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Extraordinary: on the 4 year anniversary of a war financed from oil and gas sales, Germany rolls out the red carpet for new oil and gas boilers
Joined a big crowd at Brandenburger gate tonight after talking EU-UA clean power trade with @razomwestand.bsky.social and good seeing 2 out of 3 previous ampel parties united again in support of Ukraine, pity that neither of them are in government right now
Switch from Berlin winter to Brussels ‘winter’ this weekend been absolutely brutal
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...
Excellent thread on why and how Europe must plan and govern energy better; together it is more resilient and cost-effective – see the synergy in the maps below.
This is of course all really fascinating but I do worry about the effect this will have on the modern day inhabitants of said swamp, in particular their widely known tendency toward modesty and humbleness
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Policymakers: If you want electricity to be cheap - you should not drive up capital cost by 'in passing' creating additional uncertainty over the future electricity market design, or energy pathways.
Every small increase in risk premia will show up on the bills.
Sehr Lesenswert 👇🏼
This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.
5/ "This could be the start of something big. Combine the EU and India, add Brazil and Indonesia, throw in Nigeria, Argentina, Japan and South Korea. Drive a common agenda (trade, tech, climate, security) through the whole thing. And you get the beginnings of a new geopolitical pole"-@JeremyCliffe
Graphic illustration on a textured blue background featuring a white clenched fist holding a wind turbine like a torch. Glowing blue and white electrical bolts spark out from behind the turbine. The text "Taking Europe's Energy Back" curves across the top in white and green lettering. In the bottom right corner, there is a white outline of the European Union flag.
Clean energy isn’t a talking point.
It’s already powering Europe.
💡 Nearly half of Europe's electricity came from renewables in 2024.
💡 We saved €120 billion through energy efficiency measures.
💡 And in June 2025, solar became the EU's largest power source for the first time in history.
And take note of eg Sweden struggling to get closer to the sunlit uplands thanks to it’s enthousiasm for the primordial bio energy soup
Sure, cant speak to the first but for the latter, it was a slogan designed to counter lack of attention to EE, that may be dropped now but I mostly see continuity in efficiency being hard to keep on the agenda
Not even sure it’s a story, efficiency was always a hard sell, related policies underperformed but mattered, people change jobs, all this may or may not change going forward
And at the very least give some credit to Claude Turmes, the MEP who actually came up with the term
Not everything anyone ever does in the world is about Trump and the stuff he sells
But doing something that ‘winds him up’ is certainly a healthy indicator of being on the right track
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Suspect it’s a big factor in MAGA/Russia’s all out war against the global energy transition
graph from Ember EU electricity review with battery pipelines in different countries
My favorite graph from the brand new EU Electricity Review by @ember-energy.org 🔌💡
It shows new battery storage capacity is coming, especially to the countries that need it to integrate their solar and wind.
Good for consumers, and sign that market signals work.
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This is unbelievably sad news. Oleksii Brekht was acting CEO of Ukraine’s transmission system operator, Ukrenergo, during the turbulent and challenging first half of 2025. He died defending his country’s power system - a role that no civilian energy professional should ever be forced to assume.
US government representatives continue to find themselves isolated when pitching for coal and against renewables
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Interesting, I did think who else could it be, Kurdish actually do have some very good reasons to be mad right now
Seeing Europes most beloved professional group, farmers, doing their utmost to lose that status and probably still failing at it
Agree but also not seeing any other EU leaders ahead of either, even Stubb who has the potential, is too invested in Trump whispering/appeasing right now
And not only to the big firms but to the two countries east and west of Europe who still don’t seem to fathom that this could actually happen, and is in fact happening
One of those rare cases where all the hyperbole over a speech is not actually hyperbole
Its a doctrine that many, EU included even if they will struggle with the honesty bit, should be able to get behind, that could work and, crucially, outlast Donroe
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Batteries are an increasingly cheap way to bypass the erosion of the price commanded by already installed solar. No way of suppressing this demand.
As Rasmussen says:
“the world’s attention is now focused on something that does not represent a threat — namely Greenland, a friendly ally of the US — instead of focusing on what should be the focal point right now: namely, how can we force Putin to the negotiation table in Ukraine?”
That’s funny, passed there a few days ago and also gave it a pass
