Solar capacity is expected to triple based on new projects in the pipeline. Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries. Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social

Terrific, thought-provoking piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social:

Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures

You have been able to do that for over 15 years with Photoshop and every commercial operation did. I was head of IT for a retailer in the mid noughties and we had a large team of graphics specialists heavily editing every photo like this. This makes it within everyone's ability. Is that worse?

I'm starting to feel that my new role in life might be just to repeat what the computer says back to my elderly relatives

new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe

What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels? This ad keeps making me chuckle. Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.

I can draw this cartoon for you, using as few lines as possible. www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...

Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Politics is just one place where the BBC has been poor recently. On security and hacking, a major issue for this country, the coverage has been fatalistic to say the least. The BBC was originally there to make the country better informed, not entertained at the expense of information.

Anyway, here's my slightly fuller fact-check - and rant about the media's constant failings - shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago. I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.

In Building Green Software from @oreilly.bsky.social we talk about how for large scale use cases, efficiency (performance) always needs to be combined with usability for developers. WASM has constantly been innovating in that area

One year ago today I posted this miniature Ant Man photo I created using real figures, lighting and homemade miniature sets I digitally illustrated the Monopoly board from scratch and printed it out to large scale. #antman #photography #miniatures

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.

For more on this new award for world building in books, games etc thealdissaward.com

BTW we walk to Jaywick often. It's a nice place and one of the few in England where you can get a deep fried Mars Bar (definitely a destination foodstuff, according to my husband)

I feel this is a telling thing for Farage to say: "I'm doing what I can, but there's a limit to what one person can do." www.bbc.com/news/article... Farage is the head of a political party and the (our) local MP. Does he think of himself as one person with the equivalent reach?

When you marketing dept earns their salaries www.bbc.com/news/article... Or was it them?

If you feel you must put this owl on the wall of your toilet, despair not, for I can draw one for you! www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

More evidence that octopii are more similar to humans than we tend to think www.scientificamerican.com/article/frea...

The interesting thing here is is China going to power through the levels reached by Norway and Sweden or not? They have stalled somewhat as they hit the harder to electrify sectors like heavy industry and aviation

Europe is home to two of the most electrified countries in the world – Norway and Sweden. But others are least electrified. Only 15% of Romania and Lithuania’s final energy consumption comes from electricity. https://loom.ly/wss-sI0

UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now www.ft.com/content/ced8...

Demand side flexibility is where the tech industry really needs to get on board. We need to do it and we need to help others do it. We need services and a mindset that supports it. Google is thinking this way www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/g...

24. We oughtta be building more wind. Seriously, solar will get built anyway, but wind needs some help, and wind blows in the dark and in the winter. It doesn’t help that solar pushes down power prices and generates renewable energy credits (where relevant), which hurts wind farm economics.

1. To opinions! Solar is the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it being built if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places are grid access, permitting, and sometimes installation labour.

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

I'll totally be making this

We often forget how far we have come: ➡️ Today almost 50% of EU electricity generation is from renewable energy sources. ➡️ It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix. This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation. Source: @ember-energy.org

Rooftop solar output hits new record high on Australia’s main grid, putting more pressure on ageing coal generators even with surge of battery solar soakers.

Wow, Australia's energy transition is going very well

On BlueSky I share thoughts about sustainable transport and environmental psychology, plus interesting links I'm going to try a newsletter for when I want to explore ideas in more depth Sign up? simple.ghost.io The first entry, to tell you what's going on, is at simple.ghost.io/the-simple-n...

When even Fortune magazine reckons the US needs to be learning from China on energy policy, they really do. fortune.com/2025/08/14/d... Good article on what China is up to compared to the US

I was interviewing a leading Indian AI academic on a podcast yesterday about the alignment of renewables and AI and I mentioned that IMO China and India were leading on growth in energy while the US was still looking backwards. He was nonplussed. That clearly wasn't what he was used to hearing...

This would be an amazing thing to offer in poorer areas of the UK. I'm thinking Jaywick. Every time I walk through the (potentially beautiful) place I wonder when the artists will move in @tendringmag.bsky.social @tdalc.bsky.social Wonder how they administered the scheme to make it work so well?

Yes, indeed. Recommend reading this linked post also joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene... where Professor Bryson says what really needs to be said about AI and agency.

Spain’s rapid wind and solar growth has CUT the link between gas and electricity prices 🌪️☀️ 🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe. https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

The modern equivalent of "spot the ball"

Book podcast!! In a change from tech, this week I was a guest on Tim Lewis's fun podcast Book Chat. We chatted about 8 novels, from murder mysteries to YA to fantasy to SciFi, all linked by world building - books that define worlds other creators build on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJKz...

Learn how HSBC, OVO Energy and the U.K. government are cutting carbon emissions and costs. By @charleshumble.bsky.social feat. @annecurrie.bsky.social

Word of the (windy) day: thigmomorphogenesis. It's when plants adapt their growth depending on their physical environment. I am pinning my hopes on it as I watch my neighbours blue cedar, which if it fell with the prevailing wind - like today - would squash my house. www.ebsco.com/research-sta...

Good article from Goodall. In terms of renewables I rail against the UK's lack of strategy but we do at least have a mission - convert the UK to renewables. To lack a mission, which is what the Starmer project lacks, is disastrous and inexcusable. "Growth" is not a mission. How do I know?

this is indeed brilliant

Spain has a multi layered strategy. They are not only building loads of renewable capacity, via dynamic tariffs they are leading businesses and households towards how to use it effectively www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/q...