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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 12h

"In terms of the share of California's electricity generation mix, solar farms accounted for a record 39% of total utility-supplied generation during January to July, up from 33% during the same period in 2024." www.reuters.com/markets/comm... by @reuters.com's Gavin Maguire 🔌💡

California's electricity output from solar power vs fossil fuels during January to July 2025. Source: Reuters.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 1d

@iso-ne.com: "New England’s current power system emissions are well below those observed in the early 2000s and 2010s. Carbon dioxide emissions declined 20% between 2015 and 2024." isonewswire.com/2025/10/03/c... 🔌💡

New England annual power system emissions, 2015-2024. Source: ISO New England.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Get caught up on energy transition developments you might have missed in my latest roundup of highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... via Quitting Carbon 🔌💡

What I’m reading: Offshore wind proves its worth, the global solar boom, New York fast-tracks renewables, and more

Quitting Carbon is a 100% subscriber-funded publication. To support my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a one-time donation. Welcome back to another recap of highlights from...

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 1d

"China's exports of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy technologies surged to a record $20bn in August, as the superpower continues to further entrench its dominance of burgeoning global clean tech markets." www.businessgreen.com/news/4519961... via Michael Holder 🔌💡

Study: China's global clean tech exports valued at record $20bn in August

China is further entrenching its dominance of electric vehicle, battery, and renewable energy markets, according to new Ember analysis

www.businessgreen.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 2d

"Reading about the Palmer Raids today seems shocking ... and yet today, ICE seems to be speed-running the years-long run-up to the Palmer Raids in just a matter of weeks and months," writes @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"

ICE crosses another big, important line.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 2d

"This time, Trump has gotten Voughtier, and Republicans in Congress have gotten more compliant," writes @zeitlin.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/rus...

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 2d

"But this is Trump 2.0; where another President might hear words such as 'illegal' and 'unprecedented' as a warning sign, for Trump they are practically an invitation to act," writes @sbg1.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s Shutdown Power Play

The President learned in 2019 how to undercut Congress in a funding fight, and he’s been making the same move ever since.

www.newyorker.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 3d

Get caught up on energy transition developments you might have missed in my latest roundup of highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... via Quitting Carbon 🔌💡

What I’m reading: Offshore wind proves its worth, the global solar boom, New York fast-tracks renewables, and more

Quitting Carbon is a 100% subscriber-funded publication. To support my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a one-time donation. Welcome back to another recap of highlights from...

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 3d

Half of the turbines at Vineyard Wind are generating electricity off Massachusetts: www.eenews.net/articles/vin... via Ben Storrow 🔌💡

Vineyard Wind delivers power despite Trump's attacks on the industry

The partially built wind farm in the Atlantic is delivering power from more than 30 turbines to Massachusetts.

www.eenews.net

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 4d

My latest at Quitting Carbon: Offshore wind proves its worth, the global solar boom, New York fast-tracks renewables, and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... 🔌💡

What I’m reading: Offshore wind proves its worth, the global solar boom, New York fast-tracks renewables, and more

Quitting Carbon is a 100% subscriber-funded publication. To support my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a one-time donation. Welcome back to another recap of highlights from...

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 6d

NEW ANALYSIS | Spain is successfully decoupling electricity prices from gas power costs 🇪🇸⚡️

Spain reduced the number of hours where electricity prices exceed gas costs by 75% since 2019.

As a result, Spain's electricity prices were 32% lower than the EU average in H1-2025.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 6d

"Wright can hate renewables; it doesn’t make sense but that’s his right. But he can’t – or at the very least *shouldn’t* – misinform or mislead the public," writes @douglewin.bsky.social: www.douglewin.com/p/wright-is-... 🔌💡

Wright Is Wrong

www.douglewin.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 6d

Indeed! And to Coco as well!!

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 6d

"About half of Maine households still use heating oil as their primary source of heat, but that share has fallen nearly 20% since 2018. ... Gov. Janet Mills said the shift is being driven by the surge in high-efficiency heat pump installations." www.wmtw.com/article/main... 🔌💡

Maine households turn to electric heat pumps as oil use falls

About half of Maine households still use heating oil as their primary source of heat, but that share has fallen nearly 20% since 2018.

www.wmtw.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 6d

"In 2019, experts at Kings College London estimated that without further action, it would take 193 years for London to meet government-set [NO2] limits. But the Labour mayor said the aim had been met in nine years by introducing Ulez." www.bbc.com/news/article... via Aurelia Foster

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says

The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

www.bbc.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 7d

Demand for secondhand electric vehicle batteries is surging across Australia, as buyers repurpose them for everything from solar storage to off-grid energy:
www.theguardian.com/environment/... via Jonathan Barrett 🔌💡

Powerful lithium batteries in written-off EVs now hot property at salvage auctions

Demand for secondhand electric vehicle batteries is surging across Australia, as buyers repurpose them for everything from solar storage to off-grid energy

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 8d

"There is much more to the relationship between demand growth from AI data centers and your electricity rates than has gotten coverage," writes @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social's @severinborenstein.bsky.social: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w... 🔌💡

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder that if all operating coal plants in the US were run at 100% capacity in 2024, electricity ratepayers would have paid $20 billion more for energy than operating the grid at least-cost. utilitytransitionhub.rmi.org/economic-dis... @rockymtninst.bsky.social

Kristi E. Swartz @bizwriterkristi.bsky.social · 8d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/c...

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 9d

"The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: the projects aren’t designed for cars." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

www.bloomberg.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe Trump saw the billboards and was confused! #WarRavagedPortland

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 10d

EIA: Distributed solar is the fastest-growing power source in Brazil: "Distributed solar generation capacity grew from less than 1 gigawatt (GW) in 2018 to 40 GW in 2025 through June, accounting for 43% of all electricity capacity additions over that period." www.eia.gov/todayinenerg... 🔌💡

Electricity generating capacity in Brazil (Jan 1, 2012-June 30, 2025). Source: EIA.

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 12d

Sammy is right. Here's my recent take on the topic: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/trump-has-de... 🔌💡

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 11d

The best way to make sure you don't miss any of my reporting, Q&As - and columns like this - at Quitting Carbon is to subscribe to my newsletter. A paid subscription makes it possible for me to continue this work. Thank you! www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/trump-claims... 🔌💡

Trump claims offshore wind is worthless. This project proves the opposite is true.

South Fork Wind, the U.S.’ first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, is demonstrating the folly of the Trump’s administration’s misguided war on offshore wind.

www.quittingcarbonmedia.com

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 11d

I published a Q&A with an executive from the project for Energy Monitor more than four years ago!
www.energymonitor.ai/networks-gri... 🔌💡 (2/2)

Burying power lines along railroads could unlock transmission expansion

“If you want more renewables, you need more transmission,” says SOO Green HVDC Link Vice President Steve Frenkel.

www.energymonitor.ai

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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 11d

How long does it take to build transmission projects in the US? It looks like the SOO Green HVDC Link might *finally* have secured the last approval it needs to begin construction: www.utilitydive.com/news/soo-gre... via @ethanhowl.bsky.social 🔌💡 (1/2)

2.1-GW SOO Green transmission project advances with Iowa agreement

The project developers aim to bring low-cost clean energy from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator into the PJM Interconnection while bolstering grid reliability.

www.utilitydive.com

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