Alfred Arnborg

Energy Analyst at Think Tank EUROPA.

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

If Energy policy (or rather, electricity) comes back as a political priority for the election in September, we will likely see less of the export-friendly, pro-market and renewables-only Norway that has in many ways inspired EU power market reforms over the last decades.

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

Støre’s AP up ~13 pp in a week after decision to implement (relatively minor) EU energy directives, leading to SP exit from government – and Jens Stoltenberg’s comeback as finance minister.

EU-NO relations remain political dynamite in EU’s biggest energy import partner

[Europe Elects @EuropeElects]

Norway, InFact poll:

Ap-S&D: 31% (+13)
FrP~ECR: 24% (-2)
H-EPP: 16% (-2)
SV~LEFT: 7% (-2)
Sp~RE: 6% (-2)
R~LEFT: 6% (+1)
V-RE: 3% (-2)
KrF-EPP: 3%
MDG-G/EFA: 2% (-1)

+/- vs. 30 January 2025

Fieldwork: 6 February 2025
Sample size: 1,062

➤ https://t.co/Df7Nsbqbrl

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

Meanwhile, the AP gov proclaims no new interconnectors until 2029, fixed power prices to households, and a possible opening for nuclear. They can count on some to large support from other parties, including now a majority for assessing nuclear in Norway (H, SP, KrF).

[EU Social 🇪🇺 @EU_Social]

EU #youth #unemployment in December 2024:

🇷🇴25.3%
🇪🇸25.3%
🇸🇪23.9%
🇱🇺22.3%
🇬🇷21.0%
🇵🇹20.5%
🇫🇷20.4%
🇧🇪19.4%
🇮🇹19.4%
🇫🇮19.0%
🇸🇰18.3%
🇱🇹17.8%
🇸🇮17.2%
🇪🇪16.3%
🇩🇰16.0%
🇭🇷15.4%
🇪🇺15.0%
🇭🇺14.5%
🇱🇻14.2%
🇧🇬12.8%
🇨🇾11.9%
🇮🇪11.6%
🇵🇱10.8%
🇲🇹10.5%
🇦🇹10.3%
🇨🇿9.0%
🇳🇱8.7%
🇩🇪6.4%

@EU_Eurostat

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

@mikaelkulle Bra! 👍

[David Kihlberg @DKihlberg]

Äntligen! #Språkrådet rekommenderar nu att använda ordet #fossilgas och inte det vilseledande #naturgas. Det är ett fossilt bränsle och bör både betecknas och behandlas som ett sådant.
https://t.co/QMWOXkkG39

Tagga gärna medier, myndigheter och företag som behöver uppdatera sig.

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

@emmawiesner @vansterpartiet Har du någon gissning om vad regerings förslag kommer att resultera i? Spansk modell? https://t.co/KQDy6GHr5P

[Fatih Birol @fbirol]

Europe’s gas benchmark averaged a record $50/mmbtu in July – almost 10 times its pre-war average – as Russia cut supplies

Worth noting that $50/mmbtu is also the estimated production cost of synthetic methane, i.e. electricity converted to low emission hydrogen & then to methane

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Exceptional heat is sparking wildfires and heatwaves around the world

Here's a selection of newspaper frontpages from the last few days (ongoing thread)

1/ Spain

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

@dumbodax Nej! Inte mitt under valborgsrean!

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

@JakopDalunde Tror du även att det kan bli genomfört för elbilar i stor skala? Vad jag har förstått det så har Tesla (och andra europeiska tillverkare) gett upp idén, men att Kinesiska tillverkare undersöker det vidare.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Well fellow beings on planet Earth, we finally f**king made it. A daily reading of CO₂ above 422 ppm in the year 2022 at Mauna Loa in the month of April (4/'22) -- the first such reading in, I don't know, let's say 4.22 million years.

This is not going to end well. Sláinte.

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

@EuropeElects 🇸🇪 national

[David Mosquera @renaldinhos]

Michael Scott as Emmanuel Macron: a thread

[jos @josiahhughes]

remember… if an app is free… you’re the product

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Today is overshoot day for Sweden. If everyone lived like we do, the world would have already used up its annual resources today.

For the rest of the year we aren't just stealing the resources from future generations, but also from the present most affected people and areas.

[Anna Engholm @annaengholm]

Hur länge får du vänta på vård i din region? Kolla in och jämför med andra regioner på specialsajt av SVT Datajournalistik i samarbete med Uppdrag granskning och lokala redaktioner.
#granskning

https://t.co/cx2TEm5nlG

[Alexey Navalny @navalny]

1/14 Whether Russians actually support the hideous war that Putin has waged against Ukraine is a matter of utmost political importance. The answer to this question will largely define Russia’s place in the history of the 21st century.

[Alfred Arnborg @alfredarnborg]

@Reuters Timeframe for russian gas phase out? DK will be practically independent from Russian gas after the opening of the Baltic line in October this year and the reopening of the Tyra gas field summer 2023… This phase out costs nothing for DK