EU warns capitals against turning energy crunch into fiscal crisis Excessive spending to cushion soaring prices would have ‘serious fiscal implications’, says economy commissioner

EU warns capitals against turning energy crunch into fiscal crisis - Brussels is seeking to avoid a repeat of the 2022 energy crisis, which fuelled rampant inflation and ballooning deficits. #Renewables ensure indépendance www.ft.com/content/cee4... via @FT #EnergyTransition #ActOnClimate

Tree with cable

Saw this tree 🌲 with a cable. I guess this is peak energy transition and electrification. Saw it in China though.

#electrification #energytransition #china #tree

Thailand’s Rooftop Solar Boom and the Energy Crisis Rooftop solar PV systems offer Thailand a unique opportunity to achieve its renewable energy targets and reduce its fossil fuel dependence.

Thailand has the sun, the panels, and the factories. What’s missing? Policy reform. Scrapping factory licenses was a win. Now we need net metering and a one-stop permit shop to unlock 9,000 MW of rooftop potential.

#EnergyTransition #Thailand

Ed's Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List 04.05.26 2026, #12 Hi there! Welcome to Ed’s Clean Energy & Sustainability Jobs List, where we know climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels such as gasoline, coal, oil, and fossil gas (“natural” gas)...

I just published my weekly list of #CleanEnergy, #Climate, and #Sustainability Jobs. Check them out + repost if you know someone they would help! #ClimateJobs #EnergyTransition #EnergyTransitionJobs #EnergyPolicyJobs #ClimateSky #EnergySky 🔌💡
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Nationbuild accordingly #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #EnergyTransition @mark-carney.bsky.social

Better data → better decisions → better energy systems.

Closing the #GenderDataGap isn’t optional, it’s essential.

Because without the full picture, the #energytransition can’t work for everyone.

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The Simple Math of the Death of LNG Imagine you wanted to buy a new car.  Now imagine that you have a choice of two cars that are identical except one of the cars requires you to buy expensive fuel to run it and the other runs on free f...

Betting on energy systems of yesterday during a rapidly moving EnergyTransition isn't #NationBuilding, it's Nation Declining. Why are so many Canadian politicians doing it? #EnergyTransition #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #abpoli #ClimateChange #ClimateSky #abpoli powering-the-planet.ghost.io/the-simple-m...

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Buried in a recent article from the people at Renew Economy Australia is an interesting nugget -- NVidia is talking about supporting high density GPU clusters with, wait for it, batteries.

The batteries provide local power supply buffering to smooth and condition grid supply. No word on the […]

The CELT Project: Data & Stories for a Clean Energy Transition, Hybrid Event Online and in Boston, Massachusetts, April 16, 12:30 - 1:30 pm - Green Building Events - Rate It Green This talk will give an overview of the Clean Energy and Environment Legacy Transition Initiative (CELT), a collaboration between the BU Institute for Global...

The CELT Project: Data & Stories for a Clean Energy Transition, Online & in #Boston #Massachusetts, April 16, 12:30 pm ET buff.ly/qeEwago @IGS_BU #energy #cleanenergy #renewableenergy #energytransition #energyaffordability #decarbonization #infrastructure #greenbuilding

The Only Good Thing from This Disastrous War A huge boost for clean energy (with one big caveat)

Fossil fuel shocks tend to boost clean energy investment and deployment and this one is coming at an especially auspicious time, but there's a catch... #EnergyPolicy #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition
The Only Good Thing from This Disastrous War
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#EndClimateSilence #ClimateHushing #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #ClimateSky #EnergyTransition

TALK CLIMATE: You're Not Alone, You're In The Majority As Mainstream Media Ignores Climate Change, It's Up To Us

Your #LongWeekend morning podcast is HERE. Fire up that morning coffee and enjoy.

Have a GREAT Sunday!

www.podcastics.com/episode/4088...

#EndClimateSilence #ClimateHushing #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #ClimateSky #EnergyTransition

DESIGNING YOUR OWN SYSTEM: The Paradigm Shift, the Coming Cycles, and How to Build Economic Freedom Outside the System That Excludes You A Futurist Critical Analysis for Those Who Cannot Wait for the System to Fix Itself

This essay maps the current transitions:
• Energy & climate
• AI leverage
• Care economy
• Geographic arbitrage
• Rural re‑production

Read Essay:
thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/designing-...

#EconomicJustice #SystemsThinking #EnergyTransition #AI #FutureOfWork #EconomicFreedom #Inequality

A practical, unsentimental framework for building economic freedom outside systems that won’t fix themselves in time to help you. The structural reforms we need are real — and they are coming too slowly to help most people currently living inside precarity. Designing Your Own System is a futurist, systems‑level analysis for people who cannot afford to wait. Instead of asking how to advance within a stagnant economy, this essay asks different questions: • Where is real growth happening now — globally, demographically, and technologically? • Which jobs and skills compound under AI and which are being erased? • How do people without capital historically build resilience during transitions? • What does a minimal viable economic system look like for a real household? Drawing on energy transition economics, AI leverage, the care economy, geographic arbitrage, and historical cycle analysis, this essay lays out a practical architecture for individual economic resilience — grounded not in optimism, but in pattern recognition. The system won’t fix itself in time. This is about building one that works anyway. #EconomicFreedom #FutureOfWork #SystemsThinking #Inequality #AI #EnergyTransition #HousingCrisis #LaborMarkets #GeographicArbitrage #CareEconomy #ClimateEconomy #PostGrowth #UrbanCrisis #Resilience #Futurism economic freedom, designing your own system, alternative economics, AI and work, energy transition jobs, geographic arbitrage, futurist economics, housing crisis solutions, building multiple income streams, post-capitalist survival, systems thinking for individuals, labour precarity, climate economy, care economy shortage

The biggest lie in modern economic advice:
“If you just work hard and wait, the system will fix itself.”
It won’t, in any timeframe compatible with a human life.

Essay
thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/designing-...

#FutureOfWork #EconomicFreedom #Inequality #SystemsThinking #EnergyTransition #AI

MISO: Navigating a Changing Power Grid - Cozzy Energy Solutions Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) Undergoing Significant Regulatory and Operational Shifts The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which manages the flow of electricity across a diverse region, is experiencing substantial changes in its regulatory and operational landscape. These adjustments are driven by accelerating load growth, shifting resource composition, including the retirement of coal plants and

MISO: Navigating a Changing Power Grid #MISO #EnergyTransition #GridReliability #PowerMarket #RenewableEnergy #CapacityPlanning

For a growing number of oil and gas professionals, it is the most consequential career decision they will ever make. / #EnergyTransition #OilAndGas #ClimateAction #LifeAfterOil #CleanEnergyJobs #FossilFuelDivestment

Coal’s Second Chance — and the Clause Nobody Is Reading The Strait of Hormuz crisis is handing coal a new lease. That lease has conditions attached.

Right now, there are none.
The escape clause is in the contract.
Someone needs to start enforcing it.
🔗 bit.ly/4mb7vD4
#MethaneAbatement #CoalMines #ClimatePolicy #EnergyTransition #MitigateVAM

Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer
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#energytransition #nuclearenergy #decarbonization #energysecurity #cleantech #netzero #industrialtransition #europe #sustainability #steelindustry

CO₂ levels just hit 432.5 ppm

Only weeks ago we passed 430.

That’s not a trend… that’s acceleration.

We measure it daily at Mauna Loa. We understand it. But are we acting fast enough?

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#ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnergyTransition #NetZero

Constellation’s Power Plays: Grid Challenges, Asset Sales, and Future Growth - Cozzy Energy Solutions Constellation Energy is seeking federal intervention to resolve a potential interconnection issue that threatens to delay the restart of its Crane Clean Energy Center in Pennsylvania, formerly Three Mile Island Unit 1. Recent studies by PJM suggest the 835-megawatt nuclear plant's connection to the grid could be postponed into the 2030s. To address this, Constellation

Constellation's Power Plays: Grid Challenges, Asset Sales, and Future Growth #PJM #NuclearEnergy #CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #ConstellationEnergy #RenewableEnergy

After renewable power’s record-smashing 2025, the Iran war could accelerate the shift as countries seek ‘structurally more resilient’ energy, UN says.

Renewable power just had a record-smashing 2025! The UN reports that global events, like the Iran war, could now accelerate countries' shift towards structurally more resilient energy, speeding up our sustainable future. #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #FutureIsGreen ☀️⚡️

#EndClimateSilence #ClimateHushing #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #ClimateSky #EnergyTransition

TALK CLIMATE: You're Not Alone, You're In The Majority As Mainstream Media Ignores Climate Change, It's Up To Us

Your #GoodFriday podcast is HERE. Fire up that afternoon coffee and enjoy.

Have a GREAT day!

www.podcastics.com/episode/4088...

#EndClimateSilence #ClimateHushing #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #ClimateSky #EnergyTransition

Winchester Star

My piece in the Winchester Star: winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/open-forum-the-answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind/...
Krugman: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-batteries-we-trust
#ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #Electrification #CleanEnergy #Virginia #RuralAmerica #Electrostate #RenewableEnergy

Writing about wind & solar in deep-red #Virginia paper is its own kind of act of faith. Frederick County went 70%+ for Trump. Still — the answer IS blowing in the wind.
@paulkrugman.bsky.social wrote this morning on #batteries that echoes the same truth: the clean #energytransition is happening

"the world is changing and Canada doesn't need to go backwards, we need to move forwards"

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#canpoli #energytransition #ndp #TheFutureIsElectric

Iran War Spikes EV Interest but Sales Still Lag EV leasing inquiries rose 36% and new EV purchase interest jumped 28% after Iran conflict disrupted Strait of Hormuz oil flows. Cox Automotive forecasts Q1 U.S. EV sales will fall 28% to 212,600 units...

📍Iran War Drives EV Inquiries Up 36%, but Buying Habits Lag Behind.

EV leasing inquiries rose 36% and new EV purchase interest jumped 28% after Iran conflict disrupted Strait of Hormuz oil flows.

#EV #FossilFuels #Oil #StraitOfHormuz #EnergyTransition

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Nuvve is expanding in Taiwan 🇹🇼
✔️ New office signed
✔️ First 18 V2G chargers installing in early May
Another step forward in scaling grid integrated EV infrastructure globally.
#V2G #EnergyTransition #Nuvve

Deadly coal: Bosnia-Herzegovina’s problems with its energy transition. by Hans von der Brelie — Euronews

Deadly coal: Bosnia-Herzegovina’s problems with its energy transition.

Will Bosnia-Herzegovina’s belated start to the energy transition delay its EU accession?

The country is struggling to move away from coal-fired power…

#BosniaAndHerzegovina #Pollution #EnergyTransition #FossilFuels #Coal #EU

Grid bottlenecks could cost Europe 120 GW of renewables by 2030 “Grid bottlenecks are no longer simply a technical issue. They are a security risk.”

Grid bottlenecks could cost Europe 120 GW of renewables by 2030.

#EnergyTransition @ember-energy.org

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