“California is moving faster than the U.S. as a whole, but to really make inroads, CA needs to also electrify transport, industry and buildings as fast as it is building batteries, while growing offshore wind, utility solar, rooftop solar and enhanced geothermal"

Our latest episode, out today, is on innovation and learning, 'Moore's Law' ('Swanson's Law), and technological change. Check out #EnergyMatters on all the usual podcast services. @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @energyinnovation.org

Hi All, Claire and I hope that you will give our new podcast, EnergyMatters a listen We'll be covering nuclear power, energy startups, Moore's Law, energy efficiency, energy access and justice ... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social sites.libsyn.com/589665/why-e...

New work on @sustainableenergy.bsky.social for healthcare in @africa.theconversation.com from our @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social and #DRCongo based offgridbox.com and www.rcha-rdc.org Download here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In this paper out in @nature.com, we documented a surprising trend in nuclear power plant construction costs: China and South Korea showed declines in the cost over time, showing potential for breaking the 'cost curse' of nuclear power. led by Shangwei Liu, Gang He, and @dankammen.bsky.social

In an excellent question from @chris8048.bsky.social on recent nuclear plant costs in France my co-author @shangwei-liu.bsky.social notes and corrects the record:

Out today in @nature.com with Shangwei Liu, Gang He, and Minghao Qin our paper on nuclear power construction and (early) plant lifetime operation costs. @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social @harvard.edu @baruch.cuny.edu Nature 643, 1186-1188 (2025) doi: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

How heatwaves are changing electricity demand in Europe: I’m quoted in the FT on the unprecedented challenges our energy systems face this summer. As repeated heatwaves drive demand we’re witnessing a “massive change” in how and when energy is used. full article: www.ft.com/content/23b3...

About to do the keynote interview and panel at the FT Live Hydrogen Summit 2025 in London. Wish the audience luck!

Europe relies heavily on imported fossil fuels—a big risk for energy security, competitiveness, and climate action. Geopolitical tensions can disrupt supply and spike prices, making us all vulnerable. Investing in local clean energy is key for resilience, jobs, and a sustainable future.

Electrification is THE dominant energy vector for the industry sector in all EU decarbonisation scenarios released by the European Commission. The share of gas declines markedly in all scenarios.

Elon Musk’s companies—SpaceX, Starlink, and Tesla—could lose at least $48 billion in sales over the next decade if Donald Trump follows through on a threat to cancel their U.S. government contracts, according to a WIRED review of publicly available data.

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from the aviation supply chain. GKN is "scaling back" its hydrogen research programme following "delays" to Airbus's hydrogen aircraft launch. Just like the Charge of the Light Brigade led to "delays" and a "scaling back". www.flightglobal.com/engines/gkn-...

Pakistan’s solar and wind boom just got a boost—cheap Chinese batteries are making clean power reliable day and night. Factories like Lucky Cement are ditching fossil fuels, cutting emissions, and keeping the power flowing. When tech gets affordable, the energy transition speeds up.

It is over fifty years since Japan's "Sunshine Project" started governments pouring money into green hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels. How is it going? TLDR: not well. open.substack.com/pub/mliebrei...

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from Saudi Arabia, where NEOM, the largest green hydrogen project in the world that actually exists, has failed to find buyers for over half its output. Its buyer's CEO has been fired, and costs are escalating... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW | In April 2025, solar ☀️ generated more electricity globally than nuclear power for the first time New @ember-energy.org data shows the rapid rise of solar generation over the last five years, resulting in this new record: April 2020: 79 TWh April 2025: 233 TWh 🏆

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is an update of a classic. I'm very much looking forward to the launch of the BMW iX5 Hydrogen in 2028, and seeing whether it can manage a single pixel on the RH chart before being taken off the market.

Three questions lie at the heart of any discussion of the transition to net zero. How to decarbonize the grid; how to maintain grid stability; and how to do both affordably. How one neglected approach could provide a big part of the answers… mliebreich.substack.com/p/decarboniz...

Humbling news and a huge thank you to so many wonderful, generous, and uplifting colleagues and friends, especially at a time when science is under such foolish and self-destructive attack. @nationalacademies.org @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/02/n...

Writing for Policy Options, BSIA Fellow Jatin Nathwani and Scholar Munur Sacit Herdem explore how deeper collaboration between Europe and Canada can foster a robust transatlantic talent hub to drive clean energy innovation and economic growth. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ap...

Thank you for creating such an outstanding documentary!

Help! ❤️ YouTube flagged our @cleaninguppod.bsky.social documentary on #ProjectBo as political advertising. 😬 Using #solar power to help save babies' lives is NOT political! 🌞 We've re-edited, now we REALLY need your likes, comments, RTs and shares to get the word out! 🙏 youtu.be/z-5QjSfy2SM?...

In troubled times, a pleasure to release a @uofcalifornia.bsky.social-Tsinghua University joint project on clean energy integration via @ieeespectrum.bsky.social. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/109... @chinamediaproject.bsky.social @madeinchinajournal.com @ember-energy.org @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

Saving babies is politically inappropriate, when done with solar energy YouTube shame on you. Watch this Cleaning up Podcast episode by @mliebreich.bsky.social and Share!

Wtf. This is a really important example of how electricity isn't a luxury and solar can help.

Project Bo: The Power of Solar. Our first ever documentary tells the story of how @mliebreich.bsky.social installed solar and batteries in a neonatal hospital in Sierra Leone, preventing life threatening power cuts. Comment your thoughts on our YouTube video now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMxJ...

We've figured out why our Sierra Leone solar vid has so few views. YouTube shadow-banned it as political content. We only found out because, in desperation, we tried to promote it. Apparently saving babies' lives is political in the US today. We have appealed, but WTAF! youtube.com/watch?v=yMxJ...

Please watch this over the weekend and help spread the word. It's the story of a solar power project helping to save several hundred babies' lives each year in Sierra Leone. More than ever we need good news stories about clean energy, and people looking after each other. youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...

NEW DATA: 46.9% of EU electricity in 2024 came from renewables says @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link 🏆 Top performers: 🇩🇰 Denmark – 88.4% (mostly wind) 🇵🇹 Portugal – 87.5% (wind + hydro) 🇭🇷 Croatia – 73.7% (mostly hydro) ⬇ Lowest shares: 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – 5.1% 🇲🇹 Malta – 15.1% 🇨🇿 Czechia – 15.9%

Just published: In our Hill Times op-ed, we explore Canada’s innovation dilemma and propose a Canada-Europe Talent Hub to compete in the global tech race. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

#AE4H Member Spotlight:Clark A. Miller explores how energy systems can go beyond access to deliver real social value. From Sierra Leone to global theory, he champions equity and community empowerment. Check the link: uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-ins...

In 2017 @mliebreich.bsky.social saw a tweet from Dr Niall Conroy, highlighting the devastating impact of power cuts in a NICU in Sierra Leone. It sparked Project Bo & the installation of a solar and battery system. This week on Cleaning Up, we tell that story:

A database of all cancelled hydrogen projects and their reasons might be a great idea. I believe a recent paper on cancelled green hydrogen projects was also published in Nature Energy.

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from beautiful #BritishColumbia #Canada. Reality bites. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

With @herdem1.bsky.social, and, at the University of Malaya, Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad, we have written an op-ed in PV Magazine, comparing Canadian and Malaysian prospects for greater use of hydrogen in remote communities to advance sustainability. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/03/21/e...

Looking forward to a return visit and discussion next month! @uofwaterloo.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-ins...

Today, we're shining a spotlight on our member, Daniel M. Kammen! 🌍 Check out his recent work and contributions to energy access here: rb.gy/9o8nnr @dankammen.bsky.social #AE4H #EnergyAccess #Sustainability

A recent Nature paper (nature.com/articles/s4156…) highlights the gap between green hydrogen ambitions and implementation, backed by clear data and numbers. A must-read for anyone following clean energy transitions#GreenHydrogene#CleanEnergygy

I'm a big fan of the annual Volta Foundation Battery Report. A few highlights volta.foundation/battery-repo...

Great to see the amazing Nia Novella Jones -- a.k.a The Energy Queen and ERG @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social graduate and @eji.org campaigner is now publishing renewable energy education books! Next stop, @nytimes.com best seller list?! @carsoncenter.bsky.social

You will not want to miss this week's episode of @cleaninguppod.bsky.social on AI and energy. Particularly given yesterday's $500 billion announcement from the U.S. And there's something different about it. Going live shortly... youtube.com/watch?v=OwZ2...

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé comes to you from the world of academia. Shaffiee & Schrag 2024 shows that the cost of emissions abatement via green hydrogen is $500 to $1250/TCO2e. And they didn't even bother to look at daft use cases like heating, cars or light freight. www.cell.com/joule/abstra...

I you want to have a data-driven discussion, it is worth pondering this: 221GWh of grid connected storage is enough to meet the world's current power needs for 3 minutes and 49 seconds. 1.5 billion cars delivering 25kWh of demand response would provide 10 hours, 47 minutes 44 seconds. Enjoy!

Well, that changed / charged fast @electrifydc.bsky.social @electrifyamerica.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social on the road

The Wow! Signal: A Lingering Mystery or a Natural Phenomenon? www.seti.org/wow-signal-l... One of the coolest and most tantalizing events! @setiinstitute.bsky.social @carlsagandotcom.bsky.social #ContactTheMovie

This is more fantastic & high impact research by ZERO Lab's @wilsonar.bsky.social with @gruberte.bsky.social & @ghgpolicy.org that helped shape the final US hydrogen tax credit rules out last week: in this case, avoiding an outcome that could have ruined the whole program.🧵👇 🔌💡

Today, we published an article by @bcmerchant.bsky.social arguing that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway. Read: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...

Planning permissions to build out the energy grid double in 2024 in Germany, to 1400 km. (The country had eased planning laws considerably for renewables and grid.) It does seem to matter who is in government. www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/n...

Discussing the Green Energy Transition with the General Party Secretary (L) and the Prime Minister of @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social Thank you #VinPrize ! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social