Author/reporter focused on energy, power, innovation & politics. Host: Power Hungry Podcast, Producer: Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid
Mar 22 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
My latest.
CA residential prices jumped nearly 12% last year alone. Wind & solar generation has gone up 8x since 2008. But the carbon intensity of power generation isn't falling & low-income ratepayers are subsidizing the rich.
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These seven charts tell the story. 2/8
Jan 19 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
My latest, in which I quote Heidegger.
And here are those 10 charts:
Mar 24, 2023 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
My latest. Last week, @AirDistrict approved regs banning #natgas furnaces & water heaters. It's latest example of CA policymakers forcing residents to use electricity instead of gas. These regs are happening while CA's electricity costs are soaring. 1/x robertbryce.substack.com/p/california-s…
Two weeks before the BAAQMD passed its ban on natural gas appliances, the Energy Information Administration released data showing that California’s residential electricity prices jumped by 14.7% in 2022. 2/x
Mar 19, 2023 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
My latest on Substack:
Last Tues, @rewiringamerica announced that it hired @StaceyAbrams to help the group “launch and scale a national awareness campaign and a network of large and small communities working to help Americans go electric.” 1/x robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-dark-mon…@RewiringAmerica is part of the NGO-industrial-corporate-climate complex that, as I reported here last month, is now spending some $4.5 billion per year to promote anti-industry policies. Here's a link to that piece: robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-anti-ind…
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Last week, BP released its annual Statistical Review & the report shows, yet again, that electricity is the world’s most important & fastest-growing form of energy. In '21, electricity generation grew by a record 1,577 TWh
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That's an increase of 6.2% over 2020. For perspective, last year’s increase in electricity production was greater than the electricity output of France, Germany and Britain combined. /2
Jul 6, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Here's my latest in @RealClearEnergy on the ongoing backlash against big renewables. Butler Cty, OH, banned #wind & #solar projects in 12 townships. The ban marks the 344th rejection of wind in the US over the past decade. @LinowesLisa
realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/…@RealClearEnergy@LinowesLisa As I have reported many times, the raging backlash against the renewable industry doesn’t fit the convenient narrative that wind and solar are “green” and that they are “cheaper” than traditional forms of energy production. /2
Jun 28, 2022 • 17 tweets • 18 min read
My latest, in @RealClearEnergy re surging global coal consumption
The global energy crisis has resulted in a spasm of plain talk. Last week, Vaclav Bartuška, the Czech Ambassador-at-Large for energy security, told a group of reporters
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realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/…@RealClearEnergy “If there is a gas cut out this winter, we will burn anything we can to keep our people warm and to make electricity.” Bartuška said aloud what has become obvious over the past months: climate change concerns are taking a backseat to economic considerations. h/t @energybants
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Jun 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 10 min read
My latest @RealClearEnergy :
If you think the world is moving #beyondcoal think again...over the past few weeks, China & India have announced plans to increase their domestic #coal production by a combined total of 700M tons/yr. @JudeClemente@SierraClub
My latest @forbes: EU Finally Admits Nat Gas & Nuclear Are Key To Decarbonization
It is a "tacit acknowledgment by European policymakers of the energy disaster that is now shaking the region. But it’s also far too late in coming.” @chrishelman
forbes.com/sites/robertbr…@Forbes@chrishelman Europe cannot — will not — move to “a predominantly renewable-based future.” The never-ending claims that Europe, or any other region with a large economy, can run solely on “clean energy technologies like wind and solar,” are not based on history, math, or physics.