I know wave power has a terrible track record but I really want this one to work:

https://corpowerocean.com/

#renewables #energy #energytransition

@The_Sun

"Today, (Australian) BESS projects can secure financing of up to 100% merchant risk,"

That is a major step. Oz grid scale batteries are now a low risk money spinner that will run on private equity.

Along with the several GWh the home battery grants are creating Oz is really going for it!

#australia #energytransition

Doctorow on Solar Transition in far better shape than we're given to believe

"the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining. Further: the efficiency gains of “clean” technology are astounding — meaning that, for example, it not only takes a lot less material to make a solar panel, the panel we make out of so much less stuff generates a lot more power. More: we keep finding ways to substitute more abundant materials for materials that are harder to find or refine (for example, swapping out lithium in batteries and replacing it with sodium, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth). Finally: we keep finding new sources of the materials that we can’t readily substitute for"

#solarPunk #renewableEnergy #fossilFuels #climateChange #energyTransition

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-02-there-goes-the-sun-carbon-shifting-039f968e727d

Why Does the IEA KEEP DOING THIS?

Does anyone take them seriously on the energy transition?

#renewables #energytransition

Abandoning diesel generators for solar is not only a smart financial move, it also dramatically reduces air AND noise pollution!

Many African countries are finding out how the sun - which is in abundance - can create energy security.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/nigeria-solar-boom

#EnergyTransition

Abandoning diesel generators for solar is not only a smart financial move, it also dramatically reduces air AND noise pollution!

Many African countries are finding out how the sun - which is in abundance - can create energy security.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/nigeria-solar-boom

#EnergyTransition

Doctorow on Solar Transition in far better shape than we're given to believe

"the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining. Further: the efficiency gains of “clean” technology are astounding — meaning that, for example, it not only takes a lot less material to make a solar panel, the panel we make out of so much less stuff generates a lot more power. More: we keep finding ways to substitute more abundant materials for materials that are harder to find or refine (for example, swapping out lithium in batteries and replacing it with sodium, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth). Finally: we keep finding new sources of the materials that we can’t readily substitute for"

#solarPunk #renewableEnergy #fossilFuels #climateChange #energyTransition

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-02-there-goes-the-sun-carbon-shifting-039f968e727d

Can someone please explain what it would take, in practical layman’s terms, to decouple the price of energy in the UK away from gas and on to renewables?
#Climate #Renewables #EnergyTransition

So the old dirty industries and their ways of doing things are really kicking and screaming as they get dragged to the dustbin of history!

Why not just do everything in your power to become an electric leader AND stay relevant - like China is doing? 🤷🏻

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/29/german-car-industry-eu-ban-petrol-cars-2035

#ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition

So the old dirty industries and their ways of doing things are really kicking and screaming as they get dragged to the dustbin of history!

Why not just do everything in your power to become an electric leader AND stay relevant - like China is doing? 🤷🏻

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/29/german-car-industry-eu-ban-petrol-cars-2035

#ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition

Here's our second customer in three months for our first fusion power plant's electricity: Eni. It's a deal worth more than $1 billion.

It may seem weird to sell power before we've fully demonstrated all of our fusion tech. But actual results — peer-reviewed research, testing, prototypes, simulations, manufacturing, and more — gives us our confidence. Here's some detail on that.

https://blog.cfs.energy/fusion-forward-cfs-signs-second-power-plant-customer-in-3-months/

#FusionEnergy #EnergyTransition

🪧 Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposition-energy-transition-driven-local.html

#politics #germany #environment #energytransition #nimby #populism #climatechange

🪧 Opposition to energy transition projects driven by local concerns rather than right-wing populism, finds study

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-opposition-energy-transition-driven-local.html

#politics #germany #environment #energytransition #nimby #populism #climatechange

"The illusion of a balanced energy mix makes good rhetoric but poor policy"

I've been an "all of the above" kind of guy for a long time now. Mainly for two reasons: 1. I just don't want to waste energy 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 solar and wind while they help bringing carbon emissions down and 2. I reckon that solar and wind can be deployed faster.

At the same time, I am of the firm belief that in the long term, beyond 2050, we'll be a species predominantly powered by nuclear energy as it is systemically the cheaper option.

This article makes a compelling case I think to rethink that position. If, after all, the result is that we'll end up with a 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 grid because we overdeployed solar and wind, then it might actually be worth it to spend energy arguing against these variable energy sources.

I'm just thinking out loud here. I'm not sure where I'll end up.

#EnergyTransition

https://www.mackinac.org/blog/2025/all-of-the-above-is-the-wrong-answer

It is still possible to co-sign our submission to the @EUCommission
- explaining them why #pluginpv is good for consumers all across #Europe: saving money, helping with #energytransition and it's safe!

From: @balkonsolar
https://freiburg.social/@balkonsolar/114868492833130588

Just a subtoot: If you don't 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 nuclear, you'll find reasons to be against it - facts, climate change and human flourishing be damned.

It is therefore the wrong approach to respond against anti-nuclear arguments with facts. Believe me, I've tried. You can reply to worries about nuclear waste (spent fuel) for example with facts - like it being manageable just fine, or it only needing safe storage for 300 years before it becomes radiologically harmless, or it being able to be recycled perfectly fine, or its volume being negligible... If you get a denial of these facts, just stop bothering as people are just being dishonest with you.

I'm also not arguing with people who deny climate change, vaccines, the Earth being a globe (ffs), or whatever crazy batshit stuff people come up with these days. It's just not worth my time. I'll just smile and move along. Being against nuclear is likewise a denial of the science.

What does tend to work (better) is setting an optimistic narrative: industrialised society cannot run on solar and wind alone (this isn't hard arithmetic, it's just not enough, even ignoring other problems inherent with them) and nuclear is a 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 to this problem.

The third world, primarily Africa, is going to explode in energy consumption as they economically develop themselves (at long last) this century and, if we don't want them to burn coal for decades, nuclear energy is a 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 to this problem.

All energy sources have toxic waste streams. Nuclear has the fewest and best managed. It is a 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 to the problem of how to minimise our impact on the environment.

That spent fuel I was talking about earlier? It's full of energy still. So much so that it can power 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 for 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. No more mining needed if we wanted to. Nuclear 'waste' isn't waste at all, it is a 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦.

The degrowth movement has a view that we need to use radically less energy, up to 95% less for the West and 60% less globally. These are numbers degrowthers share. The underlying view, explicit or implicit, is that there are just too many people on this planet. A malthusian view of sinful people. Sometimes this is wrapped up in an anti-capitalist rhetoric that 'infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible'. Catchy slogan, but it doesn't actually align with (capitalist) reality.

Yes, as a communist I strive for the end of capitalism and class society in general. And yes, we'll need to rearrange society by quite a bit. 'Degrow' some sectors, grow others. But for humans to flourish we need loads of clean energy. We need to in fact 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘦 our energy production as a species, up it by a factor 2 or 3 compared to the 200,000 TWh we consume now. Nuclear can deliver that, for billions of years, for the smallest footprint.

TL;DR, the two takeaways are:

Set the narrative, don't be reactive. The latter will cost you time and energy to combat. With the former people will have to engage with you.

If humanity is to have a future, the future will have to be nuclear.

#Nuclear#NuclearEnergy#Degrowth#ClimateChange#EnergyTransition

China continues to go at it hammer and tongs.

It seems that barely a week goes by without an announcement along the lines of "World's largest flow battery connects to Chinese Grid", or "Cheapest battery auction to date closes with record-low prices".

While the headline achievements are impressive, it's the trajectory that's jaw-dropping.

🧵 1/6

#energytransition

"""
Trade association Green Power Denmark had found unexplained electronic components in imported circuit boards destined for the country's energy infrastructure.

Cybersecurity of modern energy systems is a growing concern.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that unexplained communication devices had been found inside some Chinese-made inverter devices in the United States.
"""

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/05/23/solarpower-europe-calls-for-tough-cyber-rules-following-danish-import-probe/

#solar #renewables#EnergyTransition #security