Jan Derk Stegeman

China installed 61GW of wind and 111GW of solar power in Jan-Sep. Wind tracks last year's record pace, while solar is down from that but tracks 2023 which saw a respectable 200GW added. With energy demand growth slowing, clean energy has a good shot at covering all demand growth.

Wiring up!!!! "Emerging economies across Asia, Africa, Latin America and parts of the Middle East have outspent the rest of the world since 2024 on key clean energy components, setting themselves up for further ​rapid electrification."

Last year, the IEA brought back the CPS (current policies) scenario into their World Energy Outlook after discontinuing it in 2020. It expects India's EV share of car sales to reach 5% in 2035. That's right...2035! September 2026 was already over 8%. CPS can retire again.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

De overheid onderhandelt met Tata Steel: 2 miljard euro subsidie in ruil voor een groenere fabriek. Het is een harde breuk met het industriebeleid van de afgelopen dertig jaar. Maar of het ook een goed plan is? @jelmermommers.bsky.social

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Geert Gommers, expert pesticiden, noemt de resultaten "schokkend". Velt merkt op dat een aanzienlijk deel van deze middelen schadelijke effecten kunnen hebben. Maar een beetje gif in klaslokalen kan geen kwaad toch? Zie "Verkennend onderzoek pesticiden op school".

Africa is on track to install a RECORD 17 GW of solar capacity in 2026, a 45% increase from the year before ☀️📈 Ensuring grid financing at #COP31 could turn this solar boom into wider access to electricity across the region 🌍 ember-energy.org/lat...

MIND-BLOWING STATS: A record two-thirds of new cars in China are now electric (NEVs*), while combustion-car sales have fallen by two-thirds since they peaked in 2017 – In 2020, ~95% of sales were combustion-engine cars – By Sep 2026, they crashed to 33% – On the flip side, NEVs hit a record 67% 🧵

Good morning with good news: Australia's main grid Q3 2026 gas power fell 34% to 2000 level. Why? Battery supply about tripled, while renewables set new record of 44.3%, up from 41.8%. Small solar rose enough to match itself the grid's 1.3% growth! www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

No matter what poverty line you choose, the share of the global population below it has declined. The World Bank's International Poverty Line is an extremely low poverty line. Set at $3 per day, it draws attention to the living conditions of the poorest people on the planet.

In het debat over landbouwgif gaat het vaak over economische belangen. Maar over de gevolgen voor omwonenden wordt liever niet gepraat 🤫 Zij hebben geen 06-nummers van de bewindspersonen en voelen zich in de steek gelaten door de overheid. Help ook deze mensen en negeer hun niet 🤝

Arie Pieters hield meer dan 12 jaar dagelijks een zwarte kraaienfamilie in de gaten in zijn dorp. De vogels herkenden hem als hij aankwam en hij ontdekte bijzonder gedrag. Hij schreef er 10 boeken over. Onlangs verscheen het laatste deel: Zonder haar... Het ontroerende verhaal: tinyurl.com/yz4a4z7h

BIG jump in China's exports of solar in September, far above any earlier month, except the export-tax-driven wave in March. Solar kit with annual power output equal to 10 large nuclear reactors exported in just one month. Media reporting wildly off as they used wrong metrics!

EVs are not a "rich" country phenomenon at all anymore Roughly 30% of new car sales in Indonesia are already fully battery electric. Oil importing countries across the globe are making the sensible choice of moving away from oil dependency in the transport sector.

Solar Is Electrifying Zambia Zambia has ~1.3 GW of solar operating and another 1.6 GW of solar under construction. That compares to Zambia's TOTAL electricity generating capacity of ~4 GW at the end of 2024. Solar in Africa is transformational! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/10/21/z... #energysky

In just four years, annual battery storage additions grew tenfold as costs declined, driving rapid deployment. The same increase in solar capacity took nine years, and wind 15 years. ember-energy.org/lat...

Paddenstoelen zijn niet alleen mooi om te zien, ze vervullen ook een belangrijke rol in de natuur. Schimmels breken dood plantenmateriaal en hout af, waardoor voedingsstoffen weer beschikbaar komen voor andere organismen. Hun draden zijn daarnaast voedsel voor insectenlarven, mijten en regenwormen.

Good morning with good news: China's September 2026 solar & wind (211 TWh) jumped 20%, compared to 9/2025 (176 TWh)! S&W surged 842% since 9/2016 (22 TWh) & 204% since 9/2021 (70 TWh)! S&W were 23.8% of China's electricity in 2026 thru September, up from 11.5% in 2021 & 5% in 2016. #energysky

Asian LNG prices TRIPLE since start of Iran War! They are at levels that punish importing nations and consumers. But this is the first oil and gas crisis when cheaper, better alternatives exist. So, Asian nations rapidly deploy solar, wind & batteries. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

Gangbare boeren blijven doorgaan met bespuiten van voedingsgewassen en bodem met PFAS-houdende bestrijdingsmiddelen ondanks alarm van waterbedrijven. TFA (ook PFAS) breekt nauwelijks af in het milieu en verspreidt zich gemakkelijk via bodem en water. En de boer: die spuit gewoon door. Hoe kan dat?

Indonesia just imported 1 GW of solar modules in September. This was more than double the previous record set 0.46 GW in March 2026. Indonesia has big plans to roll out solar power and make the country less dependent on fossil imports.

The US and Israeli war against Iran has been the big energy story in 2026, but the quiet retooling of power grids from Lagos to Manila may prove to be of greater significance in the long run. www.reuters.com/commentary/r...

1/3 Zeldzaam veel onzin in het journaal van de @nieuws.nos.nl over de #geelpoothoornaar. - De geelpoothoornaar is niet precies nu actief maar van februari tot november - De geelpoothoornaar is helemaal geen bedreiging voor de biodiversiteit. Daar is geen wetenschappelijk bewijs voor.

Als aanstaande moeder eis ik een PFAS-verbod 👇

Dit plaatje laat goed zien waar we voor kunnen kiezen: Landbouw die mét de natuur mee werkt en zorgt voor herstel van biodiversiteit! (met dank aan Robbert Vesseur op LI)

Although many electric models feature in the top 10 cheapest new cars to buy in the Netherlands:

Subsidie voor mestvergisting is niet enkel een NL probleem: foodrise.eu/brussels-cel...

Batteries have increased 17-fold in just five years. In 2025, the world's new storage capacity hit a record 118 GW, dominated by batteries 🔋 Yet national ambitions still fall 45% short of the global goal. 2/7

🚨 NEW | National energy storage targets for 2030 have nearly tripled since #COP29 but still falls short of the 1,500 GW global storage pledge. Targets across 99 countries and the EU, representing 94% global power demand, stand at only 822 GW ember-energy.org/latest-insig... 🧵 1/7

New data tool: Who sells the most battery electric vehicles around the world? Great to see @ember-energy.org is now tracking this in detail. ember-energy.org/data/monthly...

China's coal imports fell 6% in September year on year, crude oil imports fell 22% and fossil gas imports by 2%. Mirrors reductions in consumption as solar and wind displace coal and gas and EVs and rail displace oil.

Ik vind het een geweldige ontwikkeling dat we desinformatie beantwoorden met minstens zoveel harde feiten

Good morning with good news: US solar & wind surged 24% to record high September level of 76.6 TWh! S&W were 18.9% of US power, up from 16.5% in 9/2025. S&W's all-time monthly record production was 96.5 TWh in June 2026. S&W's monthly record high share was 26.5% in April 2026. #energysky

🇮🇳 NEW | #India Quarterly #Energy Snapshot is out now! ⚡📈 India’s electricity generation increased by 11% YoY during Q2 FY2026-27 ☀️🏅 Renewable electricity generation (excluding large hydro) crossed 100 BU for the first time ⤵️ energyandcleanair.org/quarterly-energy-snapshot-for-india-q2-2026-27/

This analysis helps local authorities in the Netherlands with their heat transition plans. Previous versions had already tempered expectations regarding hydrogen; now, in fact, this applies to all gases distributed via a network to every home.

41. Achieving a low-carbon transition, for most countries, will not look like winning a war or marching while waving flags. It is the ability to say "no thank you, we do not want what you are selling" to the petrostates, and walking (or cycling, or taking a bus, or driving an EV) away.

36. Solar long ago stopped being only for rich countries, and now batteries are the same.

35. The Philippines is having an amazing boom – we estimate that it will build 5.6GW of new solar in 2026, compared with 1GW last year. Plus 2.7GWh of batteries in 2026. Maybe the first market where the solar boom comes with batteries from the start.

34. Demand for solar panels to sub-Saharan Africa is rising; it was the destination for 9.4 gigawatts (GW) of Chinese module exports in the first half of 2026, compared with 13.1GW in the whole of 2025. South Africa, Nigeria, Congo, Ghana and Kenya are the largest markets.

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

One booking from US equates to a transport cost of $41 a barrel!! $41/Barrel Just to Transport the Oil!! That's up 9 times since last year. Economically crippling cost of fossil fuels is why most of the world is dumping them for EVs and clean energy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky

Mooi betoog over #voedselzekerheid en in lijn met #landinzicht: het zou moeten gaan over gezonde voedselproductie op de juiste plaats en gebruik maken van talenten. #7vinkjes En: "Meer plantaardig en minder dieren is een no brainer.” www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Vijf jaar geleden opende Follow the Money een kantoor in Brussel. Het plan was helder: uitzoeken waar Europees geld terechtkomt. Inmiddels zijn we talloze onthullingen, schandalen en rechtszaken verder. Waarom internationale onderzoeksjournalistiek meer nodig is dan ooit, lees je hier:

Renewables are already cheaper than fossil power, and the Caribbean has two case studies to prove it This year the Dominican Republic, host of OLACDE Energy Week 2026, awarded 326 MW of renewables + batteries at 28% cheaper than the average cost of electricity generation in 2025 🧵 1/5