Whaty what what?!!!?? China wow... 20,000 x 1.5MW charging stations to be built by the end of the year. The electricity is buffered in batteries to minimise grid impact. carnewschina.com/2026/03/05/b...

There is a clear trend that emerges. Countries first tap into the solar market, then a year later they seek to deploy batteries. Europe did that after the gas crisis caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China is building reactors at an unprecedented pace — but the rest of the world is lagging far behind

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gas demand overall was at its lowest since 1992.

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Fossilflation getting to you? There's an easy 2-step fix to get off fossil fuels. Now, to do that proactively, anticipating the next geopolitical crisis...

Bloomberg NEF's Vagneur-Jones: “When a technology becomes cost competitive, you get to a tipping point on adoption.”

Past fossil-fuel price spikes left import-dependent countries with two options: pay up or cut fuel use. Now there is an alternative in solar and batteries. I looked at recent examples in Europe, Pakistan, Cuba to glean what might happen with the war on Iran. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I was born in what everyone around me referred to as a small city in India. Population: 2 million.

The Trump administration’s first oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet received no bids, according to the US Interior Department, indicating tepid interest from drillers in that region

So what's really driving up electricity prices? Basically everything but renewables, according to LBNL and CATF.

BNEF's forecasts for solar build over time. We drastically* underpredicted what China would deploy in 2023 and 2024, and the effect of Russia invading Ukraine in 2022. We cut forecasts in late 2025 because the long-expected cannibalization is biting hard. But now there is a new fossil fuel squeeze.

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

Sea levels already ‘much higher’ than many scientists had estimated ft.trib.al/Fu0eKeu

That's right. It's water. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This week on Zero, I speak with Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Jason served on the National Security Council, under President Obama, and always has his pulse on the big energy and climate questions. Listen: omny.fm/shows/zero/w...

About 2.4 billion years ago, a mass extinction event was caused by spike in oxygen levels. The Great Oxygenation Event wiped out much of the anaerobic biosphere that existed then. Perhaps a future species will find in fossil records that we are living through the Great Carbonation Event.

“Oil lobbyists have made the case to Trump officials in recent weeks that his attacks on wind farms off the U.S. coast risk derailing congressional efforts to speed up permits for energy projects, according to people familiar with the matter.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

With 95% of planned long-duration energy storage projects slated to be built in China, the trend is set to continue.

General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars. Great story by @jackewingnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

We're living in the timeline when hundreds of millions of years of dead matter was compressed by vast amount of rocks which were pushed by tectonic plates to create this concentration of oil and gas in less than 5% of the global land mass which humans now may burn away in less than 500 years.

BREAKING: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that New York’s congestion pricing toll is legal and may continue, handing a major victory to the state in its defense of the first-in-the-nation traffic reduction plan, which the Trump administration had tried for more than a year to kill.

A widespread war in the Middle East is the worst-case scenario for the global oil and gas markets. That war is here, and it could have wide-ranging, long-lasting impacts on energy and climate policy. This week on Zero: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition? omny.fm/shows/zero/w...

You see this chart and you will likely go "Look, this is why we must move to clean energy." Not so fast. Higher fossil fuel prices make green alternatives more attractive, but they can also make it harder to deploy renewables. Story with @lauramillan.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I dust my house. My AI robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Was incredible last night and clear skies tonight!

JUST ONE YEAR'S OF SOLAR!? In 2025, 82MT of LNG went thru the Strait of Hormuz. That's 1200TWh of gas = about 600TWh of electricity generation if it was used in gas power plants. Meanwhile in 2025, global solar electricity generation rose by about 600TWh ☀️

Any country that doesn’t produce its own oil keeps getting more and more incentive to accelerate the shift to renewables, even if it couldn’t care less about climate change.

Yep, here's the Ethiopia deep dive www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This seems unnecessarily contrarian. Sure the cost of capital for renewables rises a bit, but the cost of 1-month gas futures just rose *50%*. Of course people will build more renewables, and more batteries.

Important point: fuel costs go up, inflation goes up, interest rates go up, RE deployment suffers

The anti-renewables logic here is: higher inflation -> higher interest rates -> higher cost of green capex. The rational conclusion is not 'do less green capex and dig more coal': it is 'states must do more to subsidise, incentivise and ensure affordable credit for renewables'.

Good piece. I think pro-renewables governments will face two opposing forces if higher oil and gas prices persist: 1. Their policies - reducing reliance on gas - are clearly the right ones 2. Higher energy bills make people angry and hurt their fiscal position There's a good chance 2 overwhelms 1

You see this chart and you will likely go "Look, this is why we must move to clean energy." Not so fast. Higher fossil fuel prices make green alternatives more attractive, but they can also make it harder to deploy renewables. Story with @lauramillan.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Here's what the crisis in the Middle East and turmoil in energy markets mean for renewable energy and the clean transition Story w @akshatrathi.bsky.social @sharonchenhm.bsky.social via @bloomberg.com FREE read: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Important point

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science. It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

Breaking: China's official statistics report a 0.3% drop in CO2 emissions from energy&industry in 2025, the third time that annual emissions have fallen this century and the first fall predominantly driven by clean energy growth. 🧵

What did I just read? It was gripping. It is, I'm told, non-fiction. But it is clearly telling a story of a universe I do not appear to be a part of. Point me to the takes on this please, thanks very much. harpers.org/archive/2026...

The Great Parade (definitive state) by Fernand Léger, 1954 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137817

The American Clean Power Association is working with "influencers to secure opinion media placements authored by conservative columnists, former Republican lawmakers, and other credible Republican voices in conservative outlets," says a memo obtained by POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

With a lot of eyeballs on the collapse of Market Financial Solutions, it's worth reading this brilliant @bloomberg.com story from 2024. The MFS group was one of the biggest lenders behind the UK property empire of Bangladeshi politician Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. shorturl.at/GiLY3

Arne Delfs (Bloomberg News Berlin): "Watch #FriedrichMerz reaction when a robot at the #Unitree show falls down - and gets up again. Mixture of fascination and fear #china" nitter.net/ArneDelfs/st...

India's Enforcement Directorate has seized Anil Ambani's $410 million home in upscale Pali Hill in Mumbai. While it took India's banks almost a decade to declare fraud, the case against Ambani has gathered momentum in just a few months www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs buff.ly/i42toCJ

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So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?