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Renewable Tuesday: Make Noise and Find Out [1]

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Date: 2025-02-18

Cue the self-inflicted disasters. Cue the screaming. Keep your cool, and be ready to take advantage when the chaos and confusion comes down on those sowing the chaos and confusion. Did you hear about the maladministration firing nuclear safety engineers, and the discovering that we NEED nuclear safety engineers, but they had turned off the e-mail accounts of the nuclear safety engineers, and couldn’t think how to tell them to come back to work? No, sorry, they can’t think at all.

This is the level of management strategery that gave us the Chernobyl meltdown.

I knew I didn’t want the Feds or the Russians or anybody messing around with nukes, and this is one more good reason not to.

And now the maladministration is out to shoot all of its voters in the pocketbook.

x #ResistanceEarth

#BlueEarth

#Voices4Victory About 80% of the billions in green energy spending was set to go to Repub-leaning districts. The grants and tax credits were also spurring private investment. It's unlikely the districts will see any of the money now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...



[image or embed] — Shooti (@bambooshooti.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM

x Billions at stake: Red states in 'panic' over Trump promise to 'roll back' green energy

Story by Alex Henderson • 18h • 2 min read

www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...



[image or embed] — William Dekmetzian (@wizepenguin.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM

And now Russia has fired a drone at the Chernobyl containment vessel, the [censored] idiots. It only broke through the outer layer, so no extra radiation was released.

It’s actually all right. No such rollback is possible in the face of real market forces. The most that this maladministration knows how to do is cut off future licenses and funding for such things as offshore wind, which will boom under the next President. EVs other than Tesla will be fine. Solar will be fine. Coal continues to die the Death of a Billion Cuts. Gas is approaching its peak and inevitable decline.

But there is going to be a lot of noise made.

Denial and Obstruction

x It's not climate activists who are 'deluded', Mr Energy Secretary We see here the repetition of erroneous claims about energy costs made by Reform last week. Coordinated effort to gaslight Actually clean energy is the surest way to stabilise & reduce energy prices www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...



[image or embed] — Doug Parr (@dougparr.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM

x West Virginia could lose nearly $1.2 billion in wind energy investments due to proposed tax reforms that threaten a major $400 million project and thousands of jobs. Click to read more! #WV #EconomicDevelopment #TaxReform #WestVirginiaEnergy #RenewableEnergy #CitizenPortal



[image or embed] — Citizen Portal News West Virginia (@citizenptnewswv.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM

x Merz told public broadcaster ZDF, "I even believe that if we do things right, we can one day dismantle the wind turbines again — because they are ugly." 🤦🏼 www.dw.com/en/german-el...



[image or embed] — Amedeo Felix (@amedeofelix.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM

BlueSky Climate Feeds and Tags

Renewables Generally

Solar Energy

x A great dataset from @ember-energy.org EU imports of Chinese solar panels have steadied in quantity. Price continues to crash. data here - ember-energy.org/data/china-s...



[image or embed] — Ben McWilliams (@bmcwilliams.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM

x Here in sunny Florida I have 24 solar panels on my roof and have an EV. Average monthly power bill? $20/mo. This admin is not working for the little people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...



[image or embed] — Señor Cynical (@wndrin.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM

Wind Energy

x Global operational offshore wind capacity grew by 15% in 12 months. Each gigawatt of new capacity adds more than £2bn to the UK economy, and over 34,000 people work in the industry - www.renewableuk.com/news-and-res... #greenenergy #windpower #fossilfuels



[image or embed] — Andrew Robertson (@andyrobertson11.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM

x NEW I The historic Ukrainian Tyligulska wind farm secures backing that allows significant expansion to commence immediately #Ukraine #cleanenergy #windpower



[image or embed] — Anders Lorenzen (@alorenzen.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM

Geothermal Energy

Energy Storage

x China’s new energy storage manufacturing sector gets a boost with the release of an action plan aiming for global competitiveness by 2027. The plan focuses on innovation, industrial collaboration, and sustainable development in energy storage technologies.

#EnergyStorage #CleanEnergy

Read More 👇



[image or embed] — NewEnergyEra (@newenergyera.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM

x Lower costs and superior safety features make sodium-ion batteries a sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries, write #CSTEP researchers Pradeep Singh Narwariya and @ammususanna.bsky.social in this article in the Solar Quarter. solarquarter.com/2025/02/17/o... #EnergyStorage



[image or embed] — CSTEP (@cstep-india.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM

Electric Vehicles

x California is the next big battleground for Trump's EPA, and EVs are right in the crosshairs. Plus, Tesla is in the middle of a stock rout, and more drama surfaces amid the scuttled Honda-Nissan merger. insideevs.com/news/750930/...



[image or embed] — InsideEVs (@insideevs.com) February 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM

x High energy density SiC semiconductor process technologies have been a major force in the transition to electric vehicles. In its wake is the prospect of all-electric, high-volume manufacturing facilities eliminating the need for fossil fuels. For the... https://www.embedded.com/?p=4493697 — embedded.com (@embedded-online.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Green Steel and Cement

x In a proud moment for the nation, a professor from Karachi has successfully developed an environment-friendly cement that will significantly reduce carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional cement. Read story:

theasianmirror.com/top-stories/... #Karachi #Cement



[image or embed] — The Asian Mirror (@theasianmirror.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM

Renewable Energy Jobs

x Join us at the Solar Careers Hub at South Thames College on 5th March! Meet Dean, our Apprentice Electrician, and Sara, our Project Engineer. Discover exciting career paths in solar and energy storage. Come say hi!

@solarenergyuk.bsky.social #SolarCareers #SolarEnergy



[image or embed] — Photon Energy (@photonenergy.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM

Agrivoltaics

Industrial Recycling

Nuclear Power

#NoNewNukes

x Dutton (paraphrase): "All the reputable modelling shows that #nuclear will be the most expensive form of power, but if I screech loud enough & long enough that it's the cheapest that's what will stick. Oh and we won't mention the waste.." #auspol #fantasy www.theguardian.com/environment/...



[image or embed] — Little Loud Guy (@littleloudguy.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM

x After 4yrs Council pulls 'out of nuclear waste dump group'

@UKLabour no community wants "such a monstrous carbuncle". To further burden future generations with new #nuclear expansion requiring radioactive waste to be stored on site indefinitely is immoral!

lincolnshireworld.com/news/environ...



[image or embed] — Together Against Sizewell C (@sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM

Countries and Regions

x 🚀 The #EU is on track to meet its 2025 target of 400GW of installed #solar capacity. And the 2030 target is “within reach” if it maintains the current pace of growth. 💨 Wind & ☀️ #SolarEnergy together, rose to 29% of EU electricity generation in 2024.

#GreenTransition #GreenPolicy #EduSky #GreenSky



[image or embed] — Join EduC (@joineduc.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM

x The striking thing about this chart isn't China's manufacturing dominance across key green technologies, but rather how far behind the US lags. The EU did better to protect its industrial base in the face of the first "China shock," which suggests domestic policies matter most.



[image or embed] — Esfandyar Batmanghelidj (@yarbatman.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM

x In 2012 Saudi Arabia announced plans to reach 41GW of solar capacity by 2032, at a cost of $110 billion. It now plans to get at least 50 per cent of its power from renewable energy by 2030, or some 130GW in total split into 58.7GW from solar and 40GW from wind. — cliffboz.bsky.social (@cliffboz.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM

x 🇮🇹 Yesterday wind power accounted for ~11% of Italy power generation (71GWh). Solar power was ~10% (68GWh). Hydro power was ~13% (84GWh). Geothermal power was ~2% (15GWh). Source: Terna #Italy #windenergy #solarenergy #hydroenergy #geothermalenergy



[image or embed] — altenergy.bsky.social (@altenergy.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Also

Yesterday wind power accounted for ~9% of New Zealand power generation (8.9GWh). Solar power was ~1% (0.7GWh). Hydro power was ~48% (46.8GWh). Geothermal power was ~22% (21.5GWh).

Yesterday wind power accounted for ~23% of Denmark power generation (28.3GWh). Solar power was ~10% (12.2GWh).

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