Solar and batteries are cheap enough that most people can get most of their electricity from them, and save money. This equation gets better and better over time as their costs decline.
All details in a new blog post: nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...
I'll be presenting this Friday on the external cost of pollution on PV generation at the University of Vigo - Ourense campus.
Livestream available here:
ecobas.gal/en/events/re...
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”
Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).
Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.
Links in🧵
#commsky
The log axis obscures the huge inequality at the top: the European top 1% make 767 k $ PPP, whereas the American top 1% make 1.8 M $ PPP.
The US and the Euro area have roughly the same population and median income per capita in purchasing power parity.
The poorest half of Europeans are richer than their American counterparts, and the richest half of Americans are richer than their European peers.
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
Small achievement: 1,000 citations on Google Scholar, without tricks and as a lead author in most papers.
Next Tuesday, Sept. 30, I'll be presenting about global trends in finance for a just transition at the International Conference on Climate Finance & Industry.
Registration still possible: answer.moaform.com/answers/R9kbdA
Thanks 😀 You can find many more such animations on the #OpenEnergyTracker, e.g. a duck curve openenergytracker.org/en/docs/germ...
Os vindeiros 17-19 de setembro haberá unhas xornadas sobre enerxía eólica mariña na UDC no que estarei participando cunha ponencia (online) sobre impacto económico da eólica en Galiza.
Inscripción aberta
udcxest.udc.gal/xest/publica...
💡 New Transmission Paper alert 💡
“Electric transmission value and its drivers in United States power markets” just went live in Nature Communications! Kudos especially to Julie Mulvaney Kemp for getting this work to the finish line.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Yes; phones, tablets and computers.
That's great to hear. My course is in a second language for the students, so they are usually shy to speak in public, but I want to encourage them to do so to become more confident. Hope this helps.
I'll be implementing a no-screens policy for my undergrad enviro econ class this semester with the hope of increasing interaction and participation. Do you have any ideas or advice?
🚨Jobs! Come and work with us - we’re a nice department and it’s mostly not grim up north either!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ343/l...
#WeAreNCL #EconSky
Our paper "Rethinking capacity market fundamentals," about several issues in accreditation and non-performance penalties in capacity markets, is now published in Energy Economics and is open access for the next 50 days at this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ldcmW3fd1...
Who said econometrics is boring? 🤣🤣
At the @econometric.bsky.social world congress
Attending the World Congress of the Econometric Society in Seoul. Ping me if you’re around! @econometric.bsky.social
and the need for storage (www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...) and interconnections (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
This @financialtimes.com article touches on some of the main themes in my research: the erratic Spanish PV policies (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), cannibalization (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), curtailment (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), ...
This year's @irena-official.bsky.social cost report is missing my favourite figure on LCOE, so I replicated it with their data + Lazard for NGCC 👇
Please @irena-official.bsky.social add it again next year!
#EnergySky
This year's @irena-official.bsky.social cost report is missing my favourite figure on LCOE, so I replicated it with their data + Lazard for NGCC 👇
Please @irena-official.bsky.social add it again next year!
#EnergySky
📅 September 9, 2025
🕘 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific Time
📍 Online on Zoom
🔗 Register at cmcc-it.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Save the date and register!
#politicaleconomy #carbonpricing
The #EAERE President, Council and Policy Outreach Committee (POC) prepared a statement in defence of #academic and #research #freedom and to reaffirm the crucial importance of the principles that underpin the free pursuit of knowledge.
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🚨 It’s finally here… the moment you’ve been waiting for 🥁
Ember’s new Electricity Data Explorer 2.0 is LIVE ✅
Users can now discover more insights from the most up-to-date, open data on global and country-level electricity transitions 🌐⚡️
Here's what's new 👇🧵
Thrilled to share my latest research, entitled "Re-examining the automation-employment nexus from a classical political economy approach", published in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Open Access. Comments and Critiques are welcome. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Starting soon:
"Integration of variable renewables in electricity markets",
at the Complutense Institute for International Studies - ICEI in Madrid.
