John Raymond Hanger 

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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@WandersWithVik Materials innovation is a major part of battery innovation. Many batteries now eliminate cobalt.

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Global battery investment quadrupled since 2022 and will exceed $100 billion in 2026!

Battery investment grew 30% in 2025, compared to 2024.

Falling costs led to 40% rise in battery deployment to 108 GW in 2025.

Batteries firm solar and wind.
https://t.co/tEBeU7wH03

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Good morning with good news: The cost of adding 1 GW of solar fell from $3 billion in 2015 to $0.7 billion in 2025 reports the IEA!

The 80% fall in capital cost required to add 1 GW of solar led to a near ten-fold rise in annual capacity additions!
https://t.co/tEBeU7wH03

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@AshReddy7 I thought 500 Wh/kg was that line??

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Good morning with good news: All-solid-state batteries are entering production, with mass production in 2027!

These batteries have a range of 1,000 to 1,500 kilometers.

They are safer & can charge more rapidly.

They have an energy density of 400 Wh/kg.
https://t.co/4ofhJAgtfE

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@prosperityall91 False. Read the article.

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@grow_token_ True.

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Chile's EV Adoption Skyrockets!

2026 oil price shock is first to happen when EVs offer consumers many good choices and substitutes for oil burners.

Consumers in many nations are flocking to EVs, thanks to better quality, lower EV prices & oil shock!
https://t.co/fHWcfrNGqP

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@Atomicrod @EVCurveFuturist New nuclear needs subsidies, especially in countries with a price of zero on carbon.

I want new nuclear built.

Nuclear advocates complaining about RE subsidies need to stop.

Unless they are complaining about the huge subsidies to fossil fuels.

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Home solar savings add up!

If you use home solar to charge an EV, solar savings more than add up.

They become big!

~6 million US homes now have solar!

Their owners can drive an EV right by gas stations to home solar charging.
https://t.co/qWewQv41G6

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True.

Capital intensive industries like energy especially need Fed independence.

https://t.co/Z4IaIOHZPx

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US solar & battery industries BOTH added 30 new manufacturing plants in 2025!

Solar, wind & battery manufacturing provided 215,900 jobs in 825 plants in 2025 & could employ 373,800 in ~950 plants in 2030.

Trump attacks slowed but did not sto growth of US manufacturing.

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Good morning with good news: US plants could supply 100% of US battery module & cell demand in 2026!

They could supply 100% of US solar module demand in 2025 & supply ~90% of solar cell demand by 2030.

Clean manufacturing grew, despite Trump attacks.
https://t.co/5dpHsILBXf

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Six battery projects below won the tender.

They total 517 MW and 4136 MWh of supply.

Gas will steadily be reduced to an emergency reserve in many grids.

Batteries will firm solar and wind in 95% of hours or more in many grids and at a lower cost than new gas and coal.

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Batteries beat gas in South Australia's "Firming Tender" that was open to gas and 8-hour batteries!

Tender was to ensure supply was available at times of system stress.

SA's goal is 100% net renewables by 2027!

Next are tender's winners:
https://t.co/9tbHRqw0rP

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@ira_joseph @Ronh999 @ColumbiaUEnergy It is not all rational. Personal politics matters

But the oil lobby is often the oil and gas lobby.

Solar competes with gas now for generation.

Electrification/heat pumps threaten gas.

Solar is a key pillar for clean energy transition, which oil and gas hates.

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House Republicans pass Farm Bill that sabotages solar on farms!

Gas drilling, data centers, suburban sprawl are all fine on farms but not solar.

Farmers use solar for revenue to keep farms operating.

This anti-solar Farm Bill is in the Senate.
https://t.co/wMMUIBkY60

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@Ronh999 @ira_joseph @ColumbiaUEnergy Follow the dollars.

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Excessive Heat Kills Many!

"...a study found summer heat in the European Union caused about three times as many deaths in 2024 as car crashes, 16 times as many as murderers, and more than 10,000 times as many as terrorists."

Europe warms rapidly!
https://t.co/FbD2FIAo4M

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@ira_joseph @ColumbiaUEnergy Two things:

1. Trump/MAGA Rs are trying to sabotage solar and wind by any means. Solar is now displacing gas in California and other places. There is a mix of economic, political, ideological motivations leading to their attacks.
2. NIMBY can be a real thing too.