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Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program In Sacramento | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/victory-court-ends-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-in-sacramento/

Sharing the benefits of grid-scale batteries and solar/wind by trading in western US. The current 15 minute market in California Now going to day ahead market.
(I think made possible with recent massive grid-scale batteries allows evening out of renewables)
California now runs 5pm-8pm electricity use on batteries. Turn off more plants cuz can plan for a full day.
Thoughtful article on wholesale electricity grid coordination markets. Sounds dry, but cool:

Economic Bidding Strategy of Electric Vehicles in Real-Time Electricity Markets based on Marginal Opportunity Value
Zhen Zhu, Hongcai Zhang, Yonghua Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00744

Economic Bidding Strategy of Electric Vehicles in Real-Time Electricity Markets based on Marginal Opportunity Value
The participation of electric vehicle (EV) aggregators in real-time electricity markets offers promising revenue opportunities through price-responsive energy arbitrage. A central challenge in economic bidding lies in quantifying the marginal opportunity value of EVs' charging and discharging decisions. This value is implicitly defined and dynamically shaped by uncertainties in electricity prices and availability of EV resources. In this paper, we propose an efficient bidding strategy that enab…

Western Australia just broke ground on its biggest electricity grid upgrade in over a decade. The Clean Energy Link will double transmission capacity in Perth's north, clearing the way for massive wind and solar expansion while enabling the state's coal exit by 2030.
Over 400 jobs created, completion set for 2027.

Construction kicks off on major upgrade of transmission links to host renewables and clear path for coal exit
Construction has begun on four key electricity transmission sites for the largest investment in state's electricity grid in more than a decade.

Bizarre and unworkable range of forecasts for total electricity demand by data centers in the Netherlands, just 5 years from now.
From 8 TWh (just 1 TWh more than now) by data center association DDA, to 26 TWh ( 19 TWh) by TenneT and other grid operators.
https://energeia.nl/s…

Stroomverbruik datacenters: wil de echte prognose opstaan? | Energeia
Prognoses over hoe snel de databranche in Nederland kan groeien lopen sterk uiteen. Opvattingen verschillen over de invloed van AI, congestie en trage vergunningverlening. "Iedereen roept dat het verbruik hard zal groeien. Maar er is een verschil tussen hard en heel erg hard."

#Agrivoltaics is the practice of purposefully shading agricultural crop lands with solar panels
in order to enjoy the dual benefits of solar electricity and increased food production.
A new study I
co-authored with my colleague, Uzair Jamil, found that
👍 partial shading to benefit crop production even works when the solar panels do not.
This has interesting policy ramific…

How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions
Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.

Coal has been gone for 1 year in UK electricity generation as of end of September - I'm surprised I've not seen anything celebrating that.

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples
CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y.

⚡ Anomalous electronic state opens pathway to room-temperature superconductivity
#superconductivity

Anomalous electronic state opens pathway to room-temperature superconductivity
Superconductive materials can conduct electricity with no resistance, but typically only at very low temperatures. Realizing superconductivity at room temperature could enable advanced, energy-efficient electronics and other technologies.

The Betrayal of Ukraine: Peace, Power, and the Price of Electricity
How Farage, Musk, Thiel and the Trumps hope to profit from the surrender of Ukraine
https://www.theangrydogs.com/p/the-betrayal-of-ukraine-peace-power

16WW Energy Series Dataset - Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset -

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

"Energy storage could cut Brazil’s electricity system costs 16% in 2029"
#Brazil #Energy #Batteries

Energy storage could cut Brazil’s electricity system costs 16% in 2029
Storage is essential to expand renewables penetration and ensure grid flexibility, according to a study by consultants PSR. Regulatory and tax barriers still limit the sector, however, and new revenue sources are needed to make projects viable.

Successfully switched an old Chromebox to running Ubuntu Server last night. This one will probably wind up at my parents' place, and I'll grab another mini PC for here, so I'll have geo-redundant, ISP-redundant backups that don't require a cloud, on hardware low-power enough that electricity use is a rounding error.

Looks like some people at HEC #Montreal have put together a dashboard with data (primarily demand/production) from our electricity utility, Hydro #Quebec.
Pretty interesting; especially given the excess demand this past week.

“Bidirectional charging, where your car’s battery provides backup power to the grid or your home, is on the cusp of transforming how EVs interact with the electricity network. The technology turns your car into a mobile energy storage unit [..] allowing electricity to flow both ways.”
https://www.…

In den #USA ist der #Stromverbrauch 2025 zwar gestiegen, doch der starke Ausbau der #Solarenergie konnte über 80 Prozent des Mehrbedarfs ausgleichen.
Während der Zubau bei

Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
Over the course of 2025, electricity demand has gradually declined.

Russia is forcing Ukrainians trapped in the illegally seized areas of Ukraine to adopt Russian citizenship or loose access to everything necessary for life.
Information control just as often means information deprivation.
Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy on the ground in Ukraine, where it is getting harder and harder to find electricity and an internet connection.
Friend link bypasses the paywall, please share and support Giorgio and Ukraine:

"Due to [nuclear's] cost and complexity, it will not provide cheap or low-emission electricity in timeframe or scale that matters as climate change continues to broil an indifferent civilization."
The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stori…

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked
An honest and imperfect response to the climate crisis would require a political, behavioural, economic and moral transition that would systematically reduce our energy and material consumption at an unprecedented pace. But that’s not an action any modern politician seems to be able to contemplate, let alone discuss.

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Lael Neale:
🎵 Electricity
#NowPlaying #LaelNeale
https://laelneale.bandcamp.com/track/electricity
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Mz98boQnqbJv0sFm74xqW

Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.

Zero bids came in to develop the zero-subsidy 1 GW Dutch offshore wind farm Nederwiek-1A.
The slow pace of electrification depresses electricity price forecasts, and the uncertainty that Europe's heavy industry faces doesn't help either.
With the prospect of subsidies next year this outcome was already feared.

Windparkbouwers hebben voor het eerst geen interesse in ruimte op Noordzee
Voor het eerst is de aanbesteding van een nieuw windpark op de Noordzee mislukt. Windparkbouwers konden zich de afgelopen weken inschrijven op het gebied Nederwiek-1A, maar geen enkel bedrijf heeft interesse getoond.

Your EV could soon power your home—and help stabilize the entire grid.
Hyundai and Kia are rolling out Vehicle-to-Grid and Vehicle-to-Home tech across Korea, Europe, and the U.S., turning electric cars into mobile power banks. The systems let EVs store renewable energy, cut electricity costs, and provide backup power during outages or peak demand.

Hyundai Motor Group Expands EV Energy Services with Vehicle to Grid and Vehicle to Home - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Hyundai Motor and Kia expand Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) services, enabling electric vehicles (EVs) to store, supply and share electricity with grids and homes Launch Korea’s first Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) pilot service for customers, supporting Jeju’s renewable-energy goals Expand Europe’s EV energy services by advancing from Smart Charging (V1G) service to ... [continued]

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Spiritualized:
🎵 Electricity
#Spiritualized
https://dewvelopine.bandcamp.com/track/electricity-spiritualized-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/510unyxy4oNWCbyRMajc0w

It's so windy in the UK right now that the electricity price is negative
https://grid.iamkate.com/

National Grid: Live
Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

When the UK's new nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C starts to produce power in 2030, its guaranteed 'strike price' will have risen to ~150 £/MWh (170 €/MWh). Average wholesale electricity prices will probably be around half of that, so that's a 50% subsidy.
At an annual production of 25 million MWh (3.2 GW in baseload), I'd say that's £1.9 billion per year in subsidies.

Uruguay used to rely heavily on oil & gas-based power.
But as the economy grew and electricity demand threatened to overtake supply from the early 2010s,
it needed to add additional generating capacity, and fast.
New hydro wasn’t an option as it had already made the most of that resource.
To chart the way forward, the president appointed Ramón Méndez Galain,
a particle physicist from the private sector,
as the country’s director of energy
— a pos…

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months
Uruguay achieves energy independence by running on 100% renewable energy for 10 consecutive months, setting a global sustainability example.

Freezing RUSSIA – without electricity and HEAT on the eve of winter #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/19/freezing-russia-without-electricity-and.html

Haines Junction, the third largest community in the #Yukon outside Whitehorse, has been without #electricity for over an hour. There is a local generator for backup, but it's not working. This is dangerous, as it is very

“The reforms would give more people access to domestic electricity rates, enabling families to run their EVs for as little as 2p per mile – the equivalent of London to Birmingham for £2.50.
[..]
The government will also work with Ofgem to ensure public costs are fair and strengthen protections against landowners overcharging tenants for home charging above the market rate.”

Government looks to slash red tape to make charging electric vehicles at home easier
Reforms will open up affordable home charging to thousands more households

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

Why was I today years old when I learned about bio-photovoltaics?
This is a technology which instead of using silicon wafers as the basis for photovoltaic cells, uses a sandwich comprising
1. A transparent window, to allow sunlight in;
2. Algae, to photosynthesise sugars;
3. A membrane to keep the algae separate from the bacteria;
4. Bacteria, which consume sugar and generate electricity;
5. A filter, to allow the biological components to breathe.
#1/2

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

"...no deaths were tallied in Cuba, more than 735,000 evacuated residents slowly returned home as the military helped to rescue people in isolated communities."
Cuba has for years done an excellent job in protecting people from hurricanes. But the impacts will still be a huge challenge to the besieged island. #EndTheBlockade!
Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hur…

Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hurricane Melissa destruction
Recovery efforts are under way across Jamaica after Melissa rips off roofs, cuts electricity and unleashes floodwaters.

Norwegian Electricity in Geographic Dataset (NoreGeo)
Shiliang Zhang, Sabita Maharjan, Kai Strunz, Jan Christian Bryne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09698 https://

Norwegian Electricity in Geographic Dataset (NoreGeo)
Geographic data is vital in understanding, analyzing, and contextualizing energy usage at the regional level within electricity systems. While geospatial visualizations of electricity infrastructure and distributions of production and consumption are available from governmental and third-party sources, these sources are often disparate, and compatible geographic datasets remain scarce. In this paper, we present a comprehensive geographic dataset representing the electricity system in Norway. We…

In case you missed it, as it was posted on a Friday afternoon: I've written some notes on how to map & survey using @CoMaps & @everydoor when one is trekking without any internet & electricity for a few days!
#OpenStreetMap

Anybody else see huge increases in electricity costs this year? No idea if it's AI datacenter buildout, removal of renewable subsidies, generally increased demand from population growth, or what.
But my rates on the January 6th bill were 11.54 c/kWh for the first 520 kWh and 13.48 after that.
On the December 5th bill, they were 15.09 and 17.03 respectively - a 30.7 and 26.3 percent increase.

❤️‍🔥 Heat-rechargeable design powers nanoscale molecular machines
#nanotechnology

Heat-rechargeable design powers nanoscale molecular machines
Though it might seem like science fiction, scientists are working to build nanoscale molecular machines that can be designed for myriad applications, such as "smart" medicines and materials. But like all machines, these tiny devices need a source of power, the way electronic appliances use electricity or living cells use ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the universal biological energy source).

"les voitures électriques compensent leur surcoût environnemental initial après seulement deux ans d’usage."
(Étude d'une équipe de Duke University, publiée dans PLOS Climate)
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journa…

Saving Electricity and Gas (2013) - Meter readings at home. - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2013.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2013)
Meter readings at home.

Our #residentialUtilities are provided by a city-owned company. We just got notice of the rate increases for 2026.
Electricity, 6%: an additional $5.10 per month (for someone using 620 kilowatt hours per month)
Water, 9%: an additional $4.08 per month (for someone using 7,000 gallons per month)
Wastewater, 8%: This adds $2.83 per month to a typical bill
Stormwat…

Empowering Prosumers: Incentive Design for Local Electricity Markets Under Generalized Uncertainty and Grid Constraints
P{\aa}l Forr Austnes, Matthieu Jacobs, Lu Wang, Mario Paolone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12318

Empowering Prosumers: Incentive Design for Local Electricity Markets Under Generalized Uncertainty and Grid Constraints
Since the 1990s, widespread introduction of central (wholesale) electricity markets has been seen across multiple continents, driven by the search for efficient operation of the power grid through competition. The increase of renewables has made significant impacts both on central electricity markets and distribution-level grids as renewable power generation is often connected to the latter. These stochastic renewable technologies have both advantages and disadvantages. On one hand they offer v…

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples
CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y.

From Bill McKibben
Yesterday was one of those days when you can feel the world shifting. The thinktank Ember reported that for the first half of 2025 renewable energy produced more electricity than coal. More to the point, solar and wind grew so fast that they covered all the growth in demand for electricity so far this year, with room to spare.

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/845831/ai-chips-data-center-power-water

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
AI data centers are using growing amounts of electricity and water, research shows, although companies aren’t divulging many details.

"M&S launches new programme to help suppliers source renewable electricity"
#Energy #Renewables

Donetsk region without electricity! Brutal Russian shelling of Ukrainian infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/donetsk-region-without-electricity-brutal.html

🥶 The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/11/03/energy/biggest-electricity-consumers-industrial-gases/
🆓

The world’s biggest consumers of electricity are hidden in plain sight
There’s an industry that consumes even more power than many tech giants, and it has largely escaped the same scrutiny: suppliers of industrial gases.

The architect of the London Eye wants to build a vast tidal power station in a 14-mile arc off the coast of Somerset
that could help Britain meet surging electricity demand to power artificial intelligence – and create a new race track to let cyclists skim over the Bristol Channel.
Julia Barfield, who designed the Eye and the i360 observation tower in Brighton, is part of a team that has drawn up the £11bn proposal.
It would use 125 underwater turbines to harness the power o…

16WW Electricity Profiles - 16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile - https://m.e…

16WW Electricity Profiles
16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile

Two better ideas not mentioned in the article:
1) Move standing charge to payment by unit.
2) Delink electricity price from gas.
1) helps those who use least energy (poorer people).
2) helps people shift to electricity from gas - decarbonising.
Rachel Reeves’s 5% VAT cut on electricity bills will backfire, experts say | Budget 2025 | The Guardian

The value of storage in electricity distribution: The role of storage
Dirk Lauinger, Deepjyoti Deka, Sungho Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12435 https://a…

The value of storage in electricity distribution: The role of storage
Electricity distribution companies deploy battery storage to defer grid upgrades by reducing peak demand. In deregulated jurisdictions, such storage often sits idle because regulatory constraints bar participation in electricity markets. Here, we develop an optimization framework that, to our knowledge, provides the first formal model of market participation constraints within storage investment and operation planning. Applying the framework to a Massachusetts case study, we find that market pa…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Laturb:
🎵 Electricity, Baby!
#NowPlaying #Laturb
https://lalalaturb.bandcamp.com/track/electricity-baby
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eMhdfGxBPm8rYleXC2xIo

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115418162054575248
From 2026 onwards, Austria 🇦🇹 will have a (moderate 20%) lower network tariff for electricity consumption during the hours increasingly dominated by solar electricity (10:00–16:00, April to Se…

Rep. Barragšn Introduces the Stop the Trump Electricity Price Hikes Act -
https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/2025/10/07/stop-trump-electricity-hikes/72650

16WW Energy Series Dataset - Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset -

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

AI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet soaring electricity demand amid permitting and supply challenges (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-efficient.html

Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second—but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, offers a potential solution to reduce peak energy consumption.

Update from Ukraine as the latest outrageous insult and threat are proposed as an absurdist "peace" plan.
Giorgio is on the ground in Ukraine, publishing when he gets access to electricity and an internet connection.
He shares the friend link so we can all help fight the information war by sharing truth and shining a light on the darkness that masquerades as human hearts within Trump and Putin.
Please support his work, truth, and the people of Ukraine - share the …

Interestingly a simple kWh/HDD regression for our full electricity imports fits reasonably well R^2>0.75) and gives a total year prediction close to that of our electricity supplier #Ecotricity partly because almost all imports are in winter for space heat...

16WW Heat-pump Control
Settings and control of the heat pump at 16WW. #heatPump #controls #DHW #spaceHeat

"Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/meta-enters-power-trading-to-support-a…

It’s hard to articulate just how quickly batteries for grid storage are coming online.
These massive arrays of cells can soak up electricity when sources like solar are available and prices are low,
and then discharge power back to the grid when it’s needed most.
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt-hour of battery storage capacity across the US.
That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding 35 gigawatt-hours by …

Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices Fall to $108 Per Kilowatt-Hour, Despite Rising Metal Prices: BloombergNEF | BloombergNEF
BloombergNEF’s new framework and scorecard provides a tool for investors to analyze country-level climate risk and resilience.

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

"Q&A: How ‘vehicle-to-grid’ technology could boost China’s electricity system"
#China #Energy

Q&A: How ‘vehicle-to-grid’ technology could boost China’s electricity system - Carbon Brief
China’s surging electric vehicles ownership is opening the door to a new technology that can help to enhance the flexibility of electricity supply

What if homeowners could control their own electricity flow and slash energy costs?
Schneider Electric and the National Lab of the Rockies have spent a decade exploring exactly that. They're developing smart panels and using AI to reimagine America's energy future—modeling scenarios for 2050 and quantifying how tech can deliver resilience and affordability.

Could American "Spirited Self-Determination" Reshape Energy? - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. How a Decades-Long Partnership Is Unearthing Answers to That and Other Electric Questions By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NLR In 2023, four members of Schneider Electric’s Global Research Team were touring a facility at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly ... [continued]

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

Why it’s important new electricity demand is flexible (e.g. EV smart charging/V2G, flexible heat pumps):
“Stimulating flexible demand by 8.3% benefits solar producers 31 per cent more than if new demand follows traditional patterns by increasing capture price for solar producers by 9.9 per cent”
https://

Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity.
“The program would require electricity retailers to provide free electricity to everyone for at least three hours a day"
https://kottke.org/25/11/0047800-australia-has-so-much-sol

Electricity demand from data centers powering the AI boom has caused a gas turbine supply crunch, as the US becomes the epicenter of new gas-fired power plants (Financial Times)

The fallout from the AI-fuelled dash for gas
A supply crunch in giant turbines for gas-powered plants threatens environmental and geopolitical consequences

One thing that's working in the Dutch energy transition (although further development of wind and solar is now slowing down). And we're not far from seeing this happen globally either.

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples
CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y.

16WW Energy Series Dataset - Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset -

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

The near deadlock on land has led to an alternative Ukrainian effort to win by economic means.
While Russia has stepped up bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
and residents of the country’s cities endure electricity outages,
Kyiv is still able to get power to the front,
its defences not obviously impaired.
And despite the regularity of Russian drone and missile attacks,
civilian morale appears not to have been significantly affected.
In retu…

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

"Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?"
#Australia #NetZero #Climate

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples
CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y.

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples
CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y.

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy
https://e360.yale.edu/featur…

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

Saving Electricity and Gas (2009) - Meter readings at home. - https://m.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2009.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2009)
Meter readings at home.

"Nearly half of solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, says DNV"
#Batteries #Energy #SolarPower

Nearly half of solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, says DNV
DNV's Energy Transition Outlook 2025 report also predicts that distributed generation solar should begin outpacing utility-scale installations in some parts of the world by 2060. It adds that the levelized cost of electricity for solar is beginning to plateau and is expected to slow to an annual drop below 1% by the 2050s.

"Saudi Arabia connects 7.8 GWh battery storage project to grid"
#SaudiArabia #Batteries #Energy

Saudi Arabia connects 7.8 GWh battery storage project to grid
Saudi Electricity Co. has completed a massive storage project across three sites, enhancing grid stability and renewable integration. Once fully operational, the installation will become the world’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS).

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon -

Saving Electricity and Gas
Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon

"South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments"
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Saving Electricity and Gas (2009) - Meter readings at home. - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2009.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2009)
Meter readings at home.

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Saving Electricity and Gas
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On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples
CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y.

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html

On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples
CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y.

16WW Energy Series Dataset - Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset -

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

Saving Electricity (2025) - Meter readings at home #defossilisation #fossilFree - https://www.earth.org.u…

Saving Electricity (2025)
Meter readings at home #defossilisation #fossilFree

Saving Electricity (2025) - Meter readings at home #defossilisation #fossilFree - https://www.earth.org.u…

Saving Electricity (2025)
Meter readings at home #defossilisation #fossilFree