We are excited to share our latest article on offshore wind's potential to enhance energy security in nations with limited land and fuel resources, such as Japan. If you are interested in energy transition in such countries, please check it out. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Hey y'all: is anyone out there thinking about what enabling policy/regulation it would take to permit balcony solar in the USA? Shouldnt we? (Context www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...). 🔌💡

Our 2013 paper - the Political Economy of the Just Transition - was cited more in 2024 than any prior year. Here are 213 new papers on #JustTransitions: scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=b... Link to paper: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Excited to announce a new @pnas.org publication on the Social Cost of Carbon. We integrate evidence from the literature and expert survey to provide an SCC distribution inclusive of both parametric and structural uncertainties. Our mean 2020 value is $283 per ton CO2 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We published our take-aways from the 2024 Workshop on Low-Carbon Transitions in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises, held earlier this year. Here are some of our key observations: pwrlab.org/2024/12/15/w...

The largest solar power installation in Los Angeles is the US Postal Service’s Processing and Distribution Center. ☀️🔌💡

Today, the Japanese government presented the draft new 2040 generation mix. 40-50% Renewables 20% Nuclear 30-40% Fossil fuel and hydrogen/ammonia The Japanese government has doubled down on CCS as well as imported hydrogen and ammonia. www.enecho.meti.go.jp/committee/co...

Yesterday, the COP29 Global Energy Storage and Grids Pledge was finalized and endorsed by 58 countries and 48 non-state actors. The goal is 1.5TW of storage & 25M km (15.5M miles) of grid infrastructure development by 2030. Check it out #energysky: globalrenewablesalliance.org/signatories-...

For 95% of October through November, Batteries provided lower-cost offers in the Balancing Mechanism compared to gas-fired generation, reducing carbon emissions and lowering consumer costs.

Of one-fifth of the carbon credit volume issued to date, almost 1 billion tons of CO2e, less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects were estimated to constitute real emission reductions. 🤡 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To anyone interested, here is my book, Solar Power: Innovation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice, University of California Press. ☀️🔌💡 drive.google.com/file/d/1MpQ3...

New report on the benefits of agrivoltaics, rangevoltaics, and ecovoltaics in California by the Wild Energy Center. 🚜🌾🍇🥬🐂🐑🦊☀️🔌💡 static1.squarespace.com/static/646b9...

"It’s more appropriate to think of the lithium-ion battery not as a single invention, but as a steady accumulation of many inventions that were needed to both make a battery practical and to unlock its full potential." This is true of all innovation. www.construction-physics.com/p/how-we-got...

This platform has grown explosively since the election, but growth has slowed down the past few days. Should we be concerned? No. A temporary plateau was inevitable given the heterogeneity of social media users. From my point of view Bluesky is already over the hump 1/

Solar capacity additions are continuing to scale up much faster than most people expected ☀️ Our analysis suggest that close to 600GW could be installed globally in 2024. To put that in perspective, that's 3x the total existing solar capacity in the US in 2023 – all installed in one year. 🔌💡

Here’s the full interactive portal: interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

"Why are electricity prices so high if renewables break generation records and are so cheap?" I have been asked. The main reason: Gas still sets the price 63% of the time in wholesale electricity markets in EU27 & >90% in some countries. The graphic is from the Draghi Report.

Tesla thinks it can out-compete others without the $7500 tax credit. This will be hugely damaging to other automakers producing EVs, most of them in GOP districts (in GA, TN, IN, NC, SC etc). Will House reps let Trump cut off their constituents' nose to spite Biden's face & further enrich Elon? 🔌💡

METI announced its first biofuel target for passenger vehicles, sourcing from Brazil, the U.S., and SE Asia. Its "multi-pathway" decarbonization approach raises efficiency concerns for climate and industrial policies. Japan's ICE phaseout remains far off. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2024...

Hey #EnergySky the California Energy Storage Alliance seeks a new policy director. This is such an important job, not just for advancing battery storage but also for driving the market for LDES. Spread the word! storagealliance.org/careers