My last column for @cipherclimate.bsky.social: With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change www.ciphernews.com/articles/wit...

Money is the key to the energy transition. Today, a greater share is being invested into clean power sources, but less is flowing to new cleantech ideas and startups. Bill Spindle shares data from the @iea.org and PitchBook in this #DataDive: www.ciphernews.com/articles/ami...

With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change. Read @amyaharder.bsky.social's Harder Line column for our final publication. www.ciphernews.com/articles/wit...

After four years of delivering clear, solutions-focused coverage of climate and energy, Cipher published its final reporting today. I hope you’ll continue to follow our team as we continue this work in new ways: www.ciphernews.com/how-to-follo... – @amyaharder.bsky.social, Executive Editor

Exclusive -- Bill Gates on the climate cuts in Trump's big bill: "It wasn’t quite the evisceration that a complete lack of believing in climate change might have led to." www.ciphernews.com/articles/exc...

The Cipher team reflects on the last four years of the publication and shares their thoughts on what's ahead for the energy transition. Cipher will publish its final articles on Wednesday. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/the...

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Asia and Europe each have well over 200 times more offshore wind power than North America, Anca Gurzu writes based on a report from the Global Wind Energy Council. Check out the chart: www.ciphernews.com/articles/off...

Cipher reader and portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein Luke Pryor took this photo of the Wind Scylla, an offshore wind turbine installation vessel, from a train passing through New London, CT. Check out the wind turbine tower components visible next to the ship!

Under the hot blazing sun along the Gulf of Oman, @amenasaiyid.bsky.social got a first hand look at how Oman-based 44.01 Earth is harnessing nature to store CO2 under the jagged Hajar Mountains. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/har...

In the climate space, innovation in technology has outpaced new ideas in finance, write Dawn Lippert and Avra Van der Zee of Elemental Impact in a #Voices article. We need financial innovation, they write. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/tec...

Natural hydrogen is abundant under the Earth's surface and could end up being an important fuel of the future, writes @davetew.bsky.social of Step Function in a #Voices article. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/hyd...

Cipher reader Shoko Carpenter took this photo on a floating island on Lake Titicaca, located on the border between Peru and Bolivia. This home is on one of more than 100 floating islands on the lake where the indigenous Uros people live.

The United States overtook clean energy giant China to become the world’s leading investor in battery manufacturing last year, according to recent analysis from Rhodium Group. That recent momentum, however, may be in jeopardy. www.ciphernews.com/articles/u-s...

While lawmakers spar ad infinitum over the fate of clean energy tax credits in the megabill, one thing is certain: Energy demand is going up in this country and it is going to keep going up. Real talk: How can we get more power fast? For @cipherclimate.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/posts/catcli...

@amenasaiyid.bsky.social reflects on returning to her home country of Pakistan to report on clean energy there. She felt awe at towering wind turbines and heard inspiring stories of people creatively using clean energy. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/whi...

Zephyr Power's full wind potential isn't being utilized by Pakistan largely because of aging infrastructure and poor government policies and planning,. @amenasaiyid.bsky.social's on the ground reporting from Gharo, Sindh. www.ciphernews.com/articles/pak...

What a difference a decade makes in energy investment trends. Back in 2015, fossil fuels dominated, according to @iea.org data. Now, the electricity sector is out ahead. Read the latest #DataDive from Bill Spindle: www.ciphernews.com/articles/a-d...

@amyaharder.bsky.social snapped this photo during a rooftop lunch at one of the restaurants inside London's iconic Shard building with Anca Gurzu. Although solar (and even more so, rooftop solar) doesn't provide a big chunk of the United Kingdom's electricity, renewable power is growing.

The U.S. needs a lot more power — and fast. Meeting that demand in the near-term is going to mean building solar and storage, embracing demand flexibility and VPPs, putting demand near supply and a whole lot of grid-boosting technology. Here's the playbook: www.ciphernews.com/articles/her...

After four years of delivering solutions-focused climate and energy journalism, Cipher is winding down. Our final newsletter will publish on 7/16. Thank you to our readers & Breakthrough Energy for your support. Our team will continue this work in new ways—stay tuned for more info.

In the midst of Haiti’s worst political and economic crisis in decades, an unexpected revolution is quietly taking place — one that could transform its energy landscape, write Evenson Calixte and Isabel Beltran in a #Voices article this week. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/hai...

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Pakistan is on track to set a new record for Chinese solar panel imports, poised to surpass last year's record-breaking total, @amenasaiyid.bsky.social reports on the latest estimates from nonprofit Renewables First. Read more in our latest #DataDive: www.ciphernews.com/articles/chi...

Cipher Reader Jason Bordoff, who leads Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, is shown here at sunset on the Uyuni Salt Flat, located in Bolivia, which is the largest salt flat in the world.

Solar is enabling online learning in remote mountain villages and urban city schools in Pakistan. @amenasaiyid.bsky.social saw firsthand how this cleantech is transforming this South Asian country's energy mix. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/sol...

From tiny hamlets nestled among towering mountain ranges to the Arabian sea, in the gritty cities of Karachi and Lahore and across dusty fertile plains, solar panels are everywhere you go in Pakistan, @amenasaiyid.bsky.social reports from her recent trip: www.ciphernews.com/articles/sol...

China has greenlit far more wind energy projects in the first three months of this year than any other country, Anca Gurzu writes based on Q1 data from the Global Wind Energy Council. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/on-...

@amyaharder.bsky.social snapped this photo of monkeys walking on a powerline while on a trip to Costa Rica. She found it tragic to hear that they often get electrocuted if they touch certain parts of the infrastructure. The trend has led to a push for better measures to protect the monkeys.

Europe's wind industry says it is the target of growing and coordinated mis- and disinformation campaigns that are delaying projects. Learn more from Anca Gurzu: www.ciphernews.com/articles/fak...

After years of historic growth, industrial cleantech investments falter, per new updates in Cipher's Cleantech Tracker --> www.ciphernews.com/articles/aft... by @catclifford.bsky.social in @cipherclimate.bsky.social

Recent debates have cast support for solar energy as a partisan issue, but the benefits of solar don’t belong to one political party, writes JD Dillon of Tigo Energy in a #Voices article. Read more: https://nt-z.ro/4mT15Iw#Voices

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Bill Spindle reflects on his visit to a unique sustainable fuels project near the southernmost tip of the Americas in Patagonia. Learn more about his trip: https://nt-z.ro/3ZjHYNO

Cipher reader Raahul Ramakrishnan snapped this photo of wind turbines while on a train to Antwerp, Belgium this spring. The turbines were just five minutes outside the city center, he told Cipher.

Investments into industrial decarbonization have been on a tear in recent years, as data from @rhg.com shows. But that's changing. In the first quarter of 2025, announced investments were $79 million compared to $16 billion a year ago. Read more: https://nt-z.ro/4n3I2LZ

One of the EOs Trump signed aimed at promoting nuclear said federal loans, loan guarantees would prioritize nuclear and specifically restarting closed nuclear power plants. What's that mean? What does it look like? My reporting for @cipherclimate.bsky.social here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Clean hydrogen’s tricky path to production: www.ciphernews.com/articles/cle... via @cipherclimate.bsky.social

Bill Spindle visited a unique demonstration plant making sustainable fuels during his travels in Chile. The project is an example of the challenges producers are facing as they try to advance the nascent clean hydrogen industry. Read more: https://nt-z.ro/3Fk0xuz

Global copper supplies are projected to fall short of electricity demand growth by 2030, Amena Saiyid reports on IEA‬'s latest outlook for critical minerals in a #DataDive: https://nt-z.ro/3Hk4ikk

Bill Spindle took this photo of a solar array outside the airport in Santiago, Chile in December during his reporting trip to the country.

Eight years ago, the Palisades nuclear plant in Covert, Michigan, was slated for closure. But today, it’s humming with activity as Holtec International works to bring the nuclear power plant back online. Here's what that process looks like: https://nt-z.ro/4kC6kdH

To build a net-zero future, Global South countries will need trillions of dollars in external financing and investments in modernizing power grids to make them more flexible, writes Justin Locke in a #Voices article. He shares ideas for how to make that happen: https://nt-z.ro/4kmgvn1#Voices

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Cipher reader and principal at Maido Media Phil Keys took this picture of the PG&E Electra hydroelectric power plant in Amador County, California while visiting his brother earlier this year. The park near the plant is a popular place for locals, Keys told Cipher.

Production of sustainable aviation fuel is beginning to take off in the United States — but cleaner fuels still comprise a tiny slice of the overall fuel used in airplanes, writes Bill Spindle in this week's #DataDive: https://nt-z.ro/4dBxeAm

Walk through the world's largest nuclear facility with Bill Spindle, who recently got a tour of the plant in Japan and learned about efforts to restart it. Read more: https://nt-z.ro/3SOJSCg

On a recent trip to Japan, @cipherclimate.bsky.social got an exclusive tour of the world's largest nuclear power plant--and learned just what it would take to restart this sprawling facility that's larger than NYC's Central Park. Read more ⤵️ www.ciphernews.com/articles/at-...

Building a new nuclear plant takes billions of dollars and many years. One way to speed up that process is to restart existing nuclear reactors that have been idled. Bill Spindle got an inside look at efforts to restart the world's largest nuclear plant in Japan: https://nt-z.ro/43oBoqA

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