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Join us next Wed for a preview to our new Agrivoltaics in Action course! 🌞🐑 This event also celebrates the launch of the NC State Agrivoltaics Training Site. Reserve a spot now to celebrate this milestone event with us! 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/nc-state-n... #energysky

More investments and jobs. With 65 new or expanded solar and storage facilities having come online this year, every major component of the solar supply chain is now made in the U.S. 🔌💡

India solar module capacity seen reaching 220 GW by fiscal 2028 #energysky -- via pv magazine global:

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

We’re in Brazil — one of the world’s great democracies, one of our biggest trading partners — and not a single person from the Trump Administration showed up. That’s shameful.

An endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted 13 miles from Hilton Head Wednesday. The species is migrating to the area for calving season.

Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in October 2025, with recent warming really amplifying since the early 2000s. This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).

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We are officially changing Duke Energy’s name🎺🎺from this point forward they shall be officially called Dupe Energy for their unapologetic willingness to mislead their customers goodwill into paying more for nothing new…monopoly behavior at work🙄

This is just how out of touch these guys are, and little Marco is from #Florida, one of the states with the largest vulnerability to climate disruption. Say his name next time Florida is under water.

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SOLAR ACTIVITY IS HIGH: Suddenly, the sun is very active. Yesterday, Earth-orbiting satellites detected two powerful X-class solar flares. This interest-compressed movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows both spaceweather.com/images2025/0... spaceweather.com

An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications for global sea level rise.

Democrats were projected to score a major victory on Tuesday night by winning a pair of statewide offices in Georgia — the first time in 20 years Democrats have won in a non-federal office in that state.

Congrats to Peter Hubbard, Alicia Johnson & Georgia voters for decidedly flipping 2 PSC seats blue! The GA PSC has far reaching effects on our lives, from our power bills, to climate, jobs, telecommunications, and energy projects. The GOP has had a lock on PSC for decades. Time for change! #GAPol

Big Wins for Clean Energy in Georgia statewide PSC races! results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

Breaking: Democrats flip two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia, the first victories in 25 years.

Decision Desk has called both of Georgia's statewide races, for public service commissioner, for Democrats. If confirmed, this would be a really huge win for Democrats: It'd be their first statewide win in any non-federal race since 2006!

Uber is offering grants of $4,000 to drivers who swap their gas guzzlers for electric vehicles, helping offset the Trump administration’s termination of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit, story via @theverge.com 🔌💡

Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this?? electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

Well at least some are willing to talk sense in the face of the total bullshit artist…I endorse this message 😉

Solar and storage as a “workhorse” technology

Our evenings are getting less sunshine...but that doesn't mean our region is! ☀️ The Southeast can claim about 28 GW of solar as of 2024, a number that’s expected to rise to almost 54 GW by 2030. To learn more, read our "Solar in the Southeast" report: bit.ly/SACESolarRepo... 🔌💡

Happy Halloween BlueSky has 40 million 🙂

Heat pumps help people stay cool in the summer. In this latest research and video, I discuss how efficient cooling technologies (e.g., heat pumps) can reduce energy insecurity. W/ @lucyqiu-umd.bsky.social #EnergySky #energy #energypolicy youtube.com/watch?v=JfVps3p_EdE&feature=youtu.be

425.34 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 29-Oct-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

“Rain bombs” a new term in the Anthropocene. 1700 mm=66.929 in 😳

US rooftop solar costs 7 times more than in Australia and 2.8 times more than in Germany. Why? Soft cost like permitting, inspections and interconnection are 78% of US rooftop solar costs. Monopoly utilities and municipalities mainly drive these costs. permitpower.org/wp-content/u... #energysky

👇🏻is reality“The clearest illustration of that structural inertia is the Battery Belt…stretching across the Midwest and Southeast. Over the past 5 years, the US has announced or begun construction on…over 800 GWh of battery cell capacity. Even with a few cancellations, the buildout remains historic.”

This is why as we transition to #EVs their environmental footprint which is already lower than ICE vehicles gets even better.♻️♻️♻️

Check out 👀our Solar in the Southeast Report and join our webinar today at 1 PM ET🌞🔌💡🌎

Saw some incredibly effective climate change messaging today @sammyroth.bsky.social Kingston, NY waterfront TIL that the Hudson River is tidal from the Atlantic Ocean to Albany. Storm surge threatens more than coastal areas

The local activists and organizers who were the beating heart of No Kings Day are continuing to lead the fight on the ground in your community. Check out our map to see what groups are near you and get in touch with your local organizers: indivisible.org/groups

Led by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, the company is expanding from battery recycling and materials production to making large-scale energy storage systems.

Bearing Witness: A Family Legacy sunypress.edu/Blog/2022/Be...

World Meteorological Report Marks Biggest Annual Jump in CO2 Levels - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

The Energy Department has finalized a transmission upgrade loan initiated under the Biden administration, marking a rare win for the grid amid a wave of funding cancellations.

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The Indigenous Kichwa People of Sarayaku have always known that their forest is a living, intelligent being. Western science is finally starting to catch up.

Sad to see how destructive the US has become to measures that protect current and future generations from the ravages of climate disruption. This will not age well. We have too much carbon in the atmosphere and too little calcium in the backbones of the delegates on this important treaty.

How quickly we forget, but the Gulf of Mexico still remembers and remains highly impacted 15 years after the massive release of over 130 million gallons of oil.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

I countinue to use the term Anthropocene as an appropriate discriptor of our current time period. What's the "Golden Spike" I'm happy with plutonium in the sediment of a Canadian lake, the symbolism of a radioactive element named after the God of the underworld is perfect for our fossil fueled age🤔

This is coming, making the grid more resilient and cleaner…

What are you attending to and who controls your attention in the "attention economy," just a thought...Climate Change and the Attention Economy www.resilience.org/stories/2020...

Arkansas isn't widely known to be a state full of environmentalists. Please let this sink in, last April Arkansas got over 5% of their electricity from solar. This year, Arkansans got over 12% of their electricity from solar! Please don't give up. We can do this!

Column: Democratic Rep. Adelita S. Grijalva won her special election in Arizona more than two weeks ago, but House Republicans refuse to swear her in. She believes it has to do with her stance on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and her identity.