Vikas Mehta
@vikmet.bsky.social
Displaced Indian, working on misplaced energy choices. Talk climate, energy, politics and cricket. DPS RKP, Delhi Univ, Fletcher school. ED@ SED.fund daytime. Dad+dog dad all the time. Views are personal.
It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
How these slum dwellers went from one-room shacks to beautiful new apartments
It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.
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Threshold alert: renewables are about to pass coal as the No. 1 global source of electricity.
IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
Global electricity demand is rising, but booming solar will help renewables overtake coal as the top power source this year, says the IEA.
electrek.co
“Across every health metric studied, people got better. Not just better, actually — dramatically better,” via @sammyroth.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
Global electricity use is growing again, but renewables are expected to overtake coal as the world’s largest source of electricity this year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
electrek.co
India launches commercial service of its first hydrogen-powered train.
India Debuts Hydrogen Train, Signaling Shift to Clean Transport
India Friday launched commercial service of its first hydrogen-powered train, marking its entry into a small global club that has deployed next-generation clean-transport technologies.
bloom.bg
Emily explains how weak, unreliable grids combined with plummeting solar and battery costs make distributed solar the cheapest option in many emerging markets. Nigeria exemplifies this, a part of their grid was down 40% of the hours last year, and diesel generator capacity exceeds the grid capacity
Live with Emily McAteer at Odyssey Energy Solutions
A recording from JEmily explains how weak, unreliable grids combined with plummeting solar and battery costs make distributed solar the cheapest option in many emerging markets.
energyempirepodcast.substack.com
Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵
Show this chart to anybody who tries to tell you clean energy needs government subsidies. Nobody mops up your tax dollars quite like that poor, suffering fossil fuel industry ($1.3 trillion in profits since 2021) Gift link to @davidfickling.bsky.social's column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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Rob Carlson@robcarlson.bsky.social · 4w agoBy @davidfickling.bsky.social "If you combine the value of public investment and public subsidies, about 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that had climbed to 68% and spiked as high as 78% in 2022." Good chart. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
In many countries, this has been the case all along.
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 4w agoCorrect your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
When even scientists are shocked by extreme weather, the only conclusion to draw: we're in trouble. Must-read story by @eroston.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Full respect to Cape Verde. They belong at this stage. indianexpress.com/article/spor...
The night Cape Verde, smallest nation at the World Cup, nearly broke Messi’s Argentina
The smallest nation ever to play a World Cup came within one deflection of eliminating the defending champions in extra time.
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82F / 28C. In Boston. At midnight.
Uncle Jha@jha973.bsky.social · last mo.What’s the temperature in the city you’re in right now ?
🔌💡 Clean energy can reliably meet the American economy’s insatiable demand for #electricity, at lower costs than if we primarily rely on aging coal plants and volatile natural gas. thepowerline.substack.com/p/clean-ener... by @brendan.bsky.social
Clean Energy is the Cheapest Way to Serve Surging Electricity Demand
We can build a cheap, reliable and lower-risk grid, but we need to start now
thepowerline.substack.com
Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India
That was such an awful penalty call by the ref, even after VAR. Feel bad for Senegal.
"The electricity grid is not an engineering problem with coordination problems attached. It is a coordination problem with engineering problems embedded in it."
Thinking Like an Engineer Won’t Fix the Grid
A longtime energy analyst argues that there are no solutions to the hyperscale problem, only tradeoffs.
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People are still underestimating how much the prospects of LNG growth in Asia are totally busted. Even setting aside the Hormuz factor, the economics are just brutal: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Exxon Mobil Should Skip a Vanishing LNG Market
Exxon Mobil Corp. appears to think buying an Australian LNG producer might be the best way to make the most of global energy markets after the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz. That could be a costl...
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Worth remembering, gas for power plants is also mainly a US story. The rest of the world is looking elsewhere. From BloombergNEF's 2026 New Energy Outlook:
Revenue tied to environmental products and services climbed to $5.5 trillion last year, expanding at its fastest pace since 2022. Flobal listed companies that generate revenue from climate solutions now boasts a record high market value of $10 trillion. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Green Economy Tops $10 Trillion as Revenue Growth Accelerates
The green economy — the business lines of global listed companies that generate revenue from climate solutions — now boasts a record high market value of $10 trillion.
bloomberg.com
"Electrified industry powered by solar energy is cheaper than burning most fossil fuels to create heat in [India], according to Energy Innovation and UC Berkeley’s India Energy and Climate Center." thepowerline.substack.com/p/in-most-of... via @energyinnovation.org's @sonalideshpande.bsky.social 🔌💡
In Most of the World, Industrial Climate Pollution is Hard to Abate. Not in India.
Solar-powered manufacturing now cheaper than fossil fuels in India, the world’s third-largest industrial emitter
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NEW: Asia is going electric💡 Asia has 4% of the world's oil+gas supplies. It's perhaps no surprise Asia is doubling down on electrification. Not just China, all of Asia. If you liked last September Electrotech Revolution slidepack, you'll love this...
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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The UK govt has been doing a lot of very welcome chat about ‘electrifying Britain’ lately. Some of that is going to be tricky, technologically & operationally. But not for railways! where electrification is 100-year-mature technology that is operationally superior to every other option. Just do it!
Change of approach to electrification 'could reduce costs by a third'
Railway Industry Association produces report calling for new approach to electrification and reversal of decision to pause work on Midland Main Line.
railmagazine.com
Sharing a fascinating graph of fuel use by the global cement industry, made by my colleague, Christy Stanker. We often think of the cement industry as running on coal. After all, the only coal-burning facilities left in California are cement kilns. But the truth is more complex and interesting.
RUCHIR SHARMA: ‘Investors insist that today’s US stock market boom is justified by very strong corporate earnings and is nothing like the dotcom mania. But this expansion is more dependent on government and the earnings story is less exceptional than investors realise.‘ www.ft.com/content/362c...
The truth about the American profit machine
It’s not much stronger now than it was during the dotcom boom
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JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited. How wrong I was. Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this. Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up. janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...
Industry: from hard-to-abate to ready-to-electrify
How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.
janrosenow.substack.com
In Boston metrowest it felt like a propane tank had burst in the neighborhood. We had one burst a few weeks ago, so my mind went straight to that…lol
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2mo agoNot a joke -- I thought a tree had fallen on our house. Seeing Bluesky posts from Cambridge, Somerville, elsewhere saying they felt something similar.
