The energy sector has a long tradition of standards. IEC standards are crucial, but implementing them in an open source project can be challenging. I'll present about this September 11 on #LFEnergySummit in Aachen, Germany https://lfenergysummiteu2025.sched.com/event/26J0P #OpenSource #OpenStandards #IEC #Energy
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A Just Energy Transition: Law, Economics, and Public Policy
A Symposium hosted by the QUT Energy Transition Centre
Friday, 21 November 2025, 9am - 5pm AEST
C-405 QUT Gardens Point Campus
Brisbane City QLD, Australia
https://events.humanitix.com/a-just-energy-transition-law-economics-and-public-policy
This in-person event is free but registration is required.
#renewables #cleantech #energy #development #climate #SDGs #justice #law #economics #publicpolicy
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1st of March the #OpenSTEF #OpenSource Short Term #Energy Forecasting project will host a 2hr online #Workhop. Get to know OpenSTEF, from intuitive online notebooks for beginners to hands-on coding experiences for more experienced coders, and be part of shaping the future of energy forecasting, regardless of your coding skills! https://community.linuxfoundation.org/events/details/lfhq-lf-energy-presents-openstef-workshop/ Get a first by rewatching the 15min presentation from the #FOSDEM #EnergyDevroom presentation https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2211-openstef-opensource-short-term-energy-forecasting/ #FOSS #LFEnergy
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This week's net.wars, "Email to Ofgem", finds the US declaring victory over the UK Home Office's demand that Apple weaken its encryption, and emails OfGem to oppose Tesla's application to enter the UK energy market: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/08/22/email-to-ofgem/ #Apple #encryption #ukpol #energy
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‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: #Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue #Coal
The Trump admin on Monday outlined a coordinated plan to revive the mining & burning of coal, the largest contributor to #ClimateChange worldwide.
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of #federal #land for #mining & eliminating #pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.
#ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #energy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Figures like this one from Carbon Brief are what make me optimistic that our society is ALREADY on the path to being much greener.
This is the distribution of the fossil/non-fossil fuel mix for electricity for every half hour in a year in Britain, and it's absolutely clear that a HUGE shift away from fossil fuels is taking place.
Yes, there's lots more to do, but we are already making great progress. We just need more of the same.
#energy #climate #sustainability
OFFER TO HELP
I’m a #generalist with a varied career path.
I’ve experience in:
- #technology consulting at Accenture
- project, program, and B2B #banking #product delivery at JPMorgan
- commercial #insurance data governance at AIG
- #digital product management at American Express
- #data product #transformation in private equity-backed roll-ups
- independent product & platform strategy around #EdTech, #CollabTech, and #energy
If you’ve questions / need info around any of those, ping me!
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#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
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Federal judge throws out #Trump order blocking development of #wind #energy
A federal judge on Monday struck down Trump’s executive order blocking #WindEnergy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of #WindFarms on federal #lands & #waters was “arbitrary & capricious” & violates US #law.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #energy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-wind-power-offshore-attorney-general-a8c2f1201ac6b0607e8c4a1c36e651ba?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-08-Wind+energy
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Exclusive: #US Dept of #Energy forms $1B #supercomputer & #AI partnership with #AMD
The US has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct 2 supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from #NuclearPower to #cancer treatments to #NationalSecurity, Energy Secy Chris Wright & AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters.
#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Department of #Energy officials to meet with White House to tamp down Trump’s idiotic idea of explosive nuclear testing
Top energy & #nuclear officials in the #Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House & #NationalSecurity Council in the coming days to dissuade Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s #NuclearWeapons, sources told CNN.
China hit its 2030 renewables target in...2024.
To paraphrase The Economist, Solar PV = sun + sand + human imagination, and all 3 are infinite. This is a revolution, and it's beautiful to watch.
Bloomberg gift link: https://bit.ly/3AyaNMR
A Just Energy Transition: Law, Economics, and Public Policy - 21 November 2025 https://drrimmer.medium.com/a-just-energy-transition-law-economics-and-public-policy-9a68767675a0 Symposium - Programme. When the recordings are available, they will be posted here. #energy #environment #climate #IP #IndigenousIP #justtransition
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> WaPo Defends Data Centers—With Few Disclosures That Amazon Depends on Them https://fair.org/home/wapo-defends-data-centers-with-few-disclosures-that-amazon-depends-on-them/
Of course they do, #CocolisoBezos owns WaPo. They're basically using your tax money to build their centers and then bill you for them.
#corruption #BadEconomy #tech #FollowTheMoney #AISlop #internet #energy
Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #tech #technology #ai #energy #cartoon
Integrating critical infrastructure systems more and more tightly by making them all digital and dependent on digital infrastructure increases the risk of catastrophic failure cascades. The risk profile has a phase transition with respect to increasing interconnectivity that, once crossed, makes such failure cascades comparatively highly likely.
The effect is not unlike nuclear fission reactions, which require a certain density of fissile material before they'll be self-sustaining. An event that'd just sputter out at one density might become an out-of-control explosion at a slightly higher density. Likewise, what might be a small and isolated component fault at one level of connectivity could be a catastrophic cascading critical infrastructure failure at a slightly higher level of connectivity.
The possibility of cascading failures in the nuclear power system seems like something we should be putting considerable resources into avoiding, rather than actively courting.
In response to ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants at 404 Media.
#IAEA #NuclearEnergy #AtomicEnergy #USEnergy #USDOE #nuclear #energy #AI #CriticalInfrastructure #FailureCascade
The effect is not unlike nuclear fission reactions, which require a certain density of fissile material before they'll be self-sustaining. An event that'd just sputter out at one density might become an out-of-control explosion at a slightly higher density. Likewise, what might be a small and isolated component fault at one level of connectivity could be a catastrophic cascading critical infrastructure failure at a slightly higher level of connectivity.
The possibility of cascading failures in the nuclear power system seems like something we should be putting considerable resources into avoiding, rather than actively courting.
In response to ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants at 404 Media.
#IAEA #NuclearEnergy #AtomicEnergy #USEnergy #USDOE #nuclear #energy #AI #CriticalInfrastructure #FailureCascade
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#FossilFuel Interests Are Working to Kill #Solar in One #Ohio County. The Hometown #Newspaper Is Helping.
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A retired #gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial #media company are spreading #misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
#News #Journalism #CleanEnergy #Agriculture #Oil #Koch #Climate #Energy #Politics #Government
Oct 27
3 min
In drought conditions, helpful commenters chime in that coal or nuclear should be used to back up unreliable renewables like hydro.
Except for one wee detail, wonderful. 
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Come visit the #Energy devroom at #FOSDEM on Sunday. We have 24 presentation listed, with topics ranging from #GreenIT to #HomeAutomation, #ClimateChange and cool hardware projects like repurposing #EV car batteries https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/energy/
North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency.
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The state was hostile to Interior Department policies during the Biden administration. A review of its lawsuits under Burgum reveals an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.
#News #NorthDakota #Government #FossilFuels #Energy #Oil #Gas #Climate
I’m a big fan of #sandbattery thermal #renewable #energy storage technology. One of the first players in this market is the Finnish startup Polar Night Energy: https://polarnightenergy.com If you do not know what sand batteries are, this article explains them quite well: https://natnavi.com/science-behind-sand-batteries/ #Renewables
🔥 🇨🇦 🗺️ With Canada warming twice as fast as the global average (Government of Canada 2019), and home to more than a quarter of the world’s boreal forests, the country is experiencing this consequence of global heating firsthand.
#ClimateEmergency
#Canada #Wildfire #Nature
#Environment #FossilFuels
#Alberta #Energy
#Cdnpoli #Cdnpoli
https://climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sheet-wildfires/
#Trump expressed his disdain for #WindPower during a meeting with his Cabinet recently, calling it an expensive form of #energy that “smart” countries
don’t use.
His comments contained false & misleading information about the use of wind power in the #UnitedStates & around the world, & came on the heels of an #ExecutiveOrder he signed Monday that would end subsidies around “#green” energy.
#FossilFuels #disinformation #Climate #ClimateChange
https://apnews.com/article/wind-turbines-power-electricity-energy-trump-5eb370dfb407b86a11d420917e4acaba
Solarpower has won, not because it is alternative or woke, but because of economy. And it will keep winning with still improving panels, becoming thinner and easy to use everywhere, battery technology is also still improving.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
#solarpower #renewables #energy #geopolitics @geopolitics
