Our flagship Global Electricity Review is out
⚡️Wind+solar rise to 13% of generation.
⚡️The solar generation boom was big. But b/c so much capacity was added at end of 2023, 2024 will be MUCH bigger.
⚡️2024 global power emissions set to fall, even as elec demand rises faster.

Great to see in the mainstream news what we all know about how the world is changing. For the better this time.

The tier 1 team wishes it to be known that Recom isn't on the tier 1 solar module list (as it says on its website). Because its factory in France, Recom Sillia, is in liquidation.

bodacc.fr/pages/annonces…

Goslings!

Solar power at the price of 2 pint of beer

The market value of the Spanish solar power stood at just EUR 8.7/MWh on average in March

Swiss power prices went to €12,000 per MWh last Monday after unexpected snow caused solar electricity to be much lower than forecast, for total cost €20-30 million. H/t Fei Wang for sending me the story.

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Thanks for the in-flight Laugh Out Loud moment Jenny Chase

Me: *sends a file to myself by email as it's the easiest way to transfer between accounts*

Me two minutes later: oh! I have an email!

Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe. Thanks to a price mechanism that actually works economist.com/europe/2024/04…

Akshat Rathi Saul Griffith Indeed. ~40% of all cargo carried by international shipping is fossil fuels: coal, oil, and, increasingly, LNG. Shipping consumes ~5% of global oil consumption & emits ~1.05 billion tons CO2/y. So 2% of all global oil consumption is used for international shipping of fossil…

ESB Networks announced this week there is now more than 1GW of electricity #storage in the Republic of Ireland: 731.5MW of grid-scale #batteries and 291MW of pumped hydro. We made a map of showing all large-scale batteries' capacity and duration across the island: 931.5MW/987MWh.

I dream of the day that this makes it onto my top million identified potential problems.

Review of my book!

'...broader in scope, and much more fun to read, than its title suggests. It's an expert-guided whirlwind tour of the solar industry as of the year 2023.'

pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/artic…

Oh, wow. US Clean Energy Manufacturing grants include $255.6 million for Highland Materials to set up a 20,000 ton/year polysilicon plant.

- First greenfield polysilicon plant announced outside China for years
- who tf is Highland Materials?

energy.gov/articles/biden…