Here's what it looks like when electric vehicles make up over 25% of the passenger vehicle fleet.

Today is a positive step to delivering the Government’s clean power goal, especially after the last auction failed to bring forward offshore wind. But we need a lot more capacity, which means more action on planning and grids as well as ensuring the next auction is bigger still.

After today’s bumper AR6 results, we move to the advice from National Grid ESO in Autumn as the next milestone for Clean Power 2030. Thanks to Fintan Slye and his team for their work with industry to develop this advice. This open letter explains the approach they are taking.

BLOG: we've analysed #Indonesia's second #NDC draft, which outlines its updated #climate goals. While there are some encouraging signs, we also found several red flags. We have submitted this analysis to the government's consultation. 🧵 bit.ly/CAT_IND_SNDC

The UK electric car sales grew 10% in August, beating legal 22% targets and bucking European trends. Chinese brands saw a fall in BEV sales in August, defying expectations following the introduction of EU tariffs. Full release: newautomotive.org/ecc

NEW ANALYSIS: UK CfD auction secured 9.6GW of wind/solar, enough to generate >10% of current annual demand, at avg £80/MWh in today's money Per Aurora Energy Research's Pranav Menon – and contrary to some very misleading newspaper reports – "deploying this capacity ultimately lowers

Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world | Orla Dwyer Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3Xujwsz

Remarkable chart from BloombergNEF's EV Outlook: EVs are covering significantly more ground on average than combustion vehicles in almost every country. The US is a notable exception for now.

China's taxis and ride hailing vehicles are already electric. City policies matter, but so do economics. High mileage = more savings. Chart from Andrew Grant

NEW: UK battery EV sales climbed 11% in August claiming 22.6% market share – above the mandated level for this year under ZEV Meanwhile, petrol dropped 10% and diesel another 7% Year-to-date, BEV sales are UP by 10.5%, petrol flat and diesel down 13% File under: "EV sales are

Analysis: UK’s record-breaking renewable auction ‘will cut consumer bills’ By Carbon Brief carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks-r…

It was also reduce gas imports and thereby improve our security position and it will reduce the volatility of energy prices and reduce the scale of price shocks that we have suffered in the past. Plus of course tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions

There are days in politics that you are particularly proud of. Today is one of those, because we are debating the Great British Energy Bill in Parliament. This Government won a mandate for the first publicly-owned national energy company in 75 years. It will be owned by you

Blimey. Two think tanks piling into latest UK govt energy auctions committed a 'string of errors' & 'relied on a blog written by a retired IT consultant months before the auction result was announced' writes Simon Evans... carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks-r…

A lot of talk about #Electricv sales falling lately. If you hear a downside about EVs take a look at this thread. Great read Simon Evans

I'm afraid this week the standard (bifacial PERC) solar module price fell to $0.095/W. What a world we live in.

"US gasoline demand, the world’s single largest pool of oil consumption, has almost certainly peaked for good." Yup Liam Denning bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

NEW: UK govt gives itself an extra two months to respond to the latest Climate Change Committee report 🔍 🗓️old deadline – 15 October 2024 🗓️new deadline – 19 December 2024 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/903/…

SCOOP: The UK is preparing to pull back its target of building 55 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by the end of the decade bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Will Mathis

Sensible for the UK Government to give itself till after the Budget to respond to our Progress Report. What matters is the pace and ambition of action. We’ve seen that on electricity already, but it needs to extend to heat pumps, EVs, industry, and tree planting.