Good morning with good news: India's solar & wind additions skyrocketed 123% to 20.1 GW in April to August 2025, compared to 9 GW in same period in 2024. India added 17.5 GW of solar & 2.6 GW of wind. India starts its fiscal year on April 1. www.pv-magazine-india.com/2025/09/30/i... #energysky

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

"The split-screen between Utah and Vermont has advocates especially excited. 'This solar panel can speak to a very broad spectrum ... Because while for some it is all about climate ... for others it is about freedom. It is about independence.'" (1/2) www.eenews.net/articles/plu...

When it comes to road deaths, we often put the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing.

Bavaria spends 100 million € to advance #nuclearFusion. Experts respond that the expensive effort has no effect on the energy transition. The energy produced after fusion technology breakthrough is enough for vacuum cleaning for a few hours. www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer...

9/ Key results show nuclear scenarios lead to 99–115% higher levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) compared to the BPS-ref in 2050 (70.1–75.8 €/MWh vs. 35.3 €/MWh). The cost-optimal RE system is dominated by wind power (54%) and solar PV (30%).

These layoffs in automotive industry are devastating for employees but a necessary development to save the climate. As always, we will see European taxpayer money bailing out the car industry. What we need is sustainable jobs that don't harm public health and climate. yle.fi/a/74-20184708

#WindPower as support structure for anti-drone weapons on east Finnish border? The #ResilEast project shows how radar and visual sensors on wind turbines at 200 height allow surveillance to 80km and more time to react to incoming drones. yle.fi/a/74-20184628 bsky.app/profile/henr...

Editorial in Finnish main stream media finally states the obvious: it was a mistake to lower gasoline tax. Finland was a founding member of the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform group so the devastating fiscal effects of that measure should have been anticipated #fffsr www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked. Important reality-check from Andrew Nikiforuk in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader. Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵

Tässäkään ilmastotoimessa Suomi ei ole enää mukana, vaikka se on hinta-laatusuhteeltaan kenties kaikkein tehokkain. Päinvastoin. Fossiilisesta bensasta tehtiin Suomessakin halvempaa, veronmaksajien rasitteeksi. Kansainvälinen FFFSR-verkosto lienee lopetettu, ainakaan nettisivu ei enää toimi.

What a load of bullshit by Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change. I lost my job in clean energy development in 🇫🇮 because of his governments utter lack of commitment, so I moved to Germany. NYT should do their homework. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One positive aspect about living in #Nuremberg is confidence in that some day the fascists will be sentenced and victims will have justice. #NurembergTrials

#Climate demonstration Nürnberg #ExitGasEnterFuture

Considering the final cost of the #Flamanville3 #nuclearPower plant is 23 billion € (not €3.5bn as promised) and assuming a modest 5% interest rate, that 0,5 TWh net electricity produced in the first 9 months should cost 1500 €/MWh just to cover interest payments. www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

www.spiegel.de/ausland/char... If there is one country that can identify #rightWingExtremism it is Germany. They find Kirk was not conservative, he was a right wing extremist. A good source on the subject is #Verfassungsschutz. (=Protecting constitution) www.verfassungsschutz.de/EN/topics/ri...

Fürth, 12:00 Kohlenmarkt Nürnberg 14:30 Kornmarkt #ExitGasEnterFuture

300MW / 3,5 GWh #PumpedHydro plant #Riedl starts construction at the Danube river near Passau, Bavaria. Cost 400 million €, to be operational in 2031/2032. www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/passa...

How does the Russian invasion affect the availability of electricity for Ukrainians? How can #Solar help, especially for hospitals and water supply? What can we do in Germany? Our friends from EcoClub Rivne explain to us. youtu.be/U5STa7v1wtg?... #solarpower #ukraine #slavaukraini

Almost 2 years ago, MVV Energie AG started to operate Germany’s largest river heat pump (20MW) in Mannheim. 2 more river heat pumps are to be added of a completely different caliber: a heat pump with 150MW & another with 100MW. HT @jaapburger.eu www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

I envisage increased demand for electric vehicles in Russia

Flashing red lights on wind turbines are a nuisance for nearby residents but are increasingly used only on demand, when an aircraft is in the vicinity. #BedarfsgerechteNachtkennzeichnung www.energieforschung.de/en/home/news... balticwind.eu/lights-on-wi...

A sand battery is low tech, like a heat pump with cop=1 or incandescent light bulb that produces no light. But as part of an energy system that uses increasing shares of weather dependent renewables and aims to decarbonise heating too, it plays a key role. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...

Heute am #Unabhängigkeitstag der #Ukraine erinnern wir: Wir unterstützen unseren Partner Eco Club Rivne bei diversen #Solar Projekten in der Ukraine. Details auf unserer Website: balkon.solar/news/2024/09... #SlavaUkraini #solidaritywithukraine #StandWithUkraine #DenNezalezhnostiUkrainy

The conflicting requirements of electricity market, system stability and grid congestion is a key reason why hundreds of GWs of battery projects are stalled in the grid access pipeline in Germany DSO Bayernwerk.de proposes a compromise: dynamic capacity allocation www.vde-verlag.de/zeitschrifte...

In 2014 when Finland was engaging with Rosatom to build the #Fennovoima nuclear power plant then PM Stubb dismissed all fears of Russian political motives as "russophobia" yle.fi/a/3-7528712 Broadcaster YLE also warned that the contractor Titan is notorious for financial crimes: yle.fi/a/3-8779301

Russian political elite casually discussing a nuclear strike on Finland, Germany or Italy. So Russia and US could divide the world. Only 3 years ago Finland partnered with Rosatom, the organisation that produced the #nuclearWeapons that are threatening us, to build the #Fennovoima nuclear plant.

Tempo 30 ist wichtig. Ein weiterer Grund warum ich mehr Angst beim Fahrradfahren in Nürnberg als in Helsinki habe, sind die geparkten Autos. Autos auf Fahrradwegen, Bürgersteigen, in Kreuzungen, vor Zebrastreifen und sogar auf Feuerwehrzufahrten versperren die Sicht www.br.de/nachrichten/...

I normally find it annoying that storage of vehicles is called #parking. A park is something nice and relaxing, a storage yard of cars is not. On the other hand, storage of bicycles doesn't look that bad in a park. #Brückenfestival #Nürnberg

Geneva public transit is temporarily free of charge to reduce high air pollution levels (NOx and ozone) High polluting vehicles are banned from city centre. www.spiegel.de/auto/als-mas...

Claire Brown asks in @nytimes.com: “Small, #pluginsolar power systems have become popular in Germany and several other countries. So why haven’t they taken off in the United States? (…) Underwriters Laboratories has not issued a specific safety standard” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/c...

Finnish newspaper issues warning to #spotPriced electricity consumers that there is one hour today with an exeptionally high power price of 28 cent per kWh. That's the same price German households pay every hour of the year. Expensive electricity is a key reason why #HeatPumps rollout is slow in 🇩🇪

The minister for economic affairs in Germany, Katherine Reiche, seems determined to slash feed in tariffs for #rooftopSolar Meanwhile the #Kraftwerkssicherheitsgesetz to build more gas power plants is and less ambition to roll out #HeatPumps will delay decarbonisation. www.zfk.de/politik/deut...

This is insane. This could be paying for education or healthcare or a really good bus network (archipelago not ideal for trains) but it's paying for DIESEL? Replace it with solar and every Indonesian suddenly gets a shit ton richer.

Today the combined AC power of all solar inverters feeding into the grid in Germany has reached 100 GW Behind those inverters are 109,3 GW (DC) of solar panels.

Plug-in PV #BalconySolar stats from German environmental authority for end of 2024 in 🇩🇪: ✓ 800,000 units registered ✓ 3 million actually in use ✓ 20% include battery ✓ power generation 1.7 TWh in 2024, Of which: ✓ 1.1 TWh self-consumed ✓ 0.6 TWh to grid #Balkonkraftwerk #SteckerSolar #PlugInPV

Soeben erschienen: Eine Broschüre über #Steckersolar-Geräte (#Balkonkraftwerke) des Bundesumweltamtes: www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/defaul...

With modern telecommunication technology like telefax this state of the art hydro power plant in Schwandorf can react to imbalances in the German power grid within a few days and provide valuable #auxiliaryServices like manual Frequency Restoration Reserve (mFRR), reducing need for new gas plants.

Kuvateksti voisi Suomessa olla esim: "Kokoomus ei löytänyt hallituskumppanista viitteitä rasismista tai yhteyksistä äärioikeistoon" bsky.app/profile/guid...

"Per Einstein’s wisdom, the #ManhattanProject should have been stopped in December 1944: The Nazis did not have the bomb; the war was ending. ...allies were moving fast to occupy all of Germany. Had the project been stopped, there may have been room for a future without #nuclearWeapons."

80 years ago a #Nuclear bomb destroyed #Nagasaki. 3 days earlier #Hiroshima was destroyed. It's obvious that any autocratic country, and particularly a #militaryJunta, would be thrilled to get their hands on nuclear technology. Even when they can't afford it, and solar is a superior energy source.

Solar energy is particularly important for West Africa where electricity prices are very high but still fail to cover cost of generation and distribution. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/07/s...

The government of Germany is really messing up heating. The 65% minimum share of renewables in new heating installations will be slashed, creating more uncertainty and risks for households running into an affordability trap when gas prices eventually rise... www.zfk.de/politik/deut...

My personal experience in using the #Deutschlandticket is that it revolutionises public transport. One ticket and you can ride any bus, subway, tram or local train in Germany. No need to install a different ticket app in every city you visit, or wonder which ticket combination works out cheaper.

Government in Germany is clearly showing a preference of fossil energy over renewables. Additional support to wind projects is needed in the south where power demand is high but wind conditions less favourable. Now that support will likely be cut. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/e...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Markus Söder, Minister-President of Bavaria and leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) criticizes "Heat Pump insanity" and wants to cut support to households to switch from fossil gas to #HeatPumps. Last year #Germany paid 19 billion € for gas imports. #Wärmewende

That Utah law allows balcony solar modules to be installed if they are approved by the National Electricial Code and Underwriters Laboratory Listings, which none currently are.