Good climate news this week 1 Africa: Continent’s solar orders surge 60% in the 12 months to June 2 India: Record 22GW of renewables added in 1st half 2025, up 57% y-on-y 3 US: California, world’s 4th largest economy, now using 40% less natural gas to produce electricity than just 2 years ago

Good climate news this week 1 China: Coal and gas consumption lower this year, emissions continue to decline 2 UK: Green power surges in Q2, up 195% on same quarter last year 3 Turkey: EVs up a fantastic 128% in 2025 to 18% share 4 China: Battery capacity now above 100 GW, up 110% vs. last year

The BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and new members) collectively account for 51% of global solar generation, a dramatic increase from just 15% 10 years ago - becoming the new center of gravity for solar growth in terms of scale 1/3

Wind and solar combined were at 1% in 2005. They will hit 20% by 2026 The renewables revolution is unfolding live, fast and furiously: It's exponential, global, and this decade. Just look at the data and do the math www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

Good climate news this week 1 Nepal’s EV share of new car sales hits 87.6%, Sri Lanka’s 84.3%, Ethiopia’s 40%, Singapore’s 33% 2 Brazil: Lula vetoes parts of environment bill pushed by the opposition harming Amazon 3 China: electricity prices keep dropping as renewables capacity surges

Indonesia just launched a program to build a massive 100GW of solar and an unprecedented 320GWh of battery energy storage systems across a staggering 80,000 villages It’s the largest rural electrification and distributed renewables project in the world Wow! www.pv-tech.org/indonesia-ta...

What did we do when atmospheric CO2 levels were at their highest in 14 to 16 million years? We built arm factories and golf courses, that’s what “Europe’s weapons factories are expanding at 3 times the rate of peacetime, stretching over 7mn sq metres” on.ft.com/4mBbQhA

In Nepal, EVs accounted for 76% of all new passenger vehicles and 50% of the light commercial vehicles over the past year 5 years ago, that number was zero: EVs take over slowly, then suddenly www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b... [Chart source: iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/0aa47...

Solar's rise is the fastest in the history of electricity It's not stopping - and can't be stopped - and will dominate electricity consumption by 2035, everywhere *save this post* www.ft.com/content/5a97...

World's biggest crude oil importer is ditching Big Oil, fast: Electric-powered heavy trucks' sales soared 175% year-on-year to 76,100 in the first half of 2025, hitting a 25% market share Transport sector on track to cut its diesel demand 40% www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Heat domes tripled in strength and duration since 1950s - as June temperatures reach dangerous highs in the US and Europe, while persistent low pressure systems saw China, Pakistan and India hit by floods "Typical” summer weather is a thing of the past www.ft.com/content/5189...

"This idea of a persistent #climate imprint on real estate marks a shift in thinking about the relatively new concept of climate-fuelled financial instability. This is the story that may matter most, if only because it is so hard to see how it finishes" www.ft.com/content/9e5d...

We might actually make a great leap forward at the climate talks this year - and it’s even possible that we could begin to reverse the gradual hijacking of climate talks by Big Oil. For the first time in 30 years.

State of the Climate: 1 Our oceans are in an “alarming” 2-year streak of rapid warming 2 Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 hit their highest seasonal peak since records began It really couldn’t be worse We need more, so much more, climate action NOW on.ft.com/3FPIv3u

The first terawatt Solar Power is here: In 2024, global cumulative PV capacity reached 2.2 TW, with China the only country to surpass 1 TW after building 60% of new global solar capacity Superabundance of energy on its way to upend the global “order” iea-pvps.org/snapshot-rep...

Japan: nothing can compete with solar + BESS: 1 Rooftop solar in Japan alone can deliver 1.2 times the electricity from the country's total electricity generation today 2 Integrating PV with EV cuts emissions 87 % and costs 33 % Let's get on with it - faster www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

India's coal-fired power is down 9.5% in May on an annual basis, marking the sharpest year-on-year decline ever (excluding COVID) Because: renewables surged to record high, up 17.2% from a year earlier to reach highest share of power generation ever www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The only space race of this century that really matters: becoming a solar superpower. Any and all countries are in contention. The global order is on its way to be potentially dramatically re-shuffled Ep 92 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast is out: theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/epis...

Nothing "unexpected" about this: we've breached the ocean acidification’s planetary boundary 5 years ago. That's 7 out of 9 breached - should be completely expected given Big Oil continue to pollute more, freely, free of charge; while science is silenced www.theguardian.com/environment/...

50 million electric two-wheelers were sold in China in both 2023 and 2024 – some 5 times the number of all pure, hybrid and fuel-cell electric cars combined sold in the country www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Top 4 fastest coal phase-outs 1 Portugal: Complete coal phase-out in 4 years, to zero in 2021 2 Greece: Complete phase-out in 7 years, to zero in 2026 3 Denmark: Complete phase out in 11 years, to zero in 2028 4 UK: Complete phase-out in 12 years, to zero in 2024

Blatten stood for centuries. In seconds, it was gone "I was speechless, it was the worst case that could happen. Mr Huss and his team check Switzerland’s glaciers, and their annual reports show a clear, accelerated thaw, linked to global warming" www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Today in SE Asia, BESS with EMS and PCS (all from China) are comfortably under $100/kWh all-in. That's 50% down in 1 year Solar + BEAS will be everywhere all at once by 2030: no other source can compete on price, or speed of deployment, or on scaling-up The era of [clean] energy abundance is here

The future is already here: in California, batteries - mostly powered by solar - will routinely be the single largest source of electricity on the grid We’re already there in California, the world’s 4th largest economy www.pv-magazine.com/2025/05/28/b...

We're at the stage when it's the first time ever that scientists’ computer models flag a 2C year, something deemed "effectively impossible" just a few years ago All because Big Oil and its stooges want to burn the world - but we won't let them www.ft.com/content/1bf9...

World's largest fleet of driverless e-mining trucks (100 vehicles) is live in China - with 5G-A comms, industrial-strength AI, cloud computing, smart battery swapping China is deploying 5,000 in 2025 and 10,000 by 2026, totally bossing Industrial EV AI www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

Solar PV has had the fastest deployment in history of any energy source It's not stopping here: Solar will continue to be installed faster than any other source in history, delivering in a few more years electron over-abundance and powering entirely new business models

China added a phenomenal 60GW of solar in Q1 as rooftop installations surged to 36GW 60GW is more than the total installed solar capacity in Spain and France combined. And China installed it all in just 3 months renewablesnow.com/news/china-a...

Do you still of England as "The Land of Mizzle" or "The Foggy Isles"? These days are most likely over - as England faces its driest year this century, with river levels well below their historic average and reservoirs depleted Yes, it's climate change www.ft.com/content/8e69...

Why we won't know the cause of Spain's blackouts for months or years; the history of blackouts; the solutions we are drowning in; and how the ultimate cure is to go bigger and faster on solar + BESS Ep 91 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast is out: theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/epis...

An ASEAN grid is on its way fast, adding 17GW of interconnection capacity and 3,000km of electricity grid - facilitating the addition of 30GW of renewables by 2030 Once in place the 2040's will see the region decisively move to close to 100% renewables ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

*Historic*: China’s CO2 emissions fell for 1st time ever over more than a year despite rapid power demand growth, because of the spectacular consistency of the growth in China’s clean power generation Incredibly meaningful on so many levels www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

China is on track to be the world’s 1st “electrostate”, with its economy powered by clean tech It will handily beat its targets of peak emissions by 2030, rapid reduction by 2045 and being carbon free by 2060 www.ft.com/content/f867...

France mandates solar panels on car parking roofs for parking lots larger than 1,500 sq m. The mandate aims to add 11GW of solar to the grid, or about 10 nuclear reactors in terms of installed capacity Now imagine this policy went global, and battery storage was added too

Energy security: $100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed. Fact. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

In 2024, CO2 soared by a massive 3.75 ppm. Yet the US administration buried the science and the analysis from government scientists at NOAA, says CNN “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world” – Louis Pasteur

Pakistan, home to 240m people, executed a grassroots solar revolution: 15GW installed in one year (vs peak demand of 30GW) Clean energy is affordable, wanted and needs no government subsidies: Pakistanis are choosing solar because it makes sense edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...

5 UK banks are blowing up the entire remaining carbon budget to keep warming below 2C: 1 HSBC: Financing 392 Gt CO2 carbon bombs 2 Standard Chartered: 313 Gt CO2 3 Barclays: 225 Gt CO2 4 Lloyds: 108 Gt CO2 5 NatWest: 61 Gt CO2 www.leave-it-in-the-ground.org/resources/uk...

This will be taught in history classes alongside the ban on Copernican books in 17th century Catholic Europe and the persecution of Galileo Galilei But who remembers, today, those who persecuted Galileo? No one. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

Spain hits first ever weekday of renewables meeting 100% of electricity demand This was deemed impossible by so many fossilised pundits, and they continue to deem it “impossible” even as 100% renewables is rolled out live www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/s...

China accelerates its climate action as President Xi commits to more stringent curbs on emissions over the next decade - while the US continues its efforts to turn into a Big Oil outpost Massive and much encouraging move by China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI-controlled robot does the job of 4 people installing thousands of panels at Australian solar project, cutting 25% off the project delivery time AI powering a faster energy transition, all made in China But no, let’s talk 20th century tariffs reneweconomy.com.au/chinese-robo...

"Renewables are 100 times bigger than fossil fuels, and every country has them". They're cheaper, too. Energy security is the cherry on top @ember-energy.org ‘s new report is a page turner. Released, pointedly, on Earth Day 2025 THREAD

Tesla who? China's CATL unveils today new tech to charge a vehicle for 520km in 5 minutes, 1 month after BYD went 400km in 5 minutes The US and Europe are being left behind in clean tech innovation at breakneck speed, live - but no, let's talk tariffs www.ft.com/content/b4c8...

Top 10 Most Air-Polluted Cities Cities in the World 1 Byrnihat, India 2 Delhi, India 3 Karaganda, Kazakhstan 4 Mullanpur, India 5 Lahore, Pakistan 6 Faridabad, India 7 Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan 8 N'Djamena, Chad 9 Loni, India 10 New Delhi, India

Batteries in cars, trucks and buses that fast forward a 100% clean-energy power grid are here, transforming into energy storage to let electricity flow from them to the grid and back V2G will shut down 45 gas plants for every 3m EVs on the road cleantechnica.com/2025/04/17/v...

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Electric car news: >Global EV sales up 49% in Feb 2025 v. Feb 2024 >North America up 20% (US up 11%) >Europe up 19% >Rest of the world up 35% >Indonesia up 205% >Vietnam up 220% >Singapore 42% EV share in 2025, on pace to be fully electrified by 2030 cleantechnica.com/2025/04/03/g...

“Beekeepers across America began reporting massive beehive collapses” Bees contribute $500b/ year to the world’s economy through the global crop production that would not otherwise be there if it weren’t for the bees The Bees Are Disappearing Again: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/b...

2024 solar power incredible facts: > Largest annual growth ever in absolute terms > Fastest increase in 6 years (+29%) > Fastest-growing power source 20th year in a row > Doubling every 3 years We’re going to be a ~100% renewables world by 2035 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...