🌬️⚠️ Verunsicherung rund um Windkraft hat oft einen Namen: Desinformation.
Ein Bericht im Der Standard zeigt: Hinter vielen Anti-Windkraft-Kampagnen stehen gut vernetzte, überregionale Akteure.
💥 Ergebnis: Projekte kippen – Energieausbau stockt – Abhängigkeiten bleiben.
Dass Politiker Windkraftwerke ablehnen, weil sie hässlich aussehen, ist nur konsequent. Andere Infrastrukturmaßnahmen haben unsere Landschaft ja auch immer ästhetisch bereichert. Man denke an idyllische Autobahnbrücken, liebevoll designte Ölbohrtürme oder pittoreske Rokoko-Atommeiler. #Tourismus
Stark steigender Zubau von Großbatterien in Deutschland, +600 MWh im März 2026
🔋 Okay, so langsam geht es los mit den Großbatterien. Nachdem die Zahl der Anschlussanfragen ja schon lange auf einem absurd hohen Niveau lag, kommen die Dinger jetzt zunehmend auch tatsächlich ans Netz. Im März kamen rund 600 MWh neu dazu, der höchste monatliche Zubau aller Zeiten in 🇩🇪 . #Speicher
Bei der ganzen Spritpreisdebatte diesen alten Klassiker wiederentdeckt 🎶
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WORLD VIEW 15 April 2026 Why more fossil fuels won’t fix the Iran energy crisis Climate-friendly technologies are the best way to stymie rising inflation — and will get better and cheaper over time. By Gernot Wagner Spend any time discussing solar and wind power as a solution to climate change, and you are sure to encounter someone who asks about reliability. The Sun does not shine at night and the wind does not always blow, so fossil fuels will be needed forever as a back-up, they argue. But how reliable are fossil fuels? In the past two months, conflict in Iran has created an energy crisis — the latest in a series. Oil prices spiked within days of the start of US, Israeli and Iranian bombing in the Gulf region on 28 February. Fuel prices remain high and volatile, and the ripple effects are set to increase inflation in the coming months. Isabel Schnabel, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, memorably named this effect fossilflation in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There was, and is, one clear winner: renewables and other low-carbon technologies, from batteries to electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps. That is what distinguishes this Middle East oil and gas crisis from the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s. Then, renewables were mostly unavailable, and industrial decarbonization was on few people’s radars. Solar power cost at least 500 times more than it does today, and EVs, heat pumps and induction stoves were a pipe dream. Ditching fossil fuels is not all smooth sailing. In 2022, European natural-gas prices spiked to ten times their levels before the Ukraine invasion, resulting in long waiting times for solar panels and heat pumps. Prices for these rose as demand outpaced supply, an effect Schnabel dubbed greenflation. She used a third term, climateflation, to describe the economic effects of climate-induced weather extremes, such as food-price rises from crop failures (M. Kotz et al. Commun. Earth Environ. 5; 2024).
The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what @isabelschnabel.bsky.social memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.
It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.
My latest just out @nature.com
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Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.
They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.
That energy is all around us.
And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
Autofahrer haben einfach keine Vorstellung davon, welche Aggressivität sie ausstrahlen, wenn sie Leute am Fahrrad viel zu knapp überholen oder unbegründet anhupen.
A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
🚨 März ist traditionell ein starker Monat bei Pkw-Neuzulassungen. Aber das ist einfach nur wow. 👇
8.206 neue #Elektroautos im März 2026, ein Plus von 34% gegenüber dem März 2025 und um 85% mehr als im letzten Monat. Wow.
In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Was darf Satire?
Das Land OÖ streicht eine Beschleunigungszone für Windkraft unter anderem mit dem Argument, dass dadurch Wölfe „existenziell“ gefährdet würden. Zur Erinnerung: Oberösterreich hat erst im Vorjahr den Abschuss von Wölfen deutlich erleichtert.
For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025.
48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.
Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.
1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing?
The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise.
A thread. 🧵👇
I can‘t help but notice the intermittency of….
gas and oil.
Line chart of the share of electricity production from coal in the UK from 1985 to 2025 where coal fell from almost 70% in the late 1980s to about 0.1% in 2025. The curve shows a steep decline through the 1990s, modest fluctuations around 25 to 35 percent in the 2000s, and a sharp drop after 2012 to near zero by the early 2020s.
Coal power has effectively died in the United Kingdom—
(This Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social, with data work by @parriagadap.bsky.social.)
The United Kingdom was the birthplace of coal. It has now, effectively, died there.
The US government has agreed to pay TotalEnergies $928 million to cancel its offshore wind leases and redirect the money to oil and gas instead.
This is happening during the worst global energy crisis (per IEA) in history and as rising prices put huge pressure on households and businesses.
The EU relies on fossil fuel imports for over half of its energy, leaving it exposed to supply disruptions and price volatilities.
Reducing fossil fuel use with homegrown power and electrification can enhance the EU's energy security and resilience ⚡️
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Gas only sets Spain's electricity price 15% of the time. When gas costs spike it barely registers on the electricity bill. In countries like Italy and the UK gas sets the price 90% of the time. The difference is enormous.
I spoke to @politico.com about this.
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We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war.
This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.
Danke für die klaren Worte zum Windkraftausbau!
Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.
Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.
Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment
„The world is paying a steep and immediate price for its dependence on fossil fuels. The alternatives — electric vehicles, cleaner cities, renewable energy — are proven, affordable and ready to scale.“
@christianccummins.bsky.social wrote another essential piece!
Fossil fuel price shocks are redistribution shocks.
Last time, we warned windfall profits would benefit the ultra-rich at the expense of everyone else.
This time, there is no excuse. The numbers are in. We need windfall profit taxes & multilateral price caps now.
Der Ausstieg aus fossilen Energieträgern gelingt übrigens besonders gut, indem man die klimaschädlichen Subventionen streicht. PS: Das hilft auch dem Staatssäckel.
Trotz rasant steigender Öl- und Gaspreise ist das nächste Windkraft-Projekt am Widerstand der Bevölkerung zerschellt. Was kann man den Menschen heute noch zumuten?
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Hätten wir bereits nach dem Preisschock ab 2022 den Ausstieg aus Öl und Gas konsequent in Angriff genommen, könnten wir heute entspannter auf die Energiepreise blicken. “Dieser Fehler sollte uns nicht noch einmal passieren”, schreibt @krogenhofer.bsky.social im @kurier.at. kurier.at/meinung/gast...
Screenshot von Gastkommentar mit dem Titel "Mit Symptombekämpfung bleibt die Energiekrise ein Dauerzustand" im Kurier
Mit Symptombekämpfung (zB Steuern auf Treibstoff reduzieren) ist die Energiekrise nicht gelöst. Eine rasche Energiewende ist eine wirtschaftliche und sicherheitspolitische Notwendigkeit. Alles andere wäre fahrlässig. Mein Gastkommentar im @kurier.at.web.brid.gy 👇
"The world is paying a steep and immediate price for its dependence on #fossilfuels. The alternatives — electric vehicles, cleaner cities, #renewableenergy — are proven, affordable and ready to scale."
4 news story on one day that made me think...
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