Open data = First of all, have a go at finding all our charging points out and about and make a note of their numbers. Good luck with the treasure hunt, and see you in a century!

A new report from the JRC shows gross value added grows far more in clean energy technologies than rest of economy for EU

BYD used to only sell battery electric cars in Europe. In late 2024, the EU put tariffs on these cars but not plug-in hybrid (and far more polluting) models. The results are striking. A policy that must change.

🆕 Q2 2026 clean manufacturing investments update Database now covers €227 investment made by 240 companies into 390 facilities. Electric vehicle investment has slowed since the Commission proposed weakening targets; battery investment grows steadily; solar investments remain announcements only

Thanks to @keliauskaite.bsky.social for maintaining the @bruegel.org natural gas imports tracker for three years now! This her last update as she takes a new challenge at the Lithuanian government.

Updated @bruegel.org European gas import data for week 26, June LNG and Q2 2026 gas imports by source: 📊 download data: www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

Electric vehicle sales are up across Europe and slowly but surely this is reflected in economy-wide electrification data. By 2024, 0.7 percentage of final energy demand is electric. Share in Norway is 7 percent in 2023.

European natural gas storages are relatively low for this time of year, but still on track to reach 80 percent by 1 November. Storages are 48 percent full on June 27. Extrapolating the recent 30 days trend meets the needed 0.25 %pts/day to reach 80 percent.

Climate impacts will become a structural macro-fiscal problem. With low private insurance, EU governments are sleepwalking into becoming disaster insurers of last resort. Our @bruegel.org Policy Brief on mitigating rising fiscal costs of climate disasters. 🔗 www.bruegel.org/policy-brief... 🧵1/10

Helion has the world's first permit for a commercial fusion plant. *Aspiration* is 50 MW to Microsoft by 2028. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Gas still has good economics in places like the US, the Middle East and Russia, when it’s often an almost cost-free byproduct of producing oil. But for all the noise about LNG project sign-offs in recent years, the demand just isn’t there.

Four in ten new cars sold in the UK are electric. The government is reportedly considering weakening EV targets, but consumer demand continues to grow.

Four years after a Russian proxy court sentenced me to death in occupied Donetsk, I reflect on the destruction of Mariupol, Russia's filtration camps, and why those who never experienced the war are increasingly helping rewrite its history. open.substack.com/pub/shaunpin...

May LNG imports to the EU are down 1bcm ish on Strait of Hormuz closure. LNG imports from elsewhere staying stable for now. Regular set of @bruegel.org natural gas import and storage data updated courtesy of @keliauskaite.bsky.social

Chinese investment into clean technology manufacturing has fallen sharply from highs in 2023. Driven by oversupplied markets and a tightening of policy.

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

The volume of batteries in Europe's electric vehicle fleet is x10 that in stationary storage. Huge opportunity for those technologies and companies that are able to smartly integrate this into grids. @bruegel.org

A few weeks ago the European Commission proposed (after several leaks and heated internal debate) its "Industrial Accelerator Act". The Act proposes rules for green industrial policy, which would effect billions of euros in annual green subsidies. A short thread on research we just published /7

As there is increased nervousness about the availability of jet fuels in Europe the German government makes flying cheaper by lowering aviation taxes.

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

Journalism from @nytimes international articles since 2000 (n≈199,000) turned into a map. We see which topics were covered disproportionately. HT @tedalcorn

Company-level battery cell manufacturing capacities in Europe show a couple of things: 1️⃣ Europe has healthy capacity (but capacity does not mean output & this still needs to scale with growing demand) 2️⃣ Foreign companies are hugely important

Three sectors. One chart. Three very different stories. Buildings: 33% electrified in 1990 → 47% today. Industry: 31% → 33%. Barely moved. Transport: ~1% then, ~1% now. The 23% headline hides three transitions at radically different speeds. Long read coming on Substack: janrosenow.substack.com

European electrification is edging forward. New Eurostat data show electricity's share of final energy demand rose by 0.7 percentage points between 2021 and 2024. Growth, but not at the pace required to meet 2030 or 2040 targets.

In a move as predictable as the sunrise, US solar manufacturers filed a trade case against Ethiopian ones. It's not the biggest waste of human ingenuity in the world today, but can't believe how much brainpower and money is going into this legal whack-a-mole. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

EU clean tech manufacturing investment steady, as it plummets globally, says Bruegel - Improving economic policy. More in today's Energy Briefing from Contexte www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...

US kerosene imports closing between a half and two thirds of the Hormuz gap for now. But seasonality (more jet fuel for summer flights) means this will be stress-tested more seriously in June/July. (On the other hand @financialtimes.com reports today consumers are not buying tickets)

Europe's electricity revolution is driven by solar. Since 2020, solar output is up 220 TWh, while coal and gas are down 90 TWh each. Wind up 75 TWh. For context, demand is ≈ 2,800 TWh. european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/wnox9g

Investment in clean technology manufacturing facilities is falling worldwide, despite global demand for clean technologies growing rapidly. Our new piece joint @bruegel.org @rhg.com unpacks what drives these trends. /4

🔔 UPDATED: 2026 European energy crisis fiscal response tracker 💭 How are European governments responding to the 2026 energy shock? 📊 Explore the updated dataset by @bmcwilliams.bsky.social, Thomas Mramor, @aroth.bsky.social and @tagliapietra.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/HlVKMkJ #EconSky

In July 2024, the EU introduced tariffs on pure battery electric vehicles imported from China. Importantly, plug-in hybrid vehicles remain exempt. While BEV imports have stabilised at €500M monthly, trade flows have adjusted and plug-in hybrid imports have grown to €350M.

European natural gas storage operators took advantage of a sunny May bank holiday weekend to accelerate injections. Consequence is that required daily filling to meet 80% target falls from 0.26% pts to 0.25

Daily power prices average €21 in Spain since March. A new study finds that Spanish renewable expansions in the last two years have cut wholesale prices 24%

It has been a solid week of European natural gas filling. Daily rates are 0.26 pp / day, continuing at this pace would see storages reach 80% by 1 November (the EU agreed target).

BYD is scaling fast in Europe 🚀📊 2024: 0.4% 2025: 1.4% Q1 2026: 2.1% Top market so far: 🇳🇴 Norway at 3.5%.

Rising petrol and diesel prices are encouraging more Europeans to make the switch to electric vehicles. A monthly record 230,000 new EVs were bought in March 2026, accounting for more than 20% of new vehicles sold.

European governments have committed > €10 billion to cushion the impact of the US-Iran war on energy prices. 🇪🇸 Largest announced package in Spain at € 5 billion. Four-fifths of support is via tax cuts. Joint @bruegel.org work with @aroth.bsky.social @tagliapietra.bsky.social and Thomas Mramor.

A pleasure to chat with @maxbergmann.bsky.social about managing the fallout in Europe from higher energy prices stemming from Hormuz.

I have updated Tidy GHG Inventories - a dataset of greenhouse gas emissions based on country submissions to the UNFCCC. Summary figures: lambwf.github.io/Tidy-GHG-Inv... Dataset: zenodo.org/records/1969... This version has much more detailed energy sector data⚡including the split by fossil fuel 🛢️

Natural gas storages are nearly one-third full. European governments aim to have them four-fifths full by November. That will require roughly doubling daily filling to 0.25 % pts. @bruegel.org new tool tracks daily filling across all European countries 👇

Yesterday, @bmcwilliams.bsky.social and @keliauskaite.bsky.social added new functionality to our @bruegel.org gas tracker to better show how good MSs are at refilling storages. [Some of the data is now automatically updating every day. And our download-data is updated (typically) by Wednesday.]

Europe has a booming solar industry which employs one-in-every-thousand people. While manufacturing solar panels seemingly receives unending policy attention, all the jobs are in the installation and maintenance of panels. Anything that slows installations - like tariffs in the 2010s - hurts jobs

The IEA adds to a growing evidence base that the competitive production of green steel in the EU (and Japan) will depend upon the ability to import low-cost green iron. This is not deindustrialisation, but rather replaces today's situation where steelmakers import iron ore and coking coal.

Alongside many challenges, the new Hungarian government inherits a booming clean tech industry. 🇭🇺Hungary is the largest battery producer in Europe & an increasingly important EV manufacturer. For context, annual battery & EV exports are larger than oil imports.

European gas storage has started its summer refill. Storage sits at 30% capacity today. EU rules target 80% filling by 1 November. April injections are averaging 0.2 percentage points of capacity per day. A straight-line path to the 80% target would involve 0.25% pts per day.

📜 Pleased to share a new journal article - "A new European energy policy paradigm revealed by changes in hydrogen strategies" Through text analysis we find a shift in government hydrogen policy priorities toward energy security after 2022 energy crisis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another energy crisis - another lack of unbiased, relevant, timely ENERGY DATA for policy-making: What is possible: The US Energy Information Administration, provides among many other series granular weekly! oil&petroleum data for: refinery production, imports, exports, prices, stocks, ... 1/4

European power prices are split since the US-Iran conflict. Gas-reliant markets like Italy and Ireland have seen high prices (€140/MWh) while renewable rich regions including Spain, Portugal and Sweden see far lower prices (€40/MWh). These are average wholesale daily prices (8am to 8pm).

Coal offers an important flexibility in the coming days and weeks - demand will grow marginally, but clean energy will be the real long-term winner of today's natural gas price shock www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

🆕 How Europe should respond to the Iran gas shock – and how it shouldn’t Short thread on piece just published 👇 w/ @bruegel.org colleagues @aroth.bsky.social @gzachmann.bsky.social @keliauskaite.bsky.social @tagliapietra.bsky.social www.bruegel.org/analysis/how...