Moritz Schwarz
@moritzpschwarz.bsky.social
Climate Economist đȘđșđŠđč Working on all things Carbon Pricing, Econometrics and Measuring the Impact of Climate Change and Climate Policies Post-Doc @ TU Berlin and PIK DPhil from Oxford with @ClimateMetrics.bsky.social #rstats | #mufc
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
1/ You might not have even thought you needed this, but here it is: an update of the German duck curve! đŠ The curve shows the distribution of average hourly wholesale prices over the course of the day (normalized with the yearly average price). You can see an ongoing (and not so great) trend:
"We Cannot Choose to Become Idiots"...except apparently we have. The real litmus test is whether we consider students 22 and 31 'AI illiterate' or patsies on the one hand, or admirably honest. Yes, this is a crisis in (higher) education www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you donât follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the âpragmaticâ one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact itâs the opposite
Repeat after me: Elektrifizierung und Erneuerbare gewinnen. Der Mark hat lĂ€ngst entschieden. (das violette Streifchen ganz unten ist ĂŒbrigens die angeblich âĂŒberallâ stattfindende âRenaissance der Atomkraftâ).
Lots of Article 6.2 projects going to pop up in the future. Will be interesting to see the details on this.
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication@yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Philippines and Singapore have signed a deal to transfer carbon credits between the two nations. The agreement is expected to increase investment in climate projects in the Philippines, focusing on fields such as renewable energy and waste management. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
You Loved the Hydrogen Ladder (I know, Version 6.0 is long overdue!), meet the Electrification Staircase. Electrify Everything is dead; long live Electrify Almost Everything. And here's the road map. mliebreich.substack.com/p/the-electr...
The Electrification Staircase is go!
You Loved the Hydrogen Ladder (I know, Version 6.0 is long overdue!), meet the Electrification Staircase. Electrify Everything is dead; long live Electrify Almost Everything. And here's the road map.
mliebreich.substack.com
1/ Published today in @natcomms.nature.com: our analysis on long-duration electricity storage needs for coping with #Dunkelflaute events in đȘđș . Joint work with my stellar @diw.de colleagues @kittelmartin.bsky.social (lead) and @aroth.bsky.social đhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72681-5
Long-duration electricity storage needs for coping with Dunkelflaute events in Europe - Nature Communications
Extreme periods of low wind and solar energy ("Dunkelflauteâ) drive substantial long-duration electricity storage needs in a renewable European power system. Rapid deployment is required to safeguardâŠ
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Good morning with good news: Australian homes & businesses installed more rooftop solar in April 2026 than in any other month ever! Rooftop solar rose 31% in April over March & doubled 3/2025! 4.2 million (38%) homes had solar by 6/2025! #energysky www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2026/05/05/r...
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Bombshell study that questions a key German electricity market policy. tldr: DON'T SUBSIDISE NEW GAS PLANTS WITH PUBLIC MONEY! Most interestingly: it was not (only) commissioned by the renewable industry but (i.a.) by one of DE's main business lobby groups (@dihk.bsky.social)! A đ§”analysing it:
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10
Heute Abend im Volkstheater Wien. Veranstaltung des Netzwerk Klimajournalismus mit @lukasbayer.bsky.social. Ich freu mich drauf. @iiasa.ac.at www.volkstheater.at/event/332609...
CLIMATE OVERSHOOT âWIE KRIEGEN WIR NOCH DIE KURVE? - Volkstheater Wien
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Why is it so hard to understand a. the difference between primary and secondary energy, and b. why it amounts to journalistic malpractice to compare current renewables capacity with the primary energy provided (and to a large part wasted in the form unused heat) by fossil fuels?
Great addition to a recent blogpost from @nworbmot.bsky.social nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b... Most of humans can go 90% solar in 2030. It's mostly northern Europe that's the edge case that also needs loads of wind. And the last 10% fuel... we'll take care of that before too long.
Viktor Orbån redet seit Tagen davon, dass irgendwelche Ukrainer ihn umbringen wollen. Stellt sich heraus: Der russische Auslandsgeheimdienst SWR wollte tatsÀchlich einen Mordanschlag auf Orbån fingieren, um Putins bestem Mann doch noch die Wahl zu retten. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt
To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed âthe Gamechangerâ â a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.
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â'Entzauberung durch Einbindung' ist keine evidenzbasierte politische Strategie, sondern eine gefĂ€hrliche Wunschvorstellung"
Maximilian Pichl@maxpichl.bsky.social · 5mo agoBoris Palmer sagt bei Lanz, man könne ja ausprobieren die AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt mitregieren zu lassen, dann wird sie vielleicht kleiner. Dazu gibt es ĂŒbrigens Forschung. Siehe: "Doch eine Untersuchung von 57 LĂ€ndern zeigt: Dieser Glaube ist ein Irrglaube." www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/demo...
Von Februar auf MÀrz 2026 ist der Day-Ahead Börsenstrompreis von Deutschland nur um 0,6 % gestiegen, wÀhrend Erdgas an der Börse um 43,7 % teurer wurde. 1/2 energy-charts.info/charts/price...
1/⥠For Europe, #competitiveness is a priority. And this has much to do with #energy costs. Yet we keep on relying on #electricity markets that make European industry structurally uncompetitive. Ahead of 6 March, a few thoughts on #energy & #competitiveness đ§”đ
NEW: Why does gas set the price of electricity â and is there an alternative? Make yourself a tea (or grab a beer??) and enjoy my Friday longread on marginal pricing, ideas for market reform â & how to break the link btwn gas & power prices for good www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8
Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land đ„° Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
I've largely stopped posting #HydrogenSoufflé because it seems distasteful to dance on the graves of so many dreams. But... Aberdeen is flogging its hydrogen bus fleet for scrap. How much money was wasted on this 100% predicable outcome? Will heads roll? aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/aberdeen-hyd...
Aberdeen Hydrogen bus fleet to be sold off - Aberdeen Business News
Aberdeen City Council is set to sell its entire fleet of 25 hydrogen double-decker buses and exit a ÂŁ20 million joint venture with oil giant BP, marking the
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A tax economist put his entire life savings into a prediction market bet that DOGE wouldnât cut spending. His wife read the Kalshi comments from the people on the other side and grew *more* confident because âthey didnât seem to understand what they were buying.â He made a 37% return
The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE
Until Elon Musk came roaring into the nationâs capital, Alan Cole was largely a plain-vanilla investor.
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đš New paper: Coupling integrated assessment and energy system models đš Planning future energy systems requires bridging two fundamentally different scales: long-term transformation pathways spanning decades, and short-term power system operations unfolding hour by hour. #EnergySky #PyPSA đ§”
In today's edition of "Datasets from Hell": The UK ONS switches from Financial Year (April to March funnily) to Calendar Year and then again back to Financial Year in one dataset. #datasetsfromhell #rstats #EconSky
It was carbon prices, that prevented a surge in coal-based power generation in 2025 in the EU.
âA year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,â which added a new lane each direction, âthe 405âs rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.â www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A Tunnel to Transform Los Angeles
The ambitious Sepulveda Transit Corridor project â an automated subway line underneath Bel Air â aims to do something rare in LA: Get people out of their cars.
bloomberg.com
![4-panel comic. (1) [Two people standing next to house with solar panels on roof. Person 2 has a black hat.] PERSON 1: Wait, you got solar panels? I thought you were against renewables. (2) PERSON 2: Oh, definitely. I hate the environment and want to harm it as much as possible. Iâd *love* to have an oil furnace. (3) PERSON 2: But the technology just isnât there and the cost is too high. I despise solar, but it makes more financial sense in my situation. (4) PERSON 2: But with the money Iâm saving, I can buy and burn industrial waste in my yard to try to make up for it. PERSON 1: Ah, yeah, carbon onsets.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreie2wurazlh7ynqjwmo56q3vyj5mu7ol6wgbwftgza656o4f2f5v6i)
