Prof Ray Wills Managing Director, Future Smart Strategies; Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia AIE 2026 Energy Professional of the Year
Perth, Australia
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Prof Ray Wills retweeted
Big #batteries fed on a diet of excess #wind and #solar are increasingly muscling out fossil fuels from the lucrative evening peak.
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USA is a belligerent petrostate
China is the innovative electrostate
Europe appears to be just in a State of Confusion
My interview on Climate Confident with Tom Raftery
(and a call out to @MLiebreich )
We're living thru the fastest energy transition in human history
We're still having difficulty accepting that it can be this fast
5 years ago, getting it wrong didn't take you terribly far into the wrong direction
From now on, it'll be scary if you / your business get it wrong
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Thru the 1950s & 1960s, California built 100 miles of freeways a year, mandating car infrastructure, minimising pedestrian spaces, removing trams, deprioritising public transit
CAL patent zero - the whole world caught car culture disease
But cars are not the only choice …
Just a geek
playing with toys
wandering barefoot
through the centuries
Ramblings on the evolution of technology
from oil wells to #solar and #batteries and #EVs
and more
Tartan Ties interview with @michaelsilbert @scotchcollegewa
Full interview in thread
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Prof Ray Wills retweeted
Climate in motion:
The shifting bell curve ... dancing as the planet overheats.
Building more climate visualizations at Celsius Earth to keep track of our planet's "heart beat" w/EKG and pulse.
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In all previous oil crises, we didn't have an accessible, affordable tech to replace the internal combustion engine
Ray Of Hope
In previous oil crises, we didn't have a different solution to oil
Now we have available and affordable electric cars
China is key to the solution
A snippet from my interview with Robert Llewellyn
@Everyth1ngElec
The full episode linked below
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Ray Of Hope
In previous oil crises, we didn't have a different solution to oil
Now we have available and affordable electric cars
China is key to the solution
A snippet from my interview with Robert Llewellyn
@Everyth1ngElec
The full episode linked below
"The world is changing fast, but it's not all bad, and clean energy legend Professor Ray Wills reminds us why.
One thing is for certain, the axis of influence is tilting towards the Asia Pacific"
Two old, but wise, blokes (Robert Llewellyn and me) have a chat about hope
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In the last three oil crises, we didn't have an accessible, affordable tech to replace the internal combustion engine
In the last three oil crises, we didn't have an accessible, affordable tech to replace the internal combustion engine
But in this 4th oil crisis, there's electric vehicles
From China
Is oil king again? No.
China’s surging cleantech exports show why
theconversation.com/is-oil-k…
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Prof Ray Wills retweeted
“EV charging in China was 17.2 TWh in August, up 51.2% year-on-year.
That's equivalent to ~1.3 million barrels of oil a day, in a global oil market that shifts about 100m bpd.
Just the change from last year cuts global oil demand by 0.5m bpd.”
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Chinese EV charging rate pushing ICE into irrelevance
Geely claims 10–70% in 4.5 minutes, beating five-minute claims from BYD and CATL
But breakthrough is critically about high-power infrastructure and battery durability, and less about the vehicle
Chinese auto companies race ahead on EV technology, achieving 5-minute ultrafast charging ctvnews.ca/business/autos/ar…
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COP28 pledge for a nuclear tripling of new nuclear build was in December 2023
Since that target announced the world has installed:
☀️ Solar Power: ~1,230 GW
💨 Wind Power: ~280 GW
🔋 Battery Storage: ~185 GW
☢️ Nuclear: ~0 GW
Graph 1: electricity generation by energy source
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A small nuclear reactor won't fit on your roof
Like a solar panel
A small nuclear reactor won't fit on your roof
Like a solar panel
You won't own it
Like a solar panel
With nukes, you will pay someone else money for your power
Lot's of money
Not like a solar panel
Oh, and savings from solar will help pay your mortgage
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Learn more about nuclear?
Here, let me help
COP28 pledge for a nuclear tripling of new nuclear build was in December 2023
Since that target announced the world has installed:
☀️ Solar Power: ~1,230 GW
💨 Wind Power: ~280 GW
🔋 Battery Storage: ~185 GW
☢️ Nuclear: ~0 GW
Graph 1: electricity generation by energy source
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An ancient thread on ICE vs EVs
And two old blokes talking about where we are now in 2026
Combustion engine vs electric motor
shows why EVs for masses
will be cheaper than ICE cars
Electric motors
smaller
> efficiency
< maintenance
> longevity
Key question: how light + energy dense + cheap can batteries be?
Answer: increasingly lighter, denser, cheaper
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The answer to the question somewhere in this interview was Nepal, and it still is
🇳🇵 Nepal - September 26 - BEV Trajectory
81.5% BEV
0.5% Hybrid
18.0% ICE
Trailing 12 months are:
73.7% BEV
0.4% Hybrid
26.0% ICE
Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Ga…
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Prof Ray Wills retweeted
Solar can begin delivering electricity in under a year ☀️
With no massive upfront investment, solar’s quick and cheap installation costs could enable rapid electrification in Asia⚡
Access to the slidedeck in English 👇
ember-energy.org/latest-insi…
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Prof Ray Wills retweeted
And here I was, worried about China taking control of my electric car... 🤔
#BREAKING: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an Open AI agent gained unauthorised accessed to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/a…
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South America is moving so much quicker right now than other continents it's absurd.
And it's almost entirely driven by @BYDCompany
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Prof Ray Wills retweeted
In early September, the organization behind Canada’s push for small modular #nuclear reactors (#SMRs) quietly signalled their demise.
theenergymix.com/rip-smrs-is…
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Ports are where Australia’s freight transition can demonstrate net zero
Fremantle’s electric terminal trucks show fuel security is no longer just stockpiling fuel
Ports are early stepping stone towards larger net-zero freight destination
Wills & Newman
fremantleshippingnews.com.au…
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Reinterpreting Canada's PM Carney:
With friends like these, who needs enemas?
A lesson to be learnt - and enacted - @AlboMP
Let's keep the Australian values we share with our allies like Canada and EU, and not practice poisoned sycophancy of sucking up to Trump
Mark Carney: "I also want to be precise about what I am not proposing. I'm not proposing a third bloc in order to become a great power rival only with better manners."
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Paraphrasing Canada's PM Carney:
With friends like these, who needs enemas?
A lesson to be learnt - and enacted - @AlboMP
Let's keep the Australian values we share with our allies like Canada, and not practice poisoned sycophancy of sucking up to Trump
Oh, and dump AUKUS
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Paraphrasing Canada's PM Carney:
With friends like these, who needs enemas?
A lesson to be learnt - and enacted - @AlboMP
Let's keep the Australian values we share with our allies like Canada, and not practice poisoned sycophancy of sucking up to Trump
Oh, and dump AUKUS
WOW!!!
Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:
"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."
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Australians responding to Trump-flavoured values displayed under the current US administration
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing with US after White House gives high level intel to Kremlin dutchnews.nl/2025/10/dutch-i…
Guessing Kremlin calls US mishka ("little bear")
Meanwhile, Australians responding to Trump-flavoured values displayed under the current US administration
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⚡After a record 693 GW of renewables capacity was added globally in 2025, the focus is now on accelerating #electrification, grids & storage and building momentum for #ElectrifyNow on the road to #COP31. That's why this week at the Global Renewables Summit during #ClimateWeekNYC, electrification takes centre stage.
Read more ➡️ irena.org/News/articles/2026…
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