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Andreas Graf

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EU climate and energy nerd. Opinions/views my own.

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ACER - EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators @eu-acer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🧩ACER calls for stronger coordination & consistency across #EU #electricity, #gas & #hydrogen planning 💡Recommendations on the integrated modelling framework include consistent assumptions, cross-sector assessments & a more ambitious roadmap. 🔗 lnkd.in/dsc-wkr8 #ENTSOG #ENTSOe #ENNOH @ec.europa.eu
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
'Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China’s Wind and Solar Buildout' e360.yale.edu/digest/china...
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ACER - EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators @eu-acer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
⚡How can regulators assess whether smart grids really deliver? As #EnergyTransition increases demand & #renewables, smart use of existing #grids is 🔑 for unlocking capacity. ACER proposes output KPIs for grid-enhancing technologies in #electricity transmission. www.acer.europa.eu/news/acer-in...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/11/2025
You've often seen charts showing how the IEA's scenarios underestimate renewable energy - but they also tend *not* to overestimate fossil fuels. Eg: gas consumption is higher than the IEA's 'current policies' scenario from 2015 (and every other scenario they published)
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
As of August, do we know what fossil CO2 emissions will do in 2025? I made an estimate in July, using IEA projections of fossil fuel use, to estimate 0.8% growth in 2025. Carbon Monitor has an estimate based on Jan-Jun data, 0.7%. But what about countries? www.eenews.net/articles/in-... 1/
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sidewalkbobyyc.bsky.social @sidewalkbobyyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Old, inactive oil and gas wells emitting almost 7 times more methane than official estimates | CBC News share.google/f2JYswzsGVC3...
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Old, inactive oil and gas wells emitting almost 7 times more methane than official estimates | CBC News
Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting seven times more methane than the official estimates, according to a new study fr...
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/06/2025
New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...
Two graphs from the paper. 

The left graph shows US net greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2022. The official EPA estimates decline fairly steadily from 6.6 gigatonnes per year in 2005 to 5.5 in 2022 (17% below 2005 levels), largely reflecting natural gas displacing coal for electricity generation. The adjusted estimates, which reflect independent measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure, end at 6.3 gigatonnes per year in 2022 (only 5% below 2005 levels).

The right graph shows 2022 emissions increasing linearly with the assumed global warming potential of methane. Climate scientists are divided on whether to use the 100-year GWP, 20-year GWP, or something in between. With methane warming impacts assessed via the 20-year GWP, the central 2022 emissions estimate is 7.9 gigatonnes per year - 20% *above* the EPA's official 2005 estimate.

Caption: Figure 1: Left: United States net greenhouse gas emissions over time. Right: Scaling of 2022 net emissions with methane’s GWP. After adjustment to reflect recent measurements of methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure, United States net emissions remain nearly as high as their 2005 level.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 21/06/2025
National Energy and Climate Plans are crucial planning tools for EU energy, yet few countries provide complete data. High-quality data is essential for confident planning and investment around the energy transition. ember-energy.org/latest-insights/eu…
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Anna Hubert @annahbrt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Updated 🇪🇺 Commission agenda is now online. 📅 2040 targets — with an interesting “s” — confirmed for 2/07. But no news on the Russian energy package expected in June.
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 29/05/2025
Und das ist anscheinend das Ergebnis von zwei Jahren Lügenkampagne über Heizungen: Weniger als 0,1 % der Heizungen dürfen länger betrieben werden. Und Habecks Gesetz bleibt unverändert. www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/re...
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Habecks Heizgesetz bleibt wohl unberührt: So wurden wir belogen
Und das ist anscheinend das Ergebnis von zwei Jahren Lügenkampagne über Heizungen: Weniger als 0,1 % der Heizungen dürfen länger betrieben werden. Und Habecks Gesetz bleibt unverändert.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
#DACSoufflé? www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emission...
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Swiss CO₂ removal start-up forced to downsize
Swiss start-up that specialises in CO₂ removal from the atmosphere is threatened with large-scale lay-offs.
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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The US EIA posts LNG export prices - and they are pretty different for different EU countries! (my first guess would be that age and length of the contracts play an important role) www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_m...
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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It seems that much public debate on the Iberian blackout is still illustrated by a figure that is most probably wrong [see @lionhirth.bsky.social post: www.linkedin.com/posts/lionhi... ]. For properly monitoring energy security we need reliable data. Join us Thu: www.bruegel.org/event/europe...
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Europe’s energy information problem
Choices are needed about responsibilities at European and national levels, expanding existing institutions or creating new independent ones
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Spain's power is slowly coming back, but situation still far from normal. Out of the 33 GW scheduled for this evening peak, only 18 GW is available. Nuclear and coal-fired power plants still offline.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Around one-third of new car sales in China are fully electric, and about one-half have a battery. Check out more interesting figures on China: robbieandrew.github.io/china/ via @robbieandrew.bsky.social
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Here are the modelled implications of the IMO's draft Net-Zero framework by @transenv.bsky.social. Looks like a modest impact in the short-term with most of the deviation from BAU coming under the next US presidential term. www.transportenvironment.org/articles/is-...
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
NOAA is a $6.7B agency.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/04/2025
8) And this one is important. For all the talk about the powerful pro-Trump media ecosystem, the share of Americans who have heard negative business news coverage of the government has exploded. Evidently even the podcast bros can’t distract Americans from the realities of the stock market.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/04/2025
3) That was just the US version. What’s particularly impressive is that he’s managed this on a global scale. Starting to get the feeling that “Trump” annotation is going to be the chart equivalent of a layer of volcanic ash in the fossil record.
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Matthias Deutsch @matthiasdeutsch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨 The IMO negotiations have reached a critical moment: The EU needs to stay on course to promote a global scale-up of renewable hydrogen and derivatives (e-fuels). 💰 The policy options on the table differ considerably, by a factor of 3 to 4 1/
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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In a new @forumenergii.bsky.social report @maciekjakubik.bsky.social, @zaniewicz.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social , Szymon Kardas and I argue that Europe needs a profound rethink of its energy security strategy: www.forum-energii.eu/en/download/... Some highlights in the thread 1/14
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 31/03/2025
The 🇪🇺 continues to OVERINVEST in gas as a short-term fix to secure fuel supply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite alternative solutions 🚩 131 bcm of gas supply capacity will likely be underutilised by 2030, wasting public funds and driving up consumer costs 📈💶 ember-energy.org/lat...
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Agora Industrie @agoraind.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🗳️ This makes the upcoming decision by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) so important for the global #H2 ramp-up: It will either ↗️ provide much-needed demand for #renewablehydrogen and derived fuels, or ↘️ delay their use by promoting #LNG and #biomass in the early years. 2/x
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Agora Industrie @agoraind.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚢 🏭 Renewable #hydrogen & derivatives will be needed as industrial feedstocks and marine fuels on the path to achieving #climateneutrality. Agora Industry, @theicct.org & @regassistproj.bsky.social have examined where using hydrogen would be most effective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 1/x
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Czechia was hit pretty badly by drought and bark beetles a few years ago, but the forest carbon uptake has recovered somewhat in the last couple of years.
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Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Die volkswirtschaftliche Logik einer Wiedereröffnung von NordStream 2 erschließt sich mir einfach nicht. Durch diese Importe wird (marginaler) EU Gaspreis voraussichtlich nicht entscheidend vermindert. Dafür spülen wir ca. 10 Mrd. € in die russische Kriegskasse. Überschlagsrechnung:
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Two unqualified-for-their-job freeloaders call Europe a freeloader. From Jonathan Goldberg of the Atlantic's story about their massive incompetent infodump.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
#HydrogenLadder needs a new Row Z. www.theverge.com/news/633779/...
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Coca-Cola’s new hydrogen-powered vending machine doesn’t need a power outlet
Coke cuts the power cord.
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Laut Portal soll ein neues Gesetz geschaffen werden, das einen Paradigmenwechsel weg von einer kurzfristigen Energieeffizienzberatung beim Einzelgebäude hin zu einer langfristigen Betrachtung der Emissionseffizienz vollzieht." www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/arbe...
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Arbeitsgruppe von Union und SPD: Änderung von Heizungsgesetz und Reichensteuersatz geplant
Kaum ein anderes Gesetz der Ampel-Koalition war so umstritten wie das Heizungsgesetz. Eine Arbeitsgruppe der Koalitionsverhandlungen legt derzeitige Debatten auf.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 25/03/2025
Europeans' belief in the importance of the EU has surged to record levels, according to a survey released yesterday. 74% now say their country benefits from being in 🇪🇺 - up from 50% in 2010. And the biggest reason is about security, *not* the economy. europa.eu/eurobaromete...
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"In China, coal demand grew by 1.2% in 2024, reaching a new all-time high. The country now consumes nearly 40% more coal than the rest of the world combined, largely for power generation. Over one-third of all the coal consumed globally is burned by power plants in China" www.iea.org/reports/glob...
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Coal – Global Energy Review 2025 – Analysis - IEA
Global Energy Review 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"Whatever changes are made to how the United States regulates methane, including the endangerment finding, the EU methane regulation remains unchanged" www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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US LNG exporters stick with methane measures despite EPA rollbacks
U.S. liquefied natural gas exporters, seeking to meet standards of overseas import markets, plan to continue to monitor and curb their methane emissions despite President Donald Trump's plans to roll back climate regulations, two trade groups told Reuters.
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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 25/02/2025
Always worth reading @rhodiumgroup.bsky.social's Clean Investment Monitor and its quarterly data. Important to note that manufacturing investment seems to have top-ticked for now. www.cleaninvestmentmonitor.org/reports/clea...
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18/02/2025
📢 Methane emissions are underreported - by a lot A new study finds that inconsistencies in carbon accounting standards lead to a massive underreporting of methane emissions - up to 3.3Gt CO₂ equivalent, depending on the metric used. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Climate #Methane #SciComm 🧪
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Lack of harmonisation of greenhouse gases reporting standards and the methane emissions gap - Nature Communications
Companies benefit from some discretion on how to disclose their emissions, leading to potential underestimations of GHG footprints. Focusing on direct methane emissions, this paper quantifies a sizeab...
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Sebastian Manhart @sebastianmanhart.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
👋 Goodbye CDR in the U.S. Department of Energy 🇺🇸 No government department in the world has done more for the growth of the carbon removal industry than the U.S. DoE. Unfortunately, that seems to have come to an abrupt and tragic end. 1/6 🧵
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Moritz Zackariat @zackouvakis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Wir haben ein Konzept zur Weiterentwicklung der Erneuerbaren-Förderung entwickelt: den „marktöffnenden CfD“. Er vereint die Vorteile staatlich abgesicherter CfDs mit den Vorteilen marktorientierter PPAs für einen effizienten EE-Ausbau. Link zur Studie: www.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin/Pr...
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
In Germany using a basic electricity supplier comes at quite a premium these days.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/02/2025
So ... what's waiting in the queues? Ah. emp.lbl.gov/queues
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"Because off-peak periods for electricity prices tend to last longer than peak periods each day, a heat pump normally uses most of its electricity in the cheaper periods. Overall, that means you can usually save money by being on a time-of-use tariff, even if you don’t flex."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 11/01/2025
Despite (or thanks to?) its CEO's recurring statements criticising EU targets for 2035, announcements for licensed hydrogen cars in the distant future, BMW has been working steadily on its EV portfolio. Result: more successful than Tesla in Germany.
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Elektroautos – BMW überholt plötzlich Tesla in Deutschland: „Haben geliefert“
Die Nachfrage nach Elektroautos in Deutschland ist 2024 eingebrochen. Dennoch überraschen die Zahlen: BMW hat Tesla bei den Verkäufen überholt. Wie ging das?
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 09/02/2025
Interesting heat pump manufacturing figures in this article - e.g. China's dominance in compressors (95%!). Main driver of global manufacturing cost differences: component sourcing. Building in-house & economies of scale viable path for competitive European manufacturing.
Figure showing concentration along heat pump supply chains: 95% China for compressors compared to approx. 50% for refrigerants, heat pumpsLevelised cost of production of heat pumps in selected countries/regions.
Air-air home systems: China approx. 110 USD/kW, EU 200, US 250

Air-water systems: China 125 USD/kW, EU 350, Japan 290
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Slovenia for the Eurovision win! youtu.be/qTS2L0VcaVI?...
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Klemen - How Much Time Do We Have Left | Slovenia 🇸🇮 | National Final Performance | #Eurovision2025
YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest
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Agora Energiewende @agoraew.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🔥 NEW report: Europe’s #heating transition is at a critical crossroads. Without stronger policies, over 50 million fossil gas boilers could be installed in Europe by 2040 - threatening climate goals, #energysecurity & #cleantech leadership. 🏠⚡ Key findings ⬇️ 1/7
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Bram Claeys @bramclaeys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Dashboard EU energy prices ACER - updated data. 💡🔌 Interesting to check difference between countries. - ES vs. IT on electricity retail prices & components. - SV vs. BE on gas. Rebalancing taxes on power vs gas is crucial for electrification, climate & efficiency. tinyurl.com/4s9ymjwe
Graph comparing retail electricity prices for Spain and ItalyGraph comparing retail gas prices for Sweden versus Belgium
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is a great piece - and not just because it opens with @duncanrobinson.bsky.social participating in @nestauk.bsky.social’s Visit a Heat Pump
Opening of Bagehot column in The Economist describes the correspondent visiting a home with a heat pump, along with a lot of other (mostly) men
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Andreas Graf @andreasgraf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
After years of being a laggard, the UK is bucking the trend for heat pump sales in Europe with a clear growth perspective. While largely driven by higher subsidies, it's encouraging news ahead of the introduction of the UK Clean Heat Market Mechanism this year.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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