Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!
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This is a really positive development in people’s general perceptions about EV’s. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Australians cut ties with servos as EV record sales continue
Over the past year, electric car sales have tripled, as anxiety about fuel shortages and rising petrol prices continues.
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“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Australian sodium battery start-up claims major milestones as storage industry starts to look beyond lithium reneweconomy.com.au/australian-s...
Australian sodium battery start-up claims major milestones as storage industry starts to look beyond lithium
Australian sodium battery start-up claims world-first milestones as storage industry looks beyond lithium, but the technology is excluded from home battery rebate scheme.
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BYD also slashed prices by approx $5,000 - Great savings for their popular Sealion 7 Just wish the marketing team would rename it the Seal-ion 7 …!! thedriven.io/2026/08/02/b...
BYD slashes price of Sealion 7 premium model as it chases down Toyota to be country's best selling car company
BYD has announced a new driveaway offer on its best-selling EV in Australia as it seeks to chase down Toyota to be the country’s biggest seller of new cars.
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The Driven@thedriven.io · 2d agoGeely brand Farizon slashes prices on its electric van range in Australia, and offers a new variant with a bigger battery. Good news for deliveries and green nomads https://thedriven.io/2026/08/03/ev-price-war-extends-to-electric-vans-as-farizon-slashes-prices-by-8500-offers-bigger-battery/
Geely brand Farizon slashes prices on its electric van range in Australia, and offers a new variant with a bigger battery. Good news for deliveries and green nomads https://thedriven.io/2026/08/03/ev-price-war-extends-to-electric-vans-as-farizon-slashes-prices-by-8500-offers-bigger-battery/
EV price war extends to electric vans as Farizon slashes prices by $8,500, offers bigger battery
Geely brand Farizon slashes prices on its electric van range in Australia, and offers a new variant with a bigger battery. Good news for deliveries and green nomads.
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This summer is a (new) normal summer. It’s called a 1.5°C rise in temperature.
Mario Sixtus@sixtus.net · 2d agoDamit das mal klar ist:
‘$71 million…Shipments are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2027…183,000 square foot facility in Sacramento…4 GWh/yr capacity…secured Jupiter Power ~4.75 GWh 2027-2030+1.5 GWh deal with Energy Vault (~2 GWh/yr - 50% capacity)’ Gonna reach out - we need a ~2.5 MWh DC block product…
Peak Energy to build 4 GWh grid-scale sodium-ion BESS factory in California - Energy Storage
Sodium-ion battery startup Peak Energy says its $71 million factory will be the first facility in the United States dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion energy storage systems. Shipments are expected to...
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"This is why I call myself an energy transition optimist." Jan Rosenow 2nd Aug 2026 janrosenow.substack.com/p/why-im-an-...
Why I'm an energy transition optimist
The case for energy transition optimism has never been stronger.
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Only 5.5% of German homes have a smart meter. France, Italy, Spain: >90%. Hard to reward demand shifting when nobody measures it. Germany pays €435m/yr to curtail renewables instead. euronews.com/2026/08/01/not-in-my-basement-why-has-germany-been-so-slow-to-adopt-smart-meters-and-whats-it-costing
Why is Germany so far behind on smart meters?
Only around five per cent of German households have a smart meter – compared to almost universal rollout in many other EU nations.
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The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.
Good morning with good news: Global EV sales surge 35% in Q2 2026. EV sales set records in 90 countries and doubled in Australia, Brazil, India, Korea & Viet Nam. So, IEA raises global 2026 EV market share forecast to 29%, up from 25% in 2025. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/30fa0... #energysky
A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is
It comes as Nigel Farage's net approval rating has fallen to -32, its lowest since the 2024 election.
"Hungary's only nuclear power plant will be forced to shut down entirely for the first time due to record low water levels of the River Danube, Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said." BBC 30th July 2026 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia are also grappling with the effects of a series of prolonged heatwaves and low rainfall.
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Good morning with good news: Surging solar, wind & batteries slashed by 47% Q2 wholesale electricity prices in Australia's NEM! Wind rose 20%. Big solar 12%. Small solar 6.9% Gas fell 30% to its lowest Q2 average since 2003! Coal fell 5%. Wonderful www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file... #energysky
More than 700 MW of rooftop solar was added to Australia’s main grid in the past three months, helping drive wholesale electricity prices in the country’s National Electricity Market to their lowest June quarter average since 2020. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/28/r...
Australia adds over 700 MW of rooftop solar in April-June - pv magazine Global
More than 700 MW of rooftop solar was added to Australia’s main grid in the past three months, helping drive wholesale electricity prices in the country's National Electricity Market to their lowest J...
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"The new water treatment technology captures plastic particle down to 30 nanometres while also pulling out toxic heavy heavy metals, drug residues, and industrial dyes. The findings were published in the Chemical Engineering Journal..."
Scientists built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of microplastics and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise in removing some PFAS
Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of micro- and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise against som...
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Wholesale electricity prices through Australia’s main grid plunged by 50% in the June quarter amid surge in renewable energy output to new seasonal highs, a slump in coal output and the lowest amount of gas generation for 23 years. reneweconomy.com.au/wholesale-el...
Wholesale power prices plunge as renewables surge, batteries boom, and gas hits 23-year low
Wholesale electricity prices surge as wind displaces coal, batteries push out gas and home storage softens the evening peaks and help reshape the grid.
reneweconomy.com.au
Global battery energy storage capacity tipped to rise six-fold by 2030 www.businessgreen.com/4533458/ via @businessgreen
Global battery energy storage capacity tipped to rise six-fold by 2030
GlobalData forecasts compound annual growth rate of 42 per cent through to the end of the decade, as demand for flexible grid services soars
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Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
Electric vehicles (EVs) sold across the European Union (EU) rose by over 40% in the first half of this year. www.edie.net/europes-ev-s...
EV sales in the EU increased 40.5% in H1 2026
Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are now 20.7% of the EU market, with sales increasing by 40.% in the first half of 2026.
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A dozen nations and two US states generate more electricity from wind-solar-geothermal-hydro (WindWaterSolar) alone than they consume for all purposes. www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/23/a... The data web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...
A Dozen Nations Have Entered Solartopia While Trump Leaves U.S Industry to Die
A dozen nations of the world and two US states have officially entered Solartopia. They all now generate more electricity with renewable sources than they
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Rooftop solar panels saved New England residents $130 million in electricity during a recent heat wave.
New England invested in solar. It saved residents millions in electricity costs during a heat wave this month
A new report found that solar arrays saved $39 million to $54 million in a single day of a recent heat wave.
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Sodium Ion batteries will very soon dominate Grid Scale storage.
Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.
Soon, you may be paid to use electricity As renewable energy surges, supply will increasingly outstrip demand on sunny, windy days. Smart meters could offer negative prices, incentivising households to run appliances and charge cars when energy is abundant. theconversation.com/soon-there-w...
Soon, there will be so much electricity you might be paid to use it
Encouraging people to use electricity when it’s clean and cheap may be better than temporarily disconnecting solar and wind farms.
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In Ohio and across the country, tech companies are going all out to build off-grid natural gas power plants for their A.I. data centers. Great story by @rebeccafelliott.bsky.social and @harrystevens.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Tech Giants Are Ditching the Power Grid (Gift Article)
Seeking power for data centers, Meta and other companies plan to use equipment that is expensive and polluting.
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The more I learn about it the more I think "the fossil fuel industry has an enormous, massively funded propaganda apparatus" is one of the most under covered and under appreciated stories of our era
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w agoA new report exposes what's behind the "clean" gas lie