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I publish the @quittingcarbon.bsky.social newsletter. Subscribe: https://www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/. Former Managing Editor, Energy Monitor. Send story ideas or tips: justingerdes@gmail.com or Signal: JustinGerdes.85
My latest at @quittingcarbon.bsky.social: East Coast offshore wind farms nearing completion, plug-in solar goes nationwide, building electrification update, and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... 🔌💡
"Texas, which already leads the country in electricity generation from natural gas, coal and wind, has passed California to become the leader in utility-scale solar," reports @dangearino.bsky.social: insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202... 🔌💡
"The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in more than 150 years," according to new @carbonbrief.org analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-... #ClimateSky
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
"While [the Building an Affordable California Act] doesn't address every barrier facing clean energy, it takes meaningful steps to build faster and more affordably without scrapping environmental review," argues ACP-California's Wes Venteicher: www.cleanpowercalifornia.org/shouting-ceq... 🔌💡
Virginia House Bill 434 "would direct Appalachian Power Co. and Dominion Energy, the state’s two predominant vertically integrated utilities, to gather and report detailed data on their grid utilization," reports @elizouzts.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... 🔌💡
"General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars," reports @jackewingnyt.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b... 🔌💡
"Blaming energy efficiency for rising energy prices is a myth that is unfortunately gaining traction. It’s a convenient narrative, but the data simply doesn’t support it," writes @neepenergy.bsky.social's Maggie Molina: neep.org/blog/energy-... 🔌💡
There's some good news on the climate beat this week thanks to recent hires, expansions, and investments from HEATED to the LA Times to POLITICO and Drilled. legal-planet.org/2026/03/04/w...
Want an easy way to find energy and climate newsletters like @sammyroth.bsky.social's Climate-Colored Goggles, @volts.wtf, @alexckaufman.bsky.social's Field Notes, my own @quittingcarbon.bsky.social - or ones on any other topic? Search the Independent Journalism Atlas: journalismatlas.com 🔌💡
"Today’s AI mania rhymes: Gas and nuclear vendors that can’t beat energy efficiency and renewables in competitive markets are leveraging hype into mandates and subsidies to rescue their losers," write Amory Lovins and Justin Locke: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... 🔌💡
"One man’s nerve, creativity, and genius sustained Ukraine's grid." - @peter.fairley.ca profiles Ukraine's "transmission mastermind" Oleksiy Brecht, who died in the field in January: spectrum.ieee.org/repair-ukrai... 🔌💡
Want an easy way to find energy and climate newsletters like @sammyroth.bsky.social's Climate-Colored Goggles, @volts.wtf, @alexckaufman.bsky.social's Field Notes, my own @quittingcarbon.bsky.social - or ones on any other topic? Search the Independent Journalism Atlas: journalismatlas.com 🔌💡
Chart depicting BYD's $4,700 cost advantage for the BYD Seal vs the Tesla Model 3 (both produced in China) in U.S. dollars. Source: Rhodium Group.
@rhg.com on "Why Are Chinese EVs So Cheap?": "The two largest drivers are vertical integration and significantly lower overheads, which together account for at least three-quarters of the cost advantage for all three OEMs." rhg.com/research/why...
A deep dive by @dangearino.bsky.social and @mlavelle.bsky.social into what’s driving the rise in electricity bills nationwide: insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202... 🔌💡
ICYMI: Solvable policy barriers are holding back the development of all-electric, zero-carbon, grid-flexible communities, experts said at a recent @theclimatecenter.bsky.social symposium: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/heres-what-i... by me at @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡
On Thursday, @airresources.bsky.social "approved the adoption of the California Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Climate Financial Risk Disclosure Initial Regulation, an initial step in meeting the regulatory requirements of SB 253 and 261." ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/carb-ap... #ClimateSky
Last week, @theclimatecenter.bsky.social convened an event to talk about successes and lessons learned from four "advanced energy communities" pilots. I wrote about policy barriers highlighted by the projects: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/heres-what-i... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡
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Last week, @theclimatecenter.bsky.social convened an event to talk about successes and lessons learned from four "advanced energy communities" pilots. I wrote about policy barriers highlighted by the projects: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/heres-what-i... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡
My latest at @quittingcarbon.bsky.social: Solvable policy barriers are holding back the adoption of proven technologies that are the building blocks of all-electric, zero-carbon, grid-flexible communities: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/heres-what-i... 🔌💡
"The Interior Department could be softening its hard-line stance on solar energy," reports Scott Streater: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... 🔌💡
Plug-in solar legislation under consideration in the U.S. (as of late February 2026). Source: NC Clean Energy Technology Center.
"As of mid-February, more than 50 bills related to plug-in solar were under consideration in 29 states and DC." www.dsireinsight.com/blog/2026/2/... via @nccleantech.bsky.social 🔌💡
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called a 'revamp' of the [Clean School Bus] program, signaling it would no longer favor electric school buses, where 95% of the money had been spent under President Joe Biden," reports @mlavelle.bsky.social: insideclimatenews.org/news/2002202...
"As electricity affordability has become the issue on every politician’s lips, a coalition of New York state lawmakers and organizations in the Hudson Valley have proposed a solution: Buy the utility and operate it publicly," writes Benjy Sachs: heatmap.news/energy/hudso... 🔌💡
A moving stairway leading to an airplane door in Trondheim, Norway. The stairway walls are covered with solar PV panels.
Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.
Dominion Energy "said this week it’s completed more than 70% of the wind farm and is on schedule to finish early next year. In the meantime, the turbines installed so far should start sending electricity to the grid by late March." www.whro.org/environment/... via Katherine Hafner 🔌💡
"The installation of the first wind turbine at Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind ... is expected to start soon, as Cadeler’s vessel Wind Scylla, which was installing Revolution Wind turbines and is now in port, is planned to deploy to Sunrise Wind next." www.offshorewind.biz/2026/02/24/t... 🔌💡
"In an attempt to end a long row over the decarbonisation of Germany's buildings sector, the coalition of chancellor Friedrich Merz has decided to drop a mandatory renewable energy quota for new heating systems." www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-... via @cleanenergywire.bsky.social 🔌💡
"America’s largest offshore wind project is about to begin generating electricity. Dominion Energy said Monday it expects Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind will start producing electricity before the end of March." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... via Ben Storrow 🔌💡