Sometimes the most hopeful news gets drowned out by the noise: 
In 2024, clean electricity generation, quietly surged past 40% for the first time since the 1940s. Led by solar’s explosive growth, this isn’t just progress—it’s disruption in motion. The fossil era is fading.
#EnergyTransition #Hope
World surges past 40% clean po...
"Just as we wouldn't want #BigTobacco sponsoring events at our schools, #BigOil shouldn't be either. There needs to be a ban on #FossilFuels sponsorship & provincial governments need to step up & fund the #ClimateChange education our kids deserve."
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
I attended NTNU Energy Transition Conference 2025, where experts, politicians and industry leaders are discussing the future of sustainable energy. It brought some insightful discussions on energy systems, innovation, and climate solutions.
Learn more about the conference here, https://www.ntnu.edu/energytransition/conference
Technology advances could multiply geothermal output five-fold
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-technology-advances-geothermal-output.html
"As a former teacher teaching science curriculum, it mentioned #ClimateChange but the connection to the fossil fuel industry which provides the fuels, which are then burned, which then causes the carbon emissions, and that's what's climbing and causing climate change, that connection was missing."
We found discussion to be dominated by #geopolitical and #SocioEconomic concerns, sidelining #climate and #biodiversity.
In fact, climate change and biodiversity were barely mentioned, and when they were discussed, it was mostly about side effects of the #EnergyTransition
The electrical grid is the world’s biggest machine, and it’s remarkable that it rarely breaks down. When it does, it can have spectacular impacts, as the shutdown of London’s Heathrow airport last week clearly showed.
#climate #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-30/heathrow-is-a-wake-up-call-for-utilities
"The Alberta government's 2024 curriculum appears to have been developed with #BigOil involvement, directing teachers to discuss the benefits of #OilAndGas & their role in Alberta's economy. A recent report found an industry funded nonprofit lobbies to include this content in the curriculum."
If you're paying attention to Australian politics at all, you're hearing a massive load of anti-transition, far-right propaganda being amplified by a gullible/corrupt media. If you want the real story on what government is doing in its #energytransition and why it's the right strategy, listen to this!
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All this story of energy transition is because we have projected on the history of materials a history of technology. In the history of technology you sometimes have substitution, technology do become obsolete, but raw materials never become obsolete.
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-- Jean-Baptise Fressoz
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Instead of taking a few months to a year, the lead time for large transformer delivery is now three to five years. Among a basket of 47 goods needed to build grid infrastructure, transformers have seen the greatest increase in price — a near doubling since 2018.
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Who would've thought? Transformers shortage slows down buildout of renewables and hinders recovery after failures caused by extreme weather or sabotage.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/
Ep. 246 continues our miniseries on Australia and discusses how the government is working with the grid power sector to plan and execute its #energytransition while maintaining system reliability. https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-246-meeting-australias-2030-target/
…the Feb 2025 FT article I mention above has the headline:
‘China’s construction of coal-fired power plants reaches highest in a decade’
https://www.ft.com/content/4658e336-930f-49db-abc9-0036ee0ea777
I recommend reading it as a free article which you can do if you have the FT app, because there are excellent data visualisations in it which are not in the archive\.is link below
https://archive.is/2025.02.16-151101/https://www.ft.com/content/4658e336-930f-49db-abc9-0036ee0ea777
#climateDiary
This came into my timeline from AP but it doesn’t tell the whole story, and we should definitely tell the whole story.
Which seems to be that there isn’t an #energyTransition.
There is a very good FT article from last month which does a much better job of painting a nuanced picture and has this to say about China:
“Instead of replacing coal, clean energy is being layered on top of an entrenched reliance on fossil fuels”
More on that in following posts
In climate change news, the 2025 Bloomberg Energy Transition Investment Trends report was just released; I love these reports because they cut through bullshit and document the honest signal of how much money is actually being invested in ensuring civilization remains viable on this planet.
There is reason to be optimistic, like how 2024 was the first year that investment in the energy transition surpassed $2 trillion. Unfortunately, hitting net zero by 2050 requires a tripling of current spending (not eventually - right now, with reasonable annual increases thereafter).
As in past years, it cannot be denied that China is the only country coming close to treating this issue with the seriousness it deserves, investing nearly as much as all other countries combined and at a far higher percentage of GDP (4.5%) than others (for example, EU-27 is at 2%). Despite this, even this level of effort (if adopted globally) might not be enough.
Clean geothermal energy to heat and cool Chicago homes: 'An example for the entire country'
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-geothermal-energy-cool-chicago-homes.html
The Risk of Financial Bubbles in Renewable Energy Markets
"The trigger for this report was the discovery by Laurie Adamson, a physician with @cape-acme.bsky.social, that her kid in elementary school was bringing home materials branded by #FortisBC. She was alarmed. What's a gas company doing in my children's backpack? What are they doing in the classroom?"
For nearly 50 years #BigOil slow-walked the world to disaster by lying about the danger of Climate Change & creating denial/doubt about the science & solutions. Our latest show digs in to a new report about how they're STILL doing it to our children in our schools
