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Raffaele Piria

@piria.bsky.social
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Working since 25 yrs for energy transition and climate mitigation. Living in Berlin, grown up in Italy. Love mountains, literature, people's stories.

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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New parliament in Sachsen Anhalt, gender balance: AFD: 47M / 2F CDU: 13M / 2F BSW: 3M / 2F SPD: 4M / 4F Greens: 4M / 4F Left: 4M / 4F And, yes it has to do with energy and climate policy, though it's not the worst aspect of yesterday's election.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
⚠️ EU Methane Regulation Art 27: the Case Against a Grace Period - Why the ordinary enforcement regime does not endanger EU energy security ⚠️ There is no basis for a “grace period” for Art27 violations, as proposed in a leaked draft: Downloaded the paper: www.ecologic.eu/20531 @ecologic.eu
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EU Methane Regulation Article 27: the Case Against a Grace Period
This paper argues that there is no plausible basis for the introduction of a “grace period” in respect of infringements of Article 27 of the EU Methane Emissions Regulation (EUMR), as proposed in a re...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
US Secretary of Energy is pretty confident to be immortal
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Secretive US-CEE Gas Supply Security Joint Statement signed on 24Feb by US National Energy Dominance Council with 12 European countries. European #energysecurity or acquiescent subordination to US #energydominance? Read our critical review published today: www.ecologic.eu/20433
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European Energy Security or Acquiescence?
This paper reviews a secretive Joint Statement (JS) on Gas Supply Security to Central and Eastern Europe that was signed in Washington, D.C., on 24 February 2026 on the sidelines of meetings organised...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/03/2026
"Iran, which is completely defeated, is disrupting the Strait with the navy and missiles we've completely destroyed and that is unacceptable because it is making the oil price go up, which is good actually, and NATO which I do not support needs to come rescue us immediately. Thank you for your a..."
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Impressive report about widespread and partly successful popular resistance against mass deportations by ICE in several US cities.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
1/10 My new report supported by @caneurope.org: 🚡 Overview on EU #Methane Regulation penalty rules 🔍 Debunking “unmanageable liability” myth (see the thread) 📊 State of play of national penalty rules in some MS: good and bad practice ⚖️ How to ensure a level playing field www.ecologic.eu/20270 ...>
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Penalty Regimes for Violations of the EU Methane Regulation in Selected EU Member States
After giving a concise overview of the penalty provisions in the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER), this paper counters the scaremongering narrative promoted by fossil energy groups that the EU-MER creat...
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Ecologic Institute @ecologic.eu · 04/12/2025
New report on the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER) by @piria.bsky.social. Supported by @caneurope.org, the report outlines the EU-MER penalty provisions, examines concerns about “unmanageable liability” for fossil fuel suppliers, & looks at national penalty rules in selected MS. www.ecologic.eu/20270
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Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe @caneurope.org · 04/12/2025
🚨Report Launch: Penalty Regimes for Violations of the EU Methane Regulation in selected EU Member States🚨 ✍️ Written by @piria.bsky.social of @ecologic.eu, supported by CAN Europe, it uncovers how clear and robust penalty rules are key for the #EUMethaneRegulation ’s success. 🔗 shorturl.at/odnFA
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨New Publication 🚨 Europe’s #EnergySecurity on the path to climate neutrality. Devising a resilience strategy for the mid-transition. Policy brief by @agoraew.bsky.social and @ecologic.eu I co-authored with 🙏 @marcogiuli.bsky.social Frauke Thies & Krisztina Zálnoky . www.ecologic.eu/20204 👇1/7
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Europe's energy security on the path to climate neutrality
The EU must rethink its energy security in light of increasingly renewable, decentralized, and electrified energy systems. Energy security already benefiting from the early start of the energy transit...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2025
This photo just about sums it up
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2025
Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
How do any lawyers or legal commentators still say the Supreme Court majority believes “unity executive theory” and rules according to that interpretation? You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands. Why help the lie?
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Please remind news media parroting US government inflation statements that those are just Trump regime fantasy numbers since May.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🇷🇴 is 3rd #crudeoil producer in the EU, and EU Member State with most abandoned oil wells. They may continue to emit #methane for decades after the end of extraction. Personal note: 1st time a publication of mine is translated into Romanian @tabeapottiez.bsky.social @jschwartzkopff.bsky.social
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Today we published two guides to implement the #EUMethaneRegulation. Cutting #methane emissions crucial to slow down global warming in #Czechia and #Romania CZ www.ecologic.eu/20098 RO www.ecologic.eu/20099 Relevant for other EU countries too. Thanks to our partner @cde-cz.bsky.social
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Implementing the EU Methane Regulation in Czechia
The quality of national implementation of the EU Methane Regulation (EU-MER) across Member States is essential for achieving the EU's climate targets and demonstrating global leadership. Methane (CH₄)...
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Reporter ohne Grenzen @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de · 07/04/2025
#Deutschland: Seit dem Aufstieg extrem rechter Kräfte, die offen medienfeindlich auftreten, sehen sich Lokaljournalist*innen zunehmend bedroht. Das zeigt eine neue Studie des @ecpmf.bsky.social und des Bundesverbands Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger (BDZV). www.bdzv.de/service/pres...
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Lokaljournalismus unter Druck: BDZV warnt vor wachsender Bedrohung der freien Berichterstattung
Der Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger (BDZV) ist besorgt: Die freie und unabhängige Berichterstattung steht besonders im Lokaljournalismus unter wachsendem Druck. Eine aktuelle Studi...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Refreshing to see many students in deep-red Idaho publicly defending their teacher's decision to hang in the dchool a sign ‘Everyone is welcome here’. But so disturbing that public officers did work to forbid it. youtu.be/Jsn3INWTDGw?...
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Students stand in solidarity with teacher told to remove "Everyone is Welcome Here" poster
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"The district did not explain how a sign reading “Everyone is welcome here” would be in violation of that law." - The abyss the US is falling into is deeper than many here in Europe are prepared to acknowledge. Read more at: www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/e...
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West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs
Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”
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Borys Kormych @kormych.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The US stock market is behaving as if the country is governed by a six-times bankrupt
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Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A stunning essay in the @financialtimes.com on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things. It began or accelerated in the early 2010s. It's hitting teens AND adults. Self-report and objective scores.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Atlanta US Fed's GDPNow estimate for Q1 25 GDP is  MINUS 1.5% on Feb28, down from PLUS 2.3% on Feb19.  I wonder what catastrophes ever made it collapse by 3 8% within weeks. Investors fleeing wannabe-kingdom? Thanks to @stargazer5000.bsky.social for this. www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
New power generation installation forecasted by the US Energy Information Administration for 2025: Solar: 52% Battery storage: 29% Wind: 12% Gas: 7% Nuclear: 0% Coal: 0% Investors don't align with the "king". Who knows how long EIA will be allowed to publish the truth? www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
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Solar, battery storage to lead new U.S. generating capacity additions in 2025 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
So eine Darstellung, die die großen, aber menschenleeren AfD-Wahlkreise im Osten optisch nicht immer so überrepräsentiert, habe ich schon lange gesucht.
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DemocracyLover #BlueCrew-FBR-FBPE-NAFO 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @martie38.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If only !
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Marcel Fratzscher @mfratzscher.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Welchen Einfluss haben #Hochvermögende und eine zunehmende #Ungleichheit auf unsere #Demokratie? Ein Thread:
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In this growing market, Tesla sold half as many cars in Europe through January 2025 compared to the previous year, with market See: www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-s...
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Tesla sales plummet across Europe - is Musk costing Tesla money?
The nearly 20-year CEO of Tesla has made the EV manufacturer literally billions of dollars across the world, but Europeans appear to be over it.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our new report discusses why #hydrogen #emissions matter, when they will become significant, and how the EU can tackle them. While #H2emissions make up a negligible fraction of today's #GHG emissions, they are set to become more significant in the 2030s and 2040s …🧵 Read more: www.ecologic.eu/19988
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Some facts on the EU, which started its energy transition earlier and is thus ahead of other regions, reinforce Ketan's point: 2019-23 the EU's coal consumption dropped by 27%, gas by 18%, oil by 7%, while the population grew by 0.6% and the GDP by 4% ...🧵
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Leonhard Gandhi @energy-charts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
2024 wurden 92 Mio. Tonnen Braunkohlen in Deutschland gefördert, so wenig wie zuletzt im Jahr 1916. energy-charts.info/downloads/St...
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"The irony is that as Trump casts a large, dark shade, more and more of the world is coming out of the US’s shadow." Good analysis by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result | Nesrine Malik
As an erratic president imposes his international doctrine, countries are forging more stable alliances. His US will be weaker, not stronger, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Einen Giga-Dank Prof. Burger und seinem Team für >10 Jahre minutiöser, hochwertiger Arbeit, die dies ermöglicht! Hut ab den hervorragenden Profis von ARD Plusminus, die zeigen, wie faktenbasierte Berichterstattung auch zu sehr komplexen Themen geht! Nur ein Argument fehlte... 🧵
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The EU set very ambitious targets for reducing fossil gas consumption. So far, the EU is on track for meeting the REPowerEU targets. Data from @bruegel.bsky.social
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
ChatGPT 4o answer to my question on January 6, today. Let's periodically check on the answer now OpenAI CEO is getting close with Trump.
Q: Was January 6 an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, supported by Trump?
A: Yes, the events of January 6, 2021, were a concerted effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, actively supported by then-President Donald Trump. Following his electoral defeat, Trump and his allies engaged in various strategies to challenge and invalidate the election outcome. These included filing numerous lawsuits, pressuring state and federal officials to alter results, and promoting unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. ([pbs.org](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/jan-6-panel-releases-final-report-alleges-trump-engaged-in-conspiracy-to-overturn-election?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

On January 6, as Congress convened to certify the Electoral College votes, Trump held a rally near the White House where he urged his supporters to "fight like hell" and march to the Capitol. This rhetoric incited a mob to storm the Capitol building, leading to significant violence, multiple deaths, and a temporary halt in the certification process. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

Subsequent investigations, including the House January 6 committee's final report, concluded that Trump was central to a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol. ([pbs.org](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/jan-6-panel-releases-final-report-alleges-trump-engaged-in-conspiracy-to-overturn-election?utm_source=chatgpt.com))

In summary, the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was a deliberate attempt to subvert the democratic process, with direct involvement and encouragement from President Trump.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
100,000 people demonstrate in Berlin for democracy, human rights and against fascism.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A good reason to donate to Wikipedia.
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Raffaele Piria @piria.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ember's European Electricity Review 2025 is out with great highlights 🧵 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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European Electricity Review 2025 | Ember
The EU’s electricity transition continued at pace in 2024, as solar overtook coal for the first time and gas declined for the fifth year in a row.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Whatsapp, like Facebook, is owned by Zuckerberg's Meta. Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation. And it's more secure. We have a choice.
Whatsapp logoSignal logo
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15/12/2024
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
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Mark SubbaRao @marksubbarao.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A new visualization showing the Keeling Curve alongside the Antarctic ice core CO2 data. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5447
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