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Indra Overland

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Research Professor at NUPI | energy transition | ASEAN | FSU | squash player | foodie |

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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This creates a fundamental constraint: an energy transition in Indonesia can only succeed if it boosts the profits or political power of influential actors or if enoughIndonesian actors can be convinced that renewables are better for economic development and energy security than fossil fuels.
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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It finds that the actors who are most positive to decarbonization have limited influence on Indonesia's energy policies, whereas for the actors with the greatest influence, other policy objectives are more important.
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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This new paper looks for the answer in the political economy of the energy transition. The study is based on 27 stakeholder interviews and uses the Actors-Objectives-Context (AOC) framework.
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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Despite falling costs of renewables and their widespread integration into power markets worldwide, wind and solar PV account for a negligible 0.3% of Indonesia’s power generation - jointly.
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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why is Indonesia falling behind the global energy transition? Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country and sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, relies heavily on coal to meet its growing electricity demand and aims to build up further fossil capacities.
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Indra Overland @indraoverland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Norwegian police have charged Telenor with suspected breech of sanctions law, suspected complicity in crimes against humanity. Telenor had 18 million customers in Myanmar and gave phone data of 1200 of customers to the military. The Norwegian government is Telenor's majority shareholder.
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Telenor siktet for mulig medvirkning til forbrytelse mot menneskeheten
PST og Kripos ransaker i dag hovedkontoret til Telenor på Fornebu. Siktelsen er knyttet til selskapets tidligere virksomhet i Myanmar.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Exxon: carbon capture's potential is "limitless" and we are leaders in CCS! Also Exxon: suing the EU so as not to be forced to do CCS. This is the least surprising thing ever.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/07/2026
My long-time Germany / nuclear take is simply that they should be free to phase out nuclear whenever they like but coal and gas should've been first, and getting the order wrong has meant a very significant amount of harm from prolonged fossil fuel use ember-energy.org/data/electri...
a chart showing german power
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world. Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion cells. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world
Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.
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Indra Overland @indraoverland.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🧵1/5 @aljazeera.com interview with me about Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy. The impacts are growing rapidly now:
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Global Environmental Politics @gepjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
2025 impact factors are out & GEP had a fantastic year! #2 out of 173 in International Relations 🎉 🎉 🎉 #11 out of 332 in Political Science #48 out of 202 in Environmental Studies
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us? One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.
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DeLorean Time Travel: Back To The Future
Alt: DeLorean Time Travel: Back To The Future
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 25/05/2026
Electricity ratepayers feel pain from *bills*, not prices. If my price goes up 10% but my energy use goes down 20% (from insulation or a more efficient air conditioner, say), then *my bill goes down 12%*. Energy efficiency is weirdly absent from discourse on electricity affordability.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Good China Books Review article on the growing genre of migrant workers' literature. About one-third of China's working population, and nearly two-thirds of migrant workers, work in the gig economy. chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...
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China’s Workers’ Literature Revival | China Books Review
Once a socialist genre beloved of Mao, laborers’ or “battler” literature has seen a revival in the era of the gig economy. Two new books in translation illustrate the mass appeal.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...
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Norway: The World’s Most Instructive Energy Paradox
The electrification playbook the world needs - and its inconvenient footnote
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Germany's electricity mix, 2000 vs 2025: Renewables: 6% → 62% Fossil fuels: 62% → 36% Nuclear: 30% → 0% Nuclear's exit was filled by renewables, not coal or gas. Want more of this content and more detail and links to sources? Subscribe to my new Substack: substack.com/@janrosenow
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/05/2026
Of all the made-up intentionally-hollow tactical-false-promise greenwashing technologies out there, space solar I think is the one that just makes me the angriest. Not even sure why, maybe because it should be the most obviously nonsensical but is treated as completely reasonable
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Meta pushes into orbit powered electricity as it chases nonstop clean energy
Meta partners with Overview Energy to turn space into a constant power source for data centers and future AI infrastructure
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I've been touting the inevitable win of electric trucks over combustion and hydrogen trucks for over 10 years now. Glad to see it's finally happening. www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bus...
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Cheaper, cleaner electric trucks overhaul China’s logistics
While the country's prowess in electric passenger vehicles has long been known globally, electric trucks have only recently gained traction.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
BREAKTHROUGH: SaltX Technology and Holcim have produced Portland-quality clinker - the core ingredient in cement - using a fully electrified process. No fossil fuels. The goal is now a pilot plant targeting Europe's first fully electric cement facility by 2028. www.globalcement.com/news/20714-s...
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Let me remind everyone that fierce debate exists over the different classes of ebikes allowed in cities.
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Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mmeadway.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I was reminded this morning of something IBM noted in 1978: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision."
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Corn ethanol serves no purpose and is purely a handout to farmers. It costs more and emits more than normal petroleum. And it takes up half as much land area as all urban and suburban land in the US. If we replaced the land with solar, we'd get 3x as much power as the US uses.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Some reflections on getting rejected: The secret skill of highly successful people? Getting rejected (a lot!) without letting it erode their sense of self-worth. Nobody puts that on their CV. More in my Substack article: janrosenow.substack.com/p/on-rejection
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On rejection
Why rejection is the hidden engine of success
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/04/2026
GORGEOUS
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Under limited CCS growth rates, deployment... could be reduced by a factor of 7 relative to a scenario that does not consider injectivity or growth rate limits... Delayed mitigation combined with slower-than-expected CCS deployment could result in large &prolonged temperature overshoot"
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Rate and growth limits for carbon capture and storage
Rate and growth limits for carbon capture and storage, Fuhrman, Jay, Lane, Joe, McJeon, Haewon, Iyer, Gokul C, Edwards, Morgan R, Thomas, Zachary, Edmonds, James A
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This seems really bad? I mean, if you want the oil to stay in the ground, the cartel that set production quotas to limit output and keep oil prices high was a good thing. It felt like a possible useful player in a managed energy transition.
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Potentially hyper-cheap sodium batteries are becoming commercially available and are getting LFP battery specs. This is nuts! This could lead to *incredibly* cheap batteries! electrek.co/2026/04/27/c...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress. But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%. And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported. Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do. More here: rdcu.be/feOjc
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/04/2026
This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.
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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Chinese researchers report 700 Wh/kg lithium-metal battery www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/02/c...
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Chinese researchers report 700 Wh/kg lithium-metal battery
A team from Nankai University and the Shanghai Institute of Space Power-Sources has developed a hydrofluorocarbon electrolyte enabling lithium-metal cells to operate at temperatures as low as -70 C.
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Stephen Leahy @stephenleahy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Cars are parked 20 to 22 hours a day on average, which is plenty of time to recharge an EV using a standard AC outlet leahy.substack.com/p/my-non-fos...
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My Non-Fossil Car Experience
Very few EV drivers ever go back
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
We bought an EV years ago and have so far saved over $7000 in avoided gas costs. And our electricity is now free because our solar panels have completely paid for themselves in saved electricity costs. My interest in the price of fossil fuels is purely political.
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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
100% Of Copenhagen’s City Buses Are Now Electric cleantechnica.com/2026/04/03/1...
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100% Of Copenhagen’s City Buses Are Now Electric - CleanTechnica
We've now completely completed the transition to 100 percent electric buses.
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Zelensky discusses the bizarre attitude of so-called allies, which is completely disconnected from reality. Please listen to this.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
South Korea's President: “South Korea must swiftly transition to renewable energy.” “Relying on fossil energy is extremely dangerous for the future. We do not produce these resources ourselves, and chasing imports has led to the current crisis.” www.chosun.com/english/nati... #energysky
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President Lee Jae Myung Warns Energy Crisis, Urges Renewable Transition
President Lee Jae Myung Warns Energy Crisis, Urges Renewable Transition President cites Middle East crisis, urges faster renewable shift beyond 2035 EV target
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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
BYD Electric Bus Sales Rose 71% in March cleantechnica.com/2026/04/02/b...
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BYD Electric Buses Rose 71% in March - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Yet again, BYD didn’t have a great month last month when it comes to passenger vehicle sales. Perhaps that’s because consumer...
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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇
Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. 

A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Solar saved Europe €3bn in fossil fuel imports in March: Which country is leading the way?" www.euronews.com/2026/04/01/s...
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Solar saved Europe €3bn in March. Which country is leading the race?
A new analysis found that Europe’s solar capabilities could save the continent €67.5 billion by the end of the year if gas prices remain high.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/04/2026
More than 1.3k RTs on this AI slop image and fabricated caption. Let's have some standards here people
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The Netherlands just launched a platform in the middle of the North Sea that converts wind electricity into green hydrogen fuel without the electricity ever touching land.
The NortH2 offshore hydrogen platform sits 200 kilometers off the Dutch coast, directly connected by underwater power cables.
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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
German Truckers To Face Over €1,200 A Month In Additional Diesel Costs cleantechnica.com/2026/04/01/g...
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German Truckers To Face Over €1,200 A Month In Additional Diesel Costs - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Electric trucks now almost €1,800 a month cheaper to run than diesel. European diesel hauliers face a monthly increase in fue...
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We need to see FIDs, but Trump’s attacks on Canada may have formally ended the Biden & earlier era of 🇨🇦 allegiance to the North American business model of ICE SUVs and trucks, with a fast transition towards the global trend to Chinese based transnational EV makers.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is also a counterpoint to several articles saying that Pakistan has been doing better because it has lots of solar - not untrue, it *has* to be doing better than it would have been without the solar, but it's still not great. And a lot of the data is estimated for Pakistan.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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