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Leon Martini
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on leave from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, learning @ec.europa.eu
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climate policy & politics, industrial policy, political economy
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nicobeckert.bsky.social
#BMW bekommt rund 273 Millionen Euro staatliche Förderung zur Entwicklung eines #Wasserstoff- Antriebs.

Der Bund trägt davon rund 191 Millionen, Bayern rund 82 Millionen Euro.

Wer entscheidet sowas?

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
BMW erhält Millionenförderung für Autos mit Wasserstoffantrieb
Als einziger deutscher Hersteller setzt BMW auf Wasserstoff als Antriebstechnologie. Vom Staat gibt es dafür mehr als 270 Millionen Euro Förderung. Noch muss die Technologie allerdings einige Hürden n...
www.tagesschau.de
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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To all those BEV market share number crunchers, @leraffl.bsky.social, @troelschristensen.bsky.social, @electricfelix.bsky.social, this rather surprised me today: In Sept. 2025, 392k cars rolled of the assembly lines in Germany - the BEV share was 44,2 % (!)

Source: www.vda.de/de/aktuelles...
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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jessedjenkins.com
Cost estimates for new gas power plants just keep rising! www.utilitydive.com/news/gas-pow... 🔌💡
According to Enverus, capital costs for new natural gas power plants now average $2,200/kW to $3,000/kW. An analysis by GridLab adds another $1,500/kW levelized for the 20-year cost of fuel and $500/kW for pipeline infrastructure, putting the cost of new gas generation at $4,000/kW to $4,500/kW. Kevin Smith, CEO of Arevon Energy, spent years working on natural gas projects alongside nuclear and renewables before transitioning to focus on renewables exclusively. He suggested there was a ceiling to how much gas could be built to meet near-term demand given the prices, pipeline constraints and interconnection queues. “Tens of gigawatts of new generation from natural gas is likely at least five years away, if not more,” Smith said. Table: Comparison of typical cost and flexibility characteristics for various gas generation technologies: Natural Gas Combined Cycle, Natural Gas Combustion Turbine, NGCT Aeroderivative, and Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine plants. From Ascend Analytics’ report on thermal generation.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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rhg.com
In our new 2025 edition of the Rhodium Climate Outlook, if current trends in policy and technology development continue, we project a likely (67% confidence) range of 2.3–3.4°C of temperature rise and an avg outcome of 2.8°C by 2100. The probability of limiting warming below 2°C remains below 5%.
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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derlampenputzer.bsky.social
this could be us aber wir hatten die bahnreform von 1994
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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bertpsch.bsky.social
War selten so froh über eine Zeile.

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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bmcwilliams.bsky.social
🇬🇧 A decade of UK electricity transformation

📉 A 110 TWh drop in fossil fuel output (equivalent to one-third 2014 demand)

🟢 50% met by growth in renewables
🔴 50% met by reduction in electricity demand

european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/overview/dep...
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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codendahl.bsky.social
Contrast and compare. This is street light charging solutions in two different European capitals, but by the same company.

Weird, why such a massive box in one, and just a plug in the other?
October 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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felixschenuit.bsky.social
EUCO conclusions on the 2040 climate target and ETS-2. It is now up to the environment ministers to agree on a specific number (most likely net 90%) and the next steps at the ENVI Council on November 4.
October 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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codendahl.bsky.social
#Berlin makes losses in the millions on its ... residential parking permits. Because the price of about €10 per year is lower than the costs to the administration (which is about €42). www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/koste...
Kosten für Verwaltung sind viel höher als Einnahmen: Berlin macht Millionenverlust mit Anwohnerparkausweisen
Bei jedem neu ausgestellten Anwohnerparkausweis zahlt das Land drauf – und zwar immer mehr. Auch, weil der Preis seit 2008 nicht erhöht wurde. Bringt das angekündigte Parkkonzept der CDU bald die Wend...
www.tagesspiegel.de
October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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carbonbrief.org
NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge
Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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wpschill.bsky.social
1/ Rund um den #Autogipfel wird wieder über Elektromobilität und das Verbrenner-Aus diskutiert. Hier kommen hier ein paar Fakten zum Stand der Dinge - und ein bisschen Meinung. 🧵
October 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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bmcwilliams.bsky.social
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Clean tech employment data are hard to estimate but crucial to understand.

Thanks to work by @prognos.com we include them in our Tracker tinyurl.com/bdm3e96n

👉 One stand-out message. The EU mid-2010s tariffs on solar panels hurt employment. Solar jobs are in installation not manufacturing.
October 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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gzachmann.bsky.social
EU annual coal imports are about 10x larger than the aggregate of the key critical raw materials tabled by Eurostat (on this nice page: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...)
September 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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ariadneprojekt.bsky.social
𝗔𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗱𝗻𝗲 𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗸𝘁 ❗
Das neue Ariadne #kompakt fasst die wichtigsten Punkte aus dem #Szenarienreport2025 zur #Dekarbonisierung Deutschlands energieintensiver #Industrie auf dem Weg zur #Klimaneutralität zusammen. 🏭

🆕Jetzt online auf der Ariadne #Webseite 👉 ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/...
September 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
leonmartini.bsky.social
Sad to see @eddywax.bsky.social uncritically reporting the misleading figure from that DIHK "study". The figure is also not the cost of the transition, but overall system costs, which includes all the investments that would be needed also without an energy transition.
September 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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jeremycliffe.bsky.social
Astute column on the intersection of Spanish and EU politics by Marc López Plana of @agendapublica.es, this:

agendapublica.es/noticia/2016...
Between Moncloa and Berlaymont: Pedro Sánchez, Europe’s Kingmaker
New weekly feature from 'Agenda Pública': Publication director and editor Marc López Plana takes the pulse of Spain and Europe and examines the relationship between domestic and European politics – no...
agendapublica.es
September 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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uedio.bsky.social
"Wir werden die Ausbauziele leicht zurücknehmen", so sagte es Friedrich Merz gestern bei den Deutschen Maschinenbauern mit Blick auf die Erneuerbaren Energien.
Merz macht die deutschen Klimaziele damit unerreichbar.
Insbesondere, wenn die BuReg mit Milliardensubventionen Erdgaskraftwerke zubaut.
September 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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jvtk.bsky.social
Such bad reporting on the speech, if you then hear what he means by "competitiveness"... unregulated tech companies, forever chemicals and combustion engines! Draghi is himself a fossil
benbraun.bsky.social Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Sep 16
Me when my paper's policy implications still haven't been implemented one year into into the peer review process.
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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wpschill.bsky.social
21/ Noch ein Fun Fact: Das Policy-Paper des BMWE hebt an verschiedenen Stellen die Bedeutung von #Technologieoffenheit hervor, Varianten des Begriffs werden auf 8 Seiten 8 mal genannt. Im EWI/BET-Gutachten taucht der Begriff auf 259 Seiten nur 1 einziges mal auf (außer in Szenarionamen der Studien).
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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nilsredeker.bsky.social
Draghi, one year after his report, still not mincing words on EU industrial policy:

“Europe’s response has fallen into two traps: uncoordinated national efforts, or blind faith that market forces will build new sectors.”

Amen!
September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
leonmartini.bsky.social
You love to see it!
aalrababah.bsky.social Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · Sep 16
🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...
September 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social
Dass in Interviews nicht auf Fragen geantwortet wird, sondern vorbereitete Statements vorgetragen werden, kennt man ja.

Aber so extrem wie bei Katherina Reiche gestern im Heute Journal und in den Tagesthemen sieht man das selten.

www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...
www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/s...
"Die Energiewende muss bezahlbar sein''
Die Energiekosten in Deutschland seien zu hoch, sagt Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche. Deshalb seien Korrekturen bei der Energiewende vonnöten.
www.zdfheute.de
September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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bmcwilliams.bsky.social
Germany stands head-and-shoulders above the rest of Europe when it comes to electric vehicle exports.

In 2024, German EV exports were over €50 billion.

Followed by
🇧🇪 Belgium at €14 billion
🇪🇸 Spain at €7 billion
🇸🇪 Sweden at €6 billion

european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/geography
September 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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wpschill.bsky.social
3/ 🆕 Es scheint wenig Neues bzw. Konkretes zu geben, was nicht ohnehin die letzten Monate rauf und runter diskutiert worden wäre.
📉 Dass der Stromverbrauch im Jahr 2030 dem aktuellen Trend zufolge deutlich unter dem im EEG implizit angenommenen 750 TWh liegen wird, ist schon fast common sense.
September 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM