China strides into US-sized gap at climate talks https://www.politico.eu/article/china-strides-into-us-sized-gap-at-climate-talks-2/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Greenenergytransition #EnergyandClimateUK #Electricvehicles #EnergyandClimate #Renewableenergy #Sustainability #Sustainability #Climatechange #Energymarkets #electriccars #Energyprices #Supplychains #Development #Electricity #Fossilfuels #U.S.economy #Investment #Naturalgas #Technology #Batteries #Oil
I am not worried about the alleged #aibubble
That occurs when there is over-investment. Right now the demand outstrips the supply.
#AI is not going away.
There will however be a problem when #bigtech moves over to #NPU instead of #GPU usage.
That will wipe out smaller providers as the cost per token will fall dramatically and that will shift power upwards.
Power companies also want to meet profit projections, so to make up for the shortfall in usage by increasing private #electricity cost.
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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If you wanted another reason to dislike crypto currencies and AI, here you go. Not only do we have to deal with more scams, more slop, less privacy and a warmer planet, but we also have to pay for it through our electrical bills.
Of course this is obvious. More demand for power means higher prices and crypto and AI uses a lot of power.
Zane Selvans
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A short blog with some more details on our new project to create an analysis-friendly version of the huge FERC EQR electricity transaction dataset, with support from GridLab.
https://catalyst.coop/2025/11/17/capturing-the-elusive-ferc-eqr/
Catalyst Cooperative
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A new quarterly release of PUDL is available, v2025.11.0. Lots of final 2024 data from EIA, quarterly updates for EIA-930, EPA CEMS and other continuously updated sources. Plus the first EIA-176 natural gas tables, thanks to contributions from @switchbox_data
https://github.com/orgs/catalyst-cooperative/discussions/4767
A short blog with some more details on our new project to create an analysis-friendly version of the huge FERC EQR electricity transaction dataset, with support from GridLab.
https://catalyst.coop/2025/11/17/capturing-the-elusive-ferc-eqr/
If you wanted another reason to dislike crypto currencies and AI, here you go. Not only do we have to deal with more scams, more slop, less privacy and a warmer planet, but we also have to pay for it through our electrical bills.
Of course this is obvious. More demand for power means higher prices and crypto and AI uses a lot of power.
A new quarterly release of PUDL is available, v2025.11.0. Lots of final 2024 data from EIA, quarterly updates for EIA-930, EPA CEMS and other continuously updated sources. Plus the first EIA-176 natural gas tables, thanks to contributions from @switchbox_data
https://github.com/orgs/catalyst-cooperative/discussions/4767
A new quarterly release of PUDL is available, v2025.11.0. Lots of final 2024 data from EIA, quarterly updates for EIA-930, EPA CEMS and other continuously updated sources. Plus the first EIA-176 natural gas tables, thanks to contributions from @switchbox_data
https://github.com/orgs/catalyst-cooperative/discussions/4767
Producer prices in Japan rose 2.7% in October from a year earlier, reflecting higher prices for food and copper, the Bank of Japan has said, with prices of agricultural, forestry and fishery products surging 31.4%. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/13/economy/producer-prices-rise-october/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #boj #japaneseeconomy #economicindicators #electricity #gas #food
Of course this kind of market *should* exist, but aren't there a bunch of lucrative monopoly rate base capex opportunities that it will displace? Will utilities just stand by and let it happen? Is there a reason why they no longer have a choice? #Energy #Electricity
https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-make-a-market-for-distributed
Cory Doctorow
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"This is how it should be: The climate impact that was an externality is now a revenue stream. The global North’s carbon problem subsidizes the global South’s energy access." via @pluralistic #energy #climatecrisis #COP30 #solar #solarpunk #electricity #africa https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"This is how it should be: The climate impact that was an externality is now a revenue stream. The global North’s carbon problem subsidizes the global South’s energy access." via @pluralistic #energy #climatecrisis #COP30 #solar #solarpunk #electricity #africa https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Joachim
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"Worries about water use have gone viral, even though data centres are no thirstier than other industrial projects. But they do eat up power, rapaciously. Data centres consume 5% of America’s electricity, up from 2% a decade ago. The International Energy Agency projects nearly 10% by 2030 (see chart 1). Average power bills are up around 40% since 2019, well above inflation. Georgia’s PSC has approved six bill rises in recent years.
Are data centres to blame? In Georgia, the main culprit is more prosaic. Alongside the standard pressures–natural gas prices, costly grid modernisation–Georgians are also paying for cost overruns at Plant Vogtle, the site of America’s first from-scratch nuclear reactors in decades. (The plant is named after Alvin Vogtle, an electricity executive and possible inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in “The Great Escape”. The new reactors will be the world’s most expensive until Britain’s Hinkley Point C wraps up in the 2030s.)"
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/30/the-data-centre-backlash-is-brewing-in-america
"Worries about water use have gone viral, even though data centres are no thirstier than other industrial projects. But they do eat up power, rapaciously. Data centres consume 5% of America’s electricity, up from 2% a decade ago. The International Energy Agency projects nearly 10% by 2030 (see chart 1). Average power bills are up around 40% since 2019, well above inflation. Georgia’s PSC has approved six bill rises in recent years.
Are data centres to blame? In Georgia, the main culprit is more prosaic. Alongside the standard pressures–natural gas prices, costly grid modernisation–Georgians are also paying for cost overruns at Plant Vogtle, the site of America’s first from-scratch nuclear reactors in decades. (The plant is named after Alvin Vogtle, an electricity executive and possible inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in “The Great Escape”. The new reactors will be the world’s most expensive until Britain’s Hinkley Point C wraps up in the 2030s.)"
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/30/the-data-centre-backlash-is-brewing-in-america
A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/one-startups-quest-to-store-electricity-in-the-ocean/
#HackerNews #startup #ocean #energy #electricity #storage #innovation #tech #news
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
#HackerNews #Australia #Solar #Free #Electricity #Renewable #Energy #Sustainability #CleanEnergy
Tom
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https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2025/09/China-Energy-Transition-Review-2025.pdf
Let that sink in - #China alone can ALREADY #manufacture all the #solar we need to reach our #climatechange goals. It is ALSO the cheapest source of #electricity. WTF are we waiting for???
