Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.

The U.S. is on track for another record year for clean electricity in 2025: 59 GW additions, which is 92% of new builds. Solar leads again, and storage nearly doubles. The grid is changing fast.

Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard. Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar. In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.

China's electricity is now 30% more than Europe's — PER CAPITA. More than double in total.

Solar is once again seeing RECORD growth, generating more in the first three quarters of 2025 than in all of 2024. ☀️ has become the biggest driver of change in the global power sector, with growth 3x LARGER than any other source of electricity. #COP30 ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

NEW | The world has achieved nearly a tenfold increase in solar power in the ten years since the #ParisAgreement ☀️ Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025. Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈 ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Good morning with good news: Global EV sales reach 1.9 million in October 2025, up 23% year-to-date thru October. Europe's EV sales are up 36% YTD. Germany (+53% ) France (+40%) & UK (+24%). EV sales jump 48% in Rest of World! Petrostates freakout. rhomotion.com/news/global-ev…

#India saw fossil generation FALL in the first half of 2025, as clean power grew rapidly ⚡️🇮🇳 Coal generation and emissions fell, even as India’s economy kept growing. Can #COP30 keep this momentum going? ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

I used to think the main damage from social media was to youth mental health. Now I believe that the global destruction of the human ability to pay attention may be even larger. A meta-analysis shows the damage, to adults as well as teens, from TikTok+ psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-…

Solar is transforming the developing world

"Once solar floods the system, the need for batteries scales fast" Couldn't agree more.

Texas didn't blink. More solar and batteries every month.

In the US, electric vehicle sales are slowing. But in the rest of the world, they continue to grow very quickly. In a new report, IEA says they're now expecting 20% more EV sales by 2035 than they were a year ago. 🧵

Electric cars are a superior technology. They are going to win.

Data center-driven electricity demand growth is still slower than the pace of electricity growth in the 50s and 60s. From an excellent report by Rob Gramlich, via Shanu Mathew

Texas is in the midst of a massive buildout, and these charts make it clear. Solar and battery storage are growing faster in Texas than anywhere in the United States, and faster than most of the world. The numbers are astounding. In the first few months of 2026: ⚡ Solar will

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“I think solar power is going to be a really big deal.” In 2007, solar was 0.04% of global electricity. It's now ~9%, and growing faster than any other source EVER has.

This is such a useful heuristic device - the six phases of renewable energy integration: International Energy Agency lays out the typical challenges and examples of how various countries have addressed them in their excellent report. There are already several examples of countries entering the high

The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates. Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal. Five years ago, that number was