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Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world? This @NatureComms paper says yes. Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources. #Sec6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4146…

Ahir, a Pujalt, realitzarem la 8ena trobada de particips en el projecte eòlic comunitari (encara unic a Catalunya)

40 anys del desastre nuclear de Txernòbil . . . Stephan Grüger, president d'@EUROSOLAR_D @EUROSOLAR_engl

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Markbygden Wind Farm in Sweden already runs 500+ turbines, scaling toward ~1,000 at full build-out. Producing ~6–7 TWh/year, powering hundreds of thousands of homes and industry. Not just a wind farm. A regional energy system delivering consistent, large-scale clean power. #Wind

… WindEurope 2026 a Madrid, la indústria eòlica europea demana als líders de la UE que tractin l'electrificació com una prioritat estratègica i estableix 10 accions fàcilment disponibles per fer passar Europa de la crisi a la confiança en una dècada. elinkeu.clickdimensions.com/m/1/71234610/p…

L'electricitat autòctona és l'única estratègia energètica europea amb futur. La guerra a l'Iran ha recordat a Europa, un cop més, que els combustibles fòssils s'han de substituir per electricitat autòctona. Amb l'inici de l'esdeveniment anual de … elinkeu.clickdimensions.com/m/1/71234610/p…

Atomkraft-Fans argumentieren gern mit Systemkosten. Die Uni Aalborg hat jetzt nachgerechnet – mit allen Kosten. Speicher? Drin. Netzausbau? Drin. Stabilisierung? Drin. Flexibilisierung? Drin. Erneuerbare: 4 Cent/kWh Atom: 10 Cent/kWh Und die Entsorgung des Atommüll fehlt in der Rechnung sogar noch. golem.de/news/tatsaechl…

@uniopagesos Us heu convertit en mercenaris dels incendiaris del clima! Per que no proposeu abandonar la crema de fòssils en totes les activitats agràries? Per que no deixeu de cremar fòssils per escalfar? Les renovables són sempre compatibles amb la ruralitat!

🌱 El PLATER, el nou pla d’energies renovables del Govern, afectarà 38.000 hectàrees de sòl agrari. ⚠️ Denunciem que no respecta la Llei d’espais agraris i posa en risc la sobirania alimentària. 🌾 Renovables sí, però sense sacrificar el camp.

Renewables are more than half as cheap as nuclear power, peer-reviewed study concludes. pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/new…

What does the new £1bn investment in community energy really mean? he idea behind community-owned renewable energy is fairly simple. Local people get together and form a social enterprise in order to build their own commercial clean energy project, or buy shares in one. Then, the electricity generated from wind, solar or water is sold to the grid and the community directly benefits from any profits. It works – but in the UK, the proportion of power that’s generated in this way remains small. Now, the government is trying to change that. Through its new Local Power Plan, it has pledged £1bn for community-owned clean energy – the largest public investment of its kind in the UK. The aim is to create opportunities for communities to take “a direct stake in a clean, green, more affordable energy future.” But what does that mean in practice? The plan sets a goal of delivering 8GW of locally owned clean energy by 2030 – enough, in theory, for every community in the UK to benefit from power generated nearby. To get there, four types of support are being proposed. The first and most significant is funding. The £1bn will be distributed by Great British Energy (GBE), a new publicly owned energy company. Positive News 14th April 2026 positive.news/environment/en…

Agrivoltaics maintain or enhance forage quality, study finds: Researchers have analyzed the biomass and nutritional value of grasses and legumes for grazing dairy cattle, growing in agrivoltaics fields. The… dlvr.it/TS6KBy #Photovoltaics #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy

@Jenny_1884 1/ Solar panels occupy ~0.1% of U.K farmland. 2/ To place that in context, U.K golf courses occupy seven times the amount of land as solar installations. 3/ There is no mysterious ‘they’ - that’s just conspiracy nonsense. Farmers are the ones diversifying into clean energy.

Renewables are taking off in Europe, but grids are struggling to keep up. One in two grid operators have insufficient grid capacity to connect planned wind and solar. But grids must be renewables-ready to protect against volatile power prices. ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

The cheapest electricity on earth is about to own the AI economy. Here is the fact that rewrites the story. In 2024, onshore wind produced electricity at $0.034 per kilowatt-hour. Solar came in at $0.043. Both are now cheaper than any new fossil fuel plant on the planet, by a margin that would have seemed like science fiction ten years ago. 91% of all new renewable capacity commissioned last year beat fossil fuels on pure cost. This is not an environmental argument. It never was. Global data center electricity consumption is projected to hit 945 terawatt-hours by 2030, nearly double what it is today.  Every single one of those terawatt-hours has a price attached. The operators who can source the cheapest power will undercut everyone else on inference costs, training costs, and ultimately on the price of intelligence itself. Energy is the new moat. China spent $625 billion on clean energy in 2024 alone. That is 31% of the entire global total. Even adjusted for economic size, China’s energy transition spending reached 4.5% of GDP, compared to 1.2% for the United States.  Battery deployment tripled in three years. China added more battery storage in 2024 than the US. 74% of all large-scale wind and solar projects currently under construction are being built in China. The United States is building 6%.  Meanwhile the Trump administration has cancelled over $426 million in federal grants for renewable projects, stripped tax credits, and issued stop-work orders across the sector. The president has also signed executive orders designed to boost coal, a fuel that cannot compete on cost with either gas or renewables. The official position is that wind turbines cause cancer. This is the energy strategy of the world’s historically largest economy. Battery storage costs have dropped 93% since 2010, reaching $192 per kilowatt-hour for utility-scale systems in 2024. That number is not a policy outcome. It is a manufacturing outcome. And China accounts for 81% of global clean energy supply chain investment.  The factories that make the batteries, the panels, and the turbines are Chinese. The IP is increasingly Chinese. Chinese companies now lodge 75% of all global clean energy patent applications. In 2000 that figure was 5%.  Europe is running full days, full weeks on clean power. France is selling nuclear electricity at prices that are drawing data center operators with long-term contracts. France, where roughly 70% of electricity comes from nuclear, is now marketing that stable, carbon-free baseload as an explicit AI competitive advantage.  The Nordic countries have some of the cheapest electricity on the continent and a growing cluster of hyperscale data centers to show for it. The logic is not complicated. Renewables are the fastest-growing source of electricity for data centers globally, growing at 22% per year through 2030 and meeting nearly half of all new demand growth.  The operators who locked in cheap renewable power purchase agreements five years ago are now running at a structural cost advantage that their competitors cannot close quickly. Building new gas infrastructure takes a decade. Building a solar farm with battery storage takes eighteen months. The country that produces the cheapest, most reliable electricity at scale will host the data centers. The country that hosts the data centers will train the models. The country that trains the models will set the terms for what intelligence costs, who has access to it, and what it is used for. That is not a climate story. That is a civilizational competition. And one of the major players just decided that the most important strategic response was to bring back coal. If you want to follow where this goes, subscribe. New analysis every week. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Ahir, a l’ @iec, vam presentar el llibre de Pep Puig “El poder transformador del vent” que ha tingut la deferència de convidar-me a prologar i que és ple d’idees, dades i propostes que apunten cap a un concepte que em sembla clau i sobre el que vaig parlar ahir: la sobirania energètica. Un concepte gens abstracte i que té conseqüències molt concretes en la vida quotidiana, en l’economia i en la capacitat de decisió del nostre país. Gràcies per liderar la conversa, @peppuigiboix

Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than natural gas in the United States for the first time. energylivenews.com/2026/04/16/ren…

Un país que no aposta per l’energia renovable serà un país que no podrà ser plenament independent (o com alertar que si no avancem en aquest camp, la propera MAT serà per portar energia verda -i espanyola- de l’Aragó). Savi com pocs, quin plaer escoltar en @puigboix a la presentació a l’@iec de la reedició 2026 del seu llibre ‘L’aprofitament de la força del vent’, presentat per la presidenta @LauraBorras, Jaume Morron i Jordi Regalès. Una (altra) bona opció per Sant Jordi!

This system is called the “Canadian well.” The essence is very simple: at a depth of 2-3 meters, the earth always holds a stable temperature of about +10... +15°C. In the winter, the cold air from the street goes through an underground pipe and heats up before entering the house. ☀️ In the summer, the hot air is cooled down in the same pipe. That is, the earth functions as both a natural conditioner and a heater. It does not replace heating or air conditioning completely, but it greatly reduces costs and makes the air in the house more comfortable 👍

En Josep Mª, d’Igualada, ho descriu a la perfecció: “El debat és senzill. Preval l’interès general o el particular? La resposta podria desactivar el plantejament de l’Ajuntament de Jorba i de Preservem l’Anoia a l’hora. L’altre pregunta clau que … anoiadiari.cat/societat/anoia…