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Amy Harder @amyaharder.bsky.social · Jul 17

My last column for @cipherclimate.bsky.social:

With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change www.ciphernews.com/articles/wit...

With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change - Cipher News

The time horizon of addressing climate change and transitioning our massive energy system to cleaner resources is spectacularly mismatched for humanity and its societal pendulum swings.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 16

Money is the key to the energy transition. Today, a greater share is being invested into clean power sources, but less is flowing to new cleantech ideas and startups.

Bill Spindle shares data from the @iea.org and PitchBook in this #DataDive: www.ciphernews.com/articles/ami...

Amid evolving politics, cleantech financing reaches watershed moment - Cipher News

Money is the key to the energy transition. Today, a greater share is being invested into clean power sources, but less is flowing to new cleantech ideas and startups.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 16

With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change.

Read @amyaharder.bsky.social's Harder Line column for our final publication.

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With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change - Cipher News

The time horizon of addressing climate change and transitioning our massive energy system to cleaner resources is spectacularly mismatched for humanity and its societal pendulum swings.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 16

After four years of delivering clear, solutions-focused coverage of climate and energy, Cipher published its final reporting today.

I hope you’ll continue to follow our team as we continue this work in new ways: www.ciphernews.com/how-to-follo...

– @amyaharder.bsky.social, Executive Editor

How to follow Cipher's journalists - Cipher News

Cipher covers the latest news and provides expert analysis on the technological innovations and solutions we need to combat climate change and transform our global energy systems to reach a clean ener...

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 16

Exclusive -- Bill Gates on the climate cuts in Trump's big bill: "It wasn’t quite the evisceration that a complete lack of believing in climate change might have led to."

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Exclusive: Bill Gates on Trump’s big bill, AI and more - Cipher News

Gates told Cipher in an exclusive interview that the Trump administration’s recently enacted law rolling back many climate incentives was not as bad as could have been expected.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 14

The Cipher team reflects on the last four years of the publication and shares their thoughts on what's ahead for the energy transition.

Cipher will publish its final articles on Wednesday. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/the...

The Cipher team reflects on the last four years — and looks ahead - Cipher News

Cipher News has covered the global energy transition with an eye on the possible and a clear-eyed perspective.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 11

+ @amenasaiyid.bsky.social on President Trump's announcement of a 50% tariff on copper imports.
+ Anca Gurzu on a deadly heat wave across Europe.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 11

+ Bill Spindle on the battery company that took over the factory built by now failed Northvolt.
+ @catclifford.bsky.social on utilities looking for regulatory approval to increase customer rates.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 11

Check out our daily top reads & #HotTakes at ciphernews.com!

A few highlights from this week: ⬇️

Cipher - Climate Tech News

Cipher covers the latest news and provides expert analysis on the technological innovations and solutions we need to combat climate change and transform our global energy systems to reach a clean ener...

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 11

Asia and Europe each have well over 200 times more offshore wind power than North America, Anca Gurzu writes based on a report from the Global Wind Energy Council.

Check out the chart: www.ciphernews.com/articles/off...

Offshore wind is growing — except in North America - Cipher News

Asia and Europe each have well over 200 times more offshore wind power than North America, according to a recent report. The divide feels emblematic of this moment in time.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 10

Each week, we feature a photo that is somehow related to energy, the thing we all need but don’t notice until it’s expensive or gone. Email your ideas and photos to [email protected].

Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 10

Cipher reader and portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein Luke Pryor took this photo of the Wind Scylla, an offshore wind turbine installation vessel, from a train passing through New London, CT. Check out the wind turbine tower components visible next to the ship!

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 9

Under the hot blazing sun along the Gulf of Oman, @amenasaiyid.bsky.social got a first hand look at how Oman-based 44.01 Earth is harnessing nature to store CO2 under the jagged Hajar Mountains.

Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/har...

Harnessing nature to store CO2 - Cipher News

This demonstration project in the United Arab Emirates is showing how carbon dioxide can be stored in rocks.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 8

In the climate space, innovation in technology has outpaced new ideas in finance, write Dawn Lippert and Avra Van der Zee of Elemental Impact in a #Voices article.

We need financial innovation, they write. Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/tec...

Tech is outpacing finance — Here’s how to solve that - Cipher News

We need financial innovation: novel ways to invest in climate solutions that can bridge the scale gap and unlock essential technologies.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 7

Natural hydrogen is abundant under the Earth's surface and could end up being an important fuel of the future, writes @davetew.bsky.social of Step Function in a #Voices article.

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Hydrogen is everywhere - Cipher News

Natural hydrogen is abundant under the Earth's surface and could end up being an important fuel of the future.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 3

Each week, we feature a photo that is somehow related to energy, the thing we all need but don’t notice until it’s expensive or gone. Email your ideas and photos to [email protected].

Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 3

Cipher reader Shoko Carpenter took this photo on a floating island on Lake Titicaca, located on the border between Peru and Bolivia. This home is on one of more than 100 floating islands on the lake where the indigenous Uros people live.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 3

The United States overtook clean energy giant China to become the world’s leading investor in battery manufacturing last year, according to recent analysis from Rhodium Group.

That recent momentum, however, may be in jeopardy. www.ciphernews.com/articles/u-s...

U.S. leaps over China in battery investment — for now - Cipher News

The role reversal in battery-investment dominance is the result of two converging trends: tax credits in the U.S. and China pulling back its expenditures in the sector.

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Cat Clifford @catclifford.bsky.social · Jul 2

While lawmakers spar ad infinitum over the fate of clean energy tax credits in the megabill, one thing is certain: Energy demand is going up in this country and it is going to keep going up.

Real talk: How can we get more power fast?

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jul 2

@amenasaiyid.bsky.social reflects on returning to her home country of Pakistan to report on clean energy there.

She felt awe at towering wind turbines and heard inspiring stories of people creatively using clean energy.

Read more: www.ciphernews.com/articles/whi...

Home court advantage: Whirling turbines, solarized schools and of course, food poisoning - Cipher News

For Amena Saiyid, returning to Pakistan to report on clean energy both challenged her as a journalist and gave her an opportunity to see her home country with fresh eyes.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jun 30

Zephyr Power's full wind potential isn't being utilized by Pakistan largely because of aging infrastructure and poor government policies and planning,.

@amenasaiyid.bsky.social's on the ground reporting from Gharo, Sindh. www.ciphernews.com/articles/pak...

Pakistan’s wind power is going to waste - Cipher News

Pakistan's wind potential is not being fully utilized. Cipher toured Zephyr Power's 50-megawatt wind farm in the Sindh province to understand the problems facing the wind sector.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jun 27

What a difference a decade makes in energy investment trends. Back in 2015, fossil fuels dominated, according to @iea.org data.

Now, the electricity sector is out ahead. Read the latest #DataDive from Bill Spindle: www.ciphernews.com/articles/a-d...

A decade makes a huge difference in energy investment - Cipher News

Back in 2015, fossil fuels dominated the picture, amassing 30% more investments than electricity generation, grids and storage. Now, that ratio is reversing.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jun 26

Each week, we feature a photo that is somehow related to energy, the thing we all need but don’t notice until it’s expensive or gone. Email your ideas and photos to [email protected].

Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jun 26

@amyaharder.bsky.social snapped this photo during a rooftop lunch at one of the restaurants inside London's iconic Shard building with Anca Gurzu. Although solar (and even more so, rooftop solar) doesn't provide a big chunk of the United Kingdom's electricity, renewable power is growing.

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Cipher News @cipherclimate.bsky.social · Jun 25

The U.S. needs a lot more power — and fast. Meeting that demand in the near-term is going to mean building solar and storage, embracing demand flexibility and VPPs, putting demand near supply and a whole lot of grid-boosting technology.

Here's the playbook: www.ciphernews.com/articles/her...

Here are four fast solutions in the current ‘race’ for power - Cipher News

With the rise of artificial intelligence, increased domestic manufacturing and growing electrification of vehicles and more, electricity demand in the U.S. is expected to soar in the coming years.

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