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"The Chinese government will help underpin the nationwide boom in large-scale batteries by expanding its subsidies for energy storage... to ensure reliable electricity supplies and enhance the green transition... The move could boost revenues and unlock even more growth in an industry already marked as a key driver of economic development."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/china-to-boost-batteries-sector-with-new-grid-backup-policy?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MDE5OTMyNywiZXhwIjoxNzcwODA0MTI3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOVRJWU1LSzNOWUEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCNkU3Nzc2M0FDQjk0NEU3QThFQjQ5RkE2OUVDRDg2NCJ9.WdSXutSyy8Ekz7eSIZTuuYq2s77R6zeXy8zf-FUnNsw&leadSource=uverify%20wall
#China #renewables #GreenTransition #batteries

"A successful economy does three things: increases real wages, improves and expands public services, and builds productive and technological capacities. Britain’s economic model, dominated by finance, asset-price inflation, and shareholder returns, has manifestly failed on these tests. China’s model – imperfect and not to be copied wholesale – has delivered remarkable structural transformation at scale. We should neither romanticise it nor dismiss what can be learned from it: strategic planning, public ownership in key sectors, socialised finance directed toward production rather than speculation, and guardrails to prevent capital from dominating the state.

You cannot build a green economy while pretending the world’s manufacturing centre does not exist. China’s centrality to the green transition makes engagement unavoidable. The US response has been to carve the world into competing economic zones: to restrict technology flows, weaponise tariffs, and press allies into an economic cordon sanitaire.

The real alternative is not a change of patron, but a change of order. Britain should be working with others to help build a world in which power is constrained by rules rather than exercised through raw coercion – where trade, technology and security are governed by reciprocity, not domination. That means resisting a return to great-power partition, and instead contributing to a genuinely multilateral settlement in which states deal with one another with mutual respect.

That does not mean exchanging one dependency for another."

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/china/2026/01/china-is-britains-future

#UK #Europe #China #Economy #GreenTransition

Reading "More & More & More" by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, so far fascinating, and for someone who thought they knew a lot about the subject, humbling.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145/more-and-more-and-more-by-fressoz-jean-baptiste/9781802067316

#books #bookstodon #energy #ClimateCrisis #climatechange #GreenTransition

That leaves us with Europe. The first to enter the 'coal age' Europe is also, we are told, the first to escape from it. This European exception, like so many others, needs to be put into perspective. The Hecline in coal use that began in the 1960s looks like a long, slow and Cautious retreat. In 2020, Europe still consumes 400 million tonnes of coal a year, and the continent's major industrial power, Germany, emains one of the world's leading producers of lignite, the most olluting of fuels. Angela Merkel's Germany consumed three times s much coal per year as Bismarck's Germany. What is less well nown is that Europe is also a world leader in manufacturing mining quipment, and it is partly thanks to European machines that worl Dal production soared in the twenty-first century. Last but no east, the European Union, like all rich countries, engages in larg mounts of foreign trade, and more than a quarter of the manufa ared goods it imports are based on coal energy. However 'gree neir energy systems may be or become, the rich countries, for mple reason that they are rich, are resolutely on the side of the coal consumers.

Création du domaine fluide avec Salome Meca et mise en place de l'objet à tester pour simulation Code Saturne // Fluid Domain Creation with Salome Meca and Test Object Setup for Code_Saturne Simulation

#electricite #electricity #greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #hydroelectricite #renouvenable #frenchtech #codesaturne #codeaster #EDF#salome #salomemeca #mesh #maillage #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #codeaster #codesaturne #simvia #linux #linuxmint

Simulation Code Saturne // Visionnage des pressions dans Salomé Méca module PraVis

#electricite #electricity #greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #hydroelectricite #renouvenable #frenchtech #codesaturne #codeaster #EDF#salome #salomemeca #mesh #maillage #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #codeaster #codesaturne #simvia #linux #linuxmint

Simulation Code Saturne // Visionnage des vitesses dans Salomé Méca module PraVis

#electricite #electricity #greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #hydroelectricite #renouvenable #frenchtech #codesaturne #codeaster #EDF#salome #salomemeca #mesh #maillage #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #codeaster #codesaturne #simvia #linux #linuxmint

"Governments worldwide face mounting pressure to simultaneously expand domestic clean energy industries and accelerate decarbonisation. Recent policies combine subsidies for clean technology with various protectionist measures, including domestic content requirements and tariffs on imports. Yet, evidence from the solar sector suggests tariffs undermine rather than support climate objectives.

Since 2012, the US has imposed substantial tariffs on solar panels imported from China. The EU erected related trade barriers on solar panels before lifting them in 2018. More recently, the US and EU have imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. These actions illustrate a policy tension: even as governments commit to rapid decarbonisation, protectionist measures raise the cost of deploying the clean technologies needed to achieve climate goals. Recent research helps illuminate this conflict and points toward better policy approaches."

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/beyond-tariffs-better-approach-green-industrial-policy

#USA #China #GreenTransition #GreenIndustrialPolicy #Tariffs #TradeWar #Protectionism #BigOil #Decarbonization #FossilFuels

@ChrisMayLA6

Corollary: lest my support for local #GreenTransition appear contradictory, let me explain.

The oil/gas oligarchy is one of the most powerful exploitative/extractive out there. To break it's power, we need distributed power generation - not only big "national" projects.

Gov plays a key role in funding this and building transmission lines. But we must break the hold of these power companies - who are key to the autocratic rise and destruction of the environment.

@ChrisMayLA6

I agree on the #GreenTransition but disagree on the larger point.

The model is broken, not because it is top-down, rather because it is an exploitative/extractive model designed to consolidate wealth in the hands of untaxed oligarchs.

The post-war world shows the tremendous potential of top down economics, when focused on growing the middle class and raising those in poverty.

We should focus on rebuilding that, rather than delegate decisions to even weaker "local" bodies.

Andy Haldene (former chief BoE Economist) is right:

'the broken growth machine is not a problem of defective central levers' but rather a failure of the model where such levers are the policy mechanisms of choice.

To regain economic dynamism across the country we need bottom up growth, not centrally directed economic initiatives.

Economics needs to be locally driven & if we are to manage a different sort of 'growth', that Green Transition will be best locally led!

#GreenTransition
h/y FT

Code Saturne CFD simulation with a @FreeCAD created object #1 //Simulation Code Saturne avec un objet crée sous FreeCAD #1

#electricite #electricity #greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #freecad #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #hydroelectricite #renouvenable #frenchtech #codesaturne #EDF#salome #salomemeca #mesh #maillage #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #codeaster #codesaturne #FreeCADFriday

Premières simulations sur Code Saturne // First Code Saturn tets

"By 2024, nearly half of all cars sold in China had plugs. Internal combustion automakers in China are suffering or shuttering. And the reverberations are perhaps even stronger abroad. China shifted from an also-ran to the world’s dominant auto exporter over the past five years, displacing Japan, South Korea, and Germany. It shipped more than 5.5 million cars overseas in 2024. Other countries have begun to panic that their own auto sectors could be eviscerated by the competition of cheaper, cleaner vehicles from China. The United States has effectively banned imports from China, while Europe has imposed serious tariffs.

Yet just like in the solar sector, where thin profits and high debts have turned some firms into sprinting zombies, the Chinese EV space is full of failed and failing enterprises. Even BYD, the biggest player globally, seems to be dangerously close to spinning out of control. Its sales over the past few months have faltered badly compared with the previous year, and murmurs about its debt burden lead some to wonder if it too might collapse—even as people around the world are still dying to get their hands on these cars, and other automakers strain to compete.

Indeed, the greatest beneficiaries of China’s renewables revolution may, in fact, be consumers, both inside and outside of China. In sun-blessed Australia, where rooftop solar panels sit atop nearly a third of all households, the country’s energy minister, Chris Bowen, proposed a “solar sharer program” to offer three hours of free electricity on sunny days. Solar and battery systems have allowed Hawaii to close its final coal power plant, and such systems are similarly helping other islands like Jamaica to reduce their need for imported fossil fuels."

https://www.wired.com/story/china-renewable-energy-revolution/

#China #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Energy #Solar #EVs #Batteries #SolarEnergy #GreenTransition

Finland and China sign commercial cooperation deal

Beyond trade, Finland and China plan to step up cooperation on mitigating climate change and promoting the green transition.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207178

#BeyondTrade #FinlandChinaCooperation #ClimateChangeMitigation #GreenTransition #GlobalPartnership

🚨 In a new #preprint with Walid El-Ajou & Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, we report on an experiment using a #SeriousGame as an #immersive #information #treatment to understand the role of #knowledge and #efficacy in #PublicOpinion formation on the #GreenTransition #EnergySky #politicalscience

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Ghost recycling: how Big Oil re-brands and sells fossil fuel as green plastic | VoxEurop
https://voxeurop.eu/en/ghost-recycling-petrochemical-industry-sell-fossil-based-plastic-green/

#greentransition #recycling #plastic #eu

South Korea launches a public-private K-GX Task Force to drive a proactive green transition, with full government backing to meet 2035 climate targets and boost economic competitiveness.
#YonhapInfomax #GreenTransition #KGXStrategy #2035NDC #RenewableEnergy #GovernmentSupport #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=102497

I didn't know the UK is a world leader in offshore wind energy. Like, I knew we had a lot of it (we go to East Anglian beaches a lot - you can't really miss Gunfleet!) but I hadn't appreciated the stats.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XBCOtkqNZnM
#windfarms #offshorewind #GreenTransition

Thank you UK for making some good decisions! 🔋 🌞
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/families-to-save-in-biggest-home-upgrade-plan-in-british-history

#solarCells #greenTransition #greenEnergy #energy #politics

Very welcome news: Volvo has been granted permission to build a battery factory in Mariestad.

A strong step for Sweden as an industrial nation — creating jobs, strengthening regional development, and contributing to the climate transition not only locally, but across Europe and globally.

The court’s recognition of battery production as a vital public interest sends a clear signal: future-oriented industry belongs here.

#Industry #GreenTransition #BatteryManufacturing #Sweden #Europe

der Run auf das weiße Gold #Lithium wird größer, zumal Lithiumbatterien auch das sind, was Drohnen am Fliegen hält. hier ein Bericht über den Widerstand gegen den Lithiumabbau im ländlichen norden Portugals:

https://www.freie-radios.net/140464

Widerstand gegen den Lithiumabbau in Covas do Barroso, Nordportugal
Seit 7 Jahren leisten die Anwohner*innen Widerstand gegen die Zerstörung ihrer Natur- & Kulturlandschaft durch den geplanten Lithiumabbau.

#climate #greentransition #keepitintheground

#GreenTransition

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