"...periods of ultra-cheap—and sometimes effectively free—electricity have become a regular feature of life in parts of the region." Can't do that with fossil fuels.

Earlier this month I wrote this piece where I showed the simple math that explains why LNG growth is doomed and LNG overall can't compete on economics.

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That's a lot of sunshine! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/02/g...

Congrats Colorado! www.senatedems.co/newsroom/sen...

With all evidence that clean energy portfolios (wind/solar/storage) are less expensive, we should absolutely prohibit new large loads to be served with polluting, expensive, and geopolitically vulnerable fuel for power supply.

War is the number one threat to the clean energy transition that is necessary for a healthy, prosperous future for all life on this planet.

I think if ME, VA, UT, and maybe 2 more states pass balcony solar (one in the Midwest would be nice), it's going to be so widely available that everyone will be able to get it whether their state has signed off or not. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Just in time for great weather and terrible gas prices, it's Portland's PCEF-funded E-bike Rebate Program: * Standard: up to $1,600 * Cargo: up to $2,350 * Adaptive: up to $8,500 Eligibility: Income at or below 60% AMI, age 18 or over, and live in Portland. Check it out: portlandebikerebate.com

Utah, Virginia, and now Maine! pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/03/m...

An acre of solar panels produces 50-200x more energy than an acre of crops for fuel. That's why growing fuel on farmland is nuts.

Using just 2.5% of the land used to grow corn for biofuels for solar panels would produce the same amount of energy.

Painfully extracted molecules subject to distribution chokepoints simply cannot compete with modular industrial manufacturing.

New installment of The Sun Has Won: Working Paper: The Impact of Renewable Electricity Generation on Grid Stability This one is technical and wonky. TL;DR There is no evidence that increases in renewable generation cause grid instability. 🔌💡 PDF grouper-sponge-bsht.squarespace.com/s/The-Sun-Ha...

Electrification is the world's only insurance package that pays you a premium each month.

Fortunately, there's lifeboats at the prrsonal, community, and state levels! Policy support for ease of facility siting, stable financing, and streamlined permitting can vastly accelerate cleaner, cheaper, better solar, right here in Oregon.

All 6 New England states are considering legalizing balcony solar — a plug-in clean energy solution that’s as easy to assemble as an Ikea bookcase.

Australia’s grids world-leading Renewables on east coast now >50% penetration In the west > 55% And both still growing With no signs of instability (indeed grid reliability scores are actually increasing), scaling storage and renewables can marginalise gas entirely, slashing emissions and costs

If people knew how ridiculously easy plug-in solar was, it'd be everywhere. Panels 400w x 2, $400 Microinverter, $200 Cables, etc, $30 Unbox it, plug it in, go have a nap.

Clean, firm, too cheap to meter. ☀️

I understand "Lidl" is British for "Costco", and it turns out you can just do this quickly if you have political leadership who understands the stakes and gets out of their own way.

Batteries eat gas "peaker plants" for breakfast and dinner. Fossil stranded asset risks are enormous- who's gonna clean it up?

Two new battery records on California ISO grid: Max battery discharge rate: 56.61 GWh/day Max discharge rate as a percent of demand: 38.0% at 6:55 PM 3/12/26 Batteries met 10.5% of all demand 21st straight & 48/71 (68%) days in 2026 with WWS>100% of demand for part of the day

Electric vehicles are already cutting 2.3 million barrels of oil demand per day. That's about to double under a business-as-usual scenario this decade. It could go faster if EV sales rise, which there are indications they will at this oil price. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Funny bit of trolling by the civil servant who put together this chart in the Land Use Framework. Solar energy - a fixation of the rural right - so negligible in percentage land use terms there's not enough space to put a number.

Just 1 ship packed with solar panels delivers the means to produce as much electricity as 57 LNG tankers or 120 coal ships A world with little fossil fuels has an enormously lighter footprint—starting with zero need for 40% of global shipping

I anticipated that the energy transition would not go smoothly but I seriously underestimated just how stupid it would be

Solar energy is not only saving Pakistan billions in imports - it’s also strengthening the country’s energy security against fossil fuel risks.

Some countries are better positioned to weather this energy crisis than they would have been just a few years ago. That's because of the rapid growth of renewable energy, battery systems and electric vehicles. @npr.org interviewed me for this excellent piece: www.npr.org/2026/03/16/n...

More solar -> lower, stable energy prices. www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media. www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

Truly. Electrify everything.

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Salt batteries! 🧂🔋⚡️ electrek.co/2026/03/11/s...

Utility safety concerns about plug-in solar panels prompted 5 states to delay votes on enabling legislation. Germany has 1.2 million balcony solar panels registered with no safety problems reported. Here's my @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

Solar & Wind & Batteries.

Solar grows rapidly in Africa, with Morocco starting construction of 305 MW solar plant. It will operate in July 2027. Morocco has 1285 MW of solar currently. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/11/m...

Are electric vehicles denting oil demand? Yes. By how much? 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, according to EV Curve Futurist. Caveat: These estimates are hard, but the numbers are certainly adding up.

Solar and wind and batteries exist.

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

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...

Good morning with good news: Battery capacity doubles by 2027 & often firms solar! Utility-scale solar jumps 49% (~70 GW) by 2027! Solar is often low-cost option. Utility-scale solar, small-solar, wind & hydro will generate ~29% of USA's electricity in 2027. ieefa.org/resources/so... #energysky

Meanwhile the price of fuel for solar energy remains the same as it was last week.

Dozens of Illinois cities are locked into coal power contracts for decades to come. These two Chicago suburbs want out.

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

Big batteries, little batteries, they're all good batteries, bront. bsky.app/profile/cana...

Why are Petrostate Supporters Desperate? This graphic by @bistline.bsky.social shows US shift from new gas to solar, wind & batteries that took place from ~2010-2025. US installed 54 GW in 2025, 96% clean! The graphic (world is doing same) shows why Petrostate supporters are desperate. #energysky

A giant aluminum smelter recently decided to locate in Oklahoma rather than Kentucky. Why? OK has cheap wind power. KY is stuck with increasingly expensive fossil power.

PGE: we already have Virtual Power Plants at home! The "VPPs":

Battery costs down 60% in two years!! The economics of solar plus storage are tough to beat. The "businessman president" doesn't seem to understand that here in America. Everyone else does. And solar wins.