Nikolai Orgland

Mercator Fellow on Clean Energy and Biodiversity Finance. MSc in Energy Management & Sustainability @EPFL_en 🇨🇭 Passionate about science, politics & birds

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

>250 million people carry malaria. 600k die from it a year, and many millions have their lives seriously impaired. It's in the top 3 infectious diseases by global burden. This is absolutely enormous.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

In the UK, retail electricity company @OctopusEnergy is now offering a £299 / month lease on a BYD Dolphin EV, + free home charging, + vehicle to grid. They're using the vehicle battery as a VPP, to balance the grid and shift peak electricity loads. Sweet deal all around.

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

Solar in many African countries is starting to take off🚀🌍

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

The EV cost crossover has arrived in China, right on schedule. Driving electric is now just cheaper than driving a gasoline vehicle. That crossover will arrive in the US and Europe over the next handful of years.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Robotaxis can have a material impact on oil demand & climate change. Why? Because taxis, on average, drive ~5x the miles per year of personally owned cars. So every EV deployed as a taxi displaces 5x the oil consumption. And robotaxis will almost all be electric.

Currently, EVs are displacing ~2m b/d of oil consumption, roughly 2% of demand. Scaling this faster accelerates the peak and decline of oil consumption.

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

A slightly more positive perspective: The three largest power sectors are cleaning up their electricity supply in lockstep.

Different levels, same trajectory...

Carbon intensity of electricity generation has fallen a lot in China, the US and the EU in the last two decades.

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

To all the reply guys saying how renewables are a terrible idea.

I hate to break it to you but >90% of new generation capacity built is now renewable energy, mainly solar & wind.

Data from @IRENA

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️

We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.

The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

The Alps goes solar☀️🇦🇹🇨🇭

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

A great graphic showing how cheap utility battery is, compared to residential battery.

(+it's not just capex - installing, financing, maintaining should all be cheaper for utility vs residential)

Policy makers should be focusing on utility battery for best value..

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

Solar became China's biggest source of clean electricity in the month of May for the first time☀️⚡️

It was bigger than all the hydro🌊 (just)
It was bigger than all the wind🌬️(just)
It was bigger than all the nuclear☢️(by 2.5)
It was bigger than all the bioenergy 🌲(by 8)

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

More EVs are now sold every year in China than cars - of all sorts - are sold in the US. This trend isn't stopping. EVs are all of the growth in the global auto market since 2017.
via @electricfelix

[Siddharth Singh @siddharth3]

There are 17 countries in the world where solar PV already generates over 25% of the electricity supply.

[Nikolai Orgland @NikolaiOrgland]

@MatCMeier Ja ist es!

[Matthias Meier @MatCMeier]

Leider ist die Initiative für sauberes Trinkwasser abgelehnt worden, unter anderem auch aufgrund Vertrauens in den alternativen Ansatz, der jetzt aufgeweicht wird. Agrarische Massenproduktion in der dicht besiedelten Schweiz ist auch gesundheitlich ein Riesen-Fehler.

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Batteries start playing a huge role in energy systems around the world.

Look at California - not long ago you wouldn’t even be able to see the contribution from batteries.

Today batteries can provide more than 20% of peak load in California.

[Matthias Betsche @MBetsche]

Die Vorlage des Bodenrechts will durch die Hintertüre andere Gesetzesaufträge wie Gewässer- und Hochwasserschutz torpedieren. Vorzeigeprojekte wie die Aue Sins Reussegg wären nicht mehr möglich. Die Vorlage ist entschieden abzulehnen.

[Pro Natura @pronaturach]

Bis zum letzten Blutstropfen: Der @kanton_gr lässt trotz #Petition mit >36´000 Unterschriften das ganze 14-köpfige Nationalparkrudel schiessen. Offenbar fehlt jeglicher politischer Wille für eine Lösung, die der Bedeutung des Nationalparks gerecht wird. https://t.co/Yp8DFmTgZb

[WWF Schweiz @WWF_Schweiz]

(1/2) 🦫Petition gegen #Biber-Abschüsse: Die #Biodiversität in der Schweiz ist stark bedroht. Eine Ausnahme ist der Biber. Seine Bestände nehmen zu – und wo er wirkt, entwickelt sich die Biodiversität positiv.
https://t.co/4IBbcYxeld