"According to an analysis by the Environmental Defense Fund of data from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ... coal has the highest 'equipment-related outage rate' ... among coal, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear, and wind." heatmap.news/energy/coal-... by @zeitlin.bsky.social 🔌💡

Germany "to hold auctions next year for state support to build new gas-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 10 GW by 2032 – a drastic reduction compared to earlier plans to build up to 20 GW by the turn of the decade." www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany... via @wettengel.bsky.social 🔌💡

"Here are three immediate steps [state and local lawmakers] can take to save consumers money on their power bills," writes @ilsr.bsky.social's @johnffarrell.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... 🔌💡

New York officials signed a $32 million contract with Copper "to develop, pilot and produce 10,000 new energy-efficient induction stoves for use in New York City public housing facilities." www.nyserda.ny.gov/About/Newsro... 🔌💡

Julian Spector gets a first look at Skyven’s industrial heat pump: www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea... 🔌💡

@calenergy.bsky.social: "California now has nearly 17,000 megawatts of battery storage — one-third of the way to its 2045 goal." www.energy.ca.gov/news/2025-11... 🔌💡

@airresources.bsky.social on California’s Satellite Methane Project: "Data from a specialized satellite has helped resolve 10 large methane leaks at oil and gas facilities across California since May." ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/califor...

A milestone: I just celebrated the first anniversary of my newsletter, Quitting Carbon! Please consider becoming paid subscriber, so I can continue to bring you my reporting and analysis on the world’s most important story: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/one-year-of-... 🔌💡

NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith. This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳 www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...

"The Trump administration appears poised to force more coal plants to stay open past their planned closing dates — an unprecedented intervention in the power sector that is already making energy even more expensive for Americans." www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... by @jeffstjohn.bsky.social 🔌💡

Today marks one year since I launched Quitting Carbon! Here are some thoughts on the first year and a plea for readers to be willing to pay for the journalism you read at Quitting Carbon, and everywhere else your curiosity takes you online: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/one-year-of-... 🔌💡

Today marks one year since I launched Quitting Carbon! Here are some thoughts on the first year and a plea for readers to be willing to pay for the journalism you read at Quitting Carbon, and everywhere else your curiosity takes you online: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/one-year-of-... 🔌💡

From EIA's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook on natural gas prices: "We expect prices to average $4.00/MMBtu in 2026, 16% higher than in 2025, primarily due to increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports amid flat production growth." www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/ 🔌💡

"Wind projects lead to better local schools and lift neighbouring property values by about 3 per cent, according to a surprising new piece of research out of the US this week." reneweconomy.com.au/wind-farms-l... via @racheljourno.bsky.social 🔌💡

"Massachusetts lawmakers may double the number of cities and towns allowed to ban fossil fuels in new construction," reports Sarah Shemkus: www.canarymedia.com/articles/car... 🔌💡

"A lawsuit filed on Monday argued that the president has discriminated against blue states by slashing federal funds for political leverage during the shutdown." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u... via @zjmontague.bsky.social 🔌💡

I cannot stress this enough right now: share journalism that you think is good. You might not always be able to afford subscriptions or to tip journos but since everyone seems able to hate on headlines they dislike etc., they must also have the power to elevate good quality writing! We need it.

A new high-speed rail plan from the European Commission "set a goal that all major hubs in the EU be linked by train services running at least 200 kilometers per hour (125 mph) by 2040, with many services surpassing 250 kph (155 mph)." www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @feargusosull.bsky.social

"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."

NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇

"Midyear reporting indicates that the global power sector is doing a good job covering marginal growth with wind and solar," writes @gregor.us about H1 2025 data from @ember-energy.org: www.coldeye.earth/p/trade-games 🔌💡

"From a resource adequacy perspective, offshore wind can provide meaningful capacity value and complementary performance to other generation sources, particularly during winter and nighttime stress periods near coastal load centers." - Charles River Associates report: www.crai.com/insights-eve... 🔌💡

“The more important we become, the more people would like us to sing their song. But our song is data. The data always wins,” @iea.org's Fatih Birol told Max Bearak: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c... 🔌💡

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

My latest at Quitting Carbon is a roundup of state-level climate action: Plug-in solar could be coming to Pennsylvania, new grant funding is available for building energy retrofits in New Jersey, and a sweeping clean energy bill advances in Illinois: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/state-policy... 🔌💡

Mamdani "inherits a world-leading experiment in retrofitting buildings to slash emissions, open questions about how to transition to cleaner power sources, and a patchwork of adaptation efforts," writes @alexckaufman.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol... 🔌💡

My latest at Quitting Carbon: I check in on policy developments you might have missed with a roundup of recent state-level climate action: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/state-policy... 🔌💡

My latest at Quitting Carbon is a roundup of state-level climate action: Plug-in solar could be coming to Pennsylvania, new grant funding is available for building energy retrofits in New Jersey, and a sweeping clean energy bill advances in Illinois: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/state-policy... 🔌💡

"The Trump administration's continued attack against renewable energy puts 510 solar and storage projects across the country at risk," according to new analysis from the Solar Energy Industries Association shared with Kelsey Tamborrino: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025... 🔌💡

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Not good! A @newslit.org report surveyed American teenagers about their attitudes towards journalists. "An overwhelming majority of teens (84%) described news media with negative words." www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias... via @sarahscire.com

Looking forward to @canarymedia.com's live event tonight in downtown Berkeley. If you'll be there, too, find me and say hello! www.eventbrite.com/e/canary-liv... 🔌💡

My latest at Quitting Carbon: I check in on policy developments you might have missed with a roundup of recent state-level climate action: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/state-policy... 🔌💡

"Germany’s economy ministry is working on a law reform that would enable local utilities to shut down gas grids and cut off consumers from gas supplies." www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany... via @cleanenergywire.bsky.social's @carokyllmann.bsky.social 🔌💡

From the new "Clean Energy Across America" report: environmentamerica.org/center/resou... via Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group 🔌💡

"Speaking with The Nation in April ... Mamdani set that plan within his broader campaign, saying 'climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns. They are, in fact, one and the same.'" heatmap.news/politics/zoh... by @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social

This headline asks a question that makes investor-owned utilities squirm. Nice work from my colleague @blancabegert.bsky.social: insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...

Cost estimates for new gas power plants just keep rising! www.utilitydive.com/news/gas-pow... 🔌💡

Get all my reporting, Q&As, and commentary on the projects, people, and policies advancing the energy transition by subscribing to Quitting Carbon. A paid subscription makes it possible for me to bring you these stories - like this one, on my own home! www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/at-my-all-el... 🔌💡

@jeffstjohn.bsky.social reports on "a rare and under-the-radar bright spot for home electrification in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)." www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea... 🔌💡

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

The way to ensure independent/non-oligarchic media is to really support it. Not just by posting about the latest round of layoffs and consolidation. Before and apart from that happening.

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has quietly retreated from plans to eliminate Energy Star," report @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and Lisa Friedman: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c... 🔌💡

ICYMI: My latest at Quitting Carbon: Energy innovation Down Under, offshore wind updates, find an electrification contractor, and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... 🔌💡

If you have suggestions for a story you think might be a good fit for Quitting Carbon, get in touch. Send your ideas or tips to [email protected] or on Signal: JustinGerdes.85 www.quittingcarbonmedia.com 🔌💡

"The fastest way—the only fast way—to build a lot of homes is simple: re-legalize small apartment buildings, generally no taller than a mature tree, in all neighborhoods, just like they used to be," writes @sightline.org's Daniel Oleksiuk: www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...

Weekend reading: Energy innovation Down Under, offshore wind updates, find an electrification contractor, and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... via Quitting Carbon 🔌💡

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has pledged to sign "Senate Bill 25 — which supporters call the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act, or CRGA — the largest change to Illinois’ energy policy in at least four years." capitolnewsillinois.com/news/lawmake... via @drewjayadams.bsky.social 🔌💡

Trump's "push for dominance has not only been ineffective, it has actually served to *weaken* the domestic energy industry and has even diminished its ability to produce the power needed to keep modern society running," writes @landdesk.bsky.social: www.hcn.org/articles/the... 🔌💡

My latest at Quitting Carbon: Energy innovation Down Under, offshore wind updates, find an electrification contractor, and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... 🔌💡