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Solar PV has had the fastest deployment in history of any energy source It's not stopping here: Solar will continue to be installed faster than any other source in history, delivering in a few more years electron over-abundance and powering entirely new business models

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China added a phenomenal 60GW of solar in Q1 as rooftop installations surged to 36GW 60GW is more than the total installed solar capacity in Spain and France combined. And China installed it all in just 3 months renewablesnow.com/news/china-a...

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Do you still of England as "The Land of Mizzle" or "The Foggy Isles"? These days are most likely over - as England faces its driest year this century, with river levels well below their historic average and reservoirs depleted Yes, it's climate change www.ft.com/content/8e69...

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Why we won't know the cause of Spain's blackouts for months or years; the history of blackouts; the solutions we are drowning in; and how the ultimate cure is to go bigger and faster on solar + BESS Ep 91 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast is out: theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/epis...

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An ASEAN grid is on its way fast, adding 17GW of interconnection capacity and 3,000km of electricity grid - facilitating the addition of 30GW of renewables by 2030 Once in place the 2040's will see the region decisively move to close to 100% renewables ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Historic: China’s CO2 emissions fell for 1st time ever over more than a year despite rapid power demand growth, because of the spectacular consistency of the growth in China’s clean power generation Incredibly meaningful on so many levels www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

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China is on track to be the world’s 1st “electrostate”, with its economy powered by clean tech It will handily beat its targets of peak emissions by 2030, rapid reduction by 2045 and being carbon free by 2060 www.ft.com/content/f867...

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France mandates solar panels on car parking roofs for parking lots larger than 1,500 sq m. The mandate aims to add 11GW of solar to the grid, or about 10 nuclear reactors in terms of installed capacity Now imagine this policy went global, and battery storage was added too

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Energy security: $100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed. Fact. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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In 2024, CO2 soared by a massive 3.75 ppm. Yet the US administration buried the science and the analysis from government scientists at NOAA, says CNN “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world” – Louis Pasteur

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Pakistan, home to 240m people, executed a grassroots solar revolution: 15GW installed in one year (vs peak demand of 30GW) Clean energy is affordable, wanted and needs no government subsidies: Pakistanis are choosing solar because it makes sense edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...

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5 UK banks are blowing up the entire remaining carbon budget to keep warming below 2C: 1 HSBC: Financing 392 Gt CO2 carbon bombs 2 Standard Chartered: 313 Gt CO2 3 Barclays: 225 Gt CO2 4 Lloyds: 108 Gt CO2 5 NatWest: 61 Gt CO2 www.leave-it-in-the-ground.org/resources/uk...

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This will be taught in history classes alongside the ban on Copernican books in 17th century Catholic Europe and the persecution of Galileo Galilei But who remembers, today, those who persecuted Galileo? No one. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

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Spain hits first ever weekday of renewables meeting 100% of electricity demand This was deemed impossible by so many fossilised pundits, and they continue to deem it “impossible” even as 100% renewables is rolled out live www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/22/s...

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China accelerates its climate action as President Xi commits to more stringent curbs on emissions over the next decade - while the US continues its efforts to turn into a Big Oil outpost Massive and much encouraging move by China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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AI-controlled robot does the job of 4 people installing thousands of panels at Australian solar project, cutting 25% off the project delivery time AI powering a faster energy transition, all made in China But no, let’s talk 20th century tariffs reneweconomy.com.au/chinese-robo...

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"Renewables are 100 times bigger than fossil fuels, and every country has them". They're cheaper, too. Energy security is the cherry on top @ember-energy.org ‘s new report is a page turner. Released, pointedly, on Earth Day 2025 THREAD

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Tesla who? China's CATL unveils today new tech to charge a vehicle for 520km in 5 minutes, 1 month after BYD went 400km in 5 minutes The US and Europe are being left behind in clean tech innovation at breakneck speed, live - but no, let's talk tariffs www.ft.com/content/b4c8...

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Top 10 Most Air-Polluted Cities Cities in the World 1 Byrnihat, India 2 Delhi, India 3 Karaganda, Kazakhstan 4 Mullanpur, India 5 Lahore, Pakistan 6 Faridabad, India 7 Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan 8 N'Djamena, Chad 9 Loni, India 10 New Delhi, India

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Batteries in cars, trucks and buses that fast forward a 100% clean-energy power grid are here, transforming into energy storage to let electricity flow from them to the grid and back V2G will shut down 45 gas plants for every 3m EVs on the road cleantechnica.com/2025/04/17/v...

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President Trump, Climate Champion 👇

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Electric car news: >Global EV sales up 49% in Feb 2025 v. Feb 2024 >North America up 20% (US up 11%) >Europe up 19% >Rest of the world up 35% >Indonesia up 205% >Vietnam up 220% >Singapore 42% EV share in 2025, on pace to be fully electrified by 2030 cleantechnica.com/2025/04/03/g...

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“Beekeepers across America began reporting massive beehive collapses” Bees contribute $500b/ year to the world’s economy through the global crop production that would not otherwise be there if it weren’t for the bees The Bees Are Disappearing Again: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/b...

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2024 solar power incredible facts: > Largest annual growth ever in absolute terms > Fastest increase in 6 years (+29%) > Fastest-growing power source 20th year in a row > Doubling every 3 years We’re going to be a ~100% renewables world by 2035 ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Latest electric vehicle data: 1 BYD sales up 58% in the first quarter of 2025 2 Australia: EVs at 14.5% share in March 3 Norway: EVs at 93.2% share in March 4 UK: EVs at 28.9% share in March 5 Germany: EVs at 27.1% share in March S curves everywhere (source: @cleantechnica)

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These 2 charts probably explain a lot of the current news flow: China are the world's number 1 in the number of patents, by far, and their advantage is widening

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China produces 3 in every 4 lithium-ion batteries sold globally Just sayin ig.ft.com/china-trade-...

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In Memoriam: 95% of the Arctic's oldest, thickest ice has disappeared since 1984; and Arctic sea ice continues to melt, hitting record lows for the end of the region’s winter [Note to self: File under "History", "Souvenir"] More reading: www.ft.com/content/f808... and nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...

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Pakistan went full renewables slowly, slowly then all at once, importing 22GW of solar panels in 2024 - to multiply its installed solar capacity by 17 times in just 1 year That’s more solar than the UK added in the past 5 years combined cleantechnica.com/2025/04/04/p...

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In March, Central Asia saw temperatures up to 10C above pre-industrial levels "quite frankly bonkers" Serious penalties and ultra-major fines for emissions pollution and climate destruction are 20 years, perhaps 50 years overdue www.ft.com/content/164a...

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India added a record 25GW of renewables last year, up 35% - of which 21GW was solar, bringing installed solar above 100GW, alongside China, the US and Germany in the 100GW+ solar club India's solar capacity multiplied more than 36 times in just 10 years renewablesnow.com/news/india-a...

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Good climate news this week 1 92.5% of new 2024 global electricity from renewables 2 Britain’s GHG fell 4% in 2024 3 Poland eases onshore wind farm rules 4 Indonesia confirms $20b climate deal after US exit 5 BYD motors through $100b in EV revenues 1/

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In 2024, 92.5% of all new electricity brought online globally came from the sun, wind or other clean energy sources 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% 92.5% Source: www.irena.org/News/pressre...

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Greta Thunberg is braver and has a stronger moral fibre than entire countries That's It. That's the [Tweet][post][X's][Skeet]

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More on the mythical "nuclear energy renaissance" which isn't going to happen: it's just drivel to slow decarbonization by diverting capital much better spent on a faster renewables deployment, as I argued in Ep 86 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast: theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/epis...

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