Solar globally skyrocketed 29% in 2025!
Solar up ~600 TWh, the most ever in one year of any generation source, outside of rebound years.
All RE up 8.5%. Now 34% of total power.
Nuclear up 1.2%.
Wind additions rose 40% to record 160 GW in 2025!
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THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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I am sure that farmers will start to adapt. My fear is that adaption will take time that is not available until disasters start happening.
Classic! They want society, just not pay for it.
"This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud."
Responding to Autotrader data showing that the average price of a new EV is now less that of a new petrol car, Colin Walker, @eciu.net said:
“This is a major moment in the shift to net zero emissions as clean technology becomes the cheap technology"
eciu.net/media/press...
Trump removing sanctions on Russian oil feels like it tells the Ukrainians to bomb all the Russian oil infrastructure.
I hadn't read that. Very clear guidelines!
Isn't there a compromise? Like 90 minutes before flight or is that already late?
5 years after bottom trawling was banned across more than 300 km² of seabed off southern England, early signs of ecosystem recovery are emerging. Mussel beds are re-establishing, fish populations are increasing, & conditions are improving for kelp forests. buff.ly/vnOTVLk #ShareGoodNewsToo
Adoption of potato in Germany story (thanks Rory Sutherland!)
Adoption of handsoap post LeBlanc breakthrus in 1790?
Adoption of fruit on ships after discovery that vit c prevents scurvy
Also attempts to stop Malaria after it was found that mosquitos carried the disease (Panama Canal build story)
As it happens, there is a severe crisis hitting Germany's automotive industries. Yet it's less with the front end brands like VW, but rather is hitting the firms down the supply chain with full force as VW ditches old parts partners wedded to ICE for more flexible suppliers that can transition to EV
I mean look, a Labour government *cannot* cut welfare spending to increase defence spending. It’s just silly to pretend it can.
And more generally: “cut social spending to rearm” is just awful advice across the EU. Is Europe more or less secure if populists win elections?
This is definitely part of the story but also rather undersells how the EU sold itself to its citizens with the vaccine rollout, post-pandemic recovery fund, big tech regulation, support for Ukraine etc
Dems might end up similarly trying to be the "grown up"/competent party but failing to radically break from underlying Trump policies (anti migrant, tariffs and tax cuts). This would leave them open to attack by a new MAGA and the left of its own party (Sanders, AOC, Mamdani).
Not that the Starmer government is bad but it has failed to develop its own strategic identity (continued anti immigration and lack of growth strategy). This has allowed it to be attacked both from the right (Reform) and the left (Greens).
The way that you describe it feels very much like the last years of the UK Tory government. A party so disliked due to Partygate, handling of the economy, general incompetence that the opposition just had to not be them to win.
But as a result that opposition party failed to be ready for day one.
EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra is being refreshingly blunt: there is “no workaround” for Europe’s energy price crisis.
Hoekstra’s message? The only way out is through: more electrification, more solar, more wind, more storage, more grid interconnection — and all of it faster.
this is why you're not supposed to cross those databases, idiots
I know that Starbucks use over roasted coffee beans but they do serve decent filter coffee (especially if freshly brewed). In an age of Americanos, filter coffee is almost a novelty!
I recall that the book "Good Strategy, Bad Strategy" said it was wrong to think of Starbucks as a coffee company! It said think of it as a milk company with coffee flavourings.
Starbucks is a great brand: the settings, music, wifi, look & feel. They'll be fine so long as the brand is desirable.
Icymi
DOGE turbocharged the deficit, achieving no savings. The IRS reductions from funding and layoffs have likely resulted in about $861 bn in decreased revenue. The layoffs from actions like DOGE alone have likely resulted in $597.8 bn in decreased revenue over the 2026-2035.
It's not as high profile as all the other failings of the last government, but the total collapse of the court system thanks to Chris Grayling is one of the most damning.
More investment by tombola. Fund local government properly.
But it is still offensive to non rightwing Catholics?!
Step by step!
Very Warhammer 40k Emperor of Man vibes.
I would push back on the undemocratic bit. Parliament is voting on this bill and will also remain sovereign. Parliament can reverse its decision to dynamically align.
I would question what % of all secondary legislation gets parliamentary debate.
The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification:
- a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026
- increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps
- 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030
