Charlie
@ichaber.bsky.social
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If you aren’t outraged, ‘grab the pitchfork’ angry, you aren’t paying attention.
“What’s driving up Maine’s energy bills? Natural gas…renewable energy could help make electricity more affordable, despite efforts to scapegoat clean power”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
“What’s driving up Maine’s energy bills? Natural gas…renewable energy could help make electricity more affordable, despite efforts to scapegoat clean power”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
What’s driving up Maine’s energy bills? Natural gas.
A new report finds more renewable energy could help make electricity more affordable, despite efforts to scapegoat clean power for rising costs.
www.canarymedia.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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I'm not certain which chemistry will be the most prevalent, sodium-ion, aluminum, manganese, but it is clear the country that is driving this innovation and dominating vehicle technology is China.
China’s aluminum EV battery completes –25 °C trial with >92% efficiency, 20‑minute fast‑charge
Battery tested over 24 hours in sub-zero conditions under typical urban driving cycles.
carnewschina.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:04 AM
I'm not certain which chemistry will be the most prevalent, sodium-ion, aluminum, manganese, but it is clear the country that is driving this innovation and dominating vehicle technology is China.
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🚨 NEW | Counting energy from the perspective of the consumer, rather than the supplier, can help us better understand the dramatic changes sweeping the energy sector today 🔎🌪️⚡️
With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇
With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇
February 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
🚨 NEW | Counting energy from the perspective of the consumer, rather than the supplier, can help us better understand the dramatic changes sweeping the energy sector today 🔎🌪️⚡️
With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇
With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇
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Amazing how effective ICE car manufacturer’s marketing is!
EVs are (just) up 5.6% YoY - good.
But just because you add a plug to a Prius doesn’t make it “EV”. 🙄
No idea why @cleantechnica.bsky.social is pushing that greenwashing so hard lately
EVs are (just) up 5.6% YoY - good.
But just because you add a plug to a Prius doesn’t make it “EV”. 🙄
No idea why @cleantechnica.bsky.social is pushing that greenwashing so hard lately
Germany just quietly ripped in 2025 🇩🇪⚡
EV share jumped from 20.3% → 30.0% (+9.7 pts YoY)
BEVs alone rose 13.5% → 19.1% (+5.6 pts YoY)
BEV volumes up ~43% YoY
And monthly growth? Frequently +35–60% vs 2024.
That’s not “stalling.” That’s acceleration. 🔋📈 #EVs #Bettrification
EV share jumped from 20.3% → 30.0% (+9.7 pts YoY)
BEVs alone rose 13.5% → 19.1% (+5.6 pts YoY)
BEV volumes up ~43% YoY
And monthly growth? Frequently +35–60% vs 2024.
That’s not “stalling.” That’s acceleration. 🔋📈 #EVs #Bettrification
2025 EVs At 30.0% Share In Germany — Volkswagen ID.7 Best-Seller - CleanTechnica
December’s auto market saw plugin EVs at 34.5% share in Germany, up from 23.4% year on year. Full year 2025 saw EVs at 30.0% share.
cleantechnica.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Amazing how effective ICE car manufacturer’s marketing is!
EVs are (just) up 5.6% YoY - good.
But just because you add a plug to a Prius doesn’t make it “EV”. 🙄
No idea why @cleantechnica.bsky.social is pushing that greenwashing so hard lately
EVs are (just) up 5.6% YoY - good.
But just because you add a plug to a Prius doesn’t make it “EV”. 🙄
No idea why @cleantechnica.bsky.social is pushing that greenwashing so hard lately
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NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 AM
NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.
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Every marae, school, hospital, and critical civil building in this country should have solar panels and batteries installed and paid for by the government within the next five years, no excuses
February 17, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Every marae, school, hospital, and critical civil building in this country should have solar panels and batteries installed and paid for by the government within the next five years, no excuses
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Now do solar policy.
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Now do solar policy.
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This is hard to comprehend for what is the world's 4th largest economy. Gas down 55% since '23!
"California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025
And it's WINTER
Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% vs '23"
"California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025
And it's WINTER
Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% vs '23"
California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110 GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025
And it's WINTER
Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% ...
California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110 GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025
And it's WINTER
Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% vs '23
WWS has ...
www.linkedin.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This is hard to comprehend for what is the world's 4th largest economy. Gas down 55% since '23!
"California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025
And it's WINTER
Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% vs '23"
"California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025
And it's WINTER
Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% vs '23"
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STILL doesn't actually say 'climate change' in the article - does anyone with inside knowledge of RNZ know if some kind of guidelines have been issued? It's extremely conspicuous by its absence. Otherwise a good article and excellent comments from Mayor Wilde. #nzpol
South Wairarapa mayor says 'there are big concerns' after destructive storm
South Wairarapa mayor Fran Wilde said it was too soon to discuss the cost of the latest clean-up, but it wasn't too early to talk about the long-term challenges.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 16, 2026 at 9:41 PM
STILL doesn't actually say 'climate change' in the article - does anyone with inside knowledge of RNZ know if some kind of guidelines have been issued? It's extremely conspicuous by its absence. Otherwise a good article and excellent comments from Mayor Wilde. #nzpol
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From the talented Emma Cook...
February 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
From the talented Emma Cook...
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The world subsidises fossil fuels (oil and gas) to the tune of US$7 trillion dollars (NZD $11.6 trillion) a year
On the flipside, some part of Oz are investing in renewables and seeing electricity prices tumble by 30% in a year #nzpol #climate #kiwi
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On the flipside, some part of Oz are investing in renewables and seeing electricity prices tumble by 30% in a year #nzpol #climate #kiwi
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Why would New Zealand disestablish the Ministry of Environment?
Plus: Why James Shaw was right
substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
The world subsidises fossil fuels (oil and gas) to the tune of US$7 trillion dollars (NZD $11.6 trillion) a year
On the flipside, some part of Oz are investing in renewables and seeing electricity prices tumble by 30% in a year #nzpol #climate #kiwi
substack.com/home/post/p-...
On the flipside, some part of Oz are investing in renewables and seeing electricity prices tumble by 30% in a year #nzpol #climate #kiwi
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Wind and solar are having a moment! 🚀
I've been cranking numbers. Full year 2025, it looks like nuclear power just about kept its nose ahead of wind and solar. But in H2 2025, while wind didn't quite overtake nuclear, solar did. In 2026 nuclear will drop to third place in the production of clean electricity.
February 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Wind and solar are having a moment! 🚀
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February 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Nick Leggett being CEO Infrastructure NZ and former chair of Wellington Waters explains a lot about the state of NZs infrastructure .
February 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Nick Leggett being CEO Infrastructure NZ and former chair of Wellington Waters explains a lot about the state of NZs infrastructure .
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Yes solar energy is a form of nuclear energy where we keep the nuclear cancer reaction far away - on the sun - and where we collect that energy from the free nuclear power plant with cute little solar panels here on our little blue planet.
February 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Yes solar energy is a form of nuclear energy where we keep the nuclear cancer reaction far away - on the sun - and where we collect that energy from the free nuclear power plant with cute little solar panels here on our little blue planet.
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Legacy OEMs protecting high-margin ICE profits to “fund the transition” sounds rational — until EV cost curves, China’s scale & battery learning rates outrun their pivot speed. Then it’s not strategy, it’s structural compression. False dichotomy. It’s not US vs China. It’s ICE margin vs EV velocity.
February 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Legacy OEMs protecting high-margin ICE profits to “fund the transition” sounds rational — until EV cost curves, China’s scale & battery learning rates outrun their pivot speed. Then it’s not strategy, it’s structural compression. False dichotomy. It’s not US vs China. It’s ICE margin vs EV velocity.
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The race is on for someone in the #nzpol left (Greens or Labour?) to announce a “solar levy” of $8.50 a year to provide the exact same outcome to kiwis as the $30 gas tax the govt is creating.
I know which I’d vote for.
Make the election a referendum on renewable energy.
You’d smash the govt.
I know which I’d vote for.
Make the election a referendum on renewable energy.
You’d smash the govt.
Government’s plan to import LNG for electricity generation would cost households and businesses up to $8.3bn
Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps
evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...
Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps
evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...
Solar, heat pumps ‘lower cost’ path than LNG for electrification, says NZGBC
A new report argues New Zealand can meet its looming energy shortfall by accelerating rooftop solar and electric hot water
evsandbeyond.co.nz
February 16, 2026 at 1:50 AM
The race is on for someone in the #nzpol left (Greens or Labour?) to announce a “solar levy” of $8.50 a year to provide the exact same outcome to kiwis as the $30 gas tax the govt is creating.
I know which I’d vote for.
Make the election a referendum on renewable energy.
You’d smash the govt.
I know which I’d vote for.
Make the election a referendum on renewable energy.
You’d smash the govt.
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Starmer imploding into the Prince of Darkness Clown is probably not good news for Hipkins. =/
February 16, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Starmer imploding into the Prince of Darkness Clown is probably not good news for Hipkins. =/
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This is the type of project we need more of (obvs with local site sensitivities) that gets attacked in NZ as ‘aesthetics’ and ‘waste’.
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Rainways are an alternative to daylighting old streams in urban areas (which is not always feasible or cost effective due to buried infrastructure). This is a great case study on how this was implemented in a Vancouver neighbourhood.
thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...
thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...
The Rainway vs. the Atmospheric River | The Tyee
An ‘engineered’ creek comes to life in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant during a record-breaking rainfall.
thetyee.ca
February 16, 2026 at 8:41 AM
This is the type of project we need more of (obvs with local site sensitivities) that gets attacked in NZ as ‘aesthetics’ and ‘waste’.
bsky.app/profile/maet...
bsky.app/profile/maet...
Before MfE goes here the greenhouse inventory to 2023.
53.1% come from Agriculture alone.
Exempting agriculture from ETS is pretty reckless!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Overall at least 46.6% overall are just from Methane.
MfE link: environment.govt.nz/publications...
53.1% come from Agriculture alone.
Exempting agriculture from ETS is pretty reckless!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Overall at least 46.6% overall are just from Methane.
MfE link: environment.govt.nz/publications...
February 16, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Before MfE goes here the greenhouse inventory to 2023.
53.1% come from Agriculture alone.
Exempting agriculture from ETS is pretty reckless!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Overall at least 46.6% overall are just from Methane.
MfE link: environment.govt.nz/publications...
53.1% come from Agriculture alone.
Exempting agriculture from ETS is pretty reckless!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Overall at least 46.6% overall are just from Methane.
MfE link: environment.govt.nz/publications...
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The Environment Act contains listed functions of the Ministry and matters to be considered in its work. If these aren't carried over in legislation to a new guardian, we lose a statutory voice for the environment that has existed for 40 years. It's potentially far worse than just a regrouping.
February 16, 2026 at 6:36 AM
The Environment Act contains listed functions of the Ministry and matters to be considered in its work. If these aren't carried over in legislation to a new guardian, we lose a statutory voice for the environment that has existed for 40 years. It's potentially far worse than just a regrouping.