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Checks and Balances Project
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Non-partisan watchdog holding gov't officials, lobbyists & corp managers accountable to the public. Send us tips: https://t.co/WuVYqCLwuW
Washington, DC เข้าร่วม Şubat 2011
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"UK Electricity From Fossil Fuels Drops to Record Low of Just 2%"
Nice
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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A great thing about free markets is that they eventually make policy decisions. Now they’re driving the transition to renewables and EVs.
Jigar Shah@JigarShahDC
Chris Wright and Doug Burgum got on a call with 200 top oil and gas executives and begged them to drill more. They all said no. High prices won't last. Not a good investment. Instead oil executives are selling their own stock.
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Offshore wind may be sputtering in the U.S., but around the world, more turbines are spinning than ever.
canarymedia.com/articles/wind/…
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99.7% of EVs will never need a battery replacement.
Petrolheads can keep parroting “what about the battery?” all day.
The real-world data says otherwise.
Tracking thousands of EVs built since 2022:
Just 0.3% have needed a battery replacement (outside recalls).
That’s 99.7% still running fine.
Now compare that to ICE:
Some engines hit failure rates of ~3.7%
That’s 12× higher than EV battery replacements.
Even the best engines barely approach ~0.3%
And that’s just the engine, not the rest of the drivetrain.
Here’s the reality:
EVs
• One core system
• Minimal moving parts
• Thermal management + smart chemistry (LFP especially)
• Gradual, predictable degradation
ICE
• Hundreds of moving parts
• Constant heat, pressure, friction
• Multiple failure points
• When it goes, it goes hard
Modern EV batteries are cooled, managed, and preconditioned to last.
So while people keep yelling “battery replacement”…
They stay quiet about far more common, far more expensive engine failures.
The data is clear. The panic isn’t and the lies are coming undone.
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US wind & solar reached a record high monthly share of US power in March 2026 at 26.1%!
W&S March Share
2026: 26.1%
2025: 23.9%
2024: 20.8%
2023: 18.7%
2022: 18.2%
2019: 10.5%
2016: 8.5%
2010: 2.8%
W&S share rose 9X since 2010.
They gain ~2 points/yr of share.
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You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs. If your company isn't competitive in building EVs and can only build internal combustion, you're going to be stuck serving an ever-smaller share of a shrinking global market over the next decade...
Assaad Razzouk@AssaadRazzouk
New IEA data: EV sales in emerging markets surge 80% in 2025 >India: EVs up 75% to record 2.3m EV units sold >Indonesia: 125% increase >Viet Nam: EVs hit staggering 40% share of new car sales >Thailand: EV share of new sales hit 21% >Latin America: Region saw 70% annual growth >Mexico: Sales tripled >Brazil: Sales up 40% >Ecuador and Uruguay: Experienced massive jumps of 240% and 140% The "EVs are only for rich countries and China" bullshit is officially over
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Solar is the fastest growing source of electricity in history.
In 2025, global solar grew by 636 TWh, more than twice the UK's annual electricity demand.
3x more growth than wind
18x more than gas or nuclear
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Texas 53% carbon free for the first 3 months of 2026! #txenergy
Joshua D. Rhodes@joshdr83
It is just through Q1 2026 and very likely to change, but still wind and solar at almost 45% for electricity in ERCOT so far! ⚡️🌬️☀️🔋
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"I'm dedicated to AEP's vision of improving customers' lives with reliable, affordable power," American Electric Power's CEO Bill Fehrman told Wall Street analysts earlier this year. Meanwhile, Fehrum's annual compensation for 2025 totaled $36.6 million energyandpolicy.org/utility-ceo-pa…
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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…
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Fossil fuel workers are already switching to renewables.
Jamie Henn@jamieclimate
What’s going to happen to oil companies when you can get a car that goes over 900 miles on a 6 minute charge? No wonder they’re doing everything they can to kill electric vehicles.
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We said for years that batteries would displace inefficient and pricey natural gas peaker plants first. In California and Texas, that's starting to happen.
More efficient natural gas combined cycle plants will have a role for quite a long time to come, but will increasingly lose out on some of the most profitable hours as batteries (charged mostly from solar) eat into those high priced summer late afternons and early evenings.
Assaad Razzouk@AssaadRazzouk
44% of evening peak met by batteries. In California, world’s 4th largest economy. Not some tiny pilot project or a niche experiment, a global industrial powerhouse If you’re still sitting in boardrooms or parliament banging on about baseload and the intermittency of renewables, you’re not just wrong, you’re a dinosaur California's 44% isn't an anomaly. It's a preview of the 2027-2030 reality for every major grid overbuilding renewables The "technical barriers" the fossil fuel lobby loves to cry about are gone. We are shifting solar and wind into the night at a massive, industrial scale. We don't need expensive, inflexible coal or gas to keep the lights on; we need more storage and we need it now - everywhere reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries…
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Ever since the 1973 energy crisis, the argument for renewable energy and EVs has been they let us break away from petrostates. Now the technology finally matches the projections.
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum
For anyone wondering whether the fossil fuel crisis in the Middle East is driving interest in clean energy technologies: China's exports of batteries, EVs and solar products shot up in March to $21.9 billion! This is an all-time record and a 70% increase over March 2025.
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This stadium in the Netherlands has 4,200 #solarpanels on its roof and is 100% #solar powered. Shouldn't all buildings be this way?
We have the solutions. Demand your govt implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climateemergency #climatecrisis #climate #energy #renewables
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It's amazing how Republicans control every branch of government and still speak of 'Washington DC' like it's someone else.
Trump is currently suing the federal government and directing his flunkies to settle the case by giving him billions. That's the corruption.
FactPost@factpostnews
JD Vance: "People don’t have any idea how bad the corruption is in Washington DC"
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Though public scrutiny of data centers is growing, 14 states do not disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/17/rep…
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Hello to all states in MISO. Solar and storage will cut your reliance on fossil fuels.
Ric O'Connell@RicOConnell8
Oh, hello Solar in MISO. You are at 18 GW now? 25% of midday Generation? Awesome. Time for some batteries. This is over 3x what it was just 2 years ago. 2x from last year. Solar is like Hemingway on bankruptcy, it happens slowly, then all at once. @grid_status
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