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Our new article on the long history of electrification, out today: open.substack.com/pub/electrot...

Discussing our new note, The Electrification Imperative, with @markhamhislop.bsky.social youtu.be/DDVm5vmZIwE

As the US rolls back electrification incentives, Asia seizes on the enormous growth opportunities. @daanwalt3r.bsky.social: “Renewables can make electricity cheaper. Electrification upgrades the everyday technologies households rely on — cars, heating and control systems — and delivers savings.”

Mind-bending reality: PHEVs are destroying your wallet! "In 2024, the average price of a 20 kWh PHEV battery pack—roughly the global sales-weighted average for standard plug-in hybrids—was about the same as a 65 kWh BEV battery pack." 🔋🔋🔋 #alwaysbecharging #battchat by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social

The energy debate needs fundamental rewiring. We wrote a new note on where we see the debate going wrong, and a better way to conceptualize what is happening today: the ‘electrotech’ perspective. #energysky open.substack.com/pub/electrot...

A perfect weekend longread by the great Amory Lovins on why datacenter load growth will likely NOT be as big of an issue as people make it out to be: integrative-design-for-radical-energy-efficiency.stanford.edu/sites/extrem... #energysky

Full report: ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... So very well done @kingsmillbond.bsky.social @sambutl3r.bsky.social @daanwalt3r.bsky.social

How to deal with energy security in a time like this? We lay out our views in a new note, "Energy Security in an Insecure World," which just came out this morning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t... I used a model by @daanwalt3r.bsky.social (Daan Walters) to investigate how the cost of 1 GW of firm electricity varies in a plant with various combinations of gas, solar PV and batteries. Adding Solar PV makes electricity cheaper!

And the full picture is even more striking: A top 3 consisting of China, "Deutschland" and China and guess the growth parties vs the one in decline ... #alwaysbecharging

King Cnut Pledges To Reverse The Tide www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/c...

My new op-ed in Dutch newspaper @nrcnl.bsky.social today on why is is time Europe parts with its incumbent thinking on energy. And needs to go all-in on entrants. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

“Hear how it sounds: 500 million Europeans begging 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians.” “Today, in Europe, we do not lack economic strength, people, but the belief that we are a global power” Absolutely spot on by Donald Tusk today.

A very much underappreciated fact of Chinese (battery) manufacturing: yes labor costs are lower per worker, but automation is also far more advanced than in the West. CATL needs only 50 workers per GWh; in the West we seem to need >300. From: www.crugroup.com/en/communiti... #energysky

Wait, did the IEA just forecast peak gas generation in the US? They show all supply growth will come from renewables, which grow so fast they even push out gas and coal. Sure looks like peak fossil power. #energysky

A good reminder again in the latest IEA Electricity report that high household electricity prices in Europe are to a large extent a CHOICE. Taxes and levies on gas per unit of energy is much lower. I would argue we'd at least have to level the playing field... #energysky

You may be familiar with those charts that show how the IEA underestimated solar and EV uptake and keep correcting outlooks upwards — this is the flip side: consistent overestimation and downward corrections of fossil fuel forecasts, emissions, and CCS required to get to net-zero. #energysky

I feel the fact that cleantech is a great tool against inflation has been largely overlooked the past two years. Lots of talk about how green deal spending on deploying more cleantech may or may not have added to inflation; little to how it steels the economy against future inflation… #energysky

New report out today: "Inside the Race to the Top" — where we look at cleantech competition at the local level in Europe, the US, and China. Change is accelerating; increasingly powered from the bottom up. link: rmi.org/insight/insi... #energysky

This chart is, to me, still one of the clearest signs that oil demand is about to fall — and oil companies know it. While publicly projecting rising demand, their books show a radical shift from investing in new assets to investing in propping up share prices to keep up appearances. #energysky

Today’s fossil energy system is incredibly inefficient: two-thirds of all primary energy is wasted in energy production, transport, and use, before producing any benefit. That means $4.6 trillion per year, almost 5% of global GDP, goes up in smoke due to fossil inefficiency. Literally.