A small step, but a good one. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Excellent summary of the difference that renewables have already made. davidtoke.substack.com/p/solar-wind...

Major development from the EU - this is a great move. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/20/e...

A significant - but achievable - amount of storage for Europe: 200GW by 2030 and 500GW by 2050. Given the rate of improvements in technology and pricing, the latter looks relatively easy. www.energy-storage.news/eu-releases-...

All the naysayers said that this would be impossible because the batteries would be too expensive. Well now it's happening. As battery prices fall, other - less insolated - locations will also be able to do this. www.energy-storage.news/masdar-reach...

Important clarifier on Canada's wildfires. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo...

The oceans absorb almost all the heat imbalance from the greenhouse effect and we should not be surprised that El Ninos become more potent. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The inevitable conclusion is that batteries (IBRs) will be the best resources for keeping the grid in good health. Syncons are too expensive and on long lead times. reneweconomy.com.au/a-really-big...

The next time some half-wit suggests that the UK is too far north to benefit from solar power, just tell them about Finland. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/15/s...

This is astonishing. Let's hope we can see commercial products of this efficiency soon. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/15/l...

The toxic Tories sack a decent man for agreeing with net zero. How far can they sink? At this rate, they will just look like Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excellent report from the BBC's Justin Rowlatt who does a great job of making a complex subject comprehensible. We should all be concerned about the risks associated with the slowdown of the AMOC. We don't know enough yet, but the consequences could be awful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK's climate has changed already in our lifetimes - and it is going to change more, for the worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yet another study shows that solar, wind and storage are the cheapest option. They can meet 93% of demand and leave a tiny proportion to gas - or ultimately, green hydrogen. reneweconomy.com.au/solar-and-wi...

Electric 3-wheelers sell well in India. However, while EV sales are growing, they are still a fairly small share of the market. www.evinfrastructurenews.com/emobility/in...

A huge battery for Belgium - will enable a more stable grid and more renewables. www.energy-storage.news/giga-storage...

It's hard to find much detail about the battery installations in the UK, or the pipeline. This installation will surely be one of the most significant batteries in the UK for a while. www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/battery-stor...

Impressively low price for green hydrogen! Can we see this more widely? www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/11/t...

More bad news. There simply doesn't seem to be much good news about climate nowadays. Thanks @zekehausfather.com . Always worth reading even when it's upsetting. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong...

Europe needs 200GW of storage by 2030. Contrast this with the 55GW expected to be installed by the end of this year. A big gap that will need consistent policy between now and 2030. www.energy-storage.news/leaked-eu-el...

Another excellent contribution from @edhawkins.org about how to frame the discussion about the causes of heatwaves. Short version: they are caused by fossil fuels. Aerosol emissions masked the effects for a period. Ed, of course, puts this much better. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/framing-th...

What I like about these regular blogs from @zekehausfather.com and @andrewdessler.com is that they are clearly written and genuinely shed light on tricky topics. Thank you both. This one examines the rise in global temperatures between 1900 and 1945. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/what-drove...

The fossil fuel companies are the most disgusting, evil organisations ever to have existed. They know what they are doing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nearly 50% of cars sold in the UK in June had a plug, although PHEVs are a messy compromise. www.evinfrastructurenews.com/emobility/on...

Rule changes for the UK AR8 contracts for difference. Sensible changes. We need a lot more capacity quickly! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/07/u...

Excellent, approachable piece by @andrewdessler.bsky.social on the exceptional temperatures recorded in France and the impact on death rates. We thought that the CMIP6 models were making projections that were unrealistically high. Is it time to rethink that? www.theclimatebrink.com/p/deadly-hea...

Steel manufacturing with zero direct emissions. This is the way forward. reneweconomy.com.au/it-should-ne...

his is what sea level rise - caused by burning fossil fuels - means in the real world. Never mind the average rate of increase (which has more than doubled recently), it is the extreme weather combined with SLR that does the damage. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This picture sums up the benefits if building a renewables-based energy system. So obvious when explained this well. Thank you, @ember-energy.org

Helpful analysis of the UK backlog of renewable energy projects. In short, it is still not enough to be confident of 95% clean energy by 2030, the UK's target. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Lots of whining from people who bought PHEVs, but I have little sympathy. EVs are the only way forward. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...

Flooding from the sea has always been a risk, but this paper quantifies how much worse it has become as a result of burning fossil fuels. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42268972/

The mainstream media in Germany have a lot to answer for, repeating the lies of the fossil fuel propagandists. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-tabloi...

It's not long ago that we would have thought that a 1GWh battery was huge.... now Germany is installing a 5.7GWh battery. Now that IS big. www.energy-storage.news/europe-goes-...

Thank goodness the government is getting on with renewable energy projects. More needed, quickly. www.insidermedia.com/news/north-w...

Along with improvements to battery technology, there are big steps forward with recycling. reneweconomy.com.au/electrochemi...

Great to see another technology in commercial use for long duration energy storage (LDES). www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/01/e...

This is so worrying..... nothing good can possibly come from these water temperature records. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The UK sees more records tumble as renewables take a larger and larger share of generation. reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-g...

The UK looks as if it will have a Lithium-ion battery with 400MW capacity and 7.2GWh of storage. I can't remember seeing a battery with this technology go such a large size.... The LDES cap and floor is an excellent exercise. www.energy-storage.news/uks-ofgem-go...

For all the deniers who think that if you don't produce lots of emissions, there is no point trying to reduce them. How depressing that it is necessary to show what a stupid argument this is. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excellent article from @andrewdessler.bsky.social about the influence of climate change on weather. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/how-climat...

Good to see that there is a diversity of technologies from the first LDES auction in the UK. Also a significant amount of storage (over 5GW) in Scotland, where it will greatly reduce curtailment. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/06/30/p...

Yet again, we see that when intelligent analysis looks at what the UK should do about the North Sea, the answer is to focus on renewables. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/drill-b...

Climate change is here, now. It can't be put off. Inaction is not an option. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another improvement in energy density for lithium batteries - the development race continues apace. reneweconomy.com.au/game-changer...

The headline says it all. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This article may be three years old, but it is still a great one. So often one hears the tired argument about a country (say the UK) being a tiny proportion of emissions, so why bother reducing them? This answers that - very well. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/small-emit...

Astonishing that there is more storage than nuclear in Europe now. Before the nuclear fanboys make the obvious point, yes, I know batteries run for a limited time. But that's what we need now. www.energy-storage.news/there-is-now...

The story about electrification, efficiency and renewables needs wide circulation and much repetition. It is central to the 21st century requirement for cheap, reliable energy with independence from expensive imports of polluting fuels. @janrosenow.bsky.social mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...