National regulators/governments: do your part of the job to solve grid issues. 🔌💡 My @regassistproj.bsky.social colleague @patozsu.bsky.social clear message: the pending EU Grid Package won't solve All Things Grids. Member States hold the tools and should use them. www.euractiv.com/opinion/only...

🚨Just released🚨 'Tipping the balance: Cheaper electricity is needed to drive clean heating' Our brand new globally focussed paper looks at the role of energy pricing in delivering clean heat uptake and provides examples of what has been done to reduce electricity prices.

Tonight at 21:30 Belgian nuclear reactor Doel 2 (445MW) will be shut down. Doel 2 is the last of 5 reactors that were stopped. It's old and uneconomical to bring up to safety standards. Tihange 3 and Doel 4 (2GW together) were extended for 10y. 🔌💡 www.elia.be/en/grid-data...

Calling all civil society contacts 📣 The Belgian government has just slashed funding for NGOs. While climate NGOs are affected, those working on human rights and conflict are being severely impacted. If you have contacts to potential funders, please get in touch so I can pass them on. Thanks!

Relatedly: worried about winter peaks in electricity demand in the US Northeast? Offshore wind helps solve that. Good thing we just nuked that industry.

SMR's supposed to "power the AI boom", but note the only concrete date mentioned here is 2039.

Heat pump for the win. @janrosenow.bsky.social always says you can heat a tent with a heat pump. Well, I can confirm you can very comfortably keep a vintage caravan warm with one in a snowy windy night. 🔌💡 Camping De Nachtegaal, Rodeberg, BE

Restaurant Karoot in Brugse Poort, Gent. ❤️ vrtnws.be/p.RaGqby3a9

Dave very helpfully reflected on today's World Energy Outlook by the @iea.org 🔌💡 Thanks @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social !

Drones observed above nuclear power plant of Doel (BE), obviously a no fly zone. Earlier also at nuclear research center SCK in Mol (BE). 🔌💡 Adding to a long list of recent sightings in BE and EU at airports etc. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/li...

Requiring datacenters to be flexible is a fix being deployed already in US states. FERC subsequently translating it to flexible connection agreements, an instrument available for use in EU already today. Interesting.

Make electricity cheaper? Recommendation 3 from @regassistproj.bsky.social is to scale demand side flexibility, so fossil gas doesn't set electricity price, and consumers directly financially benefit from offering flexibility. Read how: ember-energy.org/latest-insig... @ember-energy.org 1/5

The future energy bill is an electricity bill. This is why we must 'Make Electricity Cheaper' for households, businesses and industry. In our 3rd paper at RAP on this topic, Tom Butler & I look at reducing tax & levies added to electricity prices for industry. tinyurl.com/4z4v5ssd

ASTER is a Belgian coop installing solar on social housing, to reduce housing cost burden. 5y anniversary, 57MW on roofs (+other 10MW). 🔌💡 aster.prezly.com/aster-viert-...

All this windy weather means we’re bringing forward the final prize on the Power Tower... TRIPLE FREE ELECTRICITY SESSION SATURDAY!!! (And we'll get back to giving away that gorgeous EV next week 👀) Yup... THREE HOURS of free extra power, 12-3pm Sat 25 Oct.

If you want to be current on all things solar energy, spend the 15 minutes it takes to read this thread.

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and cutting costs Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter. eciu.net/analysis/re...

Biking through the Flemish fields.

Electricity grid upgrades are central to Europe's future energy security and competitiveness. To achieve this, it needs to: 1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition. 2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public 🧵1/5

⚡ Europe’s clean energy transition can only move as fast as its electricity grids. But outdated regulation and limited oversight are slowing things down. RAP and @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social propose two urgent reforms for national governments to make grids fit for the energy transition.👇

We even had 3 hours on Saturday when Belgian consumption was entirely covered by renewables. Great thread by @jolaveyne.bsky.social

It may have escaped your attention, but the Belgian energy system has quietly passed an important test. During the weekend of 4-5 October 2025, our consumption was almost entirely covered by renewable energy. And yet the system ticked like a Swiss watch. /

Tien punten voor @vmerckx.bsky.social om het woord "liefdeskind" prominent in een artikel over energietechnologie te krijgen. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Energy efficiency needs a radical rethink. Making fossil fuel technologies & processes incrementally more efficient is no longer enough. It might even perpetuate their use. In my new article I explore how energy efficiency needs to evolve to remain relevant. medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

Storm Amy wind power windeurope.org/about-wind/d...

The Iberian blackout factual report by ENTSOE is online now: eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-c...

Wat een geweldig verhaal. Een jongen van 10 transformeert zijn steegje in Ukkel met nestkastjes, knuffelberen en verloren sokken. www.standaard.be/binnenland/a...

Today, we get all (?) the facts about the Iberian blackout! Exciting... But keep in mind this will be the factual, not final report. The final should come, with recommendations, in another 3-4 months. Doc should appear here on ENTSOE webpage: www.entsoe.eu/publications... 🔌💡

NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries. 📈 As wind and solar grows… 📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

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#MakeElectricityCheaper 🗣️“Lowering electricity costs is key to making efficient technologies accessible & boosting European competitiveness. This must be a political priority.” -Chiara Di Mambro, ECCO New reports from @regassistproj.bsky.social y.social present concrete solutions to achieve this ⬇️

Anybody here with a Law degree that can help shed light on today's annulment by the EU General Court of a decision of ACER concerning the electricity market management of electricity market. Case brought by BNetzA. Does this impact the Bidding Zone Review? 🔌💡 curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

Make Electricity Cheaper 🔌💡 Or... Kill (the Power) Bill, right? Reducing electricity costs because we can, and have to, for affordability and decarbonisation. A new @regassistproj.bsky.social series launched yesterday. 1/3

NEW RESEARCH: The future energy bill is an electricity bill. We must Make Electricity Cheaper for households, businesses and industry. How? …This feels like the defining question of the moment. I’m happy to share @regassistproj.bsky.social 8 priority actions. www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...

"Lasers are another option for shooting down drones at minimal cost" said Commissioner Kubelius @ec.europa.eu EnergySky might wonder at what capacity. Well, a blast by the UK's DragonFire apparently draws 50kW. Not too bad. www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi... greydynamics.com/dragonfire-b...

Engie built 100MW battery park on site that didn't get a permit for new gas pp. Project completed a bit under budget. Another 100MW planned. 🔌💡 www.tijd.be/ondernemen/m...

EV-laden in België combi met warmtepomp en zonnepanelen. A. V2H - terugleveren naar woning? B. V2G - terugleveren naar net? C. BESS - toch maar gewoon thuisbatterij hangen? D. Laat maar zitten, brengt niet op. Even de temperatuur nemen. Wat denkt u? 🔌💡

Nine EU countries are joining forces to push for public charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles along two major European corridors. The goal is to speed up grid connections and permits for charging hubs along these routes, making smart use of available grid capacity wherever possible.

DE Freunde: Musikfestival Flandern hat ein Konzert der Münchner Philharmoniker abgesagt, weil Dirigent Lahav Shani die Aktionen der israelischen Regierung im Gazastreifen nicht ausdrücklich verurteilen will. Stimmt es, dass dies in Deutschland für Aufruhr gesorgt hat? Schwer zu beurteilen aus BE.

"Any mechanisms supporting asset investment needs to focus on the point when assets are reaching their end of life and need to be replaced. (...) If no one were ever again to purchase a fossil-burning asset, the world would be on track to net zero in one asset cycle." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

The Court of Justice annuls the @ec.europa.eu decision to approve aid from Hungary for the - Russian built - Paks II nuclear power station. Win for Austria. 🔌💡 curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

Ter info, tool van Vlaamse overheid die je toelaat om milieuvriendelijke (elektrische) met conventionele voertuigen te vergelijken. Berekening van kosten, per jaar en over totale eigendom. mow.vlaanderen.be/tco/

True, EU should stop buying (and transshipping Russian gas. However it should replace it with renewables, not US LNG.

Some reactions to proposal to put UK gas power plants in a regulated asset base. 👇🏻 Report by Stonehaven for @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social 🔌💡

7 deadly sins of energy transition? 🔌💡 - Greed = CCS/DAC - Gluttony = H2 - Sloth = nuclear/SMR - Pride = fusion - Lust = biofuels - Wrath = US war on offshore wind - Envy = ESG reporting Entertaining "Redefining Energy" podcast www.redefining-energy.com Next: 7 virtues @laurentsegalen.bsky.social?

"Costs don't magically disappear." 🔌💡 About "tripartite contracts", on the agenda of the informal energy council in Copenhagen. Right? www.ft.com/content/cfc3... @alicehancock.bsky.social

"Costs don't magically disappear." 🔌💡 About "tripartite contracts", on the agenda of the informal energy council in Copenhagen. Right? www.ft.com/content/cfc3... @alicehancock.bsky.social

Grid lessons for Spain (&EU) after the April blackout. New MIT CEEPR paper. 🔌💡 1. Move away from gas powerplants to synchronous compensators, shunt reactors & batteries for system services. 2. Create a truly independent system operator, separate from grid ownership. ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper...

Purchase price parity for a European compact electric car! Citroën launches a 19990 € version of its C3 EV. With the French purchase bonus of up to 4242 €, this means they’ve now reached purchase price parity with the petrol version (running costs & TCO are already lower)

The Norwegian Government has made a new tourism ad, and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🇳🇴