Climate, Energy & Electricity Policy. Support competitive markets & climate action. Former PA PUC Commissioner, PA DEP Secretary, Policy Secretary. Penn Law '84
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2026 will be the biggest annual decline in China's ICE vehicle sales!
Two or three more 2026-size declines and ICE will be no more!
Jun 13
China Petrol Car Sales Trend:
2017: 23.6m (historical peak)
2018: 21.4
2019: 19.6
2020: 17.8
2021: 17.1
2022: 14.8
2023: 13.9
2024: 11.4
2025: 10.9
2026(e): 7.2
>16.4m annual loss since 2017 is larger than the annual passenger car markets of the US and Japan combined
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Solar's rise is breaking out of the energy nerd world!
Jun 13
Last month, solar power generated 12.8% of electricity in the U.S. while coal was responsible for 12.2%.
It’s the first time in history that solar accounted for more energy than coal. 🔋 abcnews.com/US/solar-generat…
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Hooray!
Trump’s DOJ gives up on defending the president’s wind permitting moratorium.
DOJ filed a motion to dismiss its appeal of a federal court’s December decision vacating the order to halt wind energy approvals.
16 Blue states sued & won!
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John Raymond Hanger retweeted
Jun 12
The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850.
It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!
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Mercedes’ tech boss said Factorial’s solid-state battery tech could be a real “gamechanger” for EVs.
Factorial says the battery boosts range by 50% to over 600 miles.
A Mercedes EQS traveled 745 miles on a charge.
Stellantis is US road testing it.
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Battery revolution has just started.
Battery innovation is rapid and insures even better and cheaper batteries keep coming.
Batteries are now the key to reducing substantially fossil fuel burning.
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How much more solar will US build by 2030?
Some anti-solar folks think a big decline is ahead.
Nope!
US built 43 GW in 2025.
SEIA says solar installs will be flat over next 5 years.
So, 200-250 GW more by 2030.
That would 2X large solar!
seia.org/news/solar-and-stor…
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Good morning with good news: Biggest solar cell factory in US history starts making solar cells and every major piece of a solar panel!
Qcells will annually make in Georgia 8.6 GW of modules and 3.3 GW of cells, ingots & wafers.
It will employ 4,000!
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Qcells' Cartersville plant is only place in US "where every major piece of a solar panel – from ingot to finished module – gets made under one roof."
Module assembly now runs at full capacity of ~3.3 GW/year or 16,700 panels/day.
Qcells' Dalton plant makes 5.1 GW of modules.
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Asia electrifies 5 times faster than the West!
84% of Asia has leapfrogged USA in electrification.
Asia has 54% of world's people, 2% of oil reserves, 8% of gas, & 75% of its electrotech production.
Asia electrifies to cut costs & for security.
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Arizona's largest battery, to date, starts operations!
It is 200 MW/800 MWh plant.
Wonderful!
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Good morning with good news: Solar prices in Saudi Arabia ranged from $11/MWh to $15.1/MWh at four solar sites totaling 3 GWs in its 6th renewable energy tender.
1.1-1.5cents/kWh power!
Wow!
43.2 GW of RE has been awarded, with 12.3 GW operating.
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The 1.4 GW Najran solar was the lowest priced at $11/MWh.
At solar prices that low, lots of battery capacity can be economically added to firm the solar.
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Zero CO2 Generation Up
Fossil Fuel Generation Down
A good 12 months.
Jun 10
The biggest change in U.S. electricity in the past 12 months was the growth in solar (3/4 of total growth).
The 2nd biggest was the fall in gas.
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US solar generated more electricity than coal during May!
US solar generation rose 17%!
US coal generation fell 11%!
Solar & storage were 91% of new capacity in first quarter.
Solar deployment and manufacturing are vital to the USA.
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US solar generated more electricity than coal during May!
Wonderful!
The American solar industry is large and includes manufacturing, utility-scale and small solar.
It is vital to USA!
Yet, @SecretaryWright and POTUS constantly attacks it.
This good news is bad news to them.
Jun 10
NEW | Solar overtook coal generation in the US for the first month on record
In May, solar generated an estimated 12.8% of US electricity, an all-time high!
Coal produced 12.2%
For now, it's one month, soon it will happen across the year.
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Good morning with good news: China's ICE sales fall 79%!
China is ending internal combustion only vehicles.
China's sales of ICE vehicles plunge 79% in May 2026 from peak ~10 years ago.
ICE sales fell from monthly peak of ~2,660,000 to ~560,000.
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Solar savings for Europe were about $126 million dollars per day since March 1 in avoided extra gas costs.
Renewables and nuclear protect non-petrostate countries' economic and national security from oil & gas price spikes and potential boycotts.
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Monkey wrench wind and solar but do one favor after another for an uncompetitive, uneconomic coal industry that continues to sicken and kill Americans with its massive pollution.
The massive corruption and politicization of DOJ is a national disgrace.
propublica.org/article/trump…
Senator Jim Justice is a GOP Senator, a coal baron, and a friend of President Trump.
Earlier this year, his coal company found out it was under criminal investigation for environmental crimes.
But then Todd Blanche's office got involved & told investigators: pencils down.
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Good morning with good news: World nears peak gas!
Gas' global share peaked in 2020 at 23.89%, fell to 21.75% in 2025 & declined for 5 years.
Coal peaked in 2007 at 40.84%, falling to 33% in 2025.
What Rose?
RE rose from 18% in 2007 to 33.76% in 2025!
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The world is nearing peak gas generation, with 61 of 124 gas generating countries already past their peak.
Japan, UK, and India lead globally in reducing gas generation.
Gas and coal would have lost more share, if nuclear didn't fall from 16.9% in 2001 to 8.86% in 2025.
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