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Dan McCarthy

@danmccarthy.bsky.social

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Senior editor at Canary Media

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Dan McCarthy @danmccarthy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Check it out. Solar output fell by 99% as the sun went down. Groundbreaking stuff:

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Dan McCarthy @danmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy New Year! One big theme I'm watching in 2026 is the increasing gap between energy-transition vibes (bad) and the growth of clean energy (good). Check out the rest of the Canary team's thoughts for 2026 at the link: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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Things are getting messy. President Donald Trump has gutted the only significant decarbonization law the U.S. ever managed to pass. Blue-state governors are backsliding on clean energy goals and easing up on fossil fuels under the cover of affordability. Oil and gas companies have dropped the pretense of caring about climate. ESG is dead. The “climate hawk” is dead. The words “pragmatism” and “realism” have become as inescapable in climate policy discourse as reminders of planetary warming are in the weather reports.

Yes, the climate conversation has changed dramatically over the last year, at least in the Western world. But the techno-economic trends that are driving decarbonization forward have not. Clean energy — mostly solar — is still being built at a blistering pace. EVs are beginning to run gas cars off the road. China’s emissions could be starting to decline. The world is on track for far less warming than it was when the Paris Agreement was signed a decade ago, and we’re still in the early innings of clean energy deployment.

In 2026, I’ll be watching this dissonance between decarbonization vibes and reality. Will politicians, companies, and others grow increasingly quiet on climate, all while the clean energy revolution speaks louder and louder?

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Dan McCarthy @danmccarthy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The US now has more solar panel factories than many thought was possible years ago. But the chaos sown by Trump has led some solar manufacturers to take a wait-and-see approach to investing further in the country. #energysky Julian Spector for @canarymedia.com: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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Dan McCarthy @danmccarthy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

An Illinois superintendent can't get answers from Trump's DOE about money they were awarded for an EV school bus project. When they try to visit the webpage it redirects to "the Department of Energy home page with a tanker hauling [liquefied natural gas].” www.canarymedia.com/articles/pol...

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Dan McCarthy @danmccarthy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Battery prices are now just $115 per kWh on average - down from $1436 in 2010. The driving force behind the storage boom and EV adoption, in one chart. #energysky www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

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Dan McCarthy @danmccarthy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Large scale solar installations are going to smash records in the US, but a new report says they’ll fall in 2025. The reason? 2024 figure were inflated bc developers crammed in installations before tariffs on SE Asian solar restarted this month. #energysky www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

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