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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer

@nkurmayer.bsky.social
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Journalist - energy, climate, buildings and occasionally politics @Euractiv Tell me what I got wrong: nikolaus.kurmayer@euractiv.com

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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Insane story www.rapporteur.com/news/hassan-...
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Hassan admits pulling down Israeli flag | Rapporteur
MEP says an EU flag fell accidentally at 7 October memorial
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New, from me www.rapporteur.com/news/how-eur...
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How Europe is underwriting Argentina's fracking boom | Rapporteur
Spooked by growing dependence on North America, the EU has its eyes on some of the world's dirtiest gas
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026
What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incidentally, this speaks to some of the issues in the Brussels media ecosystem We see an EU-subsidised outlet claim a breaking news to its artifical audience a story first reported elsewhere without giving due credit to Reuters (like we, for example, did because we have ethics)
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Euro-breaking-news as first reported by... Reuters on Friday night, Euractiv on Saturday morning, Bloomberg on Saturday afternoon Classy !
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rural austria? Any 'gspritzt' is to a half litre here Try a skiwasser
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man denkt: Geil, Söder will Steuerlast umschichten (stromsteuer anyone?) Söder: CO2-Preis muss weg
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worthwhile victory lap
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
not to be contrarian but not, that was always a founding problem of bsky, dicks from the left !
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
GaLiGrü aus MV
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Which one did they make up in 2021? (the plagiarised book was self-inflicted)
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Banger !
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welcome back!
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah I get that you're making a € per kg/calorie point But there's also a sub-aspect of volume (organic v conventional) in that I'd assume diets of organic & conventional eaters differ in kg/day (less veggies for the latter, probably)
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
per kg of food -- but the split holds also when based on calories
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am going to get into so much trouble for this. But it is true. Free public transport is bad economics. My latest for The Economist. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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The economic folly of free buses
There are better ways to fight climate change, immobility and inequality
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Eurobot @eurobot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cut ties with MAGA to join EU, says Brussels #:eu_flag: vs :us_flag: #EUNews www.euractiv.com/news/cut-ties-with…
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Cut ties with MAGA to join EU, says Brussels | Euractiv
Marta Kos warns 'we have adversaries’ including Trump’s ‘ideologists’
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Banger
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
.... Tragisch !
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Leg mich fest: AfD unter 40% in Sachsen-Anhalt
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So we can all agree that liking olives is correlated with aging, dampened tastebuds, right
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Banger. Sadly, as usual, journalists are too good at giving lines hah
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Taking all bets as to whether this is Theranos 2.0
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The EU consensus ! Epp has a surprisingly strong carbon pricing wing
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Why nobody in the wind industry feels like celebrating what will likely become a record year www.euractiv.com/news/wind-in...
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Wind industry downbeat despite being on track for record deployment this year | Euractiv
Trouble looms for European wind farm developers as permits dry up and the German market stumbles
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ember hat dazu immer eine Übersicht ember-energy.org/data/europea...
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European electricity prices and costs | Ember
This data tool compares European electricity prices, carbon prices and the cost of generating electricity using fossil fuels and renewables. Where possible, data is provided by country.
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Derzeit würde es tatsächlich wohl so sein NB: Hängt immer vom ETS preis und dem gas-coal spread ab
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Iceland said no. Read this prescient piece by my collague @magnuslundnielsen.bsky.social reporting from Grundarfjörður to find out why! www.euractiv.com/news/referen...
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This Icelander smells something fishy in Brussels | Euractiv
Fisherman Arnar Kristjánsson tells Euractiv why he's voting no to restarting EU membership talks
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
SO YOU'VE WRITTEN A BIG REPORT and you want us to care about it. Please, if you are targetting journalists etc, do these few very simple things. - include a date - make it easy to navigate (no fancy animation stuff) - single column! - charts should link to data - contact info of relevant authors
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 25/08/2026
Which came first: an electrification plan or the need to electrify? One way or another, the 🇫🇷🐓 fits right in. And when it comes to the electrification of road transport, both passenger cars and, now, heavy-duty vehicles are clearly on the rise. www.electrifions-la-france.gouv.fr/tableau-de-b...
Market share of electric vehicles for passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles. Highlighted is their market share in July 2026: 35%, 15%, 5%Market share of electric vehicles for passenger cars, light commercial vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles. Highlighted is their market share in July 2026: 35%, 15%, 5%Électrifions la France
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Alle wollen schreiben, keiner will mehr lesen
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Österreich und die Obsession mit der Bodenversiegelung
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I should have known it was you tbh
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why 2026 Europe shouldn't be compared to 2021/2022 Europe www.euractiv.com/news/histori...
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'Historic low' storage levels are not a gas supply crisis | Euractiv
Prices are surging but there is no need to panic over gas shortages
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hot summer with lots of days of fire weather, you would have expected it to be higher based on fundamentals/media coverage (I actually won an internal bet on when we'd breach 500k ha) Pretty hard to get past ~~700ish k ha without unchecked fires in the Iberian Peninsula -- thats my current model
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That being said, this summer isn't even that bad from a wildfire perspective, we remain comfortably below 2025 burnt area
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Leonhard Gandhi @energy-charts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Im Juli 2026 wurden folgende Batteriespeicher in Deutschland zugebaut: 65525 Heimspeicher; 338 MW; 515 MWh 671 Gewerbespeicher; 26 MW; 52 MWh 34 Großspeicher; 299 MW; 624 MWh Summe: 662 MW; 1191 MWh Nachmeldungen sind bis Ende August möglich. energy-charts.info/charts/insta...
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bluesky is just that dead, on LI he posted yday
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Elaborate?
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dafür gibts stretches !
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Literally began obliging airlines to gather and report their non-CO2 effects from 2025 (you could say Brussels passed the 'research consortium' stage five years ago with the 2020 landmark study)
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I would say no but enough procrastinating
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
(Core take is that when it comes to aviation EU does it best as far as I understand the issue)
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What I'm trying to say: Brussels has a comparatively concrete plan to tackle non-CO2 aviation effects with legislation potentially forthcoming from 2027 -- a scheme we are looking to bolster to 5k km around Frankfurt Anyway I just wanted to push back on a given role of UK climate leadership on this
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nota bene: ETS: "Aircraft operators (AOs) are required to report their yearly non-CO2 aviation effects per flight occurring from 1 January 2025." (global first ERF MRV [monitoring, reporting, and verification]) --> MRV then price it ! www.eurocontrol.int/sites/defaul...
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Also; the thesis that contrail avoidance ought to be outsourced to air traffic controls seems like ... creating new, complex regulation where a market already exists -- which prima facie reads more like The Guardian than the goold old Economist?
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure the EU is far ahead -- i think we have a study underway on how to adjust aviation CO2e to include radiative forcing for the ETS (where we already have aviation subject to carbon pricing for the CO2 parts of their emissions) www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Pathways for including non-carbon dioxide aviation climate effects in the European Emission Trading System - Communications Earth & Environment
For the inclusion of aviation non-carbon dioxide climate effects in the European Union Emission Trading System, uncertainties in atmospheric processes can be addressed through careful calculation and ...
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm in my thirties and excited for the upcoming Linkin Park Unshatter movie -- are there self-help groups for this
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Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @nkurmayer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.euractiv.com/opinion/euro...
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Europe should read Taiwan's 'Little Orange Book' | Euractiv
Europe provides valuable lessons for Taiwan on civil preparedness. The time has come for Europe to take a closer look at Taiwan
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