1. To opinions! Solar is the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it being built if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places are grid access, permitting, and sometimes installation labour.

A crystal ball for solar in China? The production minus exports of solar cells tends to predict new installations with a lag. While installations predictably slumped since May with new pricing policy, production has been strong for two months, suggesting pick up in installations.

A new Nature article using GEM data (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) found that the top 250 oil and gas firms own just 2% of the world's renewable power. #renewables 💡🧪 Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Even more ways to slice through Global Energy Monitor's extensive power sector data! @globalenergymon.bsky.social globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

⚡️ The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025 is now available online ! 🔗 www.worldnuclearreport.org/World-Nuclea... 📊 Follow the live presentation from Rome: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J54...

Quite blunt from the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2025: "Solar Adds Hundreds of Gigawatts, Nuclear Remains Irrelevant in the Market" www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnis...

A detailed rundown of the BRICS group and climate action. Particularly relevant in the run up to COP

New from us: India's power sector emissions fell for only the 2nd time in half a century, due to both economic and weather factors and record clean energy growth. The current drop is unlikely to be sustained but clean energy projects in the pipeline can peak power sector emissions well before 2030.

Coal generation would be even lower if hydroelectricity wasn’t going through another of its drought years (though rainfall in August was a little better than the terrible numbers in July): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Increasingly, during the tail end of summer, electricity on India’s power grid is getting sourced mainly by solar, wind, and hydro for an hour or two around midday. I don’t think that’s happened before in India

⚡ Help map the world’s electricity grid! #MapYourGrid trains new & experienced mappers in OpenStreetMap. Next trainings: Sept 3 & 10. Join & support the #EnergyTransition 👉 mapyourgrid.org/map-it/ (meeting links) & discord.gg/a5znpdFWfD#MapYourGrid#EnergyTransitionDiscord community)

Coal continues to lose ground in China’s power mix, dropping its monthly share to historic low of 51% in June 2025. But still new coal plants are permitted and built, 21 gigawatts in first half of 2025. More here 🔽

Slides and recording available here for this useful update on 'Current State of NDCs 3.0' www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/iki-media...

Global Energy Monitor is your go-to source for data on power stations around the world, with a detailed database of existing power stations (capacity, ownership, coordinates, etc.), planned new construction, cancellations, etc.. They've recently released their July 2025 update.

Great insights from the latest edition of the Global Coal Plant Tracker from @globalenergymon.bsky.social mailchi.mp/globalenergy...

One year into China’s capacity payments program, GEM analysis finds: the policy is boosting coal plant revenue but not clearly shifting coal to a “supporting” role, as intended. Insightful breakdown by GEM's Mingxin Zhang via @carbonbrief.org ⬇️

Cooler spring/summer, early stronger monsoon, and economic wobbles have combined to curb recent power demand growth in India. As more renewables join the mix, could 2025 see an absolute reduction in power generation from coal in India... www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Solar, wind, and hydro regularly covering more than a third of India’s power generation over lunchtime in recent weeks

"...the idea that land-based carbon removal/sequestration can ‘offset’ CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels is scientifically flawed"

China is on its way to becoming the world’s first major 'electrostate', with a growing share of its energy coming from electricity and an economy increasingly driven by clean technologies 📈🌏🧵 w/ @janatausch.bsky.social and Ed White on.ft.com/3EWY5Kd

Coverage of my research for @globalenergymon.bsky.social on the expanded BRICS group of nations, where new members are building over ten times as much coal, oil, and gas capacity as wind and utility-scale solar. Read the briefing here: globalenergymonitor.org/report/brics...

My new paper in Environmental Research Letters With co-author Amanda Maycock, we show how a weather forecasting system making predictions 1-4 months ahead can produce skilful estimates of wind generation in India during the summer monsoon season. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Total electricity generation in India rallies in Feb 2025, growing ~6.7% year-on-year for the month (discounting the leap year). Coal gen is tracking close to record levels and covers most of the Feb increase. Gen from pricey gas tracking below previous years and solar up ~30% in Feb over last year

INDIA's coal-fired generation hit a record high in 2024 - illustrating the difficulty of phasing down fossil fuels in developing economies with fast-growing electricity demand: jkempenergy.com/2025/02/26/i...

⚡2024 saw a record 35GW added to India’s power sector, comprising mostly solar PV (24.5GW) and wind (3.4GW). Great progress, but these additions must grow ~15% per year to meet the 2030 target of 500GW non-fossil capacity 🎯 Read more in our latest briefing globalenergymonitor.org/report/despi...

In 2024, 🇮🇳 set a record by adding 35GW of new capacity, driven largely by solar PV. W/cont. strong growth, renewables could expand by 80% by 2030. But to hit its 500GW non-fossil target by 2030, wind & solar additions must grow at 15% annually. Find out more: globalenergymonitor.org/report/despi...

📢 NEW REPORT AND DATA! Our most recent report reviews solar and wind development in 2024. The global pipeline expanded by 20% last year, reaching 4.4 TW. Read our latest report: globalenergymonitor.org/report/wind-... #energy #renewables #solar #wind #opendata

Good explainer of recent changes to China's renewables market. Fixed price out. Competitive auctions + top-up in. www.linkedin.com/pulse/qa-chi...

#India lowered imports of thermal coal by over 5.5 million tons in 2024 from the year before, according to data from Kpler, which may seem like good news to #climate trackers monitoring trends in the world's second-largest #coal consumer.

India’s electricity generation for January 2025 up 2% y-o-y. But coal, lignite and gas gen down for the month…. while solar registers the largest increase of any power source, and nearly covers all the thermal reduction for the month

New official data from India show the country installed the largest amount ever of new electricity generation capacity in calendar year 2024. ▸24.5 GW of solar was added. 1/5

Deep dive: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030 With my colleague Molly I've dug deep into the govt's 136-page action plan for decarbonising the grid by 2030 If achieved, it'd see offshore wind become backbone of power sector – in just 6yrs www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/2

It is expected that Ireland will generate more electricity from utility-scale solar PV than from coal this year 🌞 And PV installations are growing so quickly (from such a low base) that similar solar power was generated in October this year than June 2023. SEAI's "Energy in Ireland" is out today.

This COP is already being reflected on as one of the most difficult in the history of the negotiations. So, what was agreed? And what does it mean for addressing the climate crisis and the work to come next year on the road to COP30 in Belém?

India currently at 92GW solar PV and maybe hits 100GW by the end of 2024, adding around 25GW in a year. That would bring annual solar PV generation for 2024 very close to that of hydropower (in the order of 130TWh vs 160TWh). mnre.gov.in/en/physical-...

time to get laying those cables! Good coverage on the latest investment in transmission infrastructure here reports.electricinsights.co.uk/reports/q3-2...

As fresh NDCs are in prep, it's worth recalling that fossil fuels endure in many climate plans Our deep dive on #COP29 host Azerbaijan + the Caucasus+Central Asia region highlights exactly this trend, with >3X as much fossil capacity under construction than from wind+utility-scale solar

If a tree photosynthesizes in the forest and nobody is around to manage it, did it really count as a CO2 removal...? bsky.app/profile/rust...

A good reminder that many worlds are possible even when the direction of travel is clear... So, most things electric, powered by wind+sun, enabled by storage and efficiency. But a lot of viable configurations at the national and regional scale bsky.app/profile/bist...

This chart again. The IEA has for years provided a forecast of how renewables will play out only as a result of existing policies. What this chart actually tells us is that the market has driven renewables development much more than the low end of what is expected from policy alone. Pessimism?