🚨NEW: Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in EU electricity in the first half of 2024! This and more comes from the latest @EmberClimate report by me and Euan Graham on the EU power sector in H1-2024: ember-climate.org/insights/resea… A thread on the most important trends 🧵...

I have a favourite graphic or insight in every report and often it's a bit more niche than the ones making the headlines. From our latest report out today, it's this: Structural growth in wind and solar is enough to meet and exceed structural demand growth in the EU A thread 🧵

Great news… intermittency gets harder from here, but this didn’t look possible until recently

Global solar PV investment has doubled in just two years, and now exceeds investment in all other generation technologies combined 🤯 Amazing data point from the International Energy Agency

Many thanks to Social Europe for publishing this neat summary of our recent analysis of the EU power sector in 2024! Fossil fuel power in Europe: the only way is down socialeurope.eu/fossil-fuel-po…

Gracias a Manuel Planelles para este artículo en El País sobre nuestro nuevo informe, y para una buena oportunidad de practicar mi español! elpais.com/clima-y-medio-…

The place set alight last night was Citizens Advice, Sunderland. Its manager this morning told me they’re devastated and now trying to figure out how to help the people they were supposed to see #sunderland

It's heartbreaking to see this. Repairing the physical damage in Sunderland will be a huge job but what's really important is the services they provide. The wonderful team at @sunderlandCAB are determined to continue being there for the community - they will need all our support

Great new report from my old colleagues at Citizens Advice Energy , outlining how targeted bill support is crucial for ensuring energy affordability this winter and for managing distributional impacts as we move to a net zero energy system. Highly recommend a read!

Global solar ☀️ installations have repeatedly outperformed forecasts. Tomorrow, Euan Graham and I will publish an @EmberClimate report on the global solar capacity build out in 2024 that answers the question: Are we in for yet another year of higher than expected growth? 📈

NEW | Global solar installation continue to surge in 2024 ☀️ The world is on track to add a record 593 GW of solar power this year – a 29% increase over a major step up in installations in 2023. A thread 🧵 on the latest @EmberClimate report by Euan Graham and me

NEW RECORD: @EmberClimate estimates that at the current rate of additions, the world will install 593 GW of solar panels this year. That’s 29% more than was installed last year. ember-climate.org/insights/in-br…

Hey, so it looks like the world is going to have installed another terawatt of solar capacity in 2yrs (2023/24) That's enough to meet the electricity demand of South Korea, the UK & Italy combined Also – it took 22yrs to install the first terawatt?! 🤯 carbonbrief.org/debriefed-20-s…

Pretty damning stuff from EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, concluding that grid system operators are falling short in preparation for the pan-European 10-year network plan.. ⚡️Misalignment with climate targets & failing to keep up w clean energy trends 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧Slow stakeholder engagement & poor transparency

NEW | Clean electricity surpasses 40% of global electricity generation Our latest Ember Global Electricity Review is out today! ⚡ Solar power is rising rapidly and doubled in the last three years ☀️ A (long) thread on the key trends in 2024... 🧵