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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why does Trump keep siding with dictators instead of democracies? michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

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Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians

Doing so does not advance American interests or values.

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

8-hour battery storage is operating in Australia and more is coming! This 50 MW/400 MWh battery plant is a key piece of tech to reach nearly 100% RE. It will mostly charge when solar generation is high and discharge when the sun goes down. www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2026/06/11/l... #energysky

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Landmark 50 MW / 400 MWh long-duration battery system officially opened in NSW - pv magazine Australia

A ribbon cutting ceremony held 11 June 2026 marked the official opening of the RWE Renewables Australia-owned and operated long-duration Limondale Battery Energy Storage System in NSW.

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Kia and Hyundai, together with Vattenfall, have launched a large-scale pilot project in the Netherlands in which #electricvehicles are used a home batteries, allowing users to supply electricity back to their homes and the grid nltimes.nl/2026/05/28/e... #EVs #batteries #ActOnClimate

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Electric cars used as mobile home batteries in Dutch world-first energy trial

Kia and Hyundai, together with energy company Vattenfall, have launched a large-scale pilot project in the Netherlands in which electric vehicles are used as mobile home batteries, allowing users to s...

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If you are not aware of Harish Hande, please stop doomscrolling and listen/watch. He has brought solar-powered products and services to hundreds of thousands of the poorest people on the planet - possibly millions - transforming and saving lives. A living saint. www.cleaningup.live/indias-solar...

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India’s Solar Revolution Is Bringing Cheap Energy To Millions | Ep257: Harish Hande

YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 01/05/2026

THREAD: A heat-pump tumble dryer could save households more than £700 Lots of overblown reaction to govt phasing out standard dryers – reminds me of when 2009 Mail frontpage wailed about "beloved" incandescent bulbs But heat pump dryers are just a much better technology 1/5

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

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The president speaks genocide

The words, the law, the future

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We burn ~100 million barrels of oil every single day. 🌍 The good folks at @rockymtninst.bsky.social have been saying we can cut that by 20% — without switching fuels, changing behavior, or retiring any infrastructure early. We can. Here's how — and what it would cost.

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Stanislav Avdeev @stnavdeev.com · 19/03/2026

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

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Brendan Pierpont @brendan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New Brattle Group report highlights how improving system utilization can help reduce electricity costs: www.brattle.com/the-untapped...

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The Untapped Grid - Brattle

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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Today marks a significant milestone in the history of demand flexibility, as Google announces it has contracted one gigawatt of data center demand response capacity into long-term energy contracts with multiple utilities across the US. 🔌💡 blog.google/innovation-a...

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 20/03/2026

NEW | World adds record 814 GW of solar and wind in 2025, cushioning impact of the gas price crunch ☀️🌪️ The new capacity can generate enough power every year to displace a SEVENTH of global gas generation —or almost DOUBLE Qatar’s annual LNG export volume—saving ~$138 bn 💰

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 21/01/2026

#GraphicOfTheWeek: The North Sea is home to 101 operational offshore wind farms, with around 30 GW of installed capacity. It is the largest wind hub in the world, supplying #renewable #wind energy to six European countries. See last week's top graphic: loom.ly/AWSeFdE

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Good morning with good news: Plug-in EVs were 59% of China's auto sales in December 2025, with 1.34 million sold! That is up from 48% in December 2024. BEV were 35% in 12/2025, compared to 25% in 12/2024. China may reach 100% EV sales by 2035! cleantechnica.com/2026/01/20/a... #energysky

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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

What are the problems with Trump's US from a European point of view: 1. Trump sees Europe as the main enemy of the US. 2. Trump wants to break up the European Union. 3. Trump opposes NATO. 4. Trump supports Putin & his aggression on Ukraine. /1

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Donald M. Kreis @dmokreis.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The New Hampshire PUC just ended 2025 with a bang, by issuing a blockbuster order on rehearing in the Eversource electric rate case. 1/10

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 12/12/2025

Ireland's energy regulator finally published its data centre connection policy. It facilitates a new era of fossil growth to facilitate this enormous energy user. hannahdaly.ie/2025-12-12-C...

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A new era of fossil fuels to facilitate data centres?

Reaction to the CRU policy in relation to data centre connections

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

“Without data to support their decision & defying warnings from doctors, medical associations, & public-health groups, a federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth”

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RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns

The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Good morning with good news: Vietnam's 2025 energy plan increases solar capacity to 73 GW by 2030 from ~16 GW operating in 2024. Wind grows to ~38 GW by 2030. S&W were ~13% of electricity in 2024 Coal falls to 17% by 2030 from 50% in 2024! Wow! solarquarter.com/2025/04/21/v... #energysky

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

$113 Million & counting! 63-year-old jalopy coal plant raises electricity costs for Michigan's captive monopoly ratepayers by $113 million and counting! Trump Admin order was not supported by MI regulators or local utility! Coal also sickens people! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #energysky

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Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m

Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Good morning with good news: Solar & wind will skyrocket to 37% of China's electricity in 2030 from 18% in 2024. Add 13% from hydro and China is 50% renewable in 2030. Add ~5% nuclear and China is ~55% non-fossil fuel electricity in 2030. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/76ad6... #energysky

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Cheaper batteries are driving surging global battery storage deployment, which is a key tool to enable wind and solar to generate 50% plus of a nations' electricity. BNEF forecasts 94 GW of global battery storage deployment in 2025 and 227 GW in 2027, more than 3X 2024 total. #energysky

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Good morning with good news: Fossil fuels fell from 57.23% in June 2024 to 55.45% in June 2025 of global electricity. That 1.78-point fall in 12 months was ~50% more than average yearly fall of 1.15 points since 2019. FF may drop to ~46% by June 2030! Why? Surging wind & solar! #energysky

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/08/2025

Japan marked 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. At a ceremony, a moment of silence signaled the time of the blast eight decades ago.

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Matthias Fripp @matthiasfripp.org · 24/07/2025

My first Utility Dive byline! @brendan.bsky.social and I show that DOE's 7/7 reliability report created a fake supply gap by ignoring most new generation planned by 2030, then only considered filling it with expensive coal plants instead of the cheaper renewables, storage and gas utils have planned.

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Energy Department’s flawed grid study props up expensive, zombie power plants

The most effective way to maintain grid reliability is to let planners plan, markets work and utilities build the resources they’ve already identified as the most affordable path forward.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15/04/2025

Please read in full. This is a red line moment in America! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University, said the idea that “the government can disappear people to a foreign country with no due process and no responsibility for what happens next” amounted to “a rule-of-law crisis.”

“If the government can do it to Abrego Garcia, they can do it to anybody,” Mr. Vladeck said.

“Of course I’m not going to do it,” Mr. Bukele said when reporters asked if he was willing to help return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old father of three who was deported last month. The Trump administration has acknowledged that his deportation was the result of an “administrative error.”

The message from the meeting was clear: Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Bukele had any intention of returning Mr. Abrego Garcia, even though the Supreme Court has ruled that he should come back to the United States. The case has come to symbolize Mr. Trump’s defiance of the courts and his willingness to deport people without due process.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/04/2025

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 27/03/2025

What the hell is this?! Now all it takes to revoke a person's legally obtained visa is for anyone in the government to arbitrarily decide your exercise of free speech constitutes "creating a ruckus." Then poof: no more visa & the masked security services can abduct you off the street? In America?!!

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/03/2025

NEW: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals, 2–1, DENIES the government's request to block Judge Boasberg's TRO. No alleged members of Tren de Aragua will be deported under the Alien Enemies act for now. Judge Henderson writes that the gov't hasn't met its burden. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BEFORE: Henderson, Millett, and Walker*, Circuit Judges
ORDER
Upon consideration of the emergency motions for stay, the opposition thereto, the reply, and the Rule 280) letters; the amicus brief filed by South Carolina, Virginia, and other states; the motion to participate as amicus curiae filed by Rep. Brandon Gill and the lodged amicus brief; and the motion for leave to participate as amicus curiae filed by State Democracy Defenders Fund and former government officials and the lodged amicus brief, it is
ORDERED that the motions to participate as amicus curiae be granted. The
Clerk is directed to file the lodged amicus briefs. It is
FURTHER ORDERED that the emergency motions for stay be denied. Separate
concurring statements of Judge Henderson and Judge Millett and a dissenting statement of Judge Walker are attached.
Per Curiam
FOR THE COURT:
Clifton B. Cislak, Clerk
BY: /s/
Daniel J. Reidy
Deputy Clerk
* Judge Walker dissents from the denial of the emergency motions for stay.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos

The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine" “I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk, on her way to iftaar, reports @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo. Share/subscribe:

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WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine

“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Stephen Lacey @stephenlacey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My latest on the shift toward energy-first data center development: “For most of its history, data centers were presented as solutions to utilities. They were offering large-scale, flat offtake,” explained Sayles Braga. "Pretty quickly, that has flip flopped.” #energysky

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The future of energy-first data centers takes shape

Three developers unpack their strategies for scaling up, connecting to the grid, and sourcing clean power in the AI era.

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Tyler Norris @tnorris.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

At nearly $3 billion, storm restoration costs for 2024 estimated by Duke Energy appear to be the highest for any US electric utility ever for a single storm season (Hurricane Sandy likely higher in aggregate, but not for one utility). Via S&P: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

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Tim Latimer @timlatimer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

800 GW from geothermal? Seems like a pretty big deal.

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Rob Trokey 🇺🇦 @robtrokey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The Georgia Public Service Commission is hiring. #energysky psc.ga.gov/site/assets/...

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Tim Latimer @timlatimer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I realize I should repost this now that there are like 10X the people that can see it. A good intro to what we are working on at Fervo.

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Simon Mahan @simonmahan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Southwest Power Pool bumping along at 50% wind energy this morning.

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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Lucas Davis's EI blog post highlights the lack of evidence that heat pump subsidies have expanded the market, discusses reasons for ineffectiveness, and suggests some important changes that could improve impact. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/h...

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How Do We Pump Up the Impact of Heat Pump Subsidies?

Most recipients of heat pump tax credits are non-additional. We need to change that. There have never been more generous subsidies available for heat pumps. The U.S. federal tax credit for heat pumps ...

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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 19/08/2024

“Investment in manufacturing construction has more than doubled since passage of the IRA and CHIPS, and the U.S. has seen nearly 127,000 new jobs created.” Read @jessejenkins.bsky.social on Biden’s manufacturing boom:

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Manufacturing Is Back, Baby

Biden-Harris policies have created hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the industries of the future — all of which now hang in the balance.

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