In Spain community renewable energy is expanding quickly & helping the green (energy) transition spread across the country;

as someone who is part of a community broadband project, this step away from oligopolistic market provision has proved highly beneficial & so I can entirely see the logic of such a move in energy too.

The Q. is would community energy hit the same levels of resistance (which we overcame) as community broadband?

#RenewableEnergy #politics #Spain
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution

In Spain community renewable energy is expanding quickly & helping the green (energy) transition spread across the country;

as someone who is part of a community broadband project, this step away from oligopolistic market provision has proved highly beneficial & so I can entirely see the logic of such a move in energy too.

The Q. is would community energy hit the same levels of resistance (which we overcame) as community broadband?

#RenewableEnergy #politics #Spain
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution

#China’s #CO2 #emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGases #RenewableEnergy #Renewables

#China’s #CO2 #emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGases #RenewableEnergy #Renewables

interestingly the Guardian's take on the IEA report is somewhat different from the FT's this morning (see above post)... which emphasises that the report allows significant differences in forward projections depending on the assessment of Govt. action(s), even while acknowledging the rise in renewable energy.

#climate #RenewableEnergy #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/12/supply-boom-in-cheaper-renewables-will-seal-end-of-fossil-fuel-era-says-iea

Regardless of White House policy, farmers can benefit from solar panels on their land.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/06/if-the-white-house-wont-save-us-farmers-agrivoltaics-will/

#agrivoltaics #agrisolar #agripv #dualuse #agriculture #farms #farming #sustainable #sustainability #usfarmers #farmers #solar #solarenergy #solarpower #solarfarms #solarpowerplants #greenenergy #cleanenergy #energy #renewableenergy #sustainable #sustainability

An interesting article called The Gardening Electricity Handbook: https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-9/the-gardening-electricity-handbook/ about making electricity using "microbial fuel cells"

There's a PDF to download with instructions on how to make your own.

No mention of #SolarPunk, but it definitely qualifies!

#battery #RenewableEnergy #ElectricitySupply #Bacteria #sustainability

#Farage restates his opposition to #NetZero policies, describing them as “lunatic”.

And he claims #Reform has given notice to #RenewableEnergy companies signing contracts with the government that “if we’re in government, we will scrap those contracts”.

The fight is on…if the scientifically unhinged statements of Farage go unchallenged and action is taken to make our emissions commitments legally binding, we are all just rolling over and letting #FossilFuel giants kill our planet.

#Farage restates his opposition to #NetZero policies, describing them as “lunatic”.

And he claims #Reform has given notice to #RenewableEnergy companies signing contracts with the government that “if we’re in government, we will scrap those contracts”.

The fight is on…if the scientifically unhinged statements of Farage go unchallenged and action is taken to make our emissions commitments legally binding, we are all just rolling over and letting #FossilFuel giants kill our planet.

Matched Clean Power Index

https://matched.energy/blog/matched-clean-power-index-is-live

#HackerNews #MatchedCleanPowerIndex #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #RenewableEnergy #EnergyInnovation

The push reflects how #RFKJr has swiftly reordered the #CDC’s priorities, & underscores the #Trump admin’s antipathy towards the #RenewableEnergy source. Trump has ordered a broad govt review of offshore #WindFarms & enlisted agencies including #EPA & the depts of #Energy, #Defense & #Commerce to be part of a “inter-departmental coalition team,” RFKJr said in August.

#ConspiracyTheories #FossilFuels #BigOil #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

The push reflects how #RFKJr has swiftly reordered the #CDC’s priorities, & underscores the #Trump admin’s antipathy towards the #RenewableEnergy source. Trump has ordered a broad govt review of offshore #WindFarms & enlisted agencies including #EPA & the depts of #Energy, #Defense & #Commerce to be part of a “inter-departmental coalition team,” RFKJr said in August.

#ConspiracyTheories #FossilFuels #BigOil #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/theres-a-global-boom-in-solar-except-in-the-united-states/

#HackerNews #solarboom #solarenergy #renewableenergy #technology #ussolar #climatechange

🐦‍🔥 End-of-Life Strategies for Wind Turbines: Blade Recycling, Second-Life Applications, and Circular Economy Integration

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/19/5182

#wind #energy #renewableenergy #waste #recycling #circulareconomy

🐦‍🔥 End-of-Life Strategies for Wind Turbines: Blade Recycling, Second-Life Applications, and Circular Economy Integration

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/19/5182

#wind #energy #renewableenergy #waste #recycling #circulareconomy

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/wind-power-cut-uk-energy-costs-ucl-study #Renewableenergy #Greeneconomy #Environment #Fossilfuels #Windpower #Energy #UKnews #Gas #Gas

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/wind-power-cut-uk-energy-costs-ucl-study #Renewableenergy #Greeneconomy #Environment #Fossilfuels #Windpower #Energy #UKnews #Gas #Gas

Drax Energy leads UK’s renewable transition with biomass innovation and sustainable power generation. #DraxEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #GreenPower

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/drax-energy-secrets-exposed-future-power-hamza-ihsan-menof

Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think, says @NewScientist.

"The first six months of 2025 saw wind and solar together pass a historic milestone, generating more power than coal for the first time and making renewables the world’s leading source of electricity."

https://flip.it/Kua6I8

#Solar #Energy #CliimateChange #RenewableEnergy #Science

This is neat! This is basically pumped-storage hydroelectricity but using the difference in salt density between different layers of sea water instead of differences in height.

https://sizableenergy.com/news/2l26pidy71-sizable-energy-raises-8-million-to-launc

#RenewableEnergy