Green New Deal’s ‘obituaries were premature’ – Wash Post oped: ‘How green energy will survive Trump to fight climate change’ – But admits ‘enthusiasm to combat climate change…is gone’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/28/how-green-energy-will-survive-trump-fight-climate-change/ The path forward for the clean energy transition The climate community will want to restore what it lost. That’s the wrong strategy. By Lily Bermel Lily Bermel is a visiting fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. Excerpt: When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year, much […]
Europe’s ‘Green’ Energy Transition Is A Delusion: Global Data Shows The EU’s pretense of ‘transition’ leadership is an economic loser as ‘the world continues to depend massively on fossil fuels’
https://climatechangedispatch.com/europes-green-energy-transition-is-a-delusion-global-data-shows/ by Samuel Furfari An Energy Institute report reveals a Europe clinging to the pretense of leading an “energy transition” as the continent declines under the weight of climate policies whose quixotically utopian objectives are negated elsewhere by fossil fuel-supported economic growth. [some emphasis, links added] Data from the 75th edition of the annual “Statistical Review of World […]
Robert Bryce: ‘Yes, solar is growing at a rapid clip. But nearly all that growth is occurring in wealthy countries, bypassing the places where low-cost electricity is desperately needed’
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/where-the-sun-dont-shine By Robert Bryce Where The Sun Don’t Shine Excerpt: For decades, pundits and politicos have been telling us that solar energy is right on the cusp of global dominance. For instance, way back in 1978, the year I graduated from high school, Ralph Nader claimed that “everything will be solar in 30 years.” In […]
Northeastern States Rollback Unaffordable Green Energy Policies
https://dcjournal.com/northeastern-states-rollback-unaffordable-green-energy-policies/ by Gabriella Hoffman For decades, some states have aggressively prioritized green energy mandates over reliability and affordability. Today, many are grappling with energy crises that are entirely self-inflicted. While legislators blame the Trump administration, data centers and energy producers for rising costs, the data show that blame falls squarely on state-level clean energy mandates. […]
Fossil fuels still dominate the globe, providing 86.3% of primary energy — despite trillions of dollars spent on energy ‘transition’ – With the current pace of ‘green’ energy, it would take centuries to reach net-zero
Just the News Excerpt: The 2026 “Statistical Review of World Energy” finds that 86.3% of primary energy consumption was derived from fossil fuels last year. This is down from 86.6% the previous year. …
Nuclear, hydroelectric and other carbon-free generation technologies reached their highest level ever in 2025. Their share of the global energy picture stood at 14% in 2025, climbing steadily over the past decade. …
Coal was the largest source of global energy, taking up nearly one-third of the total, a decrease from the 33.7% in 2024. Natural gas was the next largest source of energy at 21.9%, and hydroelectric accounted for just under 14% last year. …
Global solar power rose by 30% in 2025 over the previous year, and its share of total generation reached 8.7%, which surpassed wind, at 8.4%. Solar’s share nearly matches nuclear power’s share at 8.8%. …
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., a climate researcher and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, points out in his “The Honest Broker” Substack … With respect to climate policies, the pace of change is agonizingly slow. Based on the growth in the past 10 years, Pielke wrote, it would take centuries to reach net-zero. …
Boasted To Survive Category 4 Typhoon — China’s $1.5B Offshore Solar Farm Destroyed Overnight
China Observer: On July 13, after Typhoon Bavi passed through, many photovoltaic facilities along the coast of Zhejiang suffered damage, including flipped solar panels and damaged support structures. Among them, a major offshore solar power project in Wenzhou, with a total investment of about 11 billion yuan, suffered widespread damage. Videos from the site showed the […]
U.S. Energy Information Admin: Coal generated more than 10 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity worldwide in 2024, about five times more than solar & a few other minor sources altogether
LETTER: Coal remains a primary source of U.S. energy Larry Cohen’s recent letter (“Columnist is wrong, climate change is real”) makes much of claims that solar generation of electricity is beating the pants off coal-fired power plants, while perpetuating the fearmongering of climate alarmists. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal generated more than […]
Electricity Markets & Engineering Realities: ‘It is telling that while [solar & wind] developers routinely claim their energy is now the cheapest available, they never argue that subsidies are therefore no longer needed’
Special to Climate Depot By Bryan Leyland The prime objective of any modern power system is to deliver a reliable and economic supply over the long term, whereas the prime objective of any market system is to maximize profit. For electricity markets to work, their rules must reward those who best provide reliable, affordable power. […]
‘Green energy’ is bringing back the atrocities of ‘blood diamonds’
https://www.americaoutloud.news/green-energy-is-bringing-back-the-atrocities-of-blood-diamonds/ By Ronald Stein P.E. & Frits Byron Soepyan Excerpt: Executive Orders in the United States are moving the country away from electric vehicles (EVs) and wind and solar electricity systems. Executive Orders issued by President Trump on January 20, 2025, ended the EV mandate, giving consumers back the power to choose the car they want to […]
Obama-backed $2.2B green energy ‘boondoggle’ leaves taxpayers on the hook
https://www.foxnews.com/us/13-obama-backed-22b-solar-plant-leaves-taxpayers-hook-costly-green-energy-boondoggle-part-1 Roughly $730M to $780M remains on a $1.6B federal loan, and one critic calls the Ivanpah facility a ‘boondoggle’ By Michael Dorgan Fox News SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Federal taxpayers helped build a $2.2 billion solar plant — now electricity customers are on the hook to keep it running. The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, […]