Peter Kernan
@peterkernan.bsky.social
All things energy transition!
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China's electrification is pushing fossil fuels towards peak demand across key sectors ⚡
🏬Buildings: Electricity displaced coal with electric heaters
🏭Industry: Electricity overtook coal as largest energy source
🚗Transport: Early signs of oil decline as EVs accelerate
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
🏬Buildings: Electricity displaced coal with electric heaters
🏭Industry: Electricity overtook coal as largest energy source
🚗Transport: Early signs of oil decline as EVs accelerate
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
September 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
China's electrification is pushing fossil fuels towards peak demand across key sectors ⚡
🏬Buildings: Electricity displaced coal with electric heaters
🏭Industry: Electricity overtook coal as largest energy source
🚗Transport: Early signs of oil decline as EVs accelerate
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
🏬Buildings: Electricity displaced coal with electric heaters
🏭Industry: Electricity overtook coal as largest energy source
🚗Transport: Early signs of oil decline as EVs accelerate
https://loom.ly/psjqvhE
Aggressive whale oil salesman
America dispatches top officials to inform Europeans that their wind turbines won't work. I fear they may be a little late...
(Also, are these guys mooks or what?)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
(Also, are these guys mooks or what?)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
Climate ‘Ideology’ Hurts Prosperity, Top U.S. Officials Tell Europeans
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Aggressive whale oil salesman
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America dispatches top officials to inform Europeans that their wind turbines won't work. I fear they may be a little late...
(Also, are these guys mooks or what?)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
(Also, are these guys mooks or what?)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
Climate ‘Ideology’ Hurts Prosperity, Top U.S. Officials Tell Europeans
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
America dispatches top officials to inform Europeans that their wind turbines won't work. I fear they may be a little late...
(Also, are these guys mooks or what?)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
(Also, are these guys mooks or what?)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...
Bring down those bills!
The US is building a record amount of electricity generation capacity in 2025 to meet rapidly growing demand. And its overwhelmingly clean energy, with a bit of gas. Meanwhile the Trump administration wants to stop permitting of new solar and wind projects.
August 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bring down those bills!
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This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.
We ship 11 billion tonnes of stuff around the world and 40% of that is fossil fuels.
Baltimore shipping channel reopened after explosion on cargo ship near site of 2024 bridge collapse
Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion aboard a cargo ship that was leaving the Port of Baltimore when it issued a mayday call.
apnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.
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I got to be a guest host on the Open Curcuit podcast with @stephenlacey.bsky.social & @cleangridview.bsky.social this week, & here’s how we talked about the One Big Beautiful Bill & what it does to raise costs, raise emissions, & reduce reliability. 🔌💡 Listen: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
July 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I got to be a guest host on the Open Curcuit podcast with @stephenlacey.bsky.social & @cleangridview.bsky.social this week, & here’s how we talked about the One Big Beautiful Bill & what it does to raise costs, raise emissions, & reduce reliability. 🔌💡 Listen: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
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Late last week, a federal court upheld a landmark rule that’s meant to spur the electrification of certain boilers and water heaters across greater Los Angeles: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... via @mariagallucci.bsky.social 🔌💡
Court upholds a landmark clean-heat rule in Southern California
The first-in-the-nation regulation, passed last year, will cut NOx emissions from more than 1 million boilers and water heaters in the smoggy Los Angeles…
www.canarymedia.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Late last week, a federal court upheld a landmark rule that’s meant to spur the electrification of certain boilers and water heaters across greater Los Angeles: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... via @mariagallucci.bsky.social 🔌💡
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Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away.
July 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away.
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The reconciliation bill is a threat to grid reliability. The new senate language released last night will kill and delay projects we need to meet growing electricity demand. www.realclearenergy.org/articles/202...
www.realclearenergy.org
June 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The reconciliation bill is a threat to grid reliability. The new senate language released last night will kill and delay projects we need to meet growing electricity demand. www.realclearenergy.org/articles/202...
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
June 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡
“Everyone” can support our dear leader by not driving and flying! That’s right he said everyone!
With oil prices up over 20% in the past month — and the situation in Iran making things worse — Trump sends a message to “everyone”
June 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“Everyone” can support our dear leader by not driving and flying! That’s right he said everyone!
This is good news, and cannot wait to see some of these duckbills on our roads
A reprieve for the USPS trucks:
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is good news, and cannot wait to see some of these duckbills on our roads
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A reprieve for the USPS trucks:
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A reprieve for the USPS trucks:
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
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Thinking about the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways continuum, among other things, this morning... #climate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_...
June 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thinking about the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways continuum, among other things, this morning... #climate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_...
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The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.
June 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.
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The just released text of the Senate Budget bill mandates the sale of 2-3 million acres of public lands to fossil fuel companies and developers. Resist.
🚨 Senate Republicans are at it again — trying to sneak a massive public lands sell-off into their budget bill.
June 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The just released text of the Senate Budget bill mandates the sale of 2-3 million acres of public lands to fossil fuel companies and developers. Resist.
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The GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" takes money from people who can't afford food and health care and gives it to those who can afford first class travel and second homes. And this analysis excludes impacts on energy costs, which will also go up and are highly regressive. See repeatproject.org/reports 🔌💡
June 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
June 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
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Fervo announces new progress on geothermal drilling: deeper, faster, hotter
www.linkedin.com/posts/timlat... 🔌💡
www.linkedin.com/posts/timlat... 🔌💡
Fervo Energy Drills 15,000-FT, 500°F Geothermal Well, Pushing the Envelope… | Tim Latimer | 21 comments
Excited to announce Fervo Energy's latest field results, where we have set a new standard for deep geothermal well drilling with the Sugarloaf Appraisal well: 15,000+ feet, 500°F. All in just 16 d...
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June 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Fervo announces new progress on geothermal drilling: deeper, faster, hotter
www.linkedin.com/posts/timlat... 🔌💡
www.linkedin.com/posts/timlat... 🔌💡
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Top climate priorities:
1. Electrify everything. Yes even that.
2. Stop burning anything for energy. Seriously.
3. Build and install as much solar PV and batteries as you have money for using the latest technology.
If we don’t do these 3 things as fast as possible our civilisation might be lost.
1. Electrify everything. Yes even that.
2. Stop burning anything for energy. Seriously.
3. Build and install as much solar PV and batteries as you have money for using the latest technology.
If we don’t do these 3 things as fast as possible our civilisation might be lost.
June 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Top climate priorities:
1. Electrify everything. Yes even that.
2. Stop burning anything for energy. Seriously.
3. Build and install as much solar PV and batteries as you have money for using the latest technology.
If we don’t do these 3 things as fast as possible our civilisation might be lost.
1. Electrify everything. Yes even that.
2. Stop burning anything for energy. Seriously.
3. Build and install as much solar PV and batteries as you have money for using the latest technology.
If we don’t do these 3 things as fast as possible our civilisation might be lost.
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But the TLDR here is that we've actually significantly improved our reliability position in the last 4 years, largely by deploying boatloads of solar, wind and energy storage.
June 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
But the TLDR here is that we've actually significantly improved our reliability position in the last 4 years, largely by deploying boatloads of solar, wind and energy storage.
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@brendan.bsky.social Interesting. You’d be hard-pressed to find that message in the past several years of their reports & press releases.
June 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
@brendan.bsky.social Interesting. You’d be hard-pressed to find that message in the past several years of their reports & press releases.
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Just another way Trump is jacking up energy bills for everyday Americans: he's keeping expensive, dirty coal plants open that no one wants or needs. Not even the utilities who own the plants!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...
Coal and Gas Plants Were Closing. Then Trump Ordered Them to Keep Running.
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just another way Trump is jacking up energy bills for everyday Americans: he's keeping expensive, dirty coal plants open that no one wants or needs. Not even the utilities who own the plants!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...
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A new Carrier home heat pump is designed for cold (and hot) climates: "The new product is also claimed to operate “reliably” at -30 C (-22 F) and to achieve 100% heating capacity at -17 C (1 F), with full cooling capacity being achievable at 50 C (122 F)." www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/05/c... 🔌💡
Carrier debuts residential heat pump for cold climates
The U.S. heating specialist said its new heat pump system can operate "reliably" at -30 C and achieve 100% heating capacity at -17 C, with full cooling capacity being achievable at 50 C.
www.pv-magazine.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A new Carrier home heat pump is designed for cold (and hot) climates: "The new product is also claimed to operate “reliably” at -30 C (-22 F) and to achieve 100% heating capacity at -17 C (1 F), with full cooling capacity being achievable at 50 C (122 F)." www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/05/c... 🔌💡