Ketan Joshi
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Ketan Joshi
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Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability

Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/

Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - [email protected]
Australia really needs a truly independent climate accountability body. The Climate Change Authority is basically just a pro-government advertising body at the moment, just as much as the dep't of environment is.
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
okay australian government: now take the direct incentives you did for household batteries and do it for massive, large-scale renewable energy
December 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Three people were arrested by the police at a data centre hearing in the US -->>>

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/thre...
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Also google seems to be creating slop titles for search results now, how cool!!!!!!
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Trying to find a post from a journalist on the Spain blackout and so many Grok responses come up - in this case you can see two COMPLETELY different claims.

No wonder the people still using that site are fundamentally just losing all connection to reality
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Missed this - JD Vance met with a solar power manufacturing company and the company's stock value soared. Lots of talk of 'energy dominance' etc

finance.yahoo.com/news/t1-ener...
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
China's emissions changes have been worse than most transition scenarios that limit warming to 2C or less; albeit clearly not as bad as many anticipated ->

energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-conten...
December 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Imagine when you're at you're job and you need to eat six lunches instead of one if you need to use reasoning or logic in your work
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
....which looks like something I'm going to call the Jellyfish Chart: when a metric underperforms consistently badly, and the projections droop and dangle optimistically below.

Eg: this is emissions and total fossil generation, for Aus, 2020 to 2025:
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Over the past year and a bit, Australia's grid operator has moved data centres into their own category, and you can REALLY see why: here's their projected consumption and the range between scenarios, compared to the middle scenarios for ALL EVS AND ELECTRIFICATION

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Well - the total amount of electrical power being consumed on Australia's power grids has both risen in real terms from year-to-year, and risen in terms of how much is projected to be consumed.

From 2024 to 2025, the biggest jump since forever (well..2016)
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
You would've seen this chart before: sometimes called a 'hedgehog' chart. When projections just stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the shifting trend.

From 2015 to 2019, Australia's power sector emissions followed the hedgehog: overperforming against expectations, thanks to strong RE policy
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Back in May this year I already poked around in some of the emissions, energy and projections data - raising the possibility that the rapidly climbing total power demand projections were going to take things way off course:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/12/a...
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Australian data centre development really is massive and globally significant - I knew this but didn't know it was #2 in the whole world in terms of $$? Wild! But it makes sense!

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?

It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:

www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
See what happens when government policy creates incentives? More of this please!

www.aemc.gov.au/sites/defaul...
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Really not entirely clear when people write and send newsletter why they need to be tracking which links I click on
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
December 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
No right-wing tech dweebs get to complain about the land use impact of a wind farm ever again
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Again, the idea that this is something new is just bonkers. Haven't the democrats been taking exactly this tone for a half-decade at least, now?

I think they need to bury how *old* this approach is now because if they admitted it, it'd become clear how spectacularly it failed
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You wouldn't know it considering the focus on solar (particularly from the US) but it is the growth of utility-scale wind (or its lack of growth) that decides the fate for power prices in Aus

Rooftop solar benefits those w/ homes, but big wind reduces $ for everyone

www.aemc.gov.au/sites/defaul...
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The reason I think it might thankfully be the former is because one of the critiques comes from someone at the same institute?

But I'm curious to know more if anyone has any insights on the story.
December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Good @goodlawproject.bsky.social post here on the obscene legal threats being used to pressure organisations to exclude trans people

goodlawproject.org/excluding-tr...
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This post from Equinor's chief LinkedIn slopaganda superstar was liked by the deputy CEO of Renewables Norway

Am I weird for feeling absolutely displaced and worried about the way a WHOLE BUNCH of renewable lobby groups are getting louder and louder in support of fossil fuels, all at the same time
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM