Casey Harrell is one of the most dedicated climate champion and a very strong willed human. If you can, please support his campaign and/or share it forward. He’s got a lot more left in him to give it a good fight. gofund.me/c6ef78569

🇮🇳 NEW | REPORT | #India power sector review 2025: Record #CleanEnergy deployment drives historic decline in #coal generation Clean electricity increasingly covers demand peaks, making coal growth redundant @manojkumarnr.bsky.social energyandcleanair.org/publication/india-power-sector-review-2025/

our number 2 risk might surprise you: overpowered. the defining technologies of the 21st-century economy run on electrons, and that includes ai. china has mastered post carbon tech. the united states is ceding its leadership. in 2026, that divergence will become impossible to ignore.

Country 9 in global oil reserves has invaded country 1 and arrested its president. Country 7 is under sanctions and its refineries are being destroyed. Country 2 is facing off with country 6. And there are riots in country 3. But oil is only $60/bbl. Maybe oil is not as critical as it used to be?

Had to be this, huh

Solar didn’t just shine in 2025 — it shutdown all of the naysayers. Costs collapsed. Deployment exploded. Markets shifted gears. That’s not a trend — that’s transformation. Years of progress. Years of scale. No shortcuts. No flash. While others exposed their shortcomings, solar forged ahead.

Oh there are so many, but I saw this one many times and still recall almost every frame youtu.be/F2AitTPI5U0?...

Saw this fun bit in the post by @volts.wtf www.volts.wtf/p/volts-5-ye... “@David, any guesses which non English-speaking country ranks inside the top 5? The answer is the largest country by population, India, with 3 percent of all subscribers.” Maybe time to do a pod with @sandeeppai.bsky.social!

Some thoughts on bio-hacking in Frankenstein… and Silicon Valley. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

While we’re at it, let’s also bring back horse carts and cook on open fires.

NEW: How cheap are grid batteries?🔋🔋🔋 Grid batteries are now only c.$125/KWh connected🤯 This assessment is based on a series of expert interviews and storage auction results as of October 2025. 🧵

NEW | As batteries become cheaper and more efficient, costs to store daytime solar are plummeting. Outside China and the US, it now only costs an additional $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable nighttime energy 🔋 https://loom.ly/Hbc2VpU

It's crazy that the US has the nearly the same rate of road traffic deaths per 100,000 people as India, Brazil and China. It does worse than Indonesia and Mexico. Wow! Neat stuff from @ashendruk.com's excellent new newsletter www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...

A rapid transition to EVs yields a number of benefits. A recent @energyinnovation.org report found that slowed EV adoption will make Americans sicker and poorer. Whoever best takes advantage of this immense transition could become the next global economic superpower. China is leading the pack [8/8]

The relentless march of ever-falling battery prices continues. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Our annual deep dive on China’s climate transition is out! China’s CO₂ emissions are set to remain flat for a second year in 2025. Record additions of solar and wind, accelerating electrification, and declining construction-material demand are the main drivers.

So much this. I can say from personal experience www.espncricinfo.com/story/greg-c...

You know all about the Chinese solar boom but you haven't seen anything yet Here comes the battery boom, and it is going to be big 🤯

Today on Volts: a solo pod! This is just me talking, pulling together the strands -- the bits and pieces I've covered on pods over the last few years -- into a coherent narrative. Data centers, utilities, rising demand, politics ... this is, in my words, what's going on in energy world right now.

Did you wake up the day before Thanksgiving and think "you know, my working hours aren't complete without a thorough explainer on the weirdest electrical load day of the year in the US?" Well then, I've got you covered! Happy reading from me and @halcyonai.bsky.social hubs.la/Q03VT-v20

A tremendous own goal for the US to be breaking up offices in the Department of Energy that had bipartisan support and that stood to help the US compete in industries of the future. @bradplumer.bsky.social has the RIP for MESC, OCED, and LPO. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...

“The kWh is the new economic base layer. Petro-dollar is dead. Long live the electro-dollar.” electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...

"The cost of running coal plants rose 28 percent from 2021 to 2024, nearly double the rate of inflation over that time, forcing consumers to pay $6 billion in unnecessary energy bills," writes @energyinnovation.org's @silviomarcacci.bsky.social: thepowerline.substack.com/p/coals-not-... 🔌💡

What will the next generation say about COPs of the 2020s? Bloomberg Green's final dispatch from COP30 concludes: “How can a small island state force the EU to do anything? Multilateralism is the only way to give voice to those with less geopolitical power.” 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.

It’s always a good idea to read what Josh writes. www.downtownjoshbrown.com/p/the-cure-f...

Coal mines emitted ~40mn tonnes of #methane every year, EXCEEDING the global gas sector according to @iea.org Tackling CMM is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to slow global heating 🌡️⏳ Yet, CMM emissions could be much more than we think, urgently needing better reporting 📝🚨

Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation. We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

Developed w/#SpatialFinance, GEM’s new Global Chemicals Inventory maps 868 plants in 80 countries — tracking 8 core chemicals forming the backbone of modern materials & fertilizers. Built for transparency in one of the world’s most energy-intensive sectors: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

"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."

As COP inches on, energy transition leapfrogs on energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com//news/renewa...

It turns out that the madman theory works on one particular target. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-madman...

Two companies are responsible for 50% of the world's battery deployment so far this year. Both are, of course, Chinese.

Hey, so we have a bunch of open positions right now, working on cement, chemicals, clean energy (gosh, do we need a lot to electrify industry), and leading our Michigan work. These jobs will take you from the Central Valley in California to green cement plants in Tanzania, and beyond. Know anyone?

We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero

How's this for energy abundance? Millions of Aussies will start receiving three hours of free power each day in 2026. This is what happens when you make rooftop solar less than a buck a watt!! "Rooftop solar installations cost about $840 (U.S.) per kilowatt of capacity before rebates." 🤯 🔌💡

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 ...

🇨🇳 🇺🇳 NEW | Report: Assessing China’s overseas coal power ban 4 years on Following President Xi's 2021 pledge of no new overseas coal projects, 59.3GW of projects have been cancelled, or 6.1bn tonnes of avoided lifetime carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, yet loopholes persist

No offense to the “World Series”, but this actual World Cup series feels way more satisfying. I assume 1.5 billion people will agree. www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-w...

Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...

Personally, I have seen little climate denialism outside the US and Western Europe. Climate change is a lived reality already in Asia and Africa at least. False trade offs can make dealing with it a lot harder. indianexpress.com/article/opin...

The high rainfall in May was a result of an early monsoon, which led to cooler temperatures in the hottest months of May and June, in turn leading to less use of air conditioning, and less power demand. This is a core reason why India's emissions have grown much less so far this year.

[India] "This is something the western world is now beginning to realise. That we are not pushing coal, but using it only to meet the demand that renewables are currently unable to." www.ft.com/content/4d4f...

NEW: Global offshore wind targets will help to propel a tripling of global offshore wind capacity in just 6 years💪 Although many countries may achieve their 2030 target slightly later than planned, the US is the only country that has effectively deserted its target...🧵

Worried about electricity demand? Look where data centers are on this chart. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW from us: current clean energy targets and trends enable China, India, and Indonesia to peak power sector emissions by 2030. This would be a global breakthrough given that these nations have been the largest growth markets for coal in the decade since the Paris Agreement. bsky.app/profile/crea...