☀️⚡️German solar power generation just hit a record high 41.79 gigawatts.

And with so much solar being added to the system, it won't be the record for long...

How many hot summers do we have to have in a row before it stops being 'unusual'?

Azerbaijan, host of this year’s COP29 climate summit, will continue to invest in increasing gas production with its president calling fossil fuels a 'gift of the gods'

It comes just months after countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels 👇

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Delighted to be shortlisted by The Wincott Foundation for its data journalist of the year award for our series examining how Europe's biggest energy companies saddled UK consumers with millions of pounds of additional costs. Todd Gillespie Jason Grotto Will Mathis Eric Fan

UK announces the debut of the country's 'first all-electric ‘green’ prison'

The prison will have solar panels and heat pumps, so will cut emissions compared to traditional prisons
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China power generating capacity additions in Jan-Mar 2024:
solar 45.7 GW (vs 33.7 GW in 2023)
wind 15.5 GW (10.4)
thermal 6.4 GW (8.1)
hydro 1.8 GW (2.7)
nuclear 0 GW (1.2)

Last year, almost 300 GW wind&solar was added and now the first months are up 40%!

The US offshore wind crisis isn't over. New York effectively cancels 4GW of offshore wind contracts after GE pulled back an offer for a bigger turbine that the provisional winners had been counting on

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CEO of Exelon, which makes money investing in new grid infrastructure, says AI will help drive a 900% jump in power demand from data centers near Chicago

Meanwhile EIA data show non-residential US power demand fell last year and will rise 1.5% in 2024

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The EU's energy watchdog, EU-ACER has published a super interesting report on the region's LNG demand.

Here are the key findings 👇 THREAD 1/7

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The world’s biggest auto parts maker is investing in heat pumps to ensure growth as the auto industry sees consumers holding back on spending

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In 1999, a panic convinced Wall Street that computers and the internet were about to overwhelm the power grid.

By 2008, some feared, computers could use *half* of American electricity.

It didn’t happen, of course. And in fact the panic had been led by climate change deniers.

Here's a Met Office climate scientist's succinct take on the rain in Dubai this week:
'That wasn't caused by cloud seeding'

A story I've been reporting for months is out now in Bloomberg.

It's about a Canadian mining company that built one of the world's largest and newest copper mines — then saw it all fall apart. 🧵
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Did cloud seeding cause rains and floods in Dubai? What IS cloud seeding? Is it dangerous?

All your questions answered on this explainer via Bloomberg Green . Read for FREE

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Canada's govt says it 'may be facing another catastrophic fire season' this year, based on forecasts

Warmer winter may mean western Canada, eastern Ontario, southern Quebec experience extra fire activity in April and May

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BMW EV sales rose 28% in the first quarter. It expects EVs to make up a record 20% of sales this year, up from about 15% last year
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So many articles about EV sales right now are just repeating what was written somewhere else about a slowdown instead of looking at the data.

Here's a good datapoint:
EVs hit 42% of sales in China in March (retail). Up 30% year on year. April likely heading for 45% share.

Surging renewables and a slump in power prices are cutting output from Europe's fleet of nuclear plants

As even more green power floods the grid in the coming years, it could become more challenging to operate and invest in nuclear plants
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