Will Wade

Energy Writer and Editor, Bloomberg News. Based in New York, watching the world. Views are my own. The only people for me are the mad ones.

[Michael Liebreich - @MLiebreich.bsky.social @MLiebreich]

My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward peak fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." https://t.co/857eRwNea3

[Rebecca Tan @rebtanhs]

Thailand is one of the first ag countries to enter a planting season since the Iran war. We went to document the impact of supply shocks to fuel/fertilizer — It was worse than I anticipated.

Farmers are leaving huge tracts of land barren bc they can’t afford to plant.

[Knox Harrington, PhD, MBA, ERP, CFA @amn3siak]

How ERCOT looks at PJM when it hears it may be considering changing to an energy-only market.

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

this is easily my most viral reporting ever posted to x. a few words about how we got here

[Will Wade @willwwade]

The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is poised for a comeback, driven by AI’s massive energy needs -- worked on this one for a long time, with @drakepbennett
https://t.co/4Sxg5932dp

[Wilson Ricks @wilson_ricks]

Seems to be flying enormously under the radar that Trump has banned wind power in the United States. A full 10% of our electricity. Just imagine if another administration did this extrajudicially to any other industry.

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.

The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly.

1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting.

No fertilizer. No crops. No food.

Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025.

160,000 farms closed since 2017.

Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year.

They're not struggling. They're being wiped out.

And the media is busy covering everything else.

The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨

[Will Wade @willwwade]

Not Even Japanese Bathhouses Are Immune From Shocks of Iran War https://t.co/IiD89EhFYx via @NYTimes

[Will Wade @willwwade]

Great read here, from @HiMichelleMa and @naurtorious

[Michelle Ma @HiMichelleMa]

The story of Fermi is in some ways the story of the AI moment: Co-founded by a former Texas governor and a brash entrepreneur, Fermi offered companies racing to build data centers the two things they crave most: open land and an astonishing amount of power.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
https://t.co/A4lQE3ktoG

[@aaronjmars @aaronjmars]

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer

- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded

- the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit

- then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max

- temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges

hyperstitions.

[Brian Willott Farms @BrianWillott]

They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.

[Bloomberg @business]

Startup Nuclear Co. is seeking to build a reactor in South Carolina in what would be one of the first US efforts to develop a large, conventional nuclear facility in more than a decade. https://t.co/PUsQIslF8i

[Bloomberg @business]

New York state expects to select a community this year to host at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear energy, signaling a push to accelerate reactor development as electricity demand climbs. https://t.co/xNaMswUSzk

[James Hopf @HopfJames]

A final investment decision concerning finishing construction of the Summer AP1000s in South Carolina is expected ~2 years from now. Article link in reply.

[Annibale @Annibal97783312]

This was posted less than one hour ago. Note how Pope Leo's language is becoming harsher and more explicit as the days goes on. This is a signal too.

For those still asking Stalin's tired ( and almost certainly apocryphal ) question about how many divisions the Pope has: in 2026, in a fully interconnected world, commanding 1.4 billion people's attention and framing moral reality across every platform is not a soft alternative to hard power. It IS hard power.

[Will Wade @willwwade]

Northeast States Set Big Climate Goals. Now Those Plans Are in Trouble. https://t.co/YJijElHKZQ via @NYTimes

[Bloomberg @business]

New Jersey wants a new nuclear power plant, but it’s not clear who’s going to pay for it, writes @willwwade https://t.co/liRVsKgrNv

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

RATE MY “COAL COMEBACK” 🫵

8 government announcements are being repeated in the media as evidence of a “return to coal”.
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But how consequential are they.. really?!🧵

[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.