In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.
Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%
Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.
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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In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.
NEW from @gwec.bsky.social:
WIND IS ALIVE AND KICKING🔥🔥🔥
40% more wind was installed in 2025 than 2024
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. Watch and tell me if I was wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0eSuxu84
So beeindruckend! Gestern wurde in Helsinki einfach die längste autofreie Brücke der Welt und gleichzeitig die längste Brücke Finnlands eröffnet und das früher als geplant. Auf 1,2 Km verbindet die Kruunuvuorensilta das Zentrum mit den Außenbezirken und erlaubt nur Fußgänger, Fahrräder und die Tram❤️
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market
New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader
Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here
And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
Ihr Stolperstein: hier wohnte Charlotte Salomon, Jahrgang 1917, Flucht 1939 nach Frankreich, 1940 im Lager Gurs, interniert Drancy, deportiert. 1943 ermordet in Auschwitz .
Einen von ihr gemaltes Selbstportrait. Eine junge Frau, die abwartend in die Kamera schaut, halbe lange Haare hat und ein blaues Oberteil trägt
Charlotte Salomon, geb am 16.
April 1917, wuchs in einem liberalen jüdischen Haus auf. Sie studierte Kunst, verließ Deutschland wegen des Antisemitismus. In Frankreich wurde sie ver-raten, interniert und schließlich nach Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert, wo sie am 10. Oktober 1943 ermordet wurde.

Big news! The first power from the third giant offshore wind farm being built on Dogger Bank has been transmitted back to Britain
“Extreme heat is already creating ‘nonsurvivable’ conditions for humans in heatwaves that have killed thousands and likely many more, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than first thought.” Via @motherjones.com #ClimateCrisis #UrbanHeat
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.
What year is it?
This feels so strangely Henry VIII.
Young Girls at the Window, 1892 #berthemorisot #impressionism
The Iran war is driving a solar boom in the UK.
@octopus.energy reports solar sales up 54% in March alone.
EDF says residential sales are running at double last spring's rate.
Every rooftop solar installation is a vote against fossil fuel price volatility.
Der eine hatte 113 Einträge, beispielsweise, deutlich zu schnelles Fahren oder auch Unfallflucht, der andere 51. Dass dieses Land Menschen, die offensichtlich nicht dazu befähigt sind, Autos zu bedienen, immer wieder die Chance gibt, ihr Unheil anzurichten, ist unfassbar.
www.taz.de/!6169219
Die frz Regierung unter Lecornu verbietet Gasheizungen für Neubauten. Verdoppelt die Hilfen zur Elektrifizierung der Mobilität.Verspricht 1 Millionen Wärmepumpen jährlich. Der Premierminister nennt es eine strategische Entscheidung:
Voilà du leadership!
When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.
I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.
And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.
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“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”
#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
... and it literally just now got done archiving. It's now turning to deletion. End of an era.
I got on that site in 2009. It really shaped the entire 2010s for me -- I met people, got professional opportunities, had fun ... it's just a real bummer what's happened.
The last tanker of jet fuel from the Middle East for the Netherlands arrived at the Port of Rotterdam anchor zone yesterday. It left Kuwait on 23 February, before Trump and Netanyahu started their war.
Nothing on its way now
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo...
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
Great addition to a recent blogpost from @nworbmot.bsky.social
nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b...
Most of humans can go 90% solar in 2030. It's mostly northern Europe that's the edge case that also needs loads of wind. And the last 10% fuel... we'll take care of that before too long.
Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.
Boring shit that nobody cares about: it's the Volts guarantee. 😎
BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy”
Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏
✨ Good news ✨
The EU has approved Denmark's €1 billion state aid scheme to pay farmers to give their land back to nature.
This means that Danish landowners can voluntarily remove their farmland and forestry from productive use 👉 link.europa.eu/66bcQb
#NatureRestoration
1/ Researchers @unihannover & @lut.fi performed a systematic literature review on the future role of solar PV in energy transition studies around the globe and found that solar PV emerges as the dominant energy source by 2050. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs....
