For 5 US #offshorewind projects, US Admin. halted construction just B4 Christmas. Courts have now ruled on 4 of 5, all “stayed” the halt and allow immediate construction restart. Courts also find Admin unlikely to win in full trial. 5 projects~6GW! #energytransition #wind

Second court order this week allowing another #offshorewind project to resume construction. Low-competence DOJ lackeys didn’t even reply to most of developer’s points. At stake are affordable power and big #CO2 reductions. News: www.nytimes.com/2026... Legal summary: www.jdjournal.com/20...#offshorewind

States respond—the legal, power reliability, and industrial problems with the Administration’s suspend-activity order to under-construction #offshorewind projects. Concise, direct, clear. Worth a read. www.governor.ny.gov/...#offshorewind

Leading science journal: “The seemingly unstoppable [global] growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.” Achieved by (slow) science discovery, then innovations, then industrialization. #solar #wind #EV #EnergyTransition www.science.org/cont... Or scim.ag/493Tpgx

"At their all-time high, in 2017, global sales of pure internal combustion vehicles hit 79.9 million units, per data from the International Energy Agency. Last year, 54.8 million internal combustion cars were sold, a 31% reduction." www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... via @danmccarthy.bsky.social

Largest US #OffshoreWind project by the numbers: 2.6 GW, 176 turbines (≈15 MW each) $4.31/MW total capital $84/MWh cost of energy 63¢ /month customer bill SAVINGS Utility-owned Q1Y26 first power into grid Q4Y26 expected completion Lowering bills & meeting VA's load growth!

Great detail on Dominion’s progress building 2.6 GW #offshorewind. First OSW project for this utility, new port, new installation vessel. And, unexpected glitches, like 200 punch list fixes for the big boat🤯. #energytransition @rtoinsider.bsky.social

New V2G demonstrations, but… Why Isn’t Progress Faster? Asks @dangearino.bsky.social in @insideclimatenews.org. Good analysis of reasons, including current projects and my perspective on fundamentals, recent advances, and overcoming barriers. #EV #V2G #storage 🔌💡

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

Are US Administration worries about #offshorewind valid? South Fork Wind now has a year’s operating experience, Orsted has released a report on it, and @justingerdes.bsky.social has a quick-read summary—a factual, data-based alternative to today’s government propaganda.

Rule of law prevails! Big clean energy project can proceed. #offshorewind #energytransition 🔌⚡️

Incisive article “Power Struggle” by @jefftheyoung.bsky.social on how US policy drives investment, factories and jobs out of USA, favoring China. Quote (below) by @billmckibben.bsky.social if US blocks new expanding technologies, it could become the Colonial Williamsburg of internal combustion.

How fast can the world install 1GW of solar? Below graph 2004=1 year, up to 2023=1 day! As of 2025, 11.5 hours—see ember-energy.org/latest-updat... For explanation, see McKibben books.apple.com/us/book/here... (Similar acceleration seen for wind, next storage.) Growth now unstoppable!

US Rep Seth Magaziner bsky.app/profile/mag... asks Mr. Suess, Acting Ast Sec at DOI, why halt Revolution Wind for redundant US Gov. review? Why raise energy prices, put US workers on unemployment & kill new domestic energy? No answer: youtu.be/IWpW000opLU Also WSJ: www.wsj.com/us-news/...

Even the US Chamber🎩is: “…concerned… halt work orders on offshore wind projects that already have permits, some… far along in construction… risks raising the cost of electricity… America needs every possible electron it can get, from any source,”💸

From @slashklc.bsky.social , a very plausible explanation of why US Admin vehemently opposes some low-carbon energy technologies and neutral or mildly positive on others. Q: How to determine what is opposed? Look at current deployment sizes and growth rates. A: #solar and #windpower

Dept Interior issued work stoppage to Revolution Wind—700 MW of clean power, 80% built, power on this fall, contracted to RI and CT. All permits approved long ago. This is anti-business, chills investment, raises costs. Chokes off needed ⚡️🔌.

🇺🇸Admin told Feds🫵favor energy produced using less land even if more$$ 😵‍💫. See great analysis by @mzjacobson.bsky.social; my refinements: corn🌽ethanol is not production, and space between turbines is not “used” (2nd link, tbl S28). Result: Fossil+nuc 1.6% land Renewables 0.16% So💨☀️🟰 ⬇️$ and ⬇️land!

Largest offshore wind project worldwide, Berwick Bank, 4.1 GW, approved contingent on avian study & mitigation if needed. How big 4.1 GW for Scotland? 🟰 power of 2x households OR 🟰 to taking ALL cars of the road. Running well before 2030. BBC: bbc.com/news/article... Dev: www.berwickbank.com

World energy investments. #Grid, #solar, and #wind dwarf all others—in $/year or in (not shown) new MWh/yr. Seems the current US Admin. missed this trend, and believes that blocking growing technologies in one country will change the many market drivers of their growth. 🔌 www.iea.org/reports/worl...

Senate Republicans are pushing a tax cut bill that would undermine billions of dollars of clean energy investment, kill jobs, drive up energy prices and add a new 'tax' on solar and wind so ugly that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Elon Musk oppose it: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #energysky

The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.

First text is from my in-law, a capable #mariner. #Weather forecasts appear to be the same, but suddenly way less accurate. 2nd from meteorologist colleagues on how specific staff cuts degrade forecast accuracy. One of many ways the national infrastructure we rely on is being silently destroyed.

This is giving me chills. Read it carefully. The math. chaos we’re adding into the climate is wiping insects off the planet. Even insects likely won’t be able to evolve fast enough to keep up. I’m scared to think about more complex organisms in the food chains. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

😲 “We built our last gas-fired facility in 2022, at $785/kW. If we wanted to build that same gas-fired combined cycle unit today…$2,400/kW" - NextEra CEO John Ketchum gasoutlook.com/analysis/cos... 🔌💡

David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage explains why free trade can benefit both sides. This also helps understand the massive ignorance and coming damage of the new US #tariffs. First, a readable explanation from @gregor.us: https://bit.ly/3Gcac6u More theory: web.mit.edu/krugman/...#tariffs.

By 2028, renewable energy is expected to constitute 37.4% of the U.S. utility-scale generation capacity, with solar and wind leading the growth. Solar and wind combined contributed over 98% of all new electrical capacity installed in the U.S. in January 2025 en.softonic.com/arti...

About 90% of new generation waiting in queues is solar and wind. They’re lowest cost new generation. New generation is essential to meet coming load, from servers & AI to electrification. So, many constituencies should support this potential speed up. Great work Pearl Street, MISO and @ferc.gov

PATH is thrilled to welcome Prof. Willett Kempton @willett.bsky.social this Tuesday for a discussion on vehicle-to-grid technology! ⚡ 🚗 🔌

Soon, new homes & those with new electrical panels will not reliably charge #EVs. Not sabotaged by the new Pres., rather it's the new National Electrical Code being very dumb about how EV chargers work and requiring incompatible double ground fault interrupters. www.motortrend.com/news/nationa...

New by me in @heatmap.news: The LA fires have accelerated the looming financial crisis facing gas utilities from 2035/2040 to today. Preventing that disastrous cost spiral, though, can help make burned areas safer, easier to rebuild, and more insurable! (1/12) 💡🔌 heatmap.news/ideas/la-fir...

Important to remember that renewables aren't being built (solely) to boost environmental outcomes, but to meet basic energy needs. www.rechargenews.com/markets/ener...

Implications of the US anti- #Windpower Executive Order by legal and #offshorewind expert Laura Smith Morton. Essential to understand the legal and project implications of this EO. perkinscoie.com/insights/blo...

Thorough, balanced analysis of the #windpower #offshorewind “Day 1” Executive Order and likely results of implementation. 🔌💡 #energysky

For reference, White House EO on #windpower: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... versus, a good compendium of responses and plans by energy and climate professionals: 🔌💡 #energysky

Electrify all road vehicles💯(light, med & heavy)❓➡️connectors need standards➕deploy. Standards now here: SAE J3400, J3068, & J3271. (Bonus: ⬇️💲AC EVSEs and LIN-CP for #V2G.) Now we need a movement to adopt. www.motortrend.com/features/tes... doi.org/10.3390/wevj... www.techbriefs.com/component/co...

Okay #EnergySky, I think we all have a moral and legal obligation to buy this beautiful new coffee table book using photography to document the importance of electricity transmission and the grid, America's "missing machine," from Jaime Manley www.blurb.com/b/12211775-t... (Jamie, are you on here?)

Ukraine WindWaterSolar energy much harder to destroy than fossil energy "Replacing the transformers & swapping out destroyed (PV) panels allowed the farms to be back up in 7 days" "an attack on a thermal generating station..took 3-4 months to rebuild" www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/ukr...

FHWA RFI: How to charge medium and heavy duty vehicles? 🚚🚌 U Delaware answers (Docket FHWA–2024–0028), based on new standards for 50 - 100 kW AC charging (very low cost) plus 1-4 MW DC charging (literally gasoline pump speeds), now posted on docket: downloads.regulations.gov/FHWA-2024-00...

New data: 11 states generated 54-110% of electricity they consumed with Wind-Water-Solar for year Oct 1 '23-Sep 30 '24 10 of the 11 are among 20 lowest-cost electricity states March '24 SD 110% WWS MT 86.5% IA 79.4% WA 72.6% KS 70.2% OR 64.2% ME 62.1% NM 59.7% WY 56.1% ND 55.1% OK 53.7%

View my video explainer on #V2G within news article on DelmarvaPower-UD-PJM-Ford-Nuvve project to scale V2G: bit.ly/ExplainV2G-v... Exelon video, how this project’s partners created it: bit.ly/4fYvJMo Why SAE J3068/J3400 LIN-CP enables scale: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-... #EV #EnergySky 🔌 💡

EV drivers use gasoline concepts to charge—causing inconvenience and range anxiety. Interviews with novice & experienced #EV drivers reveal 3 #mentalmodels: A. Monitor gage (from gasoline), B. Planning (trips), C. Event Triggered (see figure) Full study (free): bit.ly/EVmm News: bit.ly/EVmm-pl

So much this

Finally getting to the steps to move #V2G to serial deployment. Hear the status this week at the V2G Forum.

Two short #V2G videos. Willett Kempton with video explanation of V2G, within a UDelaware news article on Delmarva-UD-PJM-Ford-Nuvve scalability of V2G project: www.udel.edu/udaily/... Also, Exelon video, the contributions of some of the partners on the scalability project: vimeopro.com/lmiiipr...

Big #EV charging changes. The inside story from charging guru Rodney McGee, in www.motortrend.com/f... Also, we explain new connectors & how AC charging will soon work more like a cell phone, less like plugging in your toaster doi.org/10.3390/wevj...#EV @niedermeyer.io @jessejenkins.bsky.social

Standards, interconnection rules and markets finally resolving for #V2G from low-cost AC charging. We compare value in markets: 1.charge off-peak, 2.TOD rate arbitrage, or 3.RTO market (see abstract & table). We’ve designed low-cost, scalable, and regulatory compliant V2G: doi.org/10.3390/en17...

Uh oh. Don't tell the "EV sales have stalled" folks, but August saw a set of new records in the US: -Most plug-in vehicles sold (145k) -Most battery electric vehicles sold (121k) -Highest battery electric (8.6%) and plug-in vehicle sales shares (10.2%) 🔌🚗 🔌💡

energyinnovation.org reviews all proposed uses of #H2 for decarbonization. Report, graphic summary (attached), and 2-page summary of each use, with references. Excellent gift for a policymaker you know🤓 Request free Report: energyinnovation.org... Fact sheets: linkmix.co/25714416

Closing #coal to⬇︎CO2? NY Times shows US (image) cutting coal 51%↘️16% but it just increased gas 17%↗️42%, minimal added #solar + #wind. Same for Mass (image). But Iowa replaced coal mostly with wind 1%↗️59%. Let's understand state policies! www.nytimes.com/inte...#coal#solar#wind.