"Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April, compared with 20% from gas." More evidence: low cost wins in power generation. Gas is expensive and getting more expensive.

Bloomberg reports today "China-based companies in the clean energy sector have scrapped about $2.8 billion in planned US manufacturing projects over the past 12 months according to research by Rhodium Group" Chinese Companies Cancel Billions In US Investments cleantechnica.com/2026/05/13/c...

"Utilities issued 94.9 million final disconnect notices to residential electric customers in 2024, signaling just how many more households were teetering on the edge of losing service. Meanwhile, utility companies profited more than $52 billion in 2024, up almost $3.5 billion from 2023."

EV sales surged everywhere apart from the US, rising more than 20% globally in 2025 * EVs were half of Chinese sales and electric truck sales in China tripled * EV sales outside CN/Eu/US grew 80% (!) 10/10

We need a massive buildout of compost infrastructure so we can safely transition away from synthetic fertilizer. And we need it yesterday. www.ft.com/content/3634...

Amazing piece giving examples of how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is hitting South Asian nations that rely upon liquified petroleum gas and liquified natural gas 🧵 www.ft.com/content/d3fc...

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

Its worse than you think. The coming global food crisis #TheyDidThis "This piece by Adam Hanieh is one of the best compact accounts I’ve read of the actual material implications of shutting off shipping through Hormuz. Well worth reading." Gift article link @FT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

Today @cplusc.bsky.social launches a working class strategy for tackling the affordability & climate crises. The climate‑cost nexus is already costing billions every year, and it will get worse the longer we don’t act on climate; we also must address working peoples’ immediate economic problems

It was never about saving money www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!

Going to start a new Electro-Yuan thread since its 1 catchy replacement to petrodollar choking at Hormuz 2 China's role in electrotech is about to surge. "China’s cross border payment system hit an all time high in volume yesterday..over 100% growth compared to the Feb data" x.com/joshualipsky...

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Things are moving fast in the energy world thanks to the latest war. I cover a lot of the highlights of the past week in this piece.

the person who wrote "self-serving homeless industrial complex" should have their housing taken away, permanently. i am not even kidding lol. if there is one homeless person on earth, it should be whoever wrote that phrase in this statement

Excited to see this piece out in The Guardian. An honor to work with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and Marcello Rossi on this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gotta love how Abundance folk at the Institute for Progress are spinning the Trump administration's deal with TotalEnergies (to buy out offshore wind leases & reinvest that money into fossil fuels) as not a problem for "permitting reform" debates. Truly impressive acrobatics!

Trump as unwitting agent of decarbonization...

LMAO at Duke radio calling for a celebration tech on UConn

For a typical US household, about 15% of monthly electricity bills goes straight to shareholder profits - a recurring wealth transfer from everyone to the small minority of people who own the vast majority of stock (the richest 10% of Americans - all multimillionaires - hold ~90% of US stock value).

March 24, 2026. Strait of Hormuz. A line of oil tankers is waiting for Iran’s permission to pass.

Heart wrenching for everyone especially the folks living downwind of this toxic death plume who have been fighting for a just transition for decades.

There’s at least a 95 percent chance that your favorite Abundance Democrat who wants “permitting reform” has been heavily influenced by the ideas and writing of the Breakthrough Institute

Claim 3: “Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive”. If, as it appears, his yardstick is subsidies, he really needs to do some research. Globally, the IMF states, explicit subsidies for fossil fuels were $725 billion in 2024. Implicit subsidies were $6.7 trillion. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

This is insane.

📍 NEW 📍 For a century, oil companies dredged wetlands and dumped toxic wastewater into the Louisiana Gulf Coast marshes. Now, the Supreme Court will hear a case to hold oil giants accountable. buff.ly/J0nUASP @emdashsanders @exxonknews #LouisianaGulf #oilwells

Fact check: true

lmao

More than 630 people, at least 91 of them children, have been killed in Lebanon in the past week, authorities say, as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has engulfed the country.

64/ Day by day, this war is becoming a ecological catastrophe. on land and sea, fuel depots, oil fields, petrocehmical refineries, oil and gas tankers, are burning, billowing toxic smoke into the lungs of people and animals and sludge into marine life. ceobs.org/how-does-war...

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

Drone strikes in Haiti. Drone strikes. In Haiti. By private contractors. They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention. The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it

21/ Its day eleven. Hormuz is Closed. Fuel is trapped in Persian Gulf. Asian Countries now rationing fuel. – Vietnam told people to WORK FROM HOME because they're running out of fuel – Bangladesh started fuel RATIONING -limits on how much you can pump per vehicle –Asia-wide petrol prices surging

Crucial point is alternatives exist. they are cheap. The sun and wind are not being choked at Hormuz. The worst case scenario for oil companies is that people permanently shift... what they call “demand destruction“ This war will accelerates that ongoing shift to solar+EVs+batteries.

"Permitting reform" isn't about climate or affordability. It's 100% about Energy & Tech industries exploiting Trump chaos to let fossil fuels & AI data centers bulldoze people & the environment. What are we doing here, @whitehouse.senate.gov & @heinrich.senate.gov?

Global wind turbine installations hit a record last year! 😍 about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

LOL

I tend to hear opinions like this from people who have never interacted with a farmer. I talk to farmers fairly regularly. They don’t want to quit farming. They just want to be paid fairly for their labor.

TPUSA is teaming up with Google and NextEra in both municipal and statewide races in Arizona, in part to control the future of a gigantic, publicly owned water and power utility, the Salt River Project. Note the coalition here. Masks are coming off at the utility and energy intersection.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

“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...

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Despite sanctions, Iran is one of the world's major oil producers, with much of its crude exported to China. n.pr/3N9eJKA

This hypothesis doesn't hold up to scrutiny and yet is accepted as gospel truth in the electricity sector. Brendon's experiment is interesting, but trained experts looked at this and i included it in our policy analysis paper, Overcharged (in my pinned post). www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...