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Researcher at CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway @ciceroclimate.bsky.social

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Gas prices jumped from $3.00 to $4.50 a gallon this year. Americans responded by buying more hybrids, not more EVs. New RFF analysis on why the “obvious” substitution didn’t happen.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Yes, yes, the sun only shines during the day. This has often been viewed as a fatal problem of renewables, but perhaps it is a feature. It cuts down on peak fossil-demand, & avoids the need for over capacity of fossils. Over time, batteries can help spread supply over time. 4/
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
India has been using non-fossil (including large hydro, nuclear, and bioenergy) as its metric, and the share of installed capacity passed 50% already last year. Meanwhile the share of generation has been growing, but much more slowly because of the low utilisation rate, and is still below 30%.
Graph showing: Share of non-fossil generation in India's total grid generation.
Source: https://www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/june2026
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Check out the full June edition of our India Energy & Climate Pulse co-written with my colleague @shivmit.bsky.social here:
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India’s Renewable Milestone: Capacity Overtakes Coal, But Generation Reality Persists  — India Energy and Climate Pulse
India has reached two significant milestones in its power sector: achieving its 50% non-fossil capacity target five years ahead of schedule and surpassing coal capacity with installed renewable energy...
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
India's solar generation is starting to make a clear dent in coal generation during daylight hours, reaching a peak of 39% on the 3rd of March this year. Coal has little flexibility, so further increases in solar generation would be greatly facilitated by more storage, which is currently minimal.
Graph showing: India's grid power mix: 23 June 2026
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The nature of solar and wind is that they do not generate evenly across the day. Their 'utilisation' rate can never be as high as coal is now. Coal now is running around 60% utilisation, while renewables are under 20%. So actual renewable power generation is a much lower share of the total.
Graph showing: India's monthly power generation.
Source: https://www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/june2026
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Renewables have been growing strongly in India, and at the end of May the total installed capacity of variable renewables (excludes large hydro) reached 230.8 GW, surpassing for the first time ever the installed capacity of coal (230.1 GW). This is a significant milestone. With caveats... 🧵
Graph showing: Indian electricity capacity development.
Source: https://www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/june2026
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just because emissions are growing, does not mean developing countries are not making progress! In electricity generation, India has over 50% non-fossil capacity & nearly 30% non-fossil generation. www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/ju... 1/
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Read all about it in the India Energy & Climate Pulse by @robbieandrew.bsky.social and @shivmit.bsky.social www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/ju... 5/5
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India’s Renewable Milestone: Capacity Overtakes Coal, But Generation Reality Persists  — India Energy and Climate Pulse
India has reached two significant milestones in its power sector: achieving its 50% non-fossil capacity target five years ahead of schedule and surpassing coal capacity with installed renewable energy...
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Developing countries in particular are hit hard by constrained gas supply, which pushes up prices and forces prioritisation on who gets to use the gas that is available. Read more how this plays out in India, in the latest India Energy & Climate Pulse. www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/ma...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/05/2026
a few nice updates from Boris on Anthropic's fossil-fuelled chatbot www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...


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OpenAI - a company responsible for a wide-range of the world's dirtiest, most needlessly polluting data centres - has its eyes on Australia. This is before we even get into the other ethical problems with this company....

Watch this space folks. I've got a big new report coming out with Greenpeace Australia Pacific tomorrow that will shed a lot of analytical light on the massive risks Australia faces from impatient, climate-wrecking data centre over-development.

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NRK with a case about the fossil fuel advertising bans in Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Stockholm. This year's proposal for a fossil fuel advertising ban for Oslo is also discussed. The City Councilor for Transport in Oslo, Marit Kristine Vea (V), says to NRK that they will initially have a professional assessment of such a measure carried out.

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This month, Anthropic announced that Claude will soon be running across both of Musk’s Colossus data center campuses.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
2025 was a muted year for peak power demand in India, with a wetter year pulling temperatures down. But 2026? ▸April set a new all-year record, and that's already been broken again in May, and we have 9 days left in the month ▸High temperatures and growth in air conditioning are straining the grid
Graph showing: Monthly peak power demand in India.
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Obviously Donald Trump is not an expert in refrigerants, but you can be, and understand why these decisions can be hugely consequential for climate change, if you read this quick 🧵:
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If you're interested in more about energy and climate in #India, check out the latest edition of our monthly "India Energy and Climate Pulse"!
ecpulse.in
War and Heat: India under pressure — India Energy and Climate Pulse
India is facing energy security challenges as supply disruptions and early heatwaves increase prices and strain infrastructure. In this edition of the India Energy and Climate Pulse, we discuss the co...
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
India has built a lot of solar in the last few years, and it's making a real dent in daytime generation. ▸More batteries are needed to store the excess and time-shift it to nighttime, when loads are still high for air conditioning ▸Already storage discharge is half as much as natural gas at night
Graph showing: India's grid power mix: 22 May 2026
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Shivika Mittal @shivmit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
India’s energy security is being stress-tested at the intersection of geopolitics and climate change. Check this thread 👇
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Shivika Mittal @shivmit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This shows how energy security and food systems are closely interconnected---and why resilience planning is becoming increasingly critical.
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
India imports about half of the natural gas it consumes, and the government has responded by directing shortages to industry, while maintaining supplies to households ("City Gas").
Graph showing: India's consumption of natural gas by sector. Source: https://www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/may2026
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We're aiming to publish these snapshot reports monthly. Here's a direct link to April's snapshot about why emissions growth slowed so markedly in India in 2025. Check it out! #Energy #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Renewables #Solar #India
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An Unexpected Slowdown: Why India’s Emissions Growth Stalled in 2025 — India Energy and Climate Pulse
As a fast-growing developing economy, India's emissions of CO₂ are also rising, but 2025 was an exception with very low emissions growth. In this inaugural edition of the India Energy and Climate Puls...
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 22/05/2026
🇮🇳 India's grid planning is not keeping up with fast-moving renewables – a mismatch leading to costly delays and curtailment Synchronisation between generation and grid buildout works as the Southern grid's ZERO transmission-related curtailment shows. ember-energy.org/lat...
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Measuring poverty used to mean flying data collectors to remote villages every decade. A satellite AI model just mapped every 6-km area of Africa for 36 GPU-hours total, which is roughly the cost of a tank of gas. Cool paper by @marshallburke.bsky.social, et al.: arxiv.org/abs/2604.23166
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It's not just about energy, because natural gas is a key feedstock in fertiliser production. At the start of the important Kharif cropping season, natural gas shortages have led to a 25% drop in production of fertiliser as well as massive price spikes for imports.
Graph showing: India's fertiliser sector. Source: https://www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/may2026
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
India has held retail fuel prices fairly constant since the 2022 energy crisis, but with costs mounting quickly through March and April, the government has finally conceded that it cannot absorb these costs forever, and raised prices on the 15th of May.
Graph showing: Retail price of fuel in Delhi. Source: https://www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/may2026
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
LPG plays a central role in India's kitchens, but the shift from traditional biomass to imported LPG has left India vulnerable to geopolitical shocks. Domestic production was pushed up, but this was far from sufficient to close the gap left by supply constraints, and consumption has dropped sharply.
Graph showing: Monthly Indian LPG production and consumption. Source: https://www.ecpulse.in/snapshots/may2026
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📢Today we launch the second of our snapshot reports "India Energy and Climate Pulse" this time with the title "War and Heat: India under pressure" Here's a short thread on what we cover. 🧵
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War and Heat: India under pressure — India Energy and Climate Pulse
India is facing energy security challenges as supply disruptions and early heatwaves increase prices and strain infrastructure. In this edition of the India Energy and Climate Pulse, we discuss the co...
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Please read the full report, available here, co-written by my colleague @shivmit.bsky.social as part of our research project Emphasis.
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War and Heat: India under pressure — India Energy and Climate Pulse
India is facing energy security challenges as supply disruptions and early heatwaves increase prices and strain infrastructure. In this edition of the India Energy and Climate Pulse, we discuss the co...
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Make America Healthy Again: "Mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants rose by 9 percent in 2025 after years of declines." 🎁🔗
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Trump’s Push to Keep Coal Plants Open Is Costing Hundreds of Millions
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.
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Shivika Mittal @shivmit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
India’s emissions story just took an interesting turn. Check out the first snapshot from our EMPHASIS project www.ecpulse.in Despite ~7.5% economic growth, CO₂ emissions rose only 1.1% in 2025 — far below the ~4% decade average.
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India Energy and Climate Pulse
An overview of recent developments shaping India’s climate and energy landscape.
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#india We're launching a series of brief monthly snapshots providing an overview of recent developments shaping India’s climate and energy landscape. The first issue is out now! "An Unexpected Slowdown: Why India’s Emissions Growth Stalled in 2025" Check it out :-)
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India Energy and Climate Pulse
An overview of recent developments shaping India’s climate and energy landscape.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/04/2026
Climate deniers and delayers are going to start saying "sorry but we can't start reducing our emissions, what about the US"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/04/2026
This is one of the key reasons the data centre boom is sucking resources away from power generation construction as well, btw ->
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's crazy how reliant the world's entire energy system is on one body of water, the Strait of Hormuz, just 20 nautical miles across at its narrowest, and situated in one of the most volatile regions on Earth. Here are the countries most dependent on oil&gas through the strait.
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WOFAVA @wofava.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
WOW! As of this morning only about 350 letters had been sent out urging our Delegates to hold data centers accountable and lower our energy costs. BUT after we blasted this call to action, we hit our goal of sending over 1,000 letters to our Delegates. Keep going! actionnetwork.org/letters/shif...
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Shift Generation & Transmission Costs to Data Centers; Force the Largest to Provide Energy Storage & Clean Energy
The House killed bills that would have saved Virginians money on electricity bills and made it harder to build more dirty fossil fuel energy generation plants. Yet these same bills passed the Senate a...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, has disclosed that 140 data centres want grid connections, requiring **50GW** of power capacity at peak Britain’s peak demand on a recently was 45GW Can this amount of energy be provided cleanly? Even if it can, is it worth it? www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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AI data centre surge would put UK’s climate change targets at risk
MPs call for ‘national conversation’ on potential drawbacks of sharp rise in data centres, which would use more power than the UK uses at its peak
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 04/02/2026
Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
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A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future
In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/01/2026
this is a top @stuti.bsky.social piece and I also find the headline so interesting - 'proof the green transition isn't dead'. I cannot imagine how anyone could even really formulate the idea that it *is* dead? I guess because they hear about it less; therefore assume it just died??
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Fascinating figure from the EIA. The part at the bottom highlights the repeated patterns of policies reaching end of life, and being renewed again. Over and over again. A consequence of this was that EIA's projections, based on current policy, kept saying that US wind installations would stall.
Figure A-1. Annual wind capacity additions, 1992-2014 (source: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/supplement/renewable/pdf/projections.pdf)
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
While our best estimate is that US fossil-fuel CO₂ emissions went up about 2% in 2025, the EIA is currently forecasting a drop of 2.2% in 2026. robbieandrew.github.io/USA/
Graph showing: Past and forecasted US monthly fossil-fuel emissions (Source: https://robbieandrew.github.io/USA/)
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14/01/2026
2025 was the third-hottest year on record, coming in behind 2023 and 2024 and making it clear that climate change has arrived.
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Scientists Confirm 2025 Was Third-Hottest Year, Trailing 2024 and 2023
Last year was one of the warmest on record, even with a La Niña weather cycle that worked to cool the world down.
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Interesting to note that the end of 2025 did not see the usual surge in sales. There have been policy changes and pressure from the government on the industry to rein in the steep discounting we've seen previously. Dec 2025 sales were 14% lower than Dec 2024. www.cpcaauto.com/newslist.php...
Graph showing: Chinese new passenger car sales by type: Monthly (Source: https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/)
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Not just any researcher. Rob Lempert!
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Climate Centre @climatecentreuk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Inefficient Jet Engines Repurposed for AI Data Centres. Rising electricity demand from AI is pushing tech firms to use repurposed jet engines for data centres. Only about 40% efficient, they burn far more fuel than modern power plants as grids struggle to keep up. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🧵 1/3 ☀️ A big story from #India: The Indian state Rajasthan just rejected a 3,200 MW #coal power plant because #renewables are cheaper. www.downtoearth.org.in/energy/rerc-...
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RERC says no to new 3,200 MW coal power citing consumer interest and cheaper alternatives
RERC rejected a proposal for 3,200 MW coal power, citing consumer interest and cheaper alternatives like renewable energy and battery storage. The decision aligns with Rajasthan's Clean Energy Policy ...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege
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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Every transmission story the same. Every transmission story is the same. Every transmission story is the sa...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.
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‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?
After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future
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Shivika Mittal @shivmit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
When any government receives negative information about their inflated base year emissions due to improved methodologies, they should correct their course and increase mitigation efforts instead of maintaining the reduction target in the revised NDC. Here is one example from Nigeria NDC.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it" It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says! politiken.dk/klima/art106...
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/
A figure showing all ghg emissions rising
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