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Dave Jones

@cleanpowerdave.bsky.social
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Build clean power + electrify⚡️ Chief analyst and co-founder of @ember-energy.org. Electricity analyst since 2000, still learning;)

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great reporting on Nigeria's solar progress.. From Vivian Chimes at @climatechangenews.com www.climatechangenews.com/2026/09/11/m...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026
Something I don't think people realise is that "don't mention climate change" isn't just a US centrist dems position. This is an ideology that has taken root within several very major climate and energy transition advocacy groups. It's getting better, particularly in the last year, but *man*
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dear Big Oil- Did you notice China's ICE car sales are down 30% year-to-date?
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEXT WEEK'S NEWS CYCLE: ELECTRIFICATION ⚡ ....
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026
2026 really was a fundamentally different summer to 1976 in terms of temperature across the UK and Europe Data: ERA5
Comparing 1976 and 2026 summers in NW Europe
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happening in 23 minutes... do come and join us for a fireside chat:) ember-energy.org/latest-updat...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
OUT TODAY: The take-off in African solar that official statistics can’t yet see 2026 is on track for +45% in solar installations, setting new records in 36 countries. New methodology reveals 3/4 of growth is distributed solar, much of which is missing from official data..🧵
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
OUT TODAY: The take-off in African solar that official statistics can’t yet see 2026 is on track for +45% in solar installations, setting new records in 36 countries. New methodology reveals 3/4 of growth is distributed solar, much of which is missing from official data..🧵
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The global growth in batteries this year is bonkers🔋 On paper, the batteries installed this year can every day store and release an incredible 34% of the growth in solar generation🤯
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Lies. It's 200 times when solar panels are "mentioned" in the fire report. e.g. “the fire did not reach the solar panel”
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/08/2026
The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The @iea.org has increased its 2026 forecast --- now forecasts 29% of all cars sold will be electric... ⚡️
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
At last! Official solar+wind data for #SaudiArabia apps.kapsarc.org/appboard/ren...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Important (non) reshuffle news at DESNZ, as Katie White and Michael Shanks confirmed as remaining at the department. Really strong signal from Burnham that he expects high degree of continuity with current strategy. www.businessgreen.com/news/4533259...
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Number 10 confirms Katie White and Michael Shanks to remain at DESNZ
Andy Burnham continues his shake-up of government with wave of junior ministerial appointments
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Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🇨🇳 NEW | #China #Energy and #Emissions Trends – June 2026 snapshot 🪨📈 #Fossil power generation rose 0.5% YoY in June and 2% in Q2, but remained below its 2023 peak. Bad wind conditions and #solar curtailment left space for coal to inch up despite huge capacity increases
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Innovation strikes again⚡ Silver use per watt of solar has fallen 15% on average EVERY YEAR for 8 years. Since 2017, solar panel manufactuing has risen 6x fold, but silver use is up only 50%🥈🩶 2026 and beyond promise further big falls following Longi+Jinko innovation.. 🧵
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
NEW: China's new "5 Year Plan for the Energy Sector" is planning to go FASTER on electrification ⚡ China already has one of the most electrified energy economies in the world. The electrification momentum continues 💪 #ElectrifyNow
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 24/06/2026
NEW | The EU’s battery fleet is set to QUADRUPLE from 43 GW in 2025 to 178 GW by 2030 🔋 As every country sees growth in battery capacity, the EU can absorb far more wind and solar power and reduce its reliance on gas for grid balancing. The full clean flex story below👇 🧵 1/6
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SolarPower Europe @solarpowereu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🆕Europe’s battery storage market surged in 2025, reaching 36 GWh of new installations Total capacity surpassed 100 GWh, with strong 48% year-on-year growth Read the full press release 👉 www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releas... #EUBatteryOutlook26
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's all about electrification⚡️ The #ElectrifyNow campaign is now LIVE! Press release: www.electrifynow.world/news-and-res...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I love that - after decades of fossil fuel lobby groups infiltrating every single part of government - renewables is getting a big boost to help stand on its own two feet..
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🚨COOL EVENT ALERT🚨 Next Thursday at #LCAW... Come and see how Pakistan’s distributed solar boom is helping meet up pent-up energy demand and electrifying every sector, and how other emerging countries can learn from it💪 Register here in-person or online ember-energy.org/latest-updat...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
OUT TODAY: Businesses wants #electrification. Of 2000 business executives across 18 countries..
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
NEW: Asia is going electric💡 Asia has 4% of the world's oil+gas supplies. It's perhaps no surprise Asia is doubling down on electrification. Not just China, all of Asia. If you liked last September Electrotech Revolution slidepack, you'll love this...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I was working on coal phase-out in 2016. It's hard to express how impossible it would have sounded for solar in the US to generate more than coal by 2026 over a whole month. (Even if that month is only May, which typically has more solar gen and less coal gen) So cool😎
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Nevermind about China's EVs, look at its ICE sales😮 May -39% y-o-y Just 560,000 sold, compared to 2,660,000 peak almost ten years ago in Dec-2016.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@robbieandrew.bsky.social When does the China data for May feed thru? Lots of excitement on it at the moment.. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?la...
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Collected vehicle registration data
Frequently updated charts and data for new vehicle registrations across countries.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 08/06/2026
I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Never rule out electric planes for in the future! Wh/Kg energy density: - LFP: 150-200 - NMC: 200-300 - Solid state: 400-700 - Lithium-air lab: 1200 - Lithium-air theoretical limit: 12000 - Jet fuel: 12000 carnewschina.com/2026/06/03/c...
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CATL sets sights on lithium-air technology with theoretical gasoline-level 12,000 Wh/kg energy density
CATL sets sights on lithium-air technology as the future of global battery competition.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Solar panel efficiency continues to rise fast..💪
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The energy crisis is spurring #electrification. Especially on EV's, especially in Asia⚡️
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
That interview is available here for all to listen. This is a gift link. Would greatly appreciate your help in getting it to a wider audience. Perhaps it will get more coverage! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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How Reform Plans to Upend Decades of UK Climate Action
Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, wants to revive Britain’s oil and gas industry and cut back on renewables.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The latest energy #megatrend: Energy importers are investing massively into cleantech. No one wants to be beholden to fossil fuel imports🤷‍♂️
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is cool... new data from the @iea.org shows grid investment is rising💪 In the Age of Electricity, grids are the arteries and veins that keep the electricity flowing..
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
and home battery
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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A much-discussed “return to #coal” by some countries in the wake of the Iran war & #fossilfuel is likely to be far more limited than thought, amounting to a global rise of no more than 1.8% in coal power output this year and likely even much lower www.carbonbrief.org/world-will-n...
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World ‘will not see significant return to coal’ in 2026 – despite Iran crisis - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy projects are emerging as more appealing investments during the fossil-fuel driven energy crisis.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In April, almost twice as many people googled "solar panel" than in any month, ever🤯 If that's not a sign...;)
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
What does #ElNino mean for the energy transition this year? TL;DR: Solar saves the day… but not the night. 🧵
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New from us: China's total power sector emissions fell in 2025 and clean power generation saw a record increase, but which provinces made the most progress and which slid back? 🧵
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
COAL REBOUND?!!? Nope... Coal generation is up 1% in April 2026 vs April 2025. It's actually lower than April 2021. Gas gen is also up 1% y-o-y even as gas price spikes. There is no gas-to-coal switching, cos gas was already more expensive than coal before the crisis🤷‍♂️
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
You know how if you’re hit by a truck, the impact is 10 times harder than from a car going the same speed? Well, EV trucks are about to upend the freight industry, and the impact will be 10 times bigger than from EV cars. The scale of what is coming is HUGE: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chinese Truck Drivers Are Going Electric as Gas Prices Soar
As electric car sales soften in China after years of breakneck growth, electric trucks are taking off, with the emerging industry expected to get a boost from the Iran war.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NEW: Confirmation of just how cheap NEAR-BASELOAD solar has ALREADY become. $50-80/MWh for solar+battery firmed to 95% of the year in sunbelt countries (excl US) in 2025 - how can fossil fuels compete with that?!🤯 Plus, more falls to come this decade💪
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/05/2026
Truly though, just a few years ago numbers like for new fossil fuel plants for data centres were unfathomable and absurd, and now every day there's a new announcement that looks like this www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elec...
ElectriGen to build and operate 1.8GW behind-the-meter gas platform for data center development in Texas
Inks non-binding LOI to support construction of project

April 28, 2026 By Zachary Skidmore  Have your say
US behind-the-meter power solutions provider ElectriGen has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to develop and operate a 1.8GW behind-the-meter power platform designed to support a large-scale data center development.

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Welcome to Gas Land - how natural gas is powering the US AI boom
As AI drives increasing energy consumption in the US, natural gas looks set to fill the gap

The proposed project would see the company develop two 900MW natural gas power plants to support up to 1.5GW of IT load capacity at an undisclosed site within the Texas market.

The power plants will utilize natural gas reciprocating engines and/or gas turbines, delivering power at 34.5kV, and also incorporate a battery energy storage system and other ancillary systems. The company said that it expects the project to reach commercial operations in 2028, pending the completion of definitive agreements and infrastructure development.

According to the company, the platform will operate under a 15-year commercial term, with five-year extension options, and pricing based on continuous 24/7 available capacity. A Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study is expected to be conducted jointly by the parties to refine engineering, technical, and site parameters.

“This project represents the scale of infrastructure required to meet the explosive growth of AI and high-performance computing,” said Chris Combs, CEO and co-founder of ElectriGen. “Behind-the-meter generation provides developers with the speed, reliability, and energy security needed to bring next-generation digital infrastructure online. We could not be more excited to become aligned with our customer partner, our supply chain partners, and our capital partners to push ahead in making this project a reality.”

ElectriGen is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and primarily focuses on the development of power solutions for commercial and industrial offtakers. Natural gas is increasingly becoming the go-to option for data centers, both small and large, in the US market. Earlier this month, Microsoft signed a deal with Chevron and Engine No. 1 that could see the hyperscaler receive up to 2.5GW of natural gas power for a new data center in Texas.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
India's coal-fired power generation fell in January-March, despite a 3% increase in power demand, as solar and other clean energy sources met all the demand growth.
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SolarPower Europe @solarpowereu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Solar power cemented its role as the dominant driver of change in the global power sector, with its record growth meeting three-quarters of the net rise in electricity demand in 2025 Solar’s rise was 18 times larger than that of gas, the only fossil fuel that increased in 2025☀️
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Bob Burgess @bobburgess.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Gasoline prices to posted their biggest two-day advance in more than a month, rising 11.8 cents a gallon for regular grade, according to AAA
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Kira Taylor @kirataylor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Power generation from fossil fuels has peaked in OECD countries, down 19% from the highest point in 2007, according to @ember-energy.org. More in @contexte.com's energy briefing: www.contexte.com/eu/news/ener...
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‘Turning point’: Fossil power generation peaks in OECD, falling 19% from its high, says Ember - Contexte
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