South Australia just met all demand with wind — and exported battery power into Victoria. This is a window into our global future, just around the corner. A live grid on renewables + storage. While others debate ‘feasibility,’ SA is already operating the future.⚡ #Solar #Wind #BESS #EnergyTransition
South Australia just met all demand with wind — and exported battery power into Victoria. This is a window into our global future, just around the corner. A live grid on renewables + storage. While others debate ‘feasibility,’ SA is already operating the future.⚡ #Solar #Wind #BESS #EnergyTransition
Was wäre, wenn man überall dort, wo „Biokraftstoffe“ angebaut werden, stattdessen Solarpanels errichten würde?
https://ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land-solar-electric-vehicles
Was wäre, wenn man überall dort, wo „Biokraftstoffe“ angebaut werden, stattdessen Solarpanels errichten würde?
https://ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land-solar-electric-vehicles
China just switched on the world’s largest offshore solar farm: 1 GW open-sea PV off Shandong. 🌊☀️ Output ~1.78 TWh/yr — enough to power ~2.6–2.7 million homes/people. This isn’t a demo. It’s clean energy built at infrastructure scale. Firmed by grid storage. #BESS #Solar #Renewables
World's largest offshore solar...
China just switched on the world’s largest offshore solar farm: 1 GW open-sea PV off Shandong. 🌊☀️ Output ~1.78 TWh/yr — enough to power ~2.6–2.7 million homes/people. This isn’t a demo. It’s clean energy built at infrastructure scale. Firmed by grid storage. #BESS #Solar #Renewables
World's largest offshore solar...
The fact we’re now offering free electricity for 3 hours a day in Australia, shows just how far renewables have come. We’ve gone from managing scarcity to managing abundance. ☀️⚡Energy isn’t the problem anymore — storage & timing are. The future grid is solar-soaked. #Renewables #EV #BESS #Solar
Australian households to get f...
The fact we’re now offering free electricity for 3 hours a day in Australia, shows just how far renewables have come. We’ve gone from managing scarcity to managing abundance. ☀️⚡Energy isn’t the problem anymore — storage & timing are. The future grid is solar-soaked. #Renewables #EV #BESS #Solar
Australian households to get f...
Renewables Overtake Coal as World’s Biggest Source of Electricity
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power worldwide, renewables met 100% of it. Coal has been the world’s most-consumed energy resource […]
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Renewables Overtake Coal as World’s Biggest Source of Electricity
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind produced more electricity during the first half of the year than any other energy resource, including coal. To bullet another massive accomplishment in the clean energy transition, of the cumulative demand for new power worldwide, renewables met 100% of it. Coal has been the world’s most-consumed energy resource […]
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Neoen now operates 3.1 GWh of battery storage in Western Australia — Collie alone holds 2.24 GWh, one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. 🇦🇺⚡️Coal built WA’s past, but solar + storage will define its future. The sun’s winning, quietly but decisively. ☀️🔋 #EnergyTransition #BESS #Solar #Lithium
Neoen surpasses 3 GWh of stora...
Neoen now operates 3.1 GWh of battery storage in Western Australia — Collie alone holds 2.24 GWh, one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. 🇦🇺⚡️Coal built WA’s past, but solar + storage will define its future. The sun’s winning, quietly but decisively. ☀️🔋 #EnergyTransition #BESS #Solar #Lithium
Neoen surpasses 3 GWh of stora...
@pluralistic While my experience pales in the scale to your (as usual, amazing) article, I experienced #solar #enshittification firsthand:
My installer bolted a third party #Sunpower charging monitor to my house, which worked great to see what my hourly/daily/yearly output was until Sunpower went bankrupt and was bought out by Enphase, who, you guessed it, wants me to pay a subscription fee to see the same monitoring data. Fuck that.
Fortunately, (#Reddit to the rescue): The data from the microinverters goes through my router, and someone found a hack:
https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower
All I need to do is implement the hack and I get my data back, then reconfigure the router to cut off Enphase! Its like #UnauthorizedBread but for solar.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/
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@pluralistic While my experience pales in the scale to your (as usual, amazing) article, I experienced #solar #enshittification firsthand:
My installer bolted a third party #Sunpower charging monitor to my house, which worked great to see what my hourly/daily/yearly output was until Sunpower went bankrupt and was bought out by Enphase, who, you guessed it, wants me to pay a subscription fee to see the same monitoring data. Fuck that.
Fortunately, (#Reddit to the rescue): The data from the microinverters goes through my router, and someone found a hack:
https://github.com/krbaker/hass-sunpower
All I need to do is implement the hack and I get my data back, then reconfigure the router to cut off Enphase! Its like #UnauthorizedBread but for solar.
India added 22 GW of renewables in H1 2025 — 17 GW from solar. That’s more in 6 months than the country’s entire 20 GW gas fleet. Yet LNG CEOs keep selling India as their growth market. The future isn’t LNG — it’s solar, wind & storage at breakneck scale.⚡🇮🇳 #EnergyTransition #Renewables #Solar #BESS
India Achieves Highest-Ever 6-...
One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Rediscovers an Old Cooling Technique
By Laura Millan
August 8, 2023
"The streets of #Seville in southern #Spain were so hot that July afternoon that it felt almost impossible to walk outdoors. As temperatures approached 42C (108F), people scrambled to find shelter in air-conditioned homes, offices and public buildings. Yet, less than two miles from the city center, a cool breeze blew under a giant white roof.
"The structure is a part of CartujaQanat, an architectural experiment in cooling solutions that doesn’t rely on burning more planet-warming #FossilFuels. The site, about the size of two soccer fields, includes two auditoriums, green spaces, a promenade and a shaded area with benches. But its star performer remains hidden — the qanat, a network of underground pipes and tubes inspired by Persian-era canals.
"The grid of #aqueducts can lower surrounding temperatures by as much as 10C using just air, water and #solar power, according to Emasesa, the Seville public water company that helped to build it. The system is modeled on ancient tunnels dug to bring water to agricultural fields that were first documented in what is today #Iran. The Persians realized 1,000 years ago that the running water also cooled the air in the canals, so they fashioned vertical shafts to bring that air to the surface.
" 'This is not an air-conditioning system like the one you may have in your home,' says Juan Luis López, the project’s supervisor and an engineer at Emasesa. 'We use natural techniques and materials to reduce temperatures.' "
Read more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-seville-spain-extreme-heat/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/36fz1
#SolarPunkSunday #History #PersianTechnology #ClimateChange #KeepingCool #ExtremeHeat #AncientTechnology
