Now that millions of electric vehicles have been on the road for a decade or more, we have the data to check in on how their batteries are holding up. Quite well, it turns out.

This is a rather weird fourth. I fell in love with America, the country where it doesn’t matter where you are from. It saddens me how much we’ve regressed, but I also believe that that America as an idea is still alive.

Least-cost electrification plans have become more sophisticated. This working paper proposes an integrated regulatory–financial framework. Universal access becomes bankable when planning, regulation and financing are integrated. ceepr.link/4lc8Ysm

Famous authors asking you out

TODAY: New York City’s entire electric grid just got about 20% more renewable power. That’s because it’s the first day the CHPE transmission project is sending commercial power to New York City's electric grid. 👏👏👏 Lower prices! Less pollution! HUGE!

Hi everyone! I'm new to Bluesky. I'm an economist who studies growth, political polarization and the environment. Here are recent summaries of some of the things I'm working on: Long-run growth patterns and their implications: guidedcivicrevival.substack.com/p/regular-ec...

A child on a bicycle on the sidewalk next to a gigantic pickup truck that's parked backed up to the sidewalk, wheels directly on the curb and tail and trailer hitch hanging over more than half the sidewalk. The child on their bike is shorter than the truck's closed tailgate.

As an American immigrant from Bulgaria, I thought I left this graft and corruption behind. Apparently not.

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Slightly diminish a book: As I Lay Drying

I was on a flight and I watched an interesting documentary about the Straight of Hormuz

“Nearly three-quarters of planned generation equipment for data centres is natural gas fired, according to energy research firm Cleanview, which is tracking 56GW of projects across the US.” ($) www.ft.com/content/b0f8...

It's being increasingly normalized for us all to be in someone's camera. Meta's glasses are trying to take that to an extreme. So this is worth highlighting: "Smart glasses from Meta turn you into a 'douchebag with a camera on your face'" www.ft.com/content/3039...

In response to Trump's War in Iran, the European Commission this week published a proposal to amend the EU's CO2 price. The problem is that the proposed changes are exactly backward: they degrade the long term CO2 price with little to nor relief in the short term. 🤦‍♂️ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Hear hear! ”Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Sean Duffy should resign.

Oh I know this one! Trump has always wanted his name attached to stuff right?

That men reading in public is vilified as "performative" is idiotic. Books are good y'all.

Kier Starmer: "What gives us control is renewables. Our own home-grown energy which is then more secure and more independent. That’s why I think we should go further and faster on renewables. Let’s get control of our own energy…so we don’t have to keep worrying that our bills are going to go up"

Electricity markets suffer from a missing market problem that is hindering decarbonization but remains poorly understood. So it's good to see this good non-academic read on the topic, and Australia is a good case study for understanding it better. inflectionpoints.work/articles/rew...

Americans didn't ask for this.

As EU lawmakers are looking to soften the continent's CO2 price, it's worth remembering that policy makers can overcome political constraints by complementing CO2 pricing with subsidies without sacrificing much economic efficiency, as I and @knittelmit.bsky.social show here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." -- Donald J. Trump (Nov. 2011) www.youtube.com/shorts/siIXY...

Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.

Reason for hope: “The 2024 elections weren’t a tectonic social and cultural shift. They were not about rejecting the Enlightenment; they were a complaint about the cost of ground beef. Voters were not embracing patriarchal dictatorship“. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-what-... Love a good map

An important and underappreciated fact of electricity economics: The US average *wholesale* electricity price is ~5 c/kWh, or ~25% of the average *retail* price of ~19 c/kWh. The other ~75% of the electricity prices we pay is about poles, wires, transformers, generation capacity, and utility profit.

‘Great Britain’s day-ahead wholesale prices in 2024 could have been up to 33 per cent higher had there been no large-scale wind capacity…around £83/MWh, but could have been as high as £121/MWh…has over 29 GW of operational wind capacity’

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

Are you watching, America?

Bring. Your. Own. New. Clean. Energy.

"Ultimately, failing to accurately price the chaos of a blackout prevents the very investments that could stop it — investments in resilience."

One heck of an image of ICE inhumanity from Wednesday last week in Minneapolis.

Good news about EV sales below. But bad news is that we are far off target given the current pace of vehicle turnover: This figure is from recent research by me and colleagues. Open access link below. #energysky

Gee golly, that sounds familiar.

I just called my representatives with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

It will long be a vexing question for psychologists how everybody in the current WH and other ICE enablers will be able to look at themselves in the mirror one day.

As lies are being spread by the federal government about the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE, this is deeply troubling: “32 percent of Americans consider Mr. Trump to be honest and trustworthy, according to a survey this month by The Economist and YouGov.” 32%! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

"Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil." - Mon Mothma Andor A Star Wars Story, S2

Every ICE agent can (and should) be held accountable.

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

The govt lying about the killing of a U.S. citizen at the hands of the state, is by itself, a front page a story, worthy of drumbeat coverage, resignations, and impeachments.

They murdered him in cold blood, and then they lied and called him a terrorist for trying to help his neighbours. They’ll do it to anyone.

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Federal agents are killing Americans, lying about it, and refusing investigations.

The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say.