In the midst of a global energy crisis, Philippine’s took a hard look at it’s moratorium on new coal plants, and decided to keep it realising new coal plants just weren’t needed www.msn.com/en-ph/news/o...

An increasingly likely nightmare scenario for 2026: worsening fossil fuel and fertilizer crisis, combined with record global temperatures and drought. Fossil fuel dependence really doing a number on us.

For an idea how bad those costs could become, see this recent report on the potential burden for the state: ieefa.org/resources/re...

Tom argues, that it does not make econ sense that 1) the new DE heating law would allow for biomethane usage in heating (a baseload that could be cost-effectively replaced by heat pumps etc) 2) while the DE power plant strategy requirs to set up a costly new H2 infrastructure for peak plants

Anyone got experience/recommendations for a good off grid solar/battery pack?

It's already destroyed a lot of fossil fuel supply, but the Iran War is shaping up to deliver the biggest destruction of fossil fuel demand in history. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528540...

Most important thing to keep in mind when reading these 2026 figures, including on ‘subsued oil demand growth at 0.7%’, is that all this is *before* the oil demand destruction and electrification drive triggered by the US war on Iran

Indian mining company going electric in a bid to cut costs, emissions and boosting domestic industrial supply chains electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...

If the world is witnessing a ‘coal comeback’ it means coal is in even bigger trouble then we already knew

In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

“Sales of electric vehicles jumped 50 per cent in the month after the war against Iran began as motorists, scarred by soaring fuel prices, sought ways to escape pain at the petrol pump.” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Very random sample but after a week of catching up with family and friends in the lowlands, feels like VWs ID7 is a big milestone: offering a range that makes people comfortable, and very clearly nobody wants a Chinese car

How the Hormuz crisis is driving a shift away from fossil fuels: ☑️Developer in Vietnam wants to replace an LNG terminal with renewables and batteries ☑️Sinopec cancels LNG terminal expansion in Tianjin, China ☑️New Zealand LNG terminal uncertain after PM doubts business case

It's simple economics. "Vingroup has told Vietnam's government it wants to ditch ​a plan to build the country's largest LNG-fired power plant and embark on a renewable energy project instead, as ‌the Iran war has boosted the risk of the fuel becoming too expensive, a document showed."

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

This is so bad it actually destroys any possible lingering credibility that this is about improving energy security An act of self-harm just to own the libs while in the meantime neighbouring Spain is showing how it’s actually done

‘An exhaustive investigation into the causes of the Iberian blackout has closed without finding a single smoking gun: the blackout was due to the interplay of no fewer than 17 different factors, and raises questions about governance and inadequate infrastructure.’ www.euractiv.com/news/final-r...

"Trump is doing more to destroy the fossil fuel industry and smash the sources of wealth that fuel inequality than the wildest socialist eco-terrorist could ever dream of" - Ryan Grim www.ft.com/content/3201...

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/...