Well I certainly didn't expect solar output record to be broken on September Equinox in Ireland!

Looking back a couple of episodes, never resolved: WHO'S YOKIE?! #TraitorsIRL

🚨 Batteries reached a new high of 275MW last night, finally breaking the previous record of 266MW set all the way back in January with Cork's Aghada BESS 2 in the lead with about 135MW 🏅 Together with Turlough Hill, storage was meeting about 9% of all-island peak demand at around 6pm 🔋⛰️

Anyone who watches the UK version knows that every fucking series theres a blond girl who gets really overemotional whenever they get accused and then end up cosying up to a male traitor and protecting them right to the end #TraitorsIrl

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson Well worth a read observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Gonna need a 1500 word thinkpiece on the gender dynamics going on in Slane Castle. They talk around it a lot on Uncloaked but why do we think Katelyn was put in the role of mediator between two aggro lads, why is Oyin underestimated, and why do Nick and Ben think they run the castle #traitorsirl

TIL this guy, who posted this message when we announced @greencollective.io's move from X to here, recently started a bot on X posting daily updates on electricity usage/generation in Ireland 🙃 (Fairly sure it's the same dude I blocked, who had 4 bsky usernames to be annoying in my replies in Dec)

From our last monthly newsletter: July's county solar generation map. For the first time in a while, the county rankings look set to shake up a bit in August; find out more in the next edition of "Irish Grid Monthly", available Monday to our newsletter subscribers. Subscribe for free today! 📭

Bluesky 🤝 knitting 🧶: blocking is magic ✨

istg it always feels like it takes forever to finish the last bit of a ball 🧶

Same. I'm grateful I had the options I had. Not everybody is so lucky and I don't for a moment begrudge the ones who had to take a different route.

Child labour was deployed to medicate all fourteen geese on three consecutive days, with weight-calibrated doses. Thank you to @feiwang.bsky.social for the weighing and recording help!

Hello to good ppl everywhere. Yes, I have 3 special colorways to support 4 families in Gaza and the Sameer Project. Crafting and creativity are powerful weapons. Making beauty reminds us of what we are fighting for while showing solidarity with Palestinians. 🧶

After seeing this excellent chart from the folks at @data.ft.com, we had to see how things look across the water. Irish solar in 2025 has already overtaken 2024 as of the second half of July, and it looks likely to exceed 1TWh later this year for the first time ☀️

It definitely feels important to include the fact that Norway specifically is uniquely and disproportionately responsible for the nordic heatwave here, because we profit wildly from supplying the cause of the substance causing these deaths, injuries and environmental catastrophes

EirGrid's continued tacit conflation of 1-min/15-min data is a real pet peeve of mine. Be consistent or -- better yet -- publish the highest resolution data (trust me, we can handle it 🤣). (@greencollective.io used to monitor some regions of the US where 5-min is the norm; 15-min seems so quaint!)

As a long-time FT Weekend reader, it was a real treat to have the newspaper reach out to *us* at @greencollective.io for data to support this article which goes deep on datacentres' continued use of fossil fuels 🏭 Seeing our company name in today's edition was definitely a moment to savour ☺️

Delighted to share that Green Collective supplied hourly Irish generation data to the @financialtimes.com for use in this just-published in-depth story on the continued reliance on fossil fuels by data centres, with a special Irish angle 📊 🗞️ on.ft.com/4lkAjXN

This podcast on petromasculinity and the manosphere (lol) by @amywestervelt.bsky.social and Daniel Penny is characteristically informative and insightful, but also surprisingly funny. Just the theme song (HUUUGH!!!) cracks me up.

🚨 A new all-time high today for Irish utility-scale solar of 864MW, equal to approximately 18% of all-island electricity demand at the time (just before noon). Remember to hydrate and stay safe out there folks 😎

Some key rural Ireland cultural lessons for me: 1. rip dot ie 2. the prevalence of high-vis jackets. people would find walking on a road (no footpaths!) with 80km/h speed limit while cars zooming past totally normal and make faces about “dangers” of Dublin 🙃

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is one signature away from becoming law, and now the clean energy industry is asking itself: Where do we go from here? @zeitlin.bsky.social and @emilypont.bsky.social checked in and found that while the mood is not great, there are still policy solutions to be tried.

This heat wave has been brutal and I'm only managing by a combo of air-conditioned public spaces and spending hours dipping in and out of the river at Frauenbadi (current water temp at 27C/80F). Rivers have been running so hot that a nuclear plant relying on the Aare to cool has to reduce output.

FIRST IN HEATMAP: Republican holdouts on the megabill are asking Trump to “deal” with IRA solar and wind credits beyond what the legislation would do, in exchange for a yes vote Raising specter of additional Trump action to choke off credits @heatmap.news h/t @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

June 2025 in #Switzerland had an anomaly of +3.8C above average and was the 2nd hottest June on record after 2003. It was the most above average country in the world ahead of Spain ,which anomaly of +3.6C was nevertheless enough to have its hottest June on record. Map kudos Ubimet

The elves have been toiling away behind the scenes and our county-level dashboard of wind generation is now a *lot* faster and nicer to use 🚅 Enjoy this, along with our other free public dashboards! www.greencollective.io/dashboard/co...

Anyone else noticed that Bluesky posts with a link get *absolutely no* attention, or is it just us? Anyway, I might as well announce this huge, silent improvement to our public county-level dashboard. This is thanks to our ongoing migration to @motherduck.com/DuckDB. So far, it's going great!

We just had the greenest June ever for Irish electricity, with carbon emissions falling below 600,000 tonnes in any single month for the very first time 🥇 Our full report is now available for free to subscribers!

We're obsessive at the @greencollective.io about using the very latest numbers from each publisher as soon they're available, carefully aligning each timeseries with one another, and even (extremely carefully - takes a *lot* of time) correcting what can only be mistakes in primary sources 🕵️

The new renewables tax, explained heatmap.news/politics/big... @heatmap.news

Indoor chore for a sweltering Sunday afternoon here in Switzerland (it's 33C in Zurich and may climb a bit more): tweaking the numbers in our May report to reflect the "final, final" EirGrid and SEMO numbers. June report coming Tuesday, subscribe today! www.greencollective.io/post/monthly...

Was in Dublin this week for an energy storage conference but managed to squeeze in a Pride walking tour too. The Lavender Walk with Tonie Walsh was fantastic and I am seeing familiar streets with new information in mind. If you missed it this year, definitely catch it next year during Pride Week 🏳️‍🌈

Ah the joy of waking up to genuinely good news 🥰 (Also I feel like more people should know Zohran’s mom is Mira Nair, which is a cool fact that I only found out a week ago)

i like many things about this city in general, but one of the big things i've learned living here is the idea that "nyc is different" is total bullshit and anything that is done here that is good and works can be done anywhere else

Even with limited experience in knitting, I am already convinced I will never regret frogging a project.

RTÉ reporting this morning that the coal-burning units at Moneypoint will become emergency-only oil units starting today 🙌 With Kilroot in Northern Ireland - along with all other coal plants in the UK - having shut down in 2023, it looks like the end of the coal era in these islands.

With peak @theauldsthretch.bsky.social approaching, we're seeing new records in Irish solar: - a new one-day high yesterday of just over 8.1GWh, equal to about 7.4% of the island's electricity demand - a new high this morning of 859MW, equal to about 20% of the island's demand at the time ☀️🥇

I started volunteering as an immigration court watcher after reading an article about Brad Lander doing it. So much respect to him and all the folks standing up to bear witness and get in the way.

True in my experience. Went through my current/old passports: 35 visas to date for 9 countries plus Schengen region. Dealing with Irish consulates in the US induced the most rage. If I didn’t work within walking distance of the visa office then, I would have given up. More absurdities below (1/2)

Announcing a little reorganisation of our website to make our various free, public dashboards a little easier to find and navigate. Latest generation and demand, historical records, and 2024 county rankings now all available in one place! 📊 www.greencollective.io/dashboard

In Ireland, too many people are cut off from nature—and with it, the health benefits it brings. Access to green space shouldn’t depend on owning a car. Nature should be for everyone.

*adds to list of things that feel materially different in 2025* I did the "classic" F1 to OPT to H1B to Green Card route for YEARS. Felt shaken waking up to this update today. (I no longer live in the US. Let the record show I gave back my green card in March.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

EirGrid's dashboard is back up and has finally added solar, something we know has taken them 2+ years despite having access to all the raw data 😬 We've had a good real-time estimate here for over a year now, but this will make our daily and monthly reporting easier ☀️🤷‍♂️ Here's Thursday's chart! 📈

so, in short: • if we all get loud for trans rights and actually organize a movement, we can win this one • if we don’t, then a de facto ban on care is assured in us law within the next six months in other words, you found yourself in history now’s a moment to be the hero really.

The Swiss are *very serious* about #CrossChannelRail trains to London, and this is the latest evidence of it www.watson.ch/schweiz/inte... There is space in Basel SBB and Zürich HB for terminals, Genève is harder, and rolling stock should be ordered next year

From our April newsletter: - solar generation doubled year-on-year to approximately 130GWh, setting a new monthly record on the Irish grid ☀️ - dispatch down prevented any new output records which remains at the 841MW set during March 🥈 Sign up for free today to read the full report!

Diary of a novice knitter: Gotta accept sometimes you simply have to un-knit (aka “tink”, what a useful skill) rows and rows of stitches to fix a mistake. It was always going to take days, weeks, if not months to finish a full garment project anyway. But how I wish ctrl+z worked in knitting.