sidsareen
@sidsareen.bsky.social
Oslo-based. Research Professor at The Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Professor II at the University of Bergen. Energy social science expert on the governance of transitions.
In a world of selfish authoritarians, be a plugged-in politician like Mamdani in NYC. Work for everyone, not to grab for yourself.
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new.
They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.
It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.
It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In a world of selfish authoritarians, be a plugged-in politician like Mamdani in NYC. Work for everyone, not to grab for yourself.
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🔋New dialogue in Geo!🔋
'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo
'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo
August 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🔋New dialogue in Geo!🔋
'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo
'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo
"Ensconcement offers an epistemological and developmental tool to study and understand past injustices in order to co-create ways to address them — upholding the vital principles of democracy, transparency and accountability to a high standard."
Our latest work: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/gove...
Our latest work: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/gove...
Governing land, landscapes and infrastructure for a just energy transition [Commentary]
India’s renewable energy transition is accelerating, marked by a drop in fossil fuel power generation and a push for green investment.
india.mongabay.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Ensconcement offers an epistemological and developmental tool to study and understand past injustices in order to co-create ways to address them — upholding the vital principles of democracy, transparency and accountability to a high standard."
Our latest work: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/gove...
Our latest work: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/gove...
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I'm happy to share that our Special Issue is now complete, and our editorial introduction has just been published in Sustainability Science!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@sidsareen.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social @empoweredfutures.bsky.social @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social
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@sidsareen.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social @empoweredfutures.bsky.social @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social
The dawn of solar photovoltaics: emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus - Sustainability Science
Solar power is the most rapidly growing energy source worldwide. Solar turn holds potential for a significant shift to renewable energy and swift reductions in carbon emissions. Yet, as a land- and re...
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July 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm happy to share that our Special Issue is now complete, and our editorial introduction has just been published in Sustainability Science!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@sidsareen.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social @empoweredfutures.bsky.social @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@sidsareen.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social @empoweredfutures.bsky.social @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social
In the world of 2025, bet like China on an electro-state future, not like the US on being a petro-state. Wish Norway would embrace the first right proper instead of desperately clinging to the latter as it fades. Today, build like it's for tomorrow, not as you recall from yesterday.
Sobering piece in @nytimes.com compares China's advances in clean energy to the U.S.'s retrenchment in fossil fuels. Hard to read at a moment when the U.S. is giving up on a more affordable, healthier, and more sustainable future.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In the world of 2025, bet like China on an electro-state future, not like the US on being a petro-state. Wish Norway would embrace the first right proper instead of desperately clinging to the latter as it fades. Today, build like it's for tomorrow, not as you recall from yesterday.
Spain responding rightly to an astute and evidenced understanding of the outage by improving technical systems support to continue exponential expansion of renewable energy. The fossil fuel lobby cannot win over facts in a competitive market with informed governance and management of energy systems.
1/6 After April’s huge power outage, Spain is responding with climate leadership—not in spite of the crisis, but because of it.
A new proposed law would ramp up renewables, storage & electrification to make 🇪🇸's grid cleaner, more reliable, & independent.
www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...
A new proposed law would ramp up renewables, storage & electrification to make 🇪🇸's grid cleaner, more reliable, & independent.
www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...
www.lamoncloa.gob.es
June 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Spain responding rightly to an astute and evidenced understanding of the outage by improving technical systems support to continue exponential expansion of renewable energy. The fossil fuel lobby cannot win over facts in a competitive market with informed governance and management of energy systems.
He's here, he's live! Catch @jonworth.eu on livestream from @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y726...
Jon Worth is live
YouTube video by Jon Worth
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June 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
He's here, he's live! Catch @jonworth.eu on livestream from @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y726...
A useful overview of electrification and deep decarbonisation, pointing out the need for a lot more electricity production to move towards net zero targets.
In order to keep global warming below 1.5C or 2C, we need to move industrial activity to clean energy. This will MORE THAN DOUBLE our global need for electricity.
We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting.
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We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting.
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June 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A useful overview of electrification and deep decarbonisation, pointing out the need for a lot more electricity production to move towards net zero targets.
Looking forward to hosting @jonworth.eu tomorrow @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social - he'll address European railway politics, a theme there's widespread interest in and a cause there's momentum for! Join us at 11 if interested :) (venue: Spisestuen, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A, 1366 Lysaker)
As my train heads towards Oslo, final call for #CrossBorderRail events tmrw 20 Jun
11:00-12:00 - speech at Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Spisestuen), Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A Lysaker
15:00-20:00 - informal at Prindsen Hage, Chr. Krohgs gate 15 Oslo
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
11:00-12:00 - speech at Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Spisestuen), Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A Lysaker
15:00-20:00 - informal at Prindsen Hage, Chr. Krohgs gate 15 Oslo
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
#CrossBorderRail Finale 2025 - Events - #CrossBorderRail
Throughout the #CrossBorderRail finale there will be a series of events, meetings and tours. However unlike previous projects my network in the areas I am visiting is rather thin, so at the moment the...
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu
June 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Looking forward to hosting @jonworth.eu tomorrow @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social - he'll address European railway politics, a theme there's widespread interest in and a cause there's momentum for! Join us at 11 if interested :) (venue: Spisestuen, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A, 1366 Lysaker)
Beautiful peaceful protest against the man who would be king, a song for a free country.
Thousands sing "This Land is Your Land" during a 'No Kings' protest in Napa, CA.
June 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Beautiful peaceful protest against the man who would be king, a song for a free country.
Beautiful stuff. In a world with so much going wrong, nice to see a few things going right.
World’s largest 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery commissioned in Finland www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/11/w...
World’s largest 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery commissioned in Finland
Finnish startup Polar Night Energy has commissioned the world’s largest sand battery in Pornainen, southern Finland. The industrial-scale system delivers 1 MW of thermal power with 100 MWh storage cap...
www.pv-magazine.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Beautiful stuff. In a world with so much going wrong, nice to see a few things going right.
Such a treat to witness the mesmerising @buggewesseltoft.bsky.social (twice!), the awesome @harukimurakami.bsky.social with sage reflections, and the one and only Mari Boina who evocatively recited a Palestinian poem and called for an end to the Israeli genocide. Packed house and a standing ovation.
June 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Such a treat to witness the mesmerising @buggewesseltoft.bsky.social (twice!), the awesome @harukimurakami.bsky.social with sage reflections, and the one and only Mari Boina who evocatively recited a Palestinian poem and called for an end to the Israeli genocide. Packed house and a standing ovation.
Lovely to be in beautiful Bergen for the kickoff of the ECOBUDGETS project about sustainability budgeting related to municipal work on climate and land use planning. Useful reflections shared to inform my role as an advisor on this @uibcet.bsky.social collaboration with a range of societal partners.
June 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Lovely to be in beautiful Bergen for the kickoff of the ECOBUDGETS project about sustainability budgeting related to municipal work on climate and land use planning. Useful reflections shared to inform my role as an advisor on this @uibcet.bsky.social collaboration with a range of societal partners.
Death of a glacier, climate murder, indifferent = complicit.
Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...
Properly staggering! 😮😱
Properly staggering! 😮😱
May 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Death of a glacier, climate murder, indifferent = complicit.
Bearing witness: apocalypse now. For this glacier anyway.
INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
May 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Bearing witness: apocalypse now. For this glacier anyway.
This train is gonna gather speed.
NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
May 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This train is gonna gather speed.
Good things come in twos! Here's a nifty summary takeaway and links to two latest pieces by @jeremywallace.bsky.social
Great article! My takeaways:
1) Is grid-scale BESS integration slower (relative to solar) than we'd expect?
2) Absent faster storage integration or more clean firm generation, coal usage will be sticky. That's why electrification sees China ADD coal capacity, albeit with an altered usage profile.
1) Is grid-scale BESS integration slower (relative to solar) than we'd expect?
2) Absent faster storage integration or more clean firm generation, coal usage will be sticky. That's why electrification sees China ADD coal capacity, albeit with an altered usage profile.
I wrote a thing. Strike that. I wrote two things.
1. China's energy megabases matter. China is the first electrostate, and its megabases are key pieces that will help make the energy transition clean (even if there's still some coal).
www.thewirechina.com/2025/05/11/t...
1. China's energy megabases matter. China is the first electrostate, and its megabases are key pieces that will help make the energy transition clean (even if there's still some coal).
www.thewirechina.com/2025/05/11/t...
May 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Good things come in twos! Here's a nifty summary takeaway and links to two latest pieces by @jeremywallace.bsky.social
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This paper will be in a special collection edited by shining solar scholar @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues. The Dawn of Photovoltaics.. Please check out these exceptional papers. #agrivoltaics #agriculture #landusechange #energysky 🏜️🔌💡https://link.springer.com/collections/aaigciigef
May 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This paper will be in a special collection edited by shining solar scholar @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues. The Dawn of Photovoltaics.. Please check out these exceptional papers. #agrivoltaics #agriculture #landusechange #energysky 🏜️🔌💡https://link.springer.com/collections/aaigciigef
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🖊️ Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present #Transformations: a short report from our colleagues on the topic, proceedings and planned outputs of the Oslo workshop helmed by @sidsareen.bsky.social and Sirkku Juhola under www.cost-transformers.eu.
sustainablecz.org/2025/05/13/r...
sustainablecz.org/2025/05/13/r...
Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present Transformations Workshop in Oslo
The recent collaborative workshop held in Oslo on 15–16 April brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of 32 scholars and practitioners from across 18 countries, including David S…
sustainablecz.org
May 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🖊️ Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present #Transformations: a short report from our colleagues on the topic, proceedings and planned outputs of the Oslo workshop helmed by @sidsareen.bsky.social and Sirkku Juhola under www.cost-transformers.eu.
sustainablecz.org/2025/05/13/r...
sustainablecz.org/2025/05/13/r...
Way cool.
The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.
Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...
May 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Way cool.
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New Essay by @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues:
"Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment"
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
"Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment"
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment
In this essay we argue for what we term ‘dynamic evaluation’ of transport policies. In a time of increasing political polarization of public transport, dynamic evaluations involve a broader scope of f...
journals.plos.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New Essay by @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues:
"Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment"
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
"Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment"
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Double whammy and the power of cascading effects to amplify system risks.
This is the best information we have so far on the blackout in Spain/Portugal.
First one power station/plant stopped supplying power, but the system was able to restore the correct frequency/voltage, then 1.5 seconds later another one stopped too, and the system was unable to cope.
1/?
First one power station/plant stopped supplying power, but the system was able to restore the correct frequency/voltage, then 1.5 seconds later another one stopped too, and the system was unable to cope.
1/?
www.rtve.es
April 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Double whammy and the power of cascading effects to amplify system risks.
Common wealth, not "walling in and walling out", argues Carmen Mapis in the Frostian tradition of 'Mending wall' in this op-ed against luxury privatisation of Norwegian nature: www.nrk.no/ytring/hygge.... 'Hyggeplyndring' is a cheeky coinage riffing off of 'hytteplyndring' to drive home a key point!
Hyggeplyndring
Hyttekosen stenger fjellet for fellesskapet.
www.nrk.no
April 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Common wealth, not "walling in and walling out", argues Carmen Mapis in the Frostian tradition of 'Mending wall' in this op-ed against luxury privatisation of Norwegian nature: www.nrk.no/ytring/hygge.... 'Hyggeplyndring' is a cheeky coinage riffing off of 'hytteplyndring' to drive home a key point!
Terrifyingly fascinating, reminding us that energy access is among the most fundamental aspects of our societies. Useful thread, a real-time info service.
Wow! Huge power outage in Spain/Portugal. Just managed to pull this from the Spanish grid operator's website before it timed out. Demand cratered from 25GW to less than 10GW in an instant. 🔌💡
April 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Terrifyingly fascinating, reminding us that energy access is among the most fundamental aspects of our societies. Useful thread, a real-time info service.
Days of our lives, in increasing frequency going swiftly forward.
So, Spain, Portugal and South of France having a live practice of their emergency readiness then?
www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...
www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...
LIVE Store dele af Spanien og Portugal ramt af strømafbrydelser | Udland | DR
www.dr.dk
April 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Days of our lives, in increasing frequency going swiftly forward.