Brent crude at around $80 per barrel, same as 2024 average. The oil-consuming world doesn’t seem extremely panicked? #EnergyTransition oilprice.com

Now, this is something. A 300 MW / 30 GWh iron-air battery energy storage system as part of what looks like a purely commercial setup. #EnergyTransition #BESS newsroom.xcelenergy.com/news/xcel-en...

#Renewables are just #additive, they said. It will never be able to replace #fossil fuels, they said. How many real-life examples do we need to ditch this fallacy?

#Germany boosting investment - esp #EV from passenger cars to heavy-duty, machinery and R&D - with corporate income and other tax rebates amounting to ~€10bn/a, and with accelerated depreciation, amounting to ~€20bn/a in postponed taxation by the end of the decade. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...

Dieseleistä akkuihin Hyvä esimerkki sähköistymistrendistä ja perinteisten suomalaisten yritysten mahdollisuuksista vihreässä siirtymässä “Aluksen voimanlähteenä on 250 tonnia painava akusto ja sähkön varastointijärjestelmä, jonka on rakentanut suomalaisyhtiö Wärtsilä.” yle.fi/a/74-2015942...

Interesting, not unexpected. With the Chinese CO2 emissions plateauing we’ll see the global CO2 emissions entering the terminal decline phase.

Samoilla linjoilla Energiateollisuus ry:n @energiateollisuus.bsky.social kanssa. Mielestäni yhden valitun toimijan ydinvoimahankkeen massiivinen tukeminen vuosikymmenien ajan veronmaksajien rahoilla on kuolleena syntynyt ajatus varsinkin tässä maailmantilanteessa. www.hs.fi/talous/art-2...

Tämä oli kyllä nyt jo vähän liikaa ottaen huomioon vaatimattomat uhraukseni säiden jumalille ja Espoon liikunta ja urheilu -tulosyksikölle ☀️❄️😎

I gave a presentation on this back in 2022 already: US banks and asset manangers backing off from Net-zero targets as the hype cycle was reversed. Back then my message was "will be backing off", in the past two years it has become a fact backed by empirical evidence. nypost.com/2025/01/07/b...

Niinpä: ”Suureksi varautumisen ihmemaaksi itsensä nimeämä Suomi ei ole ollut ihan maineensa veroinen. Talouspolitiikka ei ole ollut varautuvaa eikä uutta luovaa. Suomi on vanhaa suojeleva, myötäsyklinen maa, jolle hyvät ajat ovat vaikeita. Säästää täällä kyllä osataan.” www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

In January 2024 we expected 2024 solar new build to be about 513GW(DC). Now we think it was about 599GW (DC). Mind you there is still 65GW of buffer in that to cover analyst cowardice. I expect it'll mostly turn up in identifiable markets, though.

A great article on why batteries will have much more fundamental and faster impact on the energy transition than generally understood In short, it will dramatically increase the value of wind and solar and lead to a faster than expected decline in oil consumption cleantechnica.com/2024/12/24/w...

TL;DR but my wild guess: Too expensive and cannot be delivered to where it’s needed? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hi Katharine, here s my selection from a pack i had started on the heels of COP29 go.bsky.app/7XWyfpw

I'm currently building a starter pack on a critical topic: the role of finance in driving climate resilience, mitigation, and a circular economy. Investors, financial experts, development banks, researchers, innovators: who’s leading the charge in this space? Give me your top recommendations!

Who could have imagined?

(Quite some) way to go

Breaking News: Finland seized an oil tanker it suspected of involvement in damaging undersea cables and suggested it could be part of a Russian shadow fleet.

The Eagle S was seized and boarded by Finnish authorities on Thursday, a day after the Estlink 2 subsea electricity cable in the Gulf of Finland was disconnected www.ft.com/content/0c20...

Don’t get me wrong: nuclear is safe, environmentally friendly, resource-efficient and relatively reliable form of power generation. But also an uninvestable one. I don’t oppose purely commercial nuclear power projects which do not ask taxpayers to subsidise production costs and bear the risks.

A very good point, probably applies to many other countries too, including my own.

Have you already had a look at these European energy experts? Would be great to have a thriving #EnergySky here! If you think this pack is useful, please repost. go.bsky.app/PvYmi78 Suggestions still welcome, too.

About time to ditch the “but what about China” whataboutism and adopt a new “how do we catch up with China” narrative. #renewables, #batteries, #electrification of end uses megatrend - things have turned upside down, wake-up time folks.

Someone really had to make a research to state the obvious www.cleanenergywire.org/news/shippin...

Ps. Tässä @LumijarviAleksi n erittäin hyvä purku vastaavan ”mutta valtio ei osaa valita voittajia”-selkäydinreaktion tiimoilta. https://climatefinancedotblog.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/ideologista-varjonyrkkeilya-valtion-ilmastorahasto-vs-suomen-talousviisaat/

It’s human to ask for more time to adapt when your market is being disrupted. But slowing down is bad if you are already far behind in the race. Instead of giving more time for combustion engines, incentives are needed to accelerate and not slow down the transition to #electric #transport.

It’s often said, at least here in the north, that after decarbonising the electricity sector the next frontier will be achieving a low-carb heating sector. My hot take (you can store it at 100% RTE for years): 1/2

Bad day for dictators. For two dictators at least. (although not a fan of jihadists either) www.reuters.com/world/syria-...

A starter pack focussed on Europe's energy system (demand - infrastructure - supply). But: I couldn't find that many European energy experts here yet. Please share and suggest additions, and in particular: help me bring some gender balance ;! go.bsky.app/PvYmi78

My European energy experts starter pack just grew a lot, and became more gender-balanced, thanks to many good suggestions! If you like it, please repost it, and not just like it ;) That way, more people can benefit from it, and provide additional suggestions. go.bsky.app/PvYmi78

We all knew this already but it still looks pretty shocking when you put it in perspective. We can do better in #Europe

#NordicCountries leading the pack in the #electrification of #transport sector. Worried about the large #European economies lagging behind in this modernisation megatrend, and the impacts on the #competitiveness of the continent.

#eSAF investment in #Sweden www.res-group.com/resources/ne...

Keneltä löytyy vatsahappoja sijoittaa eLNG-tuotantoon, jonka kohdemarkkina on Itämeren laivaliikenne?

Four years on, has the "The ‘business as usual’ story is misleading" with @hausfath.bsky.social played out. Yes. The original figure (next post) had Current Policies / Stated Policies in line with SSP2-45 (modest mitigation leading to 2.5C). www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/

#Sodium-ion #batteries will be a thing - next decade. The incumbent battery chemistry #LithiumIronPhosphate #LFP has a long lead and is still developing fast. It will take several years for sodium-ion #BESS to catch up. #EnergySky #EnergyTransition www.energy-storage.news/byd-launches...

This is how it looks when big things like the global #energy #infrastructure go through a #disruption: It took decades to reach 1TW of #solar #PV but only two years to build the second terawatt. PV is doing its part to stay below 2C, now others need to step up. pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/11/13/g...

#German #Deindustrialisation in full swing. Head of metal workers’ union calls the move ”a declaration of war on the workforce”. Sounds like complicated but not unexpected.

Add #Solar and #Battery surge, lots of #WindPower, #PeakOil demand before 2030: #EnergyAbundance looming, just if #Geopolitics don’t mess it up

Cross-country skiing season opened well before December, perfect weather, perfect #Finnish #nature 😎

Electric car is good, cycling is better. For you, for cities, for economy, for nature, for climate. Also for those who need to drive cars.

People going nuts as a startup is not able to immediately compete head to head against a massive and heavily subsidised industry with decades of track record. #EnergySky www.reuters.com/technology/n...

Wow. Indonesia will be a top-5 economy by 2030 and is a tier-3 coal power country after China and India. Also noteworthy that the country has large domestic coal reserves and the sector is a large employer, not making it easier to do something like this. #EnergySky www.enerdata.net/publications...

Finally, small talk is last season and we Finns get to play to our strengths! 💪 #sauna www.wsj.com/lifestyle/sa...

I do the same back-and-forth but am more of a ”maybe the intermittency problem just gets solved with capitalism and batteries” person. Nice evidence here.

Puhelinsoitto auttaa vähän. Aseellinen voima auttaa paljon.

Simplifying just a little: from investment grants in 1990s through feed-in tariffs in 2000s to auctions in 2010s. What say you, what’s next in promoting #renewables? My two cents: less direct support to renewables, more focus on solutions enabling system and market integration.

The perceived #risk of #investing in #Africa seems to be higher than the real risk, based on the actual financial performance of #equities and #debt. Among the best ways to reduce the excess risk premium is to improve transparency: quantity and quality of market data pressreader.com/article/2821...

During Trump’s term one interesting thing to watch will be the interplay between markets heading to clean energy on one hand, and market-oriented but very conservative policymakers on the other hand. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Trumpin kaudella tulee olemaan kiinnostavaa seurata toisaalta puhtaaseen energiaan suuntaavien markkinoiden ja toisaalta markkinataloushenkisten mutta hyvin konservatiivisten poliitikoiden välistä dynamiikkaa. yle.fi/a/74-20125114