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In 1996, EU Commissioner Erkki Liikanen received Santa Claus in Brussels. They met, they did a press point and they discussed the accusations regarding Santa's monopolistic position, among other topics.

2024 will be the warmest year on record. ~ 25% of Greenhouse Gas emissions is from transport ~ 75% of all transport emissions is from road transport ~ 2/3 of road transport emissions is from cars ~ 1/2 of all car trips is < 5 km and can easily be done by bike. Just sayin’

Full disclosure: back in 2013, I didn't see this coming I didn't see much of a role of utility scale batteries beyond frequency control

Happy to attend my first #TTE EU Council #Energy as Commissioner today. Fruitful discussions and inputs will shape our future work. We stand committed to helping 🇺🇦 and 🇲🇩. We will continue our efforts on security of supply over the winter to strengthen 🇪🇺 energy security

One chart, many stories. Predicted renewable energy deployment vs actual deployment.

5 minutes on chatGPT this morning gave me this: is it just confirming my bias thinking that flexibility should be correlated with low price peaks, with higher price troughs, and with price volatility? Can someone point me to more serious work on these relationships?

Do as I say, not as I do: The European Union imported last year more Russian LNG than ever.

🚕🚁 En #Chine 🇨🇳, on peut désormais commander un taxi volant électrique, sans conducteur, sur son téléphone comme on commande un #taxi classique ! 📈 La demande de ces véhicules voyageant à basse altitude est de plus en plus forte

China certifies its first all-battery-electric plane for flying, a four-seat aircraft (RX4E). Will allow the aircraft to enter mass production. simpleflying.com/china-certifie…

Excellent reporting from Will Mathis on the cost of wasted wind power. That’s 1.8bn on bills, and set to rise 4 fold. It’s just one reason locational pricing is so important. Wind is great, but needs market reform to push bills down not up bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Myths and outright nonsense about heat pumps continue to get spread through traditional and social media. Read my comprehensive heat pump myth buster for Carbon Brief carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-m…

I wrote the cover story of the February issue of The Atlantic. It builds on a lot of reporting I did throughout 2024, and I'm really proud of it. It’s called: THE ANTI-SOCIAL CENTURY The thesis: Rising solitude is the most important social fact in American life today. The

Nuclear generation isn't 100% reliable. Analysis of European nuclear data suggests weekly fleet output during peak season can drop below 60% of average levels. This is comparable to the effect of a bad renewable drought on wind+solar generation in Australia. /1

Octopus Energy software platform. Kraken, was first developed for internal use But Octopus now licenses the tech to other energy groups internationally, helping them manage customer billing and run solar panels, electric car chargers and heat pumps. on.ft.com/3PrVOrT

A grotesque example of how the energy system screws consumers Worse, our bureaucratic overlords eviscerated the Demand Flexibility Service which could have reduced this. Even the rump service paid consumers 5 times less per kWh than these gas giants theguardian.com/business/2025/…

NEW from me: Half of all China’s exports of solar and wind power equipment and electric vehicles (EVs) now go to the Global South. Emerging and developing countries have driven most of the recent growth in export volumes.

Anyone whingeing about wind turbine recycling has another agenda... You can't recycle oil or gas. When they're burnt, their residues are dumped in the open sewer of our 60 mile atmosphere Even claims of (highly subsidised) oil rig recycling are ropey energyvoice.com/oilandgas/deco…)

NEW: Global EV sales grew 18% year-on-year in Jan 2025 Was this due to the "devastating collapse" of 21% growth in Europe? The "stalling" 12% growth in China? Maybe the "plunging" 22% rise in US/Canada? Or "faltering" 50% rest-of-world growth…? Data: Rho Motion 🤷‍♂️

It's official: solar farms are good for birds. businessgreen.com/news/4409747/s…

Reminder for the cold days ahead! ❄️ Turning down the thermostat by just 1 °C could save 7% of the energy used for heating. For every degree you lower the heating, more than €70 can be cut from your annual energy bill. More tips to #SaveEnergy ⚡️ europa.eu/!pcD4cx