ICYMI: A third (~30%) of the world's electricity now comes from #RenewableEnergy. Won't be long before that number reaches 100%. Keep pushing for the #EnergyTransition.
"Doing the research, looking at the long history of disinformation it was really chilling to read reports from climate science teams that were reporting to the #FossilFuels industry that if we continue with these emissions & pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, it threatens global habitability!"
Feeling excited to have finally banished the fossil gas connection from our home.
We're fortunate to have been able to install solar panels and an air-source heat pump. Now, with the removal of the ageing and probably dangerous gas hob (stove), we can finally say goodbye to gas and with it a significant source of indoor air pollution and methane emissions.
"As a former teacher teaching science curriculum, it mentioned #ClimateChange but the connection to the fossil fuel industry which provides the fuels, which are then burned, which then causes the carbon emissions, and that's what's climbing and causing climate change, that connection was missing."
We found discussion to be dominated by #geopolitical and #SocioEconomic concerns, sidelining #climate and #biodiversity.
In fact, climate change and biodiversity were barely mentioned, and when they were discussed, it was mostly about side effects of the #EnergyTransition
"It needs to be in the public sphere & we need to get corporate #FossilFuel influence out. We need our governments to step up on this with full transparency and accountability to really address the trajectory we're on and the critical need to change course. It's URGENT."
The electrical grid is the world’s biggest machine, and it’s remarkable that it rarely breaks down. When it does, it can have spectacular impacts, as the shutdown of London’s Heathrow airport last week clearly showed.
#climate #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-30/heathrow-is-a-wake-up-call-for-utilities
Tesla is a brand built on good will and practically no competition. Now the good will has been spent and the competition is accelerating, raising new challenges for Tesla's in the energy storage business as well as its cars.
"The Alberta government's 2024 curriculum appears to have been developed with #BigOil involvement, directing teachers to discuss the benefits of #OilAndGas & their role in Alberta's economy. A recent report found an industry funded nonprofit lobbies to include this content in the curriculum."
If you're paying attention to Australian politics at all, you're hearing a massive load of anti-transition, far-right propaganda being amplified by a gullible/corrupt media. If you want the real story on what government is doing in its #energytransition and why it's the right strategy, listen to this!
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All this story of energy transition is because we have projected on the history of materials a history of technology. In the history of technology you sometimes have substitution, technology do become obsolete, but raw materials never become obsolete.
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-- Jean-Baptise Fressoz
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Instead of taking a few months to a year, the lead time for large transformer delivery is now three to five years. Among a basket of 47 goods needed to build grid infrastructure, transformers have seen the greatest increase in price — a near doubling since 2018.
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Who would've thought? Transformers shortage slows down buildout of renewables and hinders recovery after failures caused by extreme weather or sabotage.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/
Ep. 246 continues our miniseries on Australia and discusses how the government is working with the grid power sector to plan and execute its #energytransition while maintaining system reliability. https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-246-meeting-australias-2030-target/
Extremely smart graph choice for illustrating the value of building solar and batteries even tho it might seem like it should be more expensive to have as addition to FF: https://electrotechrevolution.substack.com/p/renewables-allow-us-to-pay-less-not
NB there's a calculator tool linked from post that generates those charts. #dataviz #energytransition
…the Feb 2025 FT article I mention above has the headline:
‘China’s construction of coal-fired power plants reaches highest in a decade’
https://www.ft.com/content/4658e336-930f-49db-abc9-0036ee0ea777
I recommend reading it as a free article which you can do if you have the FT app, because there are excellent data visualisations in it which are not in the archive\.is link below
https://archive.is/2025.02.16-151101/https://www.ft.com/content/4658e336-930f-49db-abc9-0036ee0ea777
#climateDiary
This came into my timeline from AP but it doesn’t tell the whole story, and we should definitely tell the whole story.
Which seems to be that there isn’t an #energyTransition.
There is a very good FT article from last month which does a much better job of painting a nuanced picture and has this to say about China:
“Instead of replacing coal, clean energy is being layered on top of an entrenched reliance on fossil fuels”
More on that in following posts
In climate change news, the 2025 Bloomberg Energy Transition Investment Trends report was just released; I love these reports because they cut through bullshit and document the honest signal of how much money is actually being invested in ensuring civilization remains viable on this planet.
There is reason to be optimistic, like how 2024 was the first year that investment in the energy transition surpassed $2 trillion. Unfortunately, hitting net zero by 2050 requires a tripling of current spending (not eventually - right now, with reasonable annual increases thereafter).
As in past years, it cannot be denied that China is the only country coming close to treating this issue with the seriousness it deserves, investing nearly as much as all other countries combined and at a far higher percentage of GDP (4.5%) than others (for example, EU-27 is at 2%). Despite this, even this level of effort (if adopted globally) might not be enough.
"When we look more closely at the historical record, it shows not a neat sequence of energy transitions, but the accumulation of ever more and different types of energy. Economic growth has been based not on progressive shifts from one source of energy to the next, but on their interdependent agglomeration. " #energytransition https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/adam-tooze/trouble-transitioning @smithadrianpaul
US community solar movement gets an assist from global investors
Renewable energy beats gas capacity additions by a mile in US, Trump or not.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/21/renewable-energy-to-beat-gas-for-3-more-years-or-more/
