🇨🇦 Indigenous clean energy projects have replaced 140 Million litres of dirty diesel in remote communities of Canada since 2016 #environment #climate #energy www.theenergymix.com/indigenous-c...

Rising energy prices are reshaping life—from food and transportation to electricity bills, infrastructure, and global geopolitics. Penn experts break down the ripple effects of today’s energy crisis and what it means for households, markets, and the clean energy transition. https://bit.ly/4dy6Mb6

The United States on Wednesday joined Iran, Russia, Israel and Saudi Arabia to vote against this historic United Nations Resolution. Any doubts as to who currently leads those countries and their inclination for peace and inter generational equity? apple.news/A8I80zJ-wTv-...

Europe's gas problem is more solvable than the debate suggests. 94% of EU gas demand sits in buildings, industry & power. In all three, electric alternatives are already commercially competitive. Barrier is deployment, not invention. More Sunday - sign up here: janrosenow.substack.com/

Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?

Europe is swapping one gas dependency for another. Russian pipeline gas: out by 2028. US LNG: 5 bcm in 2019 → ~115 bcm by 2030, ~80% of EU imports. The vulnerability just moved onto tankers. But what if the crisis worsens? Long-read with our latest research on this Sunday: janrosenow.substack.com

JUST RELEASED: 14 million battery-electric cars sold globally in 2025 says @iea.org. China: 8.2m. Europe: 2.9m (28% of new cars). Norway: 97%. US flat at 1.2m. In 2015 the world sold 330,000 BEVs. Ten years later, 14 million. Long-read coming on Bright Spots 👇 janrosenow.substack.com

World installing grid batteries at a blistering pace. A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior. www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

The latest example of burgeoning opposition to rapid data-center development in Pennsylvania came at a town hall meeting overflowing with frustration about how the state is managing the surge. From @insideclimatenews.org

"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world." This is game changing.

For years, the biggest criticism of renewables was simple: “What happens when the sun isn’t shining?” The answer is increasingly: battery storage. 24/7 solar power is no longer theoretical. In some places, it is becoming economic reality.

In 55 countries, wind and solar generated more electricity than coal in 2025. 34 of them have near-zero coal left. Spain crossed over in 2009. The UK in 2016. The USA last year. Different grids, different politics, same pattern. Want more of this? Sign up here janrosenow.substack.com

Professor Buchanan knows more than a thing about taxes. Best tax law prof in the country (of course, I am totally bias as her former student).

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

The real story here is that accelerating the energy transition could have happened peacefully and orderly and to the U.S. advantage. Instead, the transition is still happening but disorderly, painfully and to China’s advantage. It did not have to be this way.

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

Improve the spelling keep that critical thinking going 😝

Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...

#Sweden is electrifying everything that moves — trucks, buses, ferries, and mining vehicles — building the world's most complete 0-emission transport system. While most countries are focused on getting private EVs onto roads, Sweden has been electrifying every category of transport #ActOnClimate

Me in FT today: “Given that around 80 per cent of UK and European energy still comes from fossil fuels and a large share of that is imported, every geopolitical shock becomes a household bill shock.” More below.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Just got my electric bill. *47 cents.* I really should have installed solar sooner.

Quite interested in the electricity map piece.

The Week in Focus is a video recap of our top stories: 1. Democratic Pa. lawmakers have introduced two bills to limit immigration enforcement in K–12 schools. 2. Pennsylvanians are increasingly dissatisfied with healthcare. 3. Electricity grid maps could speed up renewable energy projects in Pa.

Join me today on Thinking Live for a conversation with Lawrence Lessig on Super PACs and dark money in politics. April 30th, at 3:15 ET, snyder.substack.com, with @lessig.bsky.social

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

Quoted in @ketanjoshi.co's piece in @theguardian.com: a year ago Spain's grid collapsed. Solar was blamed, return to fossil predicted. Investigations found voltage failures. Then Hormuz closed. Spain was shielded as renewables cut wholesale prices by 40%. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Europe has made remarkable progress cleaning up its electricity. In 2024, just 29% of European electricity came from fossil fuels - down from 53% in 2005. But electricity is only 23% of Europe's total energy use. Look at other sectors & it changes dramatically. More here: substack.com/@janrosenow

"In power, solar plus storage now costs below $60 per megawatt hour (MWh) at a global level. The variable cost of LNG-fired power in Asia, at $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), exceeds $160 per MWh – nearly three times the cost of never needing fuel again." Any questions?

The Iran war is driving a solar boom in the UK. @octopus.energy reports solar sales up 54% in March alone. EDF says residential sales are running at double last spring's rate. Every rooftop solar installation is a vote against fossil fuel price volatility.

It is really, really good to see that there are still shareholders out there who are willing to ask some hard questions about why tech companies like Google are deciding that hurting society through fossil fuel use is an acceptable cost of AI expansion www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports of vegetable oil, putting pressure on tropical forests overseas. via @insideclimatenews.org

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

How many times have you heard US fossil fuel supporters say, "Why should we lower our emissions when China is not?" Meanwhile: "Decline of emissions from China's power sector was offset by an increase in U.S. power sector emissions, according to the announcement."

Not Farage Oil Since 2019, Spain has doubled its wind and solar capacity, adding over 40 GW - more than any other EU country except Germany, whose power market is twice the size of Spain’s. www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

China's electrification bet is paying off. Electricity now accounts for 30% of its energy consumption - around 50% higher than the US or Europe. With 1/3 of global renewable energy capacity already installed, China is structurally more insulated from rising oil prices than most Western economies.

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This is the right approach to tackling energy affordability in New England. Focus on low-cost solar, energy storage, and demand side management: www.utilitydive.com/news/massach...

Gas only sets Spain's electricity price 15% of the time. When gas costs spike it barely registers on the electricity bill. In countries like Italy and the UK gas sets the price 90% of the time. The difference is enormous. I spoke to @politico.com about this. www.politico.eu/article/spai...

American tech oligarchs spend billions fighting socialism, yet their unhinged greed is the single best advertisement for it. By hoarding wealth and breaking society to enrich themselves, they actively fuel the very ideology they claim to despise

Democracy is a government of, by, and for the people. We are entitled to accurate information, uncensored by our government.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

There seems to be a thread with large gatherings that bring short term quick money but also leave detrimental environmental impacts. When infrastructure gets built to for a one-off event, long term needs of the local communities are often ignored.

Highly recommend reading ABCI Institute’s latest newsletter—just released on Substack—for a fresh take on some of the most pressing international trade issues and engaging with us! substack.com/@cpappalardo...

You know who really has a good vantage on what universities can and should be? Faculty. Not always the organizational structure and operation, because that's not the job, But what it takes to educate? Yep. Yet the overwhelming media coverage is by and about ppl w very little to no experience.

This is why electrification means more energy security: In 2024, ~81% of EU electricity came from locally sourced fuels (57% excluding nuclear). Just 19% relied on imported fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are mostly imported. Source @ember-energy.org

Batteries are the fossil fuel killer. Much of the main stream analysis about the energy transition is still pretending this didn't happen in the past two years. But it did.

Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!