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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

It's people buying solar panels themselves. Less than $100 and you get your own personal power plant that lasts 30 years+ and doesn't need any fuel. Magic;)

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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

In 3 1/2 hours, Joel and I will be chatting on this, so do come and join us.. bsky.app/profile/embe...

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here is the full report out today And of course we also published the dataset here #opendata Thanks so much to Joel Nana from African Tech Futures Lab, it was a pleasure writing this with you.☺️ ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So big change is happening for Africa! The scale up of solar installations should spur more electricity demand growth too, creating huge human benefits.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The exports of solar **panels** from China to Africa is pretty robust data, but the same is NOT true of cells and wafer exports. Whatever you do, don't look at Chinese cells+wafer exports to Africa and think they are being manufactured into panels;)

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The smaller manufacturing markets are also increasing. And these ARE predominately for African installations. It's rising in line with Africa's solar growth - so the proportion of Africa's solar panels made in Africa stays at 6%. Which still leaves 94% made in China.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Africa’s solar panel manufacturing will quadruple in 2026 - but for export, not for African rooftops. Output will reach around 3.5 GW in 2026, a fifth of what Africa installs, led by new plants in Egypt and Tanzania aimed at the US market.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There is, however no doubt this boom is happeneing. For example, this is how it shows up in companies and installer data..

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One driver for distributed solar is the high cost of diesel in the energy crisis. Africa spent $2.4b importing Chinese panels in last 12 months; generating the same electricity from diesel would cost around that EVERY THREE MONTHS. Solar+batteries are the new diesel generator.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And distributed solar is difficult to measure

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

3/4's of Africa’s solar growth is likely from distributed solar That’s because only a quarter of new solar can be explained by utility-scale and off-grid solar. Even in Egypt with lots of utility solar, still 43% of its solar growth is estimated to be distributed.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Only three countries - South Africa, Tunisia and Tanzania - publish some solar data monthly or quarterly. 🤷‍♂️ It’s increasingly common to do this internationally - Ember tracks 25 countries across the world that already report solar capacity monthly

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

However, international reporting is only be as good as national reporting, and that is poor. We could only find official reporting for national solar capacity for 36 out of 54 countries; only 14 for 2025, and even those 14 seem to underestimate the rise in solar.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Half of the estimated rise in solar is missing from official statistics. Ember forecasts annual installations in 2026 will rise another 45%, potentially increasing this gap further.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Batteries are coming. In the last two years, the value of solar panel exports doubled.. and battery exports quadrupled🔋 Africa now imports more $ of batteries than solar panels from China. The largest markets are Nigeria+DRC, where 🇨🇳battery exports far exceed solar exports.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

2026 new solar generation can meet Africa’s historic electricity demand growth💪 2026’s new solar will generate c.23TWh/year - 2.3% of Africa’s electricity, above the 2.2% average demand growth of 2014 to 2024. In many countries, solar will more-than meet demand growth..

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Solar is now the single biggest addition to grid capacity in many African countries.. ..Senegal will add solar capacity from 2023 to 2026 equivalent to almost 80% of its entire 2023 grid capacity, with DRC and Kenya adding more than half.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is happening everywhere in Africa: 36 countries are expected to install record solar in 2026. 19 countries are expected to see y-o-y growth of over 100% - including 544% in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 282% in Zimbabwe, 176% in Egypt and 117% in Zambia.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That new methodology makes it possible to estimate solar installations in Africa. And with the 6 month lag, we can already estimate full-year 2026. This shows 17 GW of solar was installed in 2026 - a 45% rise y-o-y. Equal to around 100,000 solar panels installed every day🤯

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This report introduces a new methodology, showing around 73% of Chinese imports globally have been installed, with an average six-month delay

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chinese exports of solar panels to Africa surged in the 12 months to June 2026...

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Market design policy has got to catch up with reality on the ground.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

China illustrates the challenge. Despite being the world’s largest battery market, much of its battery fleet remains underused as regulatory reforms continue to open additional revenue streams. Standalone batteries cycled an average of 299 times in 2025.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

But in practice many batteries will remain underutilised due to market design shortcomings. Batteries can stack revenues across energy arbitrage, ancillary services and capacity payments. Realising this value depends on market design.

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And there's such a HUGE need... solar is ALREADY meeting a QUARTER of lunchtime global generation on average so far this year...

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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

haha i'll never forget the phrase The Telegraph "is like the Sun with a thesaurus."

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Here is the gov data: 59 fires in mentioning solar panels in the first half of 2025. The QBE say 212 fires in total for 2025. What did QBE even ask in this FOI?!

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My favourite bit of the lies is that the number of homes damaged actually halves from the headline to the second paragraph.. misrepresenting the numbers at every opportunity🤡

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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And that data is clearly when solar panel is "mentioned" in the fire report. The governments writes: The phrase “solar panel” is in the free text it does not mean the incident had any relation to any solar panel - for instance, the free text box could say “the fire did not reach the solar panel”.

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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

Pakistan’s per capita energy use is less than a quarter of the global average, so its future electrification story is less about electrifying the current energy system, and more about how much energy growth is from electricity.

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