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BYD’s commercial EV sales just exploded—up 531% YoY in May! From 4,391 to 27,726 units. Electric buses, trucks, vans—flooding the market while Western OEMs are still holding strategy meetings, drafting their demise on chalkboards. Bonkers growth, but all part of a plan. ⚡🚛 #EV #Disruption #Electric

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Changan claims its new solid-state battery will deliver up to 1,500 km (932 mi) of range, hitting prototype cars by end-2025, mass production by 2027. Energy density? 400 Wh/kg. Sounds huge—but nothing's been independently verified yet. Hype or history in the making? ⚡🚗 #EV #BatteryTech #SolidState

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Absolute ignorant scum bags The final nail in the coffin of the Amazon rain forest that has stood for millions of years Brazil senate passes sweeping bill erasing protections for Amazon forest and 3,000 protected areas and 18 million hectares of forest www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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My friend is in charge of the team that wrote the climate change adaptation plan for Switzerland and this is one of the things they expected.

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"It’s hard to overstate how central the management of the U.S. dollar is to the management of global decarbonization," warns @advaitarun.bsky.social in his latest for Heatmap. More on why global climate policy still needs America to act:

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Terrible news from Switzerland, but good for the BBC on explicitly calling out the direct role of #climatechange in this disaster. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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🚄 China has successfully tested a full-scale prototype of its ultra-high-speed maglev train, designed to reach 1,000 km/h (621 mph)—the world’s fastest ground vehicle. The West invests in billionaires. China invests in tech. The future is fast, frictionless, and here.⚡ #Maglev #Hyperloop #Disruption

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This viral climate graphic just got a troubling update - Fast Company www.fastcompany.com/91339154/thi...

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Before most even notice, everything will be electrified.⚡ Land? EVs outsell ICEs in key markets by 2027. Sea? Short-haul e-ships by 2028. Air? eVTOLs & short flights by 2030, longer by 2032. Quiet. Clean. Cheap. The fossil age won’t end with a bang—but a fade into oblivion. #ElectrifyEverything

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If you want to see more clean energy built, and if you believe local opposition to plants is a major barrier, maybe give this thread a read. Community ownership can keep the profit from clean energy projects in the communities that host them, building support for projects and funding key services.

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Social leasing is long overdue—but finally gaining traction. France showed it works: €100/month EVs for low-income households. Now the EU has €16B in climate funds to roll it out across Germany, Spain, Italy & more. This could get 3M families into EVs by 2032. Let’s make it happen. ⚡🇪🇺

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A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035. Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

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An executive order directing LPO to back 10 new reactors means little when the same administration is gutting LPO, phasing out the nuclear investment tax credit early, raising equipment costs with tariffs, and pushing up interest rates.

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It’s official: After weeks of speculation and run-up, the Senate voted 51 to 44 on Thursday to overturn California’s waiver from the Clean Air Act to set stricter-than-federal emissions limits on cars and trucks. Read more in today’s climate briefing.

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The fact that we’ve just collectively decided to ignore this is insane

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NEW: At least 41% of Virginia's counties now have some form of restriction on solar development, according to new Heatmap Pro data. Why is this the case when Virginia has been a relatively favorable state for energy infrastructure? @jael.bsky.social dives in, on this week's THE FIGHT 🧵

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I suspect this is true and if so it is just an epically, fatefully, cosmically awful decision that will condemn this country to long-term decline.

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Interesting change of approach with a single public mandate letter to Canadian federal ministers www.pm.gc.ca/en/mandate-l...

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What does the GOP Megabill passed by the House this morning mean for the US energy transition, energy prices, emissions and the economy? REPEAT Project's new analysis has you covered. Read the new report or listen to our recent SHIFT KEY episode diving into the details. 🔗 ⤵️ 🔌💡

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SEIA estimates budget bill could wipe out almost 300K clean energy jobs 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/seia-bu...

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Definitely feeling the hot mic moment that starts this episode. It seems like the goal is to create enough carnage so as to ensure that even if these policies are reinstated by a future Democratic trifecta, they may no longer be bankable due to the huge regulatory uncertainty.

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Repealing critical #cleanenergy investments would increase annual #energy costs by $240 for every family — that’s $32 billion more in total household energy costs. www.nj.com/opinion/2025... #greensky #energysky

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Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn: Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say experts A Republican push to dismantle clean energy incentives threatens to reverberate...

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What should #EU leaders do at the June #EUCO to align climate action with Europe’s economic & security priorities? 🌍 Decarbonisation is key to resilience, stability & competitiveness. 📄 Read the explainer & full briefing: www.e3g.org/publications...

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Our job is not to preserve democracy in America. It is too late for that. It is to restore democracy in this country. We still have a chance. But time is running out. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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PM Carney needs to hear from the millions of us pinning our hopes on him to act. To quote from his book VALUES: The governments that act early will be the ones that benefit from the green revolution" Carney's cabinet signals potential softening on climate www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/14/n...

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I love that over a hundred climate activists - oh no excuse me, Environmental and Natural Resource Economists! - are objecting to the "quiet cancellation of this important leadership initiative & critical public resource," calling it "as shortsighted as it is unlawful." Read more: support-nca.org

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Today on Volts: putting a bunch of AI on a chip, and then embedding the chip into electrical meters, allows utilities to see & control the precise distribution of electricity in a distribution system or inside a data center. I talk with CTO Marissa Hummon about the possibilities.

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The Clean Energy Buyers Association, which represents big tech companies and other large off-takers, said the Republican budget proposal could hurt their members. 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/repeali...

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NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

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The reconciliation bill out of the House is an absolute catastrophe for clean energy -- very close to a complete repeal of the IRA. If you want all the gory technical details, listen to this excellent but depressing episode of Shift Key:

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Why Republicans' efforts to nix the Inflation Reduction Act's transferability provision would "permeate all aspects of the clean energy economy," from @emilypont.bsky.social ⬇️

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🔌💡 Google's Clean Transition Tariff w/ NV Energy has been approved by the Nevada PUC. This paves the way for a new next-gen geothermal project to be deployed by 2030, and serves as a model for other utilities and energy customers to advance decarbonization across the US: blog.google/feed/nevada-...

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If there is a nonprofit whose work you care about, you should probably read this. This is an emergency. www.councilofnonprofits.org/articles/non...

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“The bill is written to come across as reasonable, but the devil is in the details,” @robbieorvis.bsky.social tells @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social. 3 key ways the GOP budget proposal would devastate the American clean electricity industry ⬇️

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People who predicted a "surgical" approach from Republicans should take this as an opportunity to scrutinize their priors.

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Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

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The fight over the future of the Inflation Reduction Act is here. This week on a special SHIFT KEY, we guide you through the budget reconciliation process & break down the biggest provisions in the House budget bill with former Senate & Treasury advisor Luke Bassett heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡

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Battery Pack Costs go down another ~40% by 2030. Global average battery back prices fall from ~$!15/kWh in 2024 to ~$65/kWh says Goldman Sachs. Low battery prices (plus solar) are existential threat to oil burning vehicles and fossil fuel burning power plants. Wonderful! #eenrgysky.

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Hey, while you weren't looking, Virginia passed a law to enable virtual power plants in the state! V. cool.

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Today, House Republicans are unveiling their plan to increase energy bills and pollution for everyday Americans, just to give billionaires another tax break. A summary of their proposals. THREAD! 🧵

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Delighted that thousands of Canadians have already signed up to help form a European Movement Canada. Let’s build Canada & Europe together! 🇨🇦🇪🇺 Why don't you sign-up too? 🍁👇

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"Canada possesses natural resources that are crucial to the European energy transition: lithium, cobalt and nickel. Enhanced collaboration would ensure a secure and sustainable supply to Europe while promoting strategic industries on both sides of the Atlantic."

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Ugh, this is brutal.

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🔥 "The idea of Canada joining the European Union is ambitious, but it follows a certain logic. Canada meets the Copenhagen criteria (rule of law, democracy, market economy) and shares the fundamental values of the EU."

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catching up on some reading this week and this from @costasamaras.com really got my mind racing "Decarbonization, therefore, is the largest megaproject in history. It happens in every town, in every country in the world, and it lasts for decades. And if we fail, we’re all going to suffer."

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Costa Rica, the land of “Pura Vida,” leads the Americas in EV (BEV) adoption for the 3rd year in a row! 🇨🇷⚡ In 2024, 15.4% of new cars were fully electric—powered by an energy grid that’s 94.9% renewable. Who needs plug-in hybrids when your power is this clean? 🌱 #EVs #CostaRica #CleanEnergy #BEV

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Good explainer on power system inertia and the role of inverter based resources like wind, solar and batteries

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This is a great list of science fiction works that imagine hopeful futures and how to get there.

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