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82 affordable rental homes built from chunky mass timber, in Rotterdam Deck access means all apartments are dual aspect, and each gets a generous 14m2 timber balcony Designed by Powerhouse Company

Germany is undergoing a battery storage boom, with both grid-scale and residential markets scaling fast. - Grid-scale batteries DOUBLED from 1.2 GW in 2023 to 2.5 GW in 2025. - 2mn homes with battery systems today, potentially rising to 7mn by 2030. ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Germany's TSOs propose a schedule freeze for batteries, blocking trading changes hours before delivery. Modo Energy models a 92% intraday revenue hit if batteries lose all continuous intraday access.

Instead of using batteries to avoid peaks, German TSOs propose to disable them, thus increasing costs for consumers and hindering wind and solar. All because they don't want to change their outdated ways. Wrong on so many levels.

Europe’s trade problem is not industrial collapse. In 2025, the EU still ran a €128B goods trade surplus. Without energy dependence, Europe’s goods surplus would be roughly €427B. The U.S. is the opposite with a massive structural goods deficit — around $1.2T in 2025. Europe still exports machinery, vehicles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and industrial goods at scale. Its weakness is dependence: imported oil, gas and LNG Europe does not need America’s deficit model. Europe needs to keep investing heavily in renewables, storage, cross-border grids, nuclear and hydrogen to reduce energy dependence

Germany had 2.5 GW of operational grid-scale batteries in 2025, the largest fleet in the EU 🔋 Another 10 GW is in the pipeline. Had that capacity been online in 2025, Germany could have avoided €830 million in gas purchases and solar redispatch costs. ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

NEW | Battery storage can contribute to #Germany’s energy security if given fair access to capacity auctions and supported by a stable policy framework 🔋🇩🇪 Today, Germany hosts 2.5 GW grid-scale batteries (25% of EU) and >2 million home batteries ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Baker Street is a London Underground station and it's the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863. This is what it looks like today vs that year.

The notorious super El Niño of 1877-78 contributed to a global famine that wiped out 3 to 4 percent of the global population. It was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity. Are we better prepared now? The evidence says yes 🧵

From Berlin to Barcelona by train. Today cross-country journeys mean several bookings and risks if you miss a connection. Let's change that. With one ticket and full passenger rights all along your journey. That‘s our new passenger package. link.europa.eu/HGxmpv

China's transition from petrol/diesel to electric vehicles proceeding at pace. Less than 6 years likely for new car sales of petrol/diesel to drop from 80% to 20% market share.

Europe is running out of jet fuel.

The battery revolution is amazing. Batteries have almost completely displaced gas in Queensland and all it took was two short years!

What happens when the state quietly disappears? A new paper finds that support for populism in Italy (2008–18) rose where hospitals closed, especially in remote municipalities. Greater distance to public services reinforced feelings of abandonment and boosted populist voting.

Feel free to follow me on Bluesky where I am posting occasionally: bsky.app/profile/dmoser…

Useful for Europeans to get a reality check on the sometimes paralysing declinism that is gripping the continent. I suppose it takes the outside perspective of Krugman to deliver it, in a good piece. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-europe-in…

If there is one country that would currently benefit from battery storage deployment, it's Germany. - Solar regularly getting close to or exceeding load - System flexibility stretched - Stationary storage prices at record lows You'd think it's all set up for a battery boom?

No,but you CAN grow crops underneath them which lowers water use and helps the spil from drying out. Agri-voltaics are your friend

The data is in. Between 2023-2025, wind and solar slashed EU wholesale power prices by 24.2% on average. In Spain, the cut was nearly 40% This isn't a forecast, it already happened Renewables are the only cure for gas price insanity

THREAD: A heat-pump tumble dryer could save households more than £700 Lots of overblown reaction to govt phasing out standard dryers – reminds me of when 2009 Mail frontpage wailed about "beloved" incandescent bulbs But heat pump dryers are just a much better technology 1/5