Dakota Jones

Good morning with good news: Solar & batteries cut 2026 summer wholesale prices by 51% in California & by 42% in Texas, compared to 2021! CA saved $2.5 Billion & TX saved $3.55B. Retail generation cost within total retail bill fell by 10% in CA & 4% in TX. seia.org/media/18501/... #energysky

Mighty Home Batteries! Records set. Consecutive records were set for the largest residential distributed power plant dispatches in U.S. history, delivering 669 MW on October 5 and 745 MW on October 6 to support California’s electricity grid during heat wave. grist.org/solutions/ca... #energysky

BREAKING: We officially have a new national park.

Good morning with good news: US is on track to install record amounts of solar, wind & batteries in 2026 and 2027! US will install 89 GW of wind, solar & batteries in 2026 and more in 2027, says BNEF! Trump's attacks slow but can't stop clean power. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #energysky

Do EVs and heat pumps deliver no carbon savings until the grid is fully decarbonised? A recent paper claimed so. It's wrong. Even running entirely on gas-fired power, both cut emissions by about half. Our open-access response in Environmental Research: Energy: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.

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The share of battery electric car sales continues breaking RECORD driven by strong growth outside of the US and China, with sales in the rest of the world growing by an estimated 45% in January-August 2026 compared to the same period last year 📈

Trump Administration Will Let Hunters Lure Bears With Donuts and Shoot Them in Alaska’s National Preserves meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...

Which of these is not like the others?

What the Latest Data Reveals About EVs

EV September sales in Rest of World (outside China, Europe & North America) skyrocket 93!! EV skyrocketing in many developing nations is important! Europe's EV sales up 30%! China's total auto sales are down: gas auto sales fell 43%, while BEV sales fell 6% electrek.co/2026/10/15/e... #energysky

Our new EV Sales Data Tracker covers 56 countries, making up over 90% of electric car sales and over 80% of all car sales globally. 🚗 Compare monthly EV vs. combustion car sales 🚙 See EVs on the road by type 🛢️ Find out how much oil they’ve displaced

Full-EV Surge! Fifteen countries had full-electric vehicles (BEV) at 30% or higher of auto sales for period of 6-months ending in August 2026! Another 10 were at 20% BEV or higher! Those numbers do NOT include Plug-in Hybrids (PHEV). ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

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...

🇺🇸 Six Flags Magic Mountain just finished installing a new 12.4 MW #solar installation above its parking lot, officially California’s largest solar carport. It’s expected to generate enough electricity each year to offset both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles.

Good morning with good news: EV share (BEV & PHEV) of China's auto sales set a new monthly record of 67.1% in September! That means ICE vehicles were just 32.9%. EV were 57.8% of sales in 9/2025 & 53.3% in 9/2024, Wolrd's largest auto market is killing ICE. cnevpost.com/2026/10/12/c... #energysky

43–0. GAS PEAKERS JUST LOST THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT. Wood Mackenzie's latest research finds four-hour batteries now beat new gas peakers on levelised costs in all 43 markets modelled. AI's electricity boom is driving up gas turbine prices, while battery manufacturing scales and costs keep falling.

DENMARK DESERVES THE 2026 EV TRANSITION CROWN! They gave the world Danish pastries, LEGO and butter cookies. Now serving up something even sweeter: 97.3% of new household car registrations fully electric! In September 2026, BEVs accounted for an astonishing 88.6% of ALL new car registrations.

Jaw-dropping headline $80M: cost to charter 1 supertanker US-to-China ($17M before the US-Israel war on Iran) 
$74M: a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch $40 a barrel to drag 2M barrels halfway around the planet to burn once NB: The sun doesn't charge any delivery fees

Good morning with good news: South Korea launches BIG $747 billion decarbonization plan. 100 GW of RE capacity by 2030 versus 2024's ~34 GW. Tripling! 70% EV sales by 2035. Support for key green industries. Decarb is key to SK's security! Decarb is back! gmk.center/en/news/sout... #energysky

FedEx saves $40 million per year for 20 years or $800 million by buying 2000 electric delivery vehicles. An Electric Vehicle start-up scores the major order. Legacy manufacturers?? www.electrive.com/2026/10/01/2... #energysky

Good morning with good news: China's coal falls to its lowest August share in 2026! It fell from 64.4% in 8/2022 to 53.4% in 8/2026. August Share: 2026: 53.4% 2025: 56.3% 2024: 58% 2022: 64.4% Coal's lowest monthly share is 50.1% in May & June 2026! Solar & Wind Displace Coal #energysky

"Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs."

Trump’s diesel export coercion will not strengthen the US ft.trib.al/3upntnW

“Contrary to what the people in power want us to think, there is a common-sense path in Texas to transition away from expensive, dirty, thirsty coal,” said Josh Smith, a Sierra Club Environmental Law Program attorney. cleantechnica.com/2026/10/01/t...

Tesla built 464,391 vehicles and delivered 486,532 in Q3, beating estimates while U.S. sales fell nearly 20% year-over-year.

Rivian delivered 19,248 vehicles in Q3, its best quarter ever, and kept its 2026 guidance at 65,000 to 70,000. Thank you R2! riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-...

Good morning with good news: France's September Full-EV sales reach 42% of auto sales. Full-EV sales skyrocket 108% in September! Full-EV and Plug-In Hybrid were 48% of auto sales! Petrol-only cars were just 13% and diesel collapsed to 2.4%! www.aaa-data.fr/actualites/i... #energysky

the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.

Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.

Argument For Clean Energy Has Flipped IEA's new "Electrification" lists its benefits as energy security, competitiveness, then emissions Its thesis can be traced to 2009, when M Jacobson wrote in Sci American we could power 100% of the planet w/renewables www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/the-arg...

Plug-in #EV share of new passenger-car sales/registrations around August 2026, counting BEVs + PHEVs/EREVs. The remarkable thing isn’t Norway approaching 100%. It’s who else is on the list. Different continents. Different incomes. Different grids. Different governments. Same technological S-curve.

As a lifelong baseball fan, can I say: this is a truly bad idea. Fenway Park is for baseball, Teton Park is for wildlife www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.

The battery-electric vehicle transition in Europe, in one picture: ⚡🇪🇺

Gasoline prices in the US are soaring. EV sales should be booming. They're not. Policy rollbacks have left the US trailing China and Europe just when drivers need an alternative most.

The EU has asked China to voluntarily restrict exports of hybrid cars. A focus on hybrids is overdue. Since EU introduced tariffs on BEVs in October 2024, net imports of Chinese PHEVs alone have grown from neutral to €600 million monthly european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/hIuMig

A new study finds that climate pollution caused by just 122 companies led to a 15% decline in annual average Western mountain snowpacks. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/scie...

EV Sales At 32% — No, Make That 38%! — By 2030 cleantechnica.com/2026/09/20/e...

🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS For the first time ever, @iea.org has published a dedicated Electrification Report. An absolute treasure trove of data. Here are the key takeaways that stood out to me when I peer-reviewed it. 🧵

Gas averaging $4.48 a gallon nationwide. Diesel just hit a record $6.51 average. Saudi oil shipments to parts of Europe are being suspended. And Trump is publicly talking about blowing up Iran: “My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.”

"What is driving up gas prices right now isn’t just the price of oil ... It’s the price of diesel. The cost to get the gas to the gas station is the driving factor behind the steady increase at the pump." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/17/d...

Energy Expert: Renewables Will Save $Trillions & Millions of Lives Avoid 7 mil air pol deaths/y Slow then reverses global warming Reduce energy needs 55% & energy costs 66% Create 23 mil more jobs than lost Need less land than current energy Keep grids stable sonomasun.com/2026/09/17/e...

Liontown's Kathleen Valley: targeted 60% renewable electricity, delivered 81% in FY25, then ~85% by March 2026 — smashing it by 25 points. 100% underground lithium, 2.8Mtpa by FY27. The mine of the future, built now. 🔋⚡ #Bettrification #Solar #SWB #Renewables

Second Biggest Oil Decline in Last 60 Years! IEA's September forecast has global oil demand falling 2.5 million barrels/day. Most since Pandemic. IEA forecast swung 3.2 million barrels/day since January 2026, when it said oil would gain 700k barrels/day. 247wallst.com/investing/20... #energysky

European gas is above €82/MWh - the highest since late 2022. Hormuz remains largely shut and gas storage is at 68% going into winter. None of this started in Europe but we pay for it. The only exit is using less gas. Heat pumps, electrified industry, insulation.

China's coal and gas fall 4% in August!