Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

I’m in The Times today: “While transport emissions have dropped, the vast majority of homes still rely on gas heating, which emits harmful nitrogen oxides.” www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

In a new @forumenergii.bsky.social report @maciekjakubik.bsky.social, @zaniewicz.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social , Szymon Kardas and I argue that Europe needs a profound rethink of its energy security strategy: www.forum-energii.eu/en/download/... Some highlights in the thread 1/14

This supports a growing body of analysis indicating the EU is developing billions in stranded fossil gas assets.

And a reminder that these are the kind of LNG companies the EU wants member-states to throw public money at with its "affordable energy" plan ...

We asked an oil lobbyist what to do about anything and you'll never guess what he said!

A brilliant piece by Seb Kennedy - laying out why it would be foolish for the EU to throw taxpayer money at LNG export terminals Dismantling the EU’s flawed equity LNG plan www.energyflux.news/p/dismantlin...

Would have thought we had learned the lessons from 2022, but apparently not... A great way to undermine EU credibility on climate internationally while achieving absolutely nothing on lowering the cost of gas for EU consumers in any sort of meaningful time frame.

Is 2025 the end of the road for hydrogen boilers? I certainly hope so. My new briefing today looks at hydrogen heating - and why Labour needs to rule it out ASAP if they want to keep energy bills down. 🧵 www.e3g.org/publications... 🔌💡

Genuinely bad news - EU debating return to Russian gas as part of Ukraine peace deal First instance of the EU's competitiveness and security agendas coming into conflict Good scoop by @henryjfoy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a19a...

This is actually really bad reporting by POLITICO. The requirement for 2027 is only for exporting companies to meet a reporting obligation on methane in their supply chain. Any potential fines for not reporting would be for importers and entirely at discretion of national authorities(not "Brussels")

Three years+ of these headlines now. Nice to see we've moved on from Europe having to fight Asia to death over LNG supply to....oh wait. Like the last three years, my prediction is this ages like a glass of milk, behind a radiator, half filled with tinned tuna. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Yes, the EU are slow-walking ending dependency on Russian gas and there is an uptick in RU LNG imports, but it should be noted that we are now down to the last 2 sources of supply (UA transit ended Jan 1st). An EU ban on RU LNG in 2025 would still put it well ahead of its self imposed 2027 deadline.

Let’s not kid ourselves: Europe still buys a lot of Russian gas. Russian LNG accounted for 20 per cent of the EU’s overall imports in 2024. The only way to sustainably drive out Russian gas is to accelerate renewable energy buildout, electrification and energy efficiency.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said a new analysis showed that the continued pace of US LNG exports was “neither sustainable nor advisable,” according to a letter obtained by Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/c... 🔌💡

Big win for Western sanctions if true.

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is brought to you by #Germany: "Importing green hydrogen via ships is not a viable strategy for the decarbonisation of Germany’s steel and chemical industries, government-funded Ariadne energy transition research alliance has warned." www.cleanenergywire.org/news/shippin...

Electrification: A crucial step towards industrial decarbonisation

🚨DUNKELFLAUTE CONTEXT🚨 1. This is no **2022 Energy Crisis**: # of hours German electricity prices over €300 2015 = 0 2016 = 0 2017 = 0 2018 = 0 2019 = 0 2020 = 0 2021 = 236 2022 = 2345 2023 = 3 2024 = 23 (incl to 13-Dec)

Gas price volatility will remain a feature of our newfound dependence on LNG and much of the recent price spike is driven by financial speculation rather than market fundamentals. If Europe is serious about industrial competitiveness it should move at light speed to reduce its dependency on gas.

Next phase of European gas crisis *latest*!!!!!!!! Storages, after a brief period, are withdrawing exactly like we would expect. No need to burn your furniture, despite what you read.

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is brought to you by Norsk Hydro. It turns out that there are more promising ways to decarbonise aluminium production, even in a country with endless renewable electricity and a storied role in the history of electrolysis. www.gasworld.com/story/norsk-...

Which European cities have announced to decommission the gas grid or parts of it? Wien, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Mannheim, München, Basel, Zurich, Winterthur - the list goes on. Much more of this to come. A summary of our research: gasoutlook.com/analysis/eur...

Will Hydrogen be the new heating source for buildings? The answer based on a meta review of 54 studies is no. Compared to heat pumps or district heating with heat pumps, it is more expensive. 🧪🔌💡 a 🧵

Baffling to see the head of the ECB, the principal guardian against inflation in the EU, arguing in favour of the bloc increasing its already high dependency on American LNG to placate Trump. The last time the EU handed the keys to its gas market to a tinpot dictator things didn't exactly go well.

Europe's gas consumption keeps declining 3% decrease in EU+UK gas consumption y-o-y change for 10M 2024 compared to 10M 2023 21% decrease in EU+UK regasified LNG 7% increase in EU+UK gas pipeline imports Based on GECF (Gas Exporting country Forum) lnkd.in/ePmW3QMX

The Chinese competition is what is shuttering British car factories, not green targets. When it was obvious the world was going to go electric, some car companies gambled it wouldn’t happen and now their workers are paying the price for that bad bet.

It has been 10 days since Russia stopped supplying gas to Austria's OMV. But the gas is still flowing, sold via a Slovakian middleman instead. Russia has a bigger need to sell this gas than Europe has to buy it, but without a political intervention to stop giving RU revenue, this gas will flow on

It's the last day to submit your comments about energy security to the European Commission 🗓️ ec.europa.eu/info/la.... Ember's recommendation for the EU's energy security -- self-sufficiency based on: ⚡CLEAN POWER, and 🔌SMART ELECTRIFICATION ember-energy.org/lat...

Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it news.mit.edu/2024/reality...

About time too

DOE to release highly-anticipated LNG review, maybe next week expected to conclude LNG drives up domestic prices and is worse than coal in some places www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Javier is very right here in calling out Europe's continuing predicament regarding Russian gas - we don't want it but can't (yet) seem to fully quit it. But the answer isn't "more gas from somewhere else", it is "less gas in general", in line with the EU's climate targets. (1/5) shorturl.at/edO5I

I always thought that industry had limited electrification potential. How wrong I was: Once we looked into it in more detail we found that the potential for industrial electrification is huge. 90% of industrial process heat could be electrified in Europe by 2035.

Glad to see geothermal energy might finally be about to receive the political attention it deserves.

NEED SOME GOOD NEWS? The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels. Graph from @natbullard.bsky.social using @emberenergy.bsky.social data.

The EU's methane import standard is only slated to kick in from 2030 onwards. By that time the EU will have a glut of LNG supplies to choose from, and will have significantly reduced its gas demand. Absolutely zero reason for the EU to yield to pressure from the US on this matter.

Let's go