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A substack based initiative on green tech and climate crisis. We read news feeds and assemble facts, a human doubts, revises and orchestrates the written output: regular, fact checked, rooted in reality. thegoodclimate.substack.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h
You often hear that clean energy is not replacing fossil energy, only adding to total energy, and thereby not reducing emissions. ("There is no transition," they say.) It's nonsense. Read this post from @zekehausfather.com about how much FF has been displaced by renewable energy:
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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New York ISO @nyiso.com · 05/10/2026
Our 20-year Outlook explores how policy could shape New York's future grid needs.    Scenarios that achieve 90% to 95% zero-emissions generation can deliver significant reliability benefits with less investment than pathways requiring a 100% zero-emissions grid. ow.ly/st0g50ZUy2m  
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026
I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
☀️🇷🇴 Europe’s largest solar project has reached financial close. Rezolv Energy has secured €561m in financing for its 1.3GW Dama solar project in western Romania. The project can now move into construction, adding another huge source of renewable generation to Europe’s energy system. ⚡🌱
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EU’s largest solar project reaches financial close - pv magazine Global
The €561 million ($637.3 million) financing package allows Rezolv Energy’s 1.3 GW solar project, to be built in western Romania, to move into construction.
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Saur Energy @saurenergy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solar Boats Are Moving From Niche Projects to a Larger Market in India: Navalt CEO Sandith Thandasherry In an interview with Saur Energy International, Sandith Thandasherry, Founder and CEO, Navalt, spoke about the evolution of solar boats in India. www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy... #solarenergy
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A while ago I made this chart to illustrate that yearly additions of solar and wind (in TWh of energy) are growing fast while nuclear is largely stable. But solar and wind started small versus the older and established technology nuclear. This year we've reached a new milestone.
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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Germany could curb power price swings, reduce renewable subsidies with batteries – report Doubling Germany’s battery storage capacity could significantly reduce the number of hours with extremely high or low power prices on wholesale markets, finds simulation
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Germany could curb power price swings, reduce renewable subsidies with batteries – report | Clean Energy Wire
Doubling Germany’s battery storage capacity could significantly reduce the number of hours with extremely high or low power prices on wholesale markets and decrease renewables subsidies, according to a simulation by solar research institute Fraunhofer ISE. To achieve the price-dampening effect, storage systems needed to react to market signals, which currently is not the case for many home batteries.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 25/09/2026
Rooftop solar is taking off in the UK 🏠☀️ OVER SIXTY UK parliamentary constituencies now have rooftop solar on more than a tenth of all homes. This is a huge jump from just 5 constituencies in 2022 🇬🇧 ember-energy.org/lat...
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 28/09/2026
New piece: the heat source that never needs a forecast. It flows under every street, warm from the morning showers, and London just funded 25 km of pipe to collect it. thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/the-h…
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 28/09/2026
A fantastic piece about the state of play in Germany's officially slacked efforts to transition into a climate resilient economy and energy setup: steady.page/en/cleanthin...
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Vahrenholt gesteht: Mini-Reaktoren sind zu teuer. Schneider stellt in…
Ein Atomkraft-Autor gesteht, dass Mini-Reaktoren zu teuer sind. Der Umweltminister stellt in New York den Ausstiegsfahrplan vor. Der Markt entscheidet, nicht der Mythos.
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Feb 2000: a donations scandal takes down Schäuble — and hands Friedrich Merz, 44, the leadership of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. He didn't win the job. He inherited it. He'd hold it until election night 2002. thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/the-m…
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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 27/09/2026
Substation batteries could **DOUBLE** Germany’s solar: ‘technical potential identified across 1,313 rural substations…could enable ~150GW additional photovoltaic capacity…130 GW current capacity…batteries absorb peaks when transformers reach capacity…~1% curtailment of additional solar generation’
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The UK must also adapt to the reality of escalating climate hazards, utilising technology, investment, public information and community engagement. The UK is also well-placed to become a world leader in adaptation technologies and services. 👉 Read more: buff.ly/rPHuGaA
Graph showing revealed technological advantage within specific adaptation tech - shows that UK has tech advantage across engineering, life sciences and 'indirect', with life sciences and indirect scoring highly. Shows adaptation innovations on a map of the UK - lots of regional innovations across south-east (London and surrounding countries)Graph showing private funding into adaptation sectors, insurance is by far the most (just under 250 million £) with weather forecasting and flood defences much lower (just a few million £ each)
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
☀️🌍 A new open letter is calling for solar power to be available everywhere by the end of the decade. Sanders and climate campaigner Yeb Saño are urging global leaders to accelerate the shift to clean energy, arguing that solar can help address climate change, energy costs and energy security.
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Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter
As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The solar panels, electric vehicles, EV batteries and wind turbines exported by China in 2025 will avoid annual emissions equal to those of the UK and Portugal combined, according to my new estimates. Avoided emissions increased 30% compared with 2024 exports.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 23/09/2026
The transition is happening now. Home batteries are already present in around HALF of all new UK home solar installations. 🔋 And over 60 parliamentary constituencies already have rooftop solar on over 10% of all homes. That's up from just 5 constituencies in 2022. 📈 2/4
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Saur Energy @saurenergy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AMPIN Energy Transition Gets A $100 Million Norfund Boost. AMPIN takes its total equity capital raised to nearly $1 billion and supports capital deployment of over $4 billion. Norfund's Climate Investment Fund supports development of an additional 2.0 GWp of renewable energy capacity.
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AMPIN Energy Transition Gets A $100 Million Norfund Boost
AMPIN Energy Transition (AMPIN) has secured an investment of up to $100 million from Norfund, the development finance institution of the Norwegian Government.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026
This is why tech companies only want voluntary and partial standards for clean energy. They keep talking about how they're "powering clean energy" and "driving the energy transition", but look what happens when you hold them to that claim www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Data center developer sues city after requiring company to supply renewable energy on-site; subheading says critics in St. Louis worry about the center’s water usage, impact on the city’s air quality and utility costs.
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 20/09/2026
75 projects, $130B stalled in Q1 — all of 2025's pushback in three months. New piece: where the fight against AI's fossil buildout stands, and the lever you hold. thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/the-c… www.datacenterwatch.org/q1-2026
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 19/06/2026
Nuclear has the best pitch deck in clean energy. Solar and batteries just have the receipts - why the current nuclear hypecycle is not on a sustainable track: thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/is-nuclear...
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
☀️🔋 A new 128MW battery is helping shift solar power to when it’s needed most. The Robins Battery Facility can store electricity from a nearby solar farm for up to four hours, releasing it when demand rises. A great example of how storage can help make renewable energy more flexible and useful. ⚡🌱
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128MW battery stores solar power for four hours during peak demand
Georgia Power has put a 128MW battery facility into commercial operation, adding four hours of storage to Georgia's grid.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 17/09/2026
In this issue... 🚘 EV five-year plan published. 🗣️ Xi said the global south “must improve global climate governance”. 🔎 Carbon Brief examines why cleantech investment has fallen.
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China Briefing 17 September 2026: EV five-year plan | BRICS summit | Clean-energy investment drop - Carbon Brief
Key developments Xi’s speech at BRICS  SUMMIT STATEMENT: Chinese president Xi Jinping said at the BRICS summit in Delhi that…
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
5. Improve the environmental performance of your trial site Solar panels on roofs, buying energy from renewable sources, better insulated buildings and more energy efficient products all have an impact. Take part in programmes like the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework: buff.ly/5tpgoxQ
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Saur Energy @saurenergy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
India’s 6-Hour #Solar-Storage Bet: How Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) Is Moving Beyond Daytime Solar. Read more www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy... #SolarEnergy #BESS
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In 1990, when we started caring about climate change, transport was only the 3rd largest sector in the EU, well behind energy supply & industry, and barely higher than residential emissions Now it's the largest as emissions in those sectors have declined while it stayed stable
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Jasmin Smajic @jasminsmajic.com · 14/09/2026
🔋This is a nice overview into the battery startup scene around Eindhoven in The Netherlands. Inspired by ASML, companies like LeydenJar, LionVolt and Powall are betting on various forms of “deposition techniques” to improve batteries. #batteries #battchat #greensky #energysky
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Battery tech: Europe hopes to make up ground in battery industry
Europe has some promising battery tech, but can it make up ground lost to Chinese battery giants?
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
⚡🏘️ Community energy is about more than generating clean electricity. It’s about giving people the chance to shape their energy future, creating local benefits and putting renewable energy to work for the communities behind it. 🌱 That’s the power of community energy. 💚
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“If the move survives expected legal challenges, it could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.” Absolutely fucking demonic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
NYT headline: E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 14/09/2026
Solar won the cost war. Next bottleneck: wires, batteries, regulators — and the official statistics are the last to know. New piece on the grid wall: China's curtailment, India's battery mandate, Africa's invisible boom. thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/the-s…
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 13/09/2026
China's battery nearly DOUBLED in 2025, and accounted for 60% of the world's storage addition. Coal’s system balancing role is being displaced as China's battery storage expand ⚖️ ember-energy.org/lat...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/09/2026
MEGA FACTCHECK: Reform UK's Farage & Tice constantly mislead on climate & energy We've checked 45 of their claims, inc… * Yes we really have made it hotter * No UK is not acting alone * No we can't change geology * Yes underground cables really are more costly www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-re...
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Saur Energy @saurenergy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
GCL’s Battery Pivot Signals A Bigger Shift In China’s Silicon Industry. The company said its 10,000-tonne-scale silicon-carbon anode and supporting porous-carbon pilot project in Xuzhou has commenced production. Read more www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy... #BatteryStorage #EnergyStorage
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Global Energy Monitor @globalenergymon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Mediterranean’s prospective wind & solar capacity has reached 552 GW — surpassing the total planned U.S. power fleet. GEM’s new brief explores how leaders like Spain & Egypt drive this pipeline + the grid bottlenecks in the way. 🔗 bit.ly/4gSDOEn
A chart titled "Wind and solar comprise the vast majority of prospective power capacity in the Mediterranean region" shows the share of total pipeline capacity by generation type. Solar occupies 44.4% in yellow, wind 38.8% in green, oil & gas 8.6% in dark gray, nuclear 4.2% in gray, and hydropower 3.1% in light blue. Source: Global Energy Monitor, Global Integrated Power Tracker, March 2026.
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Climate Proof @climateproof.news · 08/09/2026
🇪🇺 Spain's Environment Minister is urging the EU to launch a climate adaptation fund financed by a permanent levy on oil and gas profits, citing $955bn in climate losses across the bloc since 1980. The plan also pushes for binding EU-wide adaptation targets. www.climateproof.news/p/spain-lobb...
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
☀️🌾 “Growing food here isn’t profitable. Solar is.” Solar farms face growing opposition over farmland concerns, but one farmer says the economics of farming difficult land are pushing him toward solar. It’s a reminder that the debate around solar and farmland isn’t always food vs energy
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Lincolnshire farmer says turning to solar is only way to survive
Cranwell farmer Joe Ward is defending plans to build a 640-acre solar farm on his land.
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 08/09/2026
Three months ago we described two climate engines turning at once: the Atlantic conveyor slowing, the Pacific building a historic El Niño. The scorecard is in — every forecast verified. Fact by fact: thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/the-t…
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The AfD wants to halt coal phase out in Germany, continue strip mining lignite, freeze all renewable energy projects, and welcome back Russian oil and gas. If the hateful immigration policy isn’t enough to deter voters in wider Germany, perhaps the gross anti-climate policy will be?
nytimes.com
Live Updates: Germany’s Far Right AfD Has Big Lead in Key Election, Exit Polls Show (Gift Article)
The Alternative for Germany party was projected to finish first in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. But it was not clear whether it would win a majority — which would propel a far-right party into ...
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 07/09/2026
New: Your House Is About to Become a Power Plant. Solar in a supermarket box, a battery with a paycheck, a car that runs the kettle. What each upgrade costs, earns & pays back — Germany, UK, US. thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/your-…
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Earth Notes @earthorguk.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Enphase AC Battery Grid-connected Storage in Our UK Home: Review - Does it do what it says on the tin? And what about the important feature not on the datasheet? #storage #dataset #behindTheMeter - www.earth.org.uk/Enphase-AC-Battery…
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Enphase AC Battery Grid-connected Storage in Our UK Home: Review
Does it do what it says on the tin? And what about the important feature not on the datasheet? #storage #dataset #behindTheMeter
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Saur Energy @saurenergy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
POWERCHINA Deepens Egypt Bet With 1.8 GW Wind Portfolio, #BESS Manufacturing Plant. POWERCHINA's wind portfolio in Egypt includes the 500 MW Amunet Gulf of Suez Wind Project with the 1.1 GW Gulf of Suez Wind Project & 202.5 MW Ras Ghareb Project. www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy...
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POWERCHINA Deepens Egypt Bet With 1.8 GW Wind Portfolio, BESS Manufacturing Plant
POWERCHINA's wind portfolio in Egypt includes the 500 MW Amunet Gulf of Suez Wind Project with the 1.1 GW Gulf of Suez Wind Project & 202.5 MW Ras Ghareb Project.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 04/09/2026
Bulgaria is a leading example in the EU of how increasing battery storage compounds the benefits of solar, and how quickly battery deployment can scale. In H1 2026, solar + batteries met nearly a quarter Bulgaria’s electricity demand in the evening 🔗 ember-energy.org/lat...
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 04/09/2026
France's heatwave invoice arrived: 1 in 10 farms — 30-35,000 of them — now at risk of going under. Paris answered with a €1bn emergency package. The farmers' union puts the damage at €10bn+. A thread on the math. thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/how-t…
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Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
China now has more solar capacity than coal, with 1,286 GW. Building solar isn't the constraint in China; feeding it to the grid is! A new GEM/CREA report found 360 TWh of wind and solar curtailed in H1, up 49% YoY. 🔌💡 @globalenergymon.bsky.social globalenergymonitor.org/research/bui...
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
☀️🇨🇳 A major milestone for China’s energy transition: solar power has overtaken coal as the country’s largest source of installed power capacity. At the end of July, China had 1.286 billion kW of solar capacity, narrowly surpassing the 1.285 billion kW of coal-fired capacity. 🌍⚡
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Solar eclipses coal as China's top power source
China's installed solar power capacity has surpassed coal for the first time to become the country's largest single power source, a historic milestone that fundamentally reshapes the nation's energy s...
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 02/09/2026
New piece: nuclear has two price tags. Running an existing US reactor: $26–36/MWh. Building a new one: $175–255. Same fuel, same physics; the gap is when the concrete was poured. What that split explains about 2026: thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/the-reacto...
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The Reactor Is Cheap - Building It Is Not: The Two Price Tags on Nuclear
Lazard prices electricity from an existing US reactor at $26 to $36 a megawatt-hour, and electricity from a new one at $175 to $255. Same fuel, same physics. The gap is when its concrete was poured.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Solar is doing more to reduce energy poverty than any other tech! Solar is now the single biggest addition to grid capacity in many African countries. Ten countries will each add at least 1 GW of solar between 2023 and 2026. ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 01/09/2026
Can Europe's heavy industry run on renewables? Sweden is building a steel mill that runs on hydrogen and wind. Germany's steelmakers are cancelling the same projects. Where the transition stands, in facts and numbers: thegoodclimate.substack.com/p/the-i…
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The Good Climate @thegoodclimate.substack.com · 31/08/2026
Solar is pairing up — and the combinations are getting serious. about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energ…
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Earth Notes @earthorguk.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Enphase AC Battery Grid-connected Storage in Our UK Home: Review - Does it do what it says on the tin? And what about the important feature not on the datasheet? #storage #dataset #behindTheMeter - www.earth.org.uk/Enphase-AC-Battery…
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Enphase AC Battery Grid-connected Storage in Our UK Home: Review
Does it do what it says on the tin? And what about the important feature not on the datasheet? #storage #dataset #behindTheMeter
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