Europe's power costs plunge as gas-led heating season ends:

Europe's households and businesses are starting to get a reprieve from high energy bills as regional power costs fall sharply from their 2025 peaks.

More here:

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

This week on SHIFT KEY: Texas is an energy superpower, historically embracing a true all-of-the-above strategy. You could call it a winning formula for "energy dominance." But the Texas legislature might blow all that up, putting ideology ahead of economic pragmatism. heatmap.news/podcast/shif... 🔌💡

"Building new power plants in Texas is about religion."
The state pledged billions for more gas power. What does it mean for the power grid, costs and the climate?
All that and more in the season finale of The Disconnect.
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Just sent my last Tweet. Joined March 2009, sent 62,800 Tweets to up to 70,000 followers. But it's over. Now that Musk's X-AI has bought Xitter, it clearly only exists to create training data for Grok. I'm not interested in his Great Human Replacement Theory, so I'm now active here and on LinkedIn.

Absolutely floored by this investigation on land grant universities out today from @gristnews.bsky.social. Everyone needs to read this:

"Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy."
grist.org/project/equi...

New reporting from @maeveallsup.bsky.social and @lisamartinejenkins.bsky.social on today's layoffs and the end of a "weird, quiet limbo" at the Department of Energy. DOGE is in the building. Russ Vought and Elon Musk are finally bringing their plan to inflict maximum cruelty to DOE.

More than $400 million in EPA "Solar for All" funding for Harris County and other Texas-based groups remains frozen.

This jeopardizes plans to expand access to rooftop solar panels & battery storage systems in disadvantaged communities across the state. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

We brought in extraordinary people into the DOE. For folks to just cut people on probation (less than a year at DOE) means that many talented folks that are experts in their field won’t be available for the important work of electricity abundance or in a crisis. Reach out to them if you are hiring!

#Microgrid and #distributedenergyresource providers who can take advantage of #demandresponse programs in wholesale #energy markets aren't stepping up, according to a new report from the nonprofit Energy Systems Integration Group.

www.microgridknowledge.com/distributed-...

$30 billion to $33 billion in new power lines are needed in Texas, in large part to support more data centers, oil & gas electrification and crypto miners.

But everyday residents, small businesses could pay "disproportionately" more for this infrastructure: www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

Fire-wracked LA, facing its worst natural disaster in decades, has never needed FEMA more. Now, President Trump has questioned whether the agency the US turns to whenever major disasters strike should continue to play that role.

My latest @bloomberg.com (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It may take more than a Sharpie pen and White House cheerleading to change #naturalgas output levels in the United States.

Beware #Egypt's smokestack onshoring as cement exports surge!
North Africa's largest economy and second-largest #naturalgas producer has stepped up the production and export of several highly #energy-intensive commodities as part of efforts to accelerate the growth of its #industrial sector.

Happy new year from Brussels, where one man is on everyone's mind.

President-elect Trump could deal a "serious blow" to global efforts to address climate change, EU climate commissioner @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu told us in an interview.

Read it here 👇

www.reuters.com/business/env...

The world just experienced the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists said reut.rs/426s3o8

🇬🇱 Major ice loss from Greenland is exposing the island’s natural resources, inadvertently making some of the world’s largest untapped critical mineral reserves more accessible.

✍️ Here's the full story:

www.cnbc.com/2025/01/17/g...

But the climate impact of the sharp swell in output of such energy-intensive and high-polluting products remains an important unknown, due to relatively lax reporting standards compared to parts of Europe, North America and Asia. Full column here:
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

this project looks great - it sounds like Pando has found a winning solution for multi-unit residential EV charging

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

1/20

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