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Vikas Mehta

@vikmet.bsky.social
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Displaced Indian, working on misplaced energy choices. Talk climate, energy, politics and cricket. DPS RKP, Delhi Univ, Fletcher@Tufts. ED@ SED.fund daytime. Dad+dog dad all the time. Views are personal.

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 04/10/2026
‘total outlay of INR 1.86 trillion, with INR 500 billion (US$ 5.2 billion) allocated specifically for 50GWh of BESS…INR 1.37 trillion for intra-state transmission infrastructure to enable up to 135GW of renewable energy’
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India approves US$19.3 billion Green Energy Corridor Phase III with 50GWh BESS
India's Union Cabinet has approved US$ 19.3 billion Green Energy Corridor, including US$ 5.2 billion for 50GWh BESS through FY2032-33.
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
"Eventually, a fuel that is dirtier, dearer and less secure than the alternatives runs out of tomorrows." by @davidfickling.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/just...
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The cheapest, fastest tools already exist, and they sit waiting for our culture and norms to change.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meh
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For there life of me, I just do not understand why airlines and passengers in the US take off and land with plane windows closed. At all times of the day. It feels claustrophobic. In Europe and elsewhere, it’s even considered a safety issue.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Starbucks was never a sustainability champion. If it wanted, it could’ve cut single use plastics ages ago. It always kicked the coffee cup down the road, till the road ended giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Starbucks retreats from green goals amid $2bn cost drive
Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazon is eager to open the single biggest climate wrecking facility in the country. billmckibben.substack.com/p/amazon-cri...
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Amazon Crime
And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A fascinating thought experiment here - well worth the read for AI, energy, & macro watchers.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Evolving story of my life giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The quiet tragedies of young old age
Your fifties aren’t fabulous, but they can be quite funny
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV www.wsj.com/business/ret...
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Iran War Is Driving Up the Cost of Your Next Oil Change
Higher gas prices were just the warm-up act for drivers, repair shops and retailers like Walmart and Costco.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I really miss Cobain. He truly was an artistic genius.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW from us: five years after China pledged to stop overseas coal power projects and support clean energy, dozens of coal power plants have been canceled and the country's overseas clean energy financing has seen impressive growth, but gaps remain in the coal ban.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 24/09/2026
This week on Bloomberg's Zero podcast, author Arthur Downing discusses what history has to teach us about the electricity system.
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How to Build an Electrostate
How to make electricity cheap is a question that’s bedeviling policy makers around the world, particularly in the US and Europe. Some countries, however, have figured it out, including Iceland, Norway and China. So how do we get to that point? And what is the role of government versus the role of technology?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FUKUYAMA: “.. Accelerationists tend to be very intelligent people, but that intelligence tends to be narrowly mathematical. We know how to do many things like produce electricity or clean water .. the problem is a failure of implementation.” www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-chan...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026
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NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax
What does the real climate footprint of the biggest company on the planet look like? It's a good question, but here's a better one: why don't we already know the answer?
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great chart, but one thing that it misses, are the coal reserves, which when unchecked, will surely create more electrostates and yet warm the planet.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh man, this is so true 100 percent! Great thread.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same. All the best for next week, David 👍🏼
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"This is the first time in more than 50 years that there has been no growth in India’s coal power over a two-year period, even as electricity demand grew overall." www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ind...
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Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge - Carbon Brief
A surge in clean energy has kept carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in check across India’s power sector, with no growth from the first half of 2024 to the same period in 2026.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the stubborn dynamics in climate politics is conservatives being simply unwilling to believe that their ideological opponents were/are right about something very important. Lots of conservatives really did covince themselves it was all a conspiracy to impose more government control.
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Electrek @electrek.co · 12/09/2026
Electric cars and solar are the hedge against this out-of-control energy crisis
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Electric cars and solar are the hedge against this out-of-control energy crisis
A drone strike shut down Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline this week, knocking roughly 5 million barrels a day offline. That’s about 5% of global supply, and it pushed Brent crude above $104. US diesel is at record highs. That’s the fossil fuel crisis making headlines. The quieter one is on your own utility bill, and it’s not getting better either. more…
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is the way to go. After generation capacity, revitalizing the grid is critical to energy transition energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com//news/power/...
energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com
India plans 900 GW transmission network by 2035-36 as renewables scale: Ghanshyam Prasad, Chairperson, CEA
India is set to enhance its transmission network to support 900 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2035-36, according to CEA Chair Ghanshyam Prasad. Key technologies and infrastructure will be impleme...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/09/2026
Interesting: Massachusetts has ordered all new data centers above 25MW to procure clean power.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
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Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And what generates your electricity?
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Toxicity has nothing to do with talent. I’ve seen top professionals with impeccable public personas being absolute assholes in private lives.
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Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
People really need to stop saying that high temp industrial heat is hard to electrify.
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Industrial Process Heating with RotoDynamic Heater
Coolbrook’s RotoDynamic Heater enables industrial process heating up to 1700 °C with clean electricity, and thus reducing CO2 emissions.
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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The scenes from Nepal and Tibet are unimaginable. Communities I visited 15 years ago, while reporting on vanishing glaciers for my first book, have been erased. In today's NYT I wrote about this terrifying new form of climate risk: warming is pulling down mountains. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Mountains Are Coming Undone
The burning of fossil fuels is pulling down the world’s highest peaks.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Terrifying” is right. @economist.com www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
OUT TODAY: The take-off in African solar that official statistics can’t yet see 2026 is on track for +45% in solar installations, setting new records in 36 countries. New methodology reveals 3/4 of growth is distributed solar, much of which is missing from official data..🧵
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another good example is here: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
What Caused Nepal’s Deadly Flash Flood? Here’s What We Know
A deadly flash flood tore through Nepal’s mountainous border region with China on Aug. 26, engulfing villages and washing away roads and bridges. More than 160 people have been confirmed dead, and the...
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How do you work to create a “culture” on clean energy (and shift away from fossils)? Any good examples from pop culture or education systems anywhere in the world?
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Transition Times @transitiontimes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In TT#14, we review some recent reports and forecasts on battery storage deployments in the US, Australia, India, and China, and see how they’re helping to keep grids reliable even as they accommodate larger shares of variable wind and solar generation. www.transitiontimes.net/tt-14-boomin...
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TT#14 – Booming Batteries
The bulk of renewable energy and storage capacity added to the grid thus far has been from large, utility-scale systems. But the potential for smaller distributed energy resources (DERs) is enormous, ...
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Spot on!
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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Any democracy worth having is always under construction.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This 100 percent.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/08/2026
It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
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How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments
It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/07/2026
Threshold alert: renewables are about to pass coal as the No. 1 global source of electricity.
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IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
Global electricity demand is rising, but booming solar will help renewables overtake coal as the top power source this year, says the IEA.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Across every health metric studied, people got better. Not just better, actually — dramatically better,” via @sammyroth.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Electrek @electrek.co · 23/07/2026
IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
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IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
Global electricity use is growing again, but renewables are expected to overtake coal as the world’s largest source of electricity this year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
For Spain, I guess shooting AT the goalie is a strategy. Just not a good one…
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 17/07/2026
India launches commercial service of its first hydrogen-powered train.
bloom.bg
India Debuts Hydrogen Train, Signaling Shift to Clean Transport
India Friday launched commercial service of its first hydrogen-powered train, marking its entry into a small global club that has deployed next-generation clean-transport technologies.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Nirvana: Man who sold the world (unplugged) youtu.be/fregObNcHC8?...
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Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (MTV Unplugged)
YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
WTAF
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Emily explains how weak, unreliable grids combined with plummeting solar and battery costs make distributed solar the cheapest option in many emerging markets. Nigeria exemplifies this, a part of their grid was down 40% of the hours last year, and diesel generator capacity exceeds the grid capacity
energyempirepodcast.substack.com
Live with Emily McAteer at Odyssey Energy Solutions
A recording from JEmily explains how weak, unreliable grids combined with plummeting solar and battery costs make distributed solar the cheapest option in many emerging markets.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You’ll have to eat a pack of Graham crackers daily for the rest of your life.
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It was utterly stupid, yet a clear dive from Embolo. No other way to describe it.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵
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Vikas Mehta @vikmet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
He’s still smoking that joint with Rogan.
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