It's almost as if - hear me out - fossil fuels were a bit of a problem for Europe.

What I remember is all the climate denying trolls in 2018-19 making fun of Greta, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and all of climate science for saying we had less than 10 years to massively reduce emissions or else. Well. They won the inaction they wanted. Or else.👇

Forever thought it’s puzzling how little environmental policy focuses on the main source of microplastics➡️tires from cars and trucks. Beyond the fact on how it can be found in every organism on the planet there is now some indication it may also cause Alzheimer’s disease. Geez..

Forever thought it’s puzzling how little environmental policy focuses on the main source of microplastics➡️tires from cars and trucks. Beyond the fact on how it can be found in every organism on the planet there is now some indication it may also cause Alzheimer’s disease. Geez..

If successful, lithium-air batteries will kick jet fuel out of the sky and bunker fuel out of the ocean. "Mainstream lithium-ion batteries have an energy density of ~250-270 Wh/kg, while future solid-state alternatives are expected to achieve ~500 Wh/kg. Lithium-air configurations present a theoretical energy density limit of 12,000 Wh/kg, a ceiling that matches the energy capacity of conventional gasoline." CATL eyes 12,000 Wh/kg theoretical limit lithium-air EV battery to end range anxiety interestingengineering.com/e… Air Energy Closes Seed Round to Scale DOE-Validated Solid-State Lithium-Air Battery natlawreview.com/press-relea…

There is no grand secret plot. They were invented because of technological advancement. Cars are cars.

It’s a very strange discussion and in its anti pragmatic way so weirdly European.

The boring heat pump is obliterating gas demand in Europe: heat pumps will cut 30 bcm of natural gas demand out of European buildings and light industry, each year, by 2030, a permanent structural erasure of gas demand >30 bcm is about 20% of the entire annual output of the US LNG export infrastructure >It's also 19% of Qatar’s entire annual global LNG exports, pre Hormuz >And 80% of the total capacity of Russia's Power of Siberia 1, which ships 38.8 bcm/year to China In Germany for example, heat pumps have outsold gas boilers for the 1st time in modern history. In the US, they've beaten gas boilers for 4 consecutive years Every single heat pump is a non-reversible eviction notice for a fossil gas pipe

My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward peak fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/clea…

NEW | Wind and solar just produced more electricity than gas globally for the first month on record In April, they produced 531 TWh (22%), compared with 477 TWh (20%) for gas. Wind and solar generation has more than doubled in the last five years.

"Shipments of solar cells grew 60% by volume last month compared with a year ago, according to data released by China’s General Administration of Customs on Monday. The increase follows an 80% surge in March" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Sevilla eliminó 5.000 plazas de aparcamiento y construyó una red ciclista protegida de 80 km en sólo 18 meses con 32 mill €. Resultado: 70.000 viajes/día 🚲

This just has to make you think that people still pushing fossil fuels for energy are in a state of delusion and denial.

For years, renewables were dismissed as unreliable. This argument no longer holds. 24/7 renewables are reliable and cost competitive. The race is not fossil fuels vs renewables. It’s about who moves faster towards renewables. My views via @FTEnergy bit.ly/3PI1fa0

82 affordable rental homes built from chunky mass timber, in Rotterdam Deck access means all apartments are dual aspect, and each gets a generous 14m2 timber balcony Designed by Powerhouse Company

Germany is undergoing a battery storage boom, with both grid-scale and residential markets scaling fast. - Grid-scale batteries DOUBLED from 1.2 GW in 2023 to 2.5 GW in 2025. - 2mn homes with battery systems today, potentially rising to 7mn by 2030. ember-energy.org/latest-insi…

Germany's TSOs propose a schedule freeze for batteries, blocking trading changes hours before delivery. Modo Energy models a 92% intraday revenue hit if batteries lose all continuous intraday access.

Instead of using batteries to avoid peaks, German TSOs propose to disable them, thus increasing costs for consumers and hindering wind and solar. All because they don't want to change their outdated ways. Wrong on so many levels.

Europe’s trade problem is not industrial collapse. In 2025, the EU still ran a €128B goods trade surplus. Without energy dependence, Europe’s goods surplus would be roughly €427B. The U.S. is the opposite with a massive structural goods deficit — around $1.2T in 2025. Europe still exports machinery, vehicles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and industrial goods at scale. Its weakness is dependence: imported oil, gas and LNG Europe does not need America’s deficit model. Europe needs to keep investing heavily in renewables, storage, cross-border grids, nuclear and hydrogen to reduce energy dependence

Germany had 2.5 GW of operational grid-scale batteries in 2025, the largest fleet in the EU 🔋 Another 10 GW is in the pipeline. Had that capacity been online in 2025, Germany could have avoided €830 million in gas purchases and solar redispatch costs. ember-energy.org/latest-insi…