Prof Bill Snape

Father, Teacher, Lawyer, and Coach. The original #ProfessorSnape. Views can only be mine. Go Philly Eagles and #AUEagles. Advocate for #biologicaldiversity

[Prof Bill Snape @SnapeBison]

What has 10 eyes that tell time, eats w/ its brain, sees as well at night as day, chews with its legs, has blue blood, is crucial for many birds, walked with dinosaurs & is now losing its beach habitat and being overharvested? Happy Horseshoe Crab Day! #ClimateActionNow

[IEEFA.org @ieefa_institute]

Battery storage is soaking up low-cost renewable power while displacing higher-cost coal and gas power when it discharges that power back to the grid. It is no surprise that it is growing extremely quickly.

Learn more: https://t.co/NSZ3xtyTtL

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

Sure, put solar panels on carparks. It's a good idea.

But the insinuation that farmers are being forced to put solar panels on "prime farmland" is such nonsense. Nearly all solar panels being erected on farmland occurs because the land owner chose to do that.

[Craig Lawrence @clawrence]

I see many posts talking about how 'resource intensive' wind and solar are.

Check my math, but the world extracts, processes, transports, and burns 100 million barrels of oil a day, about 14 million metric tons worth.

My best estimate of the weight of all the wind turbine blades installed ON EARTH today (caveat, used Claude to help estimate, check my math) is 20 million metric tons. So, 1.5 days worth of global oil consumption. AND THEY LAST FOR 20+ YEARS.

Don't let people scare you with big numbers. There is nothing on earth more resource intensive than the oil and gas indsutry. It's just that when we burn oil and gas, the waste ends up mostly in the atmosphere (and your lungs), not in a landfill.

As if that is somehow better?

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

“Solar and batteries will comprise 80% of grid capacity additions this year”.
Solar and storage expected to drive 86 GW capacity surge in the U.S. this year https://t.co/pknM3OjxWM

[Jonathan Overpeck @GreatLakesPeck]

Imagine what 6+ feet of sea level rise by 2100 will cost, or much larger amounts thereafter due to the slow but irreversible melting of polar ice. The impact will be HUGE unless we tackle climate change more aggressively.
https://t.co/pxTLXxJsjP

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.

Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%

Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: Solar globally grew by 600 TWh in 2025, largest ever rise from any source, excl rebound yrs.

RE & nuclear growth was more than total electricity demand growth.

Fossil fuel generation DECLINED!

RE = coal generation! https://t.co/PvFV77JhNu

[Yale Environment 360 @YaleE360]

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.
https://t.co/wrCJgPbe0B

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: US renewable generation rose 377% to 122 TWh in March 2026 from 25.6 TWh in 3/2001, an ~5X increase in 25 years!

RE share of US electricity was 35% in March 2026, up from 8.5% in 3/2001.

RE capacity jumped to 468 GW in 2025 from 215 GW in 2016.

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

NEW US electricity data ⚡️

In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation!

Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Solar continues to skyrocket in Africa through February 2026!

Solar is doing more to bring electricity to Africa than any other technology.

Solar may be doing more to increase electricity supply in Africa than all other technologies combined.
https://t.co/GQHQEzdiSD

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

US 2025 battery deployment skyrocketed 52% by MW and 40% by MWh, compared to 2024!

Annual deployment nearly quadrupled since 2022.

Batteries are keys to firming solar and wind and increasing grid reliability.

They are now displacing gas peakers.
https://t.co/sXKvzgui1u

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Good thing the Trump administration killed the tax credit for middle class Americans to buy electric vehicles, tore up renewable energy projects, and canceled the very programs that would have allowed Americans to weather this better.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Battery costs have collapsed. Lithium-ion battery prices are down ~97–99% since 1991 (from ~$7,500 per kWh to under $200) making energy storage dramatically cheaper and unlocking EVs and renewables at scale. Add concerns about global supply chains of fossil fuels and the future looks greener. Source: https://t.co/YWoQ9kP4eS

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

10 years after Trump vowed to erase the national debt, it has doubled https://t.co/qIqdn0GMJh

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

20 years ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar. Now it takes just half a day.

Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over the past decade, and as costs fall, installations accelerate.

Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations.

india 🇮🇳 last year emerged as the third largest solar power and coal emission are pushed into decline in both India and China.

The next wave is batteries. Similar to solar, battery deployments are now accelerating rapidly as costs fall.

The US attack on Iran will supercharge this development as all nations will opt for energy independence through renewables.

Welcome to our bright energy future!

Thanks Gavin Mooney!

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Yes, the sun does't shine at night, but batteries produced electricity every minute last night (4/4) as California set a new discharge record of 57.17 GWh/day.

Batteries have met 8.01% of all main-grid demand in 2026 in the 4th-largest economy in the world.

The batteries cost (if bought today) only ~0.28 cents/kWh-grid-output, or 0.86% the cost of grid electricity in CA.

[Jonathan Overpeck @GreatLakesPeck]

California - not dreamin’: “At 7pm on March 29, batteries provided 12.3 gigawatts of power—roughly as much as six Hoover Dams, or around 43% of the total demand on the grid.”

https://t.co/TpZUcHOAcm

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

Coal used to dominate Australia's 🇦🇺 electricity mix at over 90%.

In the last twelve months to February, it fell below 50%.

What's driving coal out? Solar, wind, batteries ☀️🍃🔋

2026 might be the year renewables overtake coal for good.

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: Global solar & wind capacity doubled to 4.2 TW in 2025 from 2.1 TW in 2022.

S&W added 2.1 TW in 3 years, after it took ~22 years to build first 2.1 TW.

Solar (647 GW) & wind (167 GW) added record high 814 GW in 2025!

Credit @nicolasfulghum