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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can clean steel compete without putting industry at a disadvantage? 🏭 New research across Brazil, China, India, the EU and UK finds that with the right policy design, governments can support investment in near-zero-emission steel while maintaining industrial competitiveness.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What will it take to get clean steel off the ground? 🏭 Clean (near-zero emission) ways of producing primary steel already exist. The problem is that they currently cost around 25–50% more than conventional production.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Could decarbonising steel be far more affordable than previously thought? 🏭 New research across Brazil, China, India, the EU and the UK finds that accelerating clean steel production could add only fractions of 1% to the price of everyday products.

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Enabling investment in clean primary steel: the case for subsidy-and-recharge policies | S-Curve Economics

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢 We're hiring: Power Sector Research Associate 📍 Remote role (with at least one day per month in London) 📅 1-year fixed-term contract (0.8 or 1.0 FTE) 💷 £50,000-£65,000 depending on experience and location www.scurveeconomics.org/our-team/

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Our team | S-Curve Economics

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Collaboration builds community! Over the last year S-Curve Economics has published eight reports, attended too many workshops to count, and tripled our social media presence. Our team grew from four to ten people. We expanded the scope of our workstreams on power, steel and analytical tools.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Filling the policy gap for long-duration energy storage. As the UK's electricity system becomes increasingly dominated by wind and solar power, and as transport, heating and industry electrify, the role of energy storage will grow dramatically. www.scurveeconomics.org/publications...

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Filling the policy gap for long-duration energy storage: strategic reserves and market mechanisms | S-Curve Economics

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The pace of the transition in any sector varies hugely across countries depending on the presence or absence of effective policies. It’s much easier to identify effective policies if you have the right paradigm for understanding the problem.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As India introduces a new pilot for Contracts for Difference (CfDs), this new issue brief from our partners at CEEW on this topic makes an important contribution to the evolving discussion on market-based mechanisms to scale clean, flexible power in emerging economies. www.ceew.in/publications...

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Contract-for-Difference: India's Power Market Pilot | CEEW

India’s power system is entering a new phase of transition. The challenge is no longer only to add renewable energy capacity, but to ensure that clean power is available at affordable prices when the ...

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Job Alert: Head of Road Transport, S-Curve Economics CIC www.scurveeconomics.org/our-team/

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Our team | S-Curve Economics

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Did Tony Blair not notice that the UK’s North Sea oil and gas output peaked during his first term as Prime Minister, a quarter of a century ago? Squeezing out the last drops is fine if you want to do that, but it’s hardly a national growth strategy. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

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What Tony Blair gets wrong about climate and energy

Labour must be clear about the threat we face—and how to challenge it

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Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) @edrc-uk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

📢 New briefing by Katherine Sugar explores how public procurement can help bridge national net zero ambitions and local delivery realities. The study highlights challenges around social value, local authority capacity, and barriers for smaller organisations. 👉 www.edrc.ac.uk/publications...

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Public Procurement for a Just, Net Zero Transition - Energy Demand Research Centre

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ECIU @eciu.net · 15/04/2026

Green cliffs of Dover The Port of Dover has become the first UK port to reach net zero emissions for its own operations, years ahead of national targets. www.businessgreen.com/news/452827...

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We're in Beijing for the first conference of the China-UK Power Market Reform Advisory Group.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

European natural gas prices keep on rising and have now more than doubled )+134%) in just four weeks from €29/MWh on 17 February to €67/MWh today. Geopolitical tensions and wars always drive up gas prices. That's not a bug in the system. It's a feature of fossil fuel dependence.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Which country is looking at this chart and saying: "You know what? We need more gas in the system." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The biggest barrier to climate progress right now isn't the US, says Simon Sharpe at Chatham House, but distraction and disorganisation at national and international level. Why? Because there are plenty of steps that countries can take in purely national interest that leads to cutting emissions.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Climate action has a measurement problem. Warming metrics — such as the 1.5°C target — are difficult to measure year-to-year, and near-term emissions targets can lead to overemphasis on short-term easy fixes.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The path to net-zero energy systems is shaped by feedback effects, path dependence, and non-linearities. It is important that our mental models of change reflect this. (Short 🧵 below)

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Pete Barbrook-Johnson @bapeterj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Shiny new paper: Virtuous and vicious cycles in the energy transition We explore how feedback loop dynamics are shaping the energy transition and what it means for decision makers. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Virtuous and vicious cycles in the energy transition - Nature Reviews Clean Technology

Feedback loops shape the pace and direction of the clean energy transition by accelerating or resisting change. Researchers and practitioners can draw on these feedback loops as practical heuristics t...

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ministries of finance have huge power over the speed and wider impact of clean technology transitions, both on a country’s competitiveness, and people’s lives. netorgft16281865.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/s-curv...

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Our report on Scenarios for the Global Steel Transition is out, following a year of interviews and workshops across Brussels, Beijing, Washington DC and London. 🧵👇

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Scenarios for the global steel transition: China, the European Union and the United States | S-Curve Economics

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

“How can we sustain ongoing investment in renewables ? How can we encourage the deployment of energy storage? And how can we design the power market to make sure that low carbon electricity is affordable for everyone?” #cleanenergy #powersectorreform

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Katherine Dixon, CEO of the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is one of the experts in the Breakthrough Agenda Policy Network of researchers from Europe, China, India, Brazil and Africa. Read our latest report here: www.scurveeconomics.org/publications...

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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🏭 Steel makes up to 7% of global emissions. A new @scurveeconomics.bsky.social report says, “Instead of pressuring old tech, governments should start by supporting the new.” #CleanSteel subsidies + tariff exemptions could make the transition real. www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-transiti...

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The transition to clean steel will be easier if governments stop looking at it back-to-front

Policy and diplomacy should focus more on growing the markets for clean steel, and less on incremental emissions reductions

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The UK is a signatory to the Global MoU on Zero Emission Medium and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, meaning it is committed to collaborating with others to enable 100% zero-emission new truck and bus sales by 2040, with an interim goal of 30% zero-emission vehicles sales by 2030.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The world is investing twice as much in clean technologies as in fossil fuels this year. Investment is a leading indicator of economic change, from which emissions reductions follow. Never mind the roadmap — the way is made by walking. fivetimesfaster.org/blog/cop30-n...

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COP30: Never mind the roadmap; the road is made by walking - Five Times Faster

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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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The transition to clean steel will be easier if governments stop looking at it back-to-front

Policy and diplomacy should focus more on growing the markets for clean steel, and less on incremental emissions reductions

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

How can practical cooperation between major economies on the most difficult areas of the low-carbon transition drive forward the transition, whilst aligning countries’ interests? Watch our Head of Industry Decarbonisation, Joe Morrisroe, talking through the key findings of our report.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

As policymakers meet at #COP30 in Brazil, #cleansteel must move up the agenda. We propose a new approach: diplomacy focused on market creation. Report: Making Clean Steel Competitive in International Trade 🔗 www.scurveeconomics.org/publications... @iges-en.bsky.social, @regassistproj.bsky.social

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Making Clean Steel Competitive in International Trade: A Positive-Sum Agenda for Policy and Diplomacy | S-Curve Economics

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We are thrilled to have been selected as a partner of the EEIST Project to have our video shown at the UK Pavilion throughout COP! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHg... #cop30 #climate

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EESIT | Showcased at the UK Pavilion, COP30

YouTube video by UK COP Pavilion

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

How do you think we can improve climate diplomacy? This weekend, our Managing Director Simon Sharpe was quoted in Ben Cooke COP30 preview in The Times, setting out his view: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme... #COP30

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Model T Ford was introduced in 1908. 20 million were sold in the subsequent 20 years. In the early 1900s, cars in the US were toys for the rich — used for racing, touring, and showing off. Doctors, salesmen, and wealthy farmers were among the first to use them for practical purposes. Read on👇

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First build then break. A policy framework for accelerating zero-carbon transitions. | S-Curve Economics

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The UK 🇬🇧 and China 🇨🇳 have launched the UK-China Power Market Reform Advisory Group, to accelerate their transitions to clean, reliable and low-cost power systems. S-Curve is delighted to be the convening institution in the UK.

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中英电力市场改革研讨会在苏州召开

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Doctors, engineers, and brewers all played their part in the shift from wells to piped water systems. Governments did their bit too. #ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #FirstBuildThenBreak

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Anna Murphy @annamurph.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

4 stages: Invention, Market Introduction, Diffusion, Reconfiguration. Each stage has different policy challenges, so needs a different policy response = adaptive policy package.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The energy transition can seem like a daunting challenge: how can we transform the polluting machines in so many parts of our economy in such short order? Today we’re launching our report "First build, then break: a policy framework for accelerating zero-carbon transitions".

Cover of our report: First build, then break.

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S-Curve Economics @scurveeconomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We're here on BlueSky to bring you a clearer view of the #cleanenergy transition. Follow us for analysis that informs action on that low-carbon transition, using economic concepts and tools consistent with the context of rapid innovation and deep structural change. #climatechange

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