France announces winners of world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind auction

Winning bid: €86/MWh for 250 MW

windeurope.org/newsroom/news/… WindEurope

China installed a record 293 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar in 2023 – pushing its total capacity to 1,050GW.

#China #renewables #climate #wind #solar
carbonbrief.org/interview-chin…

I can’t wait to see what happens when we have 5X the number of utility batteries supplying the grid. ✊🏼
Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur Gavin Newsom Mike McGuire Speaker Robert Rivas Laura Friedman Senator Scott Wiener California ISO

⚡️Starlink terminals operated by Ukraine's 125th Territorial Defense Brigade in Kharkiv Oblast were completely disabled in the first such incident since 2022, the Washington Post reported on May 17, citing unnamed Ukrainian soldiers on the ground.

kyivindependent.com/wsj-ukraines-s…

'[We] pay for fossil fuels 4 times: through tax subsidies; in energy bills; with health care and environmental costs; and with rapidly growing costs of climate-induced disasters'

Why? Big Oil spent a trillion dollars on election campaigns since 1990

thehill.com/opinion/energy…

.Airbus prepares testing 500-kW hydrogen fuel cell auxiliary power unit on 400-seat A330 airliner

Has goal of 100%-powered-by-H2-fuel-cell 200-seat plane by 2035

ainonline.com/aviation-news/…

Are you tired of good news?

Yesterday (5/14) was 31st straight day; today (5/15) was the 32nd (and 61st of 69) that California ISO's grid demand was met by >100% #WindWaterSolar for a period (6.25 h on 5/14)

5/14 WWS peak: 119.9% of demand

~9% of night demand met by batteries

Excited to share with you my bills passed by the Assembly Appropriations Committee this afternoon! Thank you to my colleagues for helping to advance legislation that will benefit California communities. #caleg

Senate appropriations committee kills Ben Allen's SB 1422, which would have required more disclosure of who is paying for legislators' sponsored travel. Anna Caballero holds on suspense file.

I reported last year how current disclosure law is failing: calmatters.org/politics/2023/…

Satellite imagery of the aftermath of a suspected Ukrainian missile strike on Russia's Belbek military airfield in occupied Crimea suggests three aircraft were recently destroyed.

kyivindependent.com/belbek-airfiel…

Due to Pres. Biden, congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. We are rebuilding roads, bridges, ports & airports, upgrading public transit & rail systems, replacing lead pipes to provide clean water, cleaning up pollution & providing affordable high-speed internet. #Biden

Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana.

So today, the U.S. Department of Justice is taking the next step to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under federal law.

Here's what that means:

U.S. Department of Justice No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.

Today’s announcement builds on the work we’ve already done to pardon a record number of federal offenses for simple possession of marijuana.

I’m committed to writing those historic wrongs. You have my word.

Microsoft imposes 100% renewable requirement on suppliers in effort to lower Its own emissions.

wsj.com/articles/micro… The Wall Street Journal

Krugman: 'Why not just buy cheap Chinese batteries? Political economy. Given the existential threat posed by climate change, the political coalition behind the green energy transition shouldn’t be fragile, but it is. The Biden administration was able to get large subsidies for

'Neoen to build its biggest battery to shift energy to evening peak in nuclear-dominated Ontario.'

Inflexible nuclear needs help to be able to time-shift output to when it is most needed. reneweconomy.com.au/neoen-to-build…

I think both CA and TX will hit 20 GW this year and TX should hit 25 GW next year.

A more interesting prediction might be when will TX hit 50GW? What about CA?

For ExxonMobil, billions in dollars of fossil fueled profits aren't enough. For 'the world’s biggest corporate bully,' shareholders trying to encourage even a little climate action need to be sued into submission, Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik writes: latimes.com/business/story…

The first grid-connected battery using new, lower-cost sodium ion batteries is now online in Guangxi, China. cnevpost.com/2024/05/13/chi… Expect a lot more of this: Sodium ion batteries don't use any expensive lithium & their lower energy density isn't a problem for stationary grid

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