and conquer in the Council”, sideline “stubborn” EC departments, and push the EPP in the European Parliament “to side with the right-wing parties as much as possible”. www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

Really inspiring story of how anti coal protests in Australia are changing the energy landscape in Asia thepoint.com.au/news/251126-...

Uruguay’s power grid runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules. Emissions reductions were a valuable side effect

I really, sincerely hope that S/D and Renew lawmakers think of something they can do about it, at the very latest before the next elections when they need to explain to their voters why they should bother voting for them again

There were plenty who wanted it initially (same ones who usually decry EU bureaucracy) until they realised how silly it made them look

This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going

Only a Pyrrhus win if at all; choice with exiting fossil fuels is one between managed/fair and messy/brutal, the less it’s talked about the messier it will be for major producer countries, not a single EV will be sold less as a results of this #COP30 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

Razom We Stand and 30+ European organisations have sent a joint letter urging #EU leaders to finally close the loopholes that still allow Russian fossil fuels into Europe and to uphold a strong, loophole-free Regulation: razomwestand.com/ukrainian-ca... @caneurope.org

Stellantis chair wants every European to pay more for their electricity. (EVs are batteries on wheels, they charge on renewables that might otherwise be curtailed thereby lowering overall system costs.)