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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard

@filipkirkegaard.bsky.social
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Journalist/climate analyst, Danish broadcaster DR. I will share climate news from Denmark in English.

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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
1/10. 🔎At the #JuneClimateMeetings in Bonn, Vicente Paolo Yu, Coordinator for the G77 and China (G77) 🌐 speaks to what is expected by the group from the third review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for #LossAndDamage (WIM) 🔥⛈️🌊 and the proposal to mandate a state of #LossAndDamage report 🌡️📋.
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Dana Nuccitelli @dananuccitelli.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The EPA's reasoning to justify repealing greenhouse gas regulations for power plants is so tortured, I feel like my brain has been waterboarded after reading it 🤯 The justification goes like this...🧵(1/8)
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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We will see what happens in the Senate, but this @zeitlin.bsky.social piece is a good summary of how the IRA's political vision -- that clean energy investment in Repub districts would keep Republicans from repealing tax credits-- seems to have failed. heatmap.news/politics/ira...
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How the Political Theory of the IRA Broke Down
Investing in red states doesn’t make defying Trump any safer.
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Does anyone have a credible list of worlds largest ptx production facilities? Asking because the kassø facility is about to open, producing 42.000 tonnes e methanol annually.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/05/2025
Updated Climate Visuals (1) Warming stripes for atmosphere and ocean (2) Climate indicators (adding land humidity for 2024) (3) UK climate indicators (adding some 2024 data) ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
FYI the arson rate in Canada is generally down from two decades ago... [in case you see people blaming increasing wildfire burn area on arson].
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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Wow! Huge power outage in Spain/Portugal. Just managed to pull this from the Spanish grid operator's website before it timed out. Demand cratered from 25GW to less than 10GW in an instant. 🔌💡
Chart shows a big drop in electricity demand in Spain around 1pm from 25GW to close to 10GW. Actual demand now well below scheduled/expected.
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I would like to see a calculation of the mileage cost for offsetting vs full electric
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I wonder how much energy will be used for desalination vs AI in the future www.carbonbrief.org/glacier-melt...
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Glacier melt threatens water supplies for two billion people, UN warns - Carbon Brief
Climate change and “unsustainable human activities” are driving “unprecedented changes” to mountains and glaciers, a UN report warns.
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
On this week's episode of Solving for Climate, we talk with @hausfath.bsky.social about the world of carbon removals. And some other stuff too: he's worked on a lot! open.spotify.com/episode/55Wu...
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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 06/03/2025
“The EV is expected to go into production in 2027 with a starting price of 20,000 euros” I bought an eUp in December 2013 - why does 14 years have to pass before a similar EV is made by VW?!? (I know. Profits are bigger, the bigger cars.)
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/03/2025
In the next few days, I will be sharing some of our work that I am most proud of from my time at NOAA/GFDL. But I would also like a little normalcy today on my feed, so here's my go-to sea ice data viz update. #Arctic sea ice extent still remains the *lowest* on record for the date (JAXA). Not good
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/02/2025
Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
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Adam Welz @adamwelz.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Head up: A massive mine waste spill is currently killing virtually everything in one of #Zambia's major rivers. A 🧵: On the 18th of February (1 weeka go) a large mine waste dump (aka tailings dam) began to collapse at the Sino Metals mine in #Chambishi, in Zambia's copperbelt. Huge volumes of...
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Amerikansk klimaforsker ved USAs svar på DMI …
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
France reduces VAT to 5.5% for solar up to 9 kW #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...
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France reduces VAT to 5.5% for solar up to 9 kW
The French Senate has approved France's 2025 Budget Law, cutting the value-added tax (VAT) to 5.5% for PV systems up to 9 kW from October 2025. Industry professionals say the delay might prompt homeowners to postpone installations to secure the lower rate.
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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Spotted this in the middle of @carbonbrief.org's summary yesterday of China's green bond debut - China is taking note of millennia-long patterns of rainfall and political upheaval. As an archaeologist, I'm glad to see consideration of these data. #ClimateHeritage www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
Elsewhere, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports that Chinese researchers have found a link between climate change and the “downfall of some of the most powerful Chinese imperial dynasties” by using “tree rings to track rainfall patterns on the Tibetan Plateau”.
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 12/02/2025
Everywhere right now there’s a fascinating yet classic jurisdictional fight ongoing between audit firms and sustainability consultancies looking to control the growing and lucrative sustainability assurance market on.ft.com/4gEa9Nl
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UK accountants push to end fees cap for ESG work from companies they audit
Body says regulation shuts firms out of lucrative quality assurance business
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 10/02/2025
185 countries, representing 83% of global emissions and almost 80% of the world’s economy, have missed the Paris Agreement deadline to submit new climate plans.
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It’s NDC Deadline Day. Almost Nobody Is Prepared.
On climate plans, Super Bowl ads, and hydrogen planes
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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In a big study the JRC breaks down the EU Green Deal’s broad objectives into 154 sub-targets. This useful! overview showed mixed results: -32 ‘on track’ -64 need acceleration -15 are ‘not progressing’ or ‘regressing’ -for 43 there are no data publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
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Delivering the EU Green Deal - Progress towards targets
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of progress towards the European Green Deal (EGD), the European Union’s transformative agenda for achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The analysis enc...
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Margaret Stanley @ecostanley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
" each year, the costs of treating historical damage at Stockton coal mine – the largest opencast mine in New Zealand – have outpaced the royalties brought in by exporting coal"
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$50m to go into coal mine cleanup as Jones expands sector
The resources minister wants to see royalties redirected to the regions as the debate over coal’s economic benefits intensifies
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
1/ New research @UniLUT doi.org/10.1016/j.rs... analyses the projections of the #IEA’s World Energy Outlook compared to real world developments. Special emphasis is laid on direct and indirect electrification of the energy system reaching high levels of sustainability.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I've been encountering over the past few days the claim that the planet is warming twice as fast as predicted. This is entirely untruthful and unhelpful. The planet is warming AS fast as predicted, which is cause enough for dramatic action. The truth is bad enough!
Comparison of model-predicted and observed global surface temperatures by Zeke Hausfather
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
the human cost www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection.

The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away.

When Ms. Zondi, 22, arrived at the clinic, she learned why: The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations around the globe that receive its money. The abrupt move followed an executive order by President Trump freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken steps to dismantle the agency entirely.

Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Danish government hoped for oil majors to invest in offshore wind … well … it’s gonna be interesting to follow if Europe move towards IRA like regulation to electrify in a time when the US dispense with it www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Equinor cuts renewable energy target due to industry headwinds
Norway's Equinor is reducing its ambitions for developing renewable energy capacity by 2030, it said on Wednesday, the latest move by a European energy company to cut green targets as the market for renewables sours.
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Where do I find the best discussions on the new James Hansen paper and the call for a faster supplement to IPCC? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?
Global temperature leaped more than 0.4°C (0.7°F) during the past two years, the 12-month average peaking in August 2024 at +1.6°C relative to the temperature at the beginning of last century (the ...
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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In India, we don't have too many conversations around 1.5 degrees or adaptation. Pleased to have this cover story out today in Sunday special of @thehindu.com newspaper, where I asked leading climate scientists to explain what 1.5 degrees of warming means for India. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...
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1.5 degrees of aberration | Is India prepared to deal with the fallout of increasing emissions and long-term warming in the near future?
India faces severe climate impacts, including heatwaves, cyclones, and water-related disasters, requiring urgent adaptation and policy action.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"The president has declared a national “energy emergency” and vowed to cut Americans’ overall energy costs in half." Which national media outlet is going to put up an energy scorecard to track the progress on this promise?
oilprice.com
Oil Prices Start the Week Higher Following Trump’s Tariffs | OilPrice.com
Oil prices rise on the first day of trade after the US imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico, with analysts divided on the long-term impact.
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Danish government decides to support hydrogen pipeline to Germany and create 2-3 offshore wind parks with some kind of support (cfd?). This comes after December offshore auction failure www.kefm.dk/aktuelt/nyhe...
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Regeringen investerer i mere havvind og grøn brint
Danmarks elforbrug skal være helt grønt. Ligesom Europas også skal blive grønnere og mere sikkert. Det er udgangspunktet for regeringens nye initiativer, der skal give det danske havvind- og brintmark...
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Can everyone please stop using Ivanpah as their cover picture on general stories now. It is pretty but it doesn't work very well. www.8newsnow.com/news/local-n...
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Solar plant on I-15 near its end, shutting off in 2026, officials say
The landmark Ivanpah solar energy plant along Interstate 15 near the Nevada-California border is past its prime, left in the desert dust as more efficient technology is producing power cheaper thes…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/01/2025
Sam Altman is just blurting out words now www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024. Photographer: Kyodo/AP Images
So energy …

Fusion’s gonna work.

Fusion is going to work. Um. On what time frame?

Soon. Well, soon there will be a demonstration of net-gain fusion. You then have to build a system that doesn’t break. You have to scale it up. You have to figure out how to build a factory—build a lot of them—and you have to get regulatory approval. And that will take, you know, years altogether? But I would expect [Helion 20] will show you that fusion works soon.

20 Helion, a clean energy startup backed by Altman, Dustin Moskovitz and Reid Hoffman, focuses on developing nuclear fusion.

In the short term, is there any way to sustain AI’s growth without going backward on climate goals?

Yes, but none that is as good, in my opinion, as quickly permitting fusion reactors. I think our particular kind of fusion is such a beautiful approach that we should just race toward that and be done.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Just out: Solar power additions in China in 2024 exceeded expectations, again, with a whopping 277 GW installed in just one year! This was up 28% on the already towering 217 GW added in 2023. Wind power made a new record as well, with 79 GW added to the grid, up 5% on year.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 17/01/2025
Global temperatures have started 2025 at record-setting levels – above where they were in January 2024 despite the emergence of modest La Nina conditions in the tropical Pacific.
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Dana Nuccitelli @dananuccitelli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Thanks to climate change, we're barreling towards an insurance crisis, as I wrote for @climateconnections.bsky.social today. It's not just California and Florida – nobody's insurance rates are safe 🧵(1/13)
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Nobody’s insurance rates are safe from climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Even if you haven’t suffered direct damage, you’re paying for increasingly extreme weather.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Major steelmaker SSAB is pulling out of a federally backed green hydrogen plant, in the middle of funding negotiations with the US government. 😬 www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...
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SSAB quietly pulls out of $500M green steel award negotiations
The Swedish company sought to make iron using green hydrogen in Mississippi, as part of the Biden administration's $6B Industrial Demonstrations Program.
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Manuela Brunner @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
In our new review on 'Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth' led by @weatherwest.bsky.social, we show that global-averaged subseasonal and interannual whiplash have increased substantially in the past and further increases are anticipated with ongoing warming: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal impacts. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in hydr...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 10/01/2025
Spiralling global temperatures: 2024 edition
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 05/01/2025
2024 broke the extreme North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature record of 2023:
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Does public #trust in scientists suffer or grow when they #advocate for #climate policies? ✊ We tested this during the referendum on the #Swiss Climate Protection Law on 18 June 2023 – which was preceded by a statement by 252 scientists supporting the law 🗳️ Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Filip Knaack Kirkegaard @filipkirkegaard.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Orsted is trying to persuade Aarhus municipality to buy the heat from a potential BECCS plant (100-150 MW), but the local politicians wants to minimize biomass use www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide...
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Dansk energigigant sælger sig som grøn, men i kulissen presser de på for at bygge kontroversielt kraftværk
Det er entydigt en dårlig idé, lyder kritikken fra eksperter.
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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Min yngste datter skrev for tre år siden skoleprojekt om ‘kvinden som det andet køn’. Her har de klippet alle navne ud i en avis en tilfældig dag i april.
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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 21/12/2024
The #climate cost of #war, and a scimitar tooth kitten from the permafrost. Top #InsideScience from the BBC this week www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002553h Media file: open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6…
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BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, The climate cost of war
What is the climate impact of conflicts around the world?
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"China, the world’s heavyweight oil consumer, has officially hit its peak. According to CNPC’s Economics & Technology Research Institute, the country’s refined oil consumption maxed out in 2023 at 399 million metric tons (roughly 8 million barrels per day) and is set to decline by 1.3% in 2024."
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CNPC: China Reaches Refined Oil Demand Peak | OilPrice.com
According to CNPC’s Economics & Technology Research Institute, the country’s refined oil consumption maxed out in 2023 at around 8 million bpd
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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
China’s CATL to build $4.3bn battery factory with Stellantis in European expansion Deal for Spanish plant comes despite EU efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese technology www.ft.com/content/b2c4...
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China’s CATL to build $4.3bn battery factory with Stellantis in European expansion
Deal for Spanish plant comes despite EU efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese technology
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Emil Dimanchev @emildimanchev.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A cautionary tale unfolded last week as Denmark failed to attract bids for offshore wind. What can we learn from this? This is a multi-dimensional problem, but the primary lesson I believe is that Denmark wrongly expected developers to take on market risk. 🧵🔌💡1/9 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Failed offshore auction highlights how Denmark missed winds of change
Denmark's failure to attract any bids in an offshore wind power tender this week stems from a rigid auction model, a failure to adapt to a changed economic reality for renewable energy projects and rising competition, analysts said on Friday.
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