OPEC has just cut oil prices. Whom will the Oil Patchers blame? How about Putin? And what about all of the solar and wind power projects in OPEC countries? Can you say schadenfreude? I thought you could.
Russia’s Oil Profits May Get Clobbered by OPEC
the biggest threat on the horizon for an already reeling Russian economy may be its former OPEC pals, who in recent months have opened the taps on a flood of new oil production, helping to drive crude prices to a five-month low.
With even cheaper oil in the cards next year, as many analysts expect, Russia’s discounted grade of oil will bring in even less money than the reduced amounts it brought in this year, putting further pressure on a Russian budget gearing up for its biggest deficit since the war in Ukraine began.
it appears that the Kremlin’s optimistic fiscal plans for 2026 are facing a painful reality check.
“For Russia, it is different because it is restricted in borrowing, has no foreign money, and they have spent a lot of their savings from the oil fund,”
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I have noticed declining gasoline prices in our area, Champaign/Urbana IL.
MAGAdom can’t give Mega-Me credit for this. All of the oil majors want the last round of profit, even at steep discounts, before their oil and gas assets are stranded and even they have to follow the $$Real Money$$™ into renewables.
I has been going on all year.
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Egypt's🇪🇬 cabinet greenlights UAE-based Abydos for Renewable Energy to build an $850M solar power plant in New Benban, Aswan. The project will generate 1,000 MW of electricity and feature a 600 MW-hour storage system, advancing renewable energy in the region.
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— AFRICA IS HOME (@africaishome.bsky.social) December 19, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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Turkiye-UAE Solar Power Project Marks $1 Billion Milestone in Clean Energy Partnership
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— Saur Energy (@saurenergy.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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UAE is going big on solar: announces $6B plant with 19GWh battery storage—world's largest.
Middle East becomes fastest-growing renewables market outside China as Gulf states race to power homes with sun, freeing up oil & gas for export.
#CleanEnergy #MENA #NetZero
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— PaddyEO (@padster.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
🎩 Jessiestaf et al.
How EVs can fix the grid and lower your electric bill
Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas-fired power plant can generate electricity any time. That supposed precarity of renewables will get even shakier, critics argue, as Americans ditch conventional vehicles for electric ones, which will draw ever more power from an already strained grid.
Luckily, that’s not a realistic scenario because of what renewables and EVs have in common: giant batteries. Solar and wind farms are plugging into huge banks of them to store energy to use as needed, fixing their intermittency challenge. (Engineers are turning Earth itself into an even bigger battery.) And a growing number of cars with cords feature vehicle-to-grid technology, or V2G, also known as bidirectional charging. They can draw clean power when renewables are humming on the grid, and their owners get paid to send some back to a utility to meet growing demand — creating a vast distributed network that could make the electrical system more reliable, not less. Research has found that globally, less than a third of EV owners would have to opt into such a system to meet the rising need for energy storage.
Clean ports — making progress! Not quite sure why this is still going, but it is (I know someone at the EPA who is relieved to still be working, and it’s because she’s on this project). I assume some GOP billionaire wants this too. But still, good news, because we all want clean air! Kathiann Kowalski, Canary Media
One of the largest ports in the Midwest is officially starting to decarbonize, thanks to a Biden-era grant program that has so far survived the Trump administration’s assault on all things clean energy.
Late last month, the Port of Cleveland began renovating its main warehouse on the shore of Lake Erie. When the work is complete, Warehouse A will have roughly 2 megawatts’ worth of rooftop solar panels, plus battery storage and numerous charging ports for cargo-handling equipment.
Cleveland, which received a $94 million award from the Clean Ports Program announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last fall, is one of three Great Lakes port groups benefitting from the funding. Although the agency has reneged on many other funding commitments under President Donald Trump, work and payments for the $2.9 billion ports program are still moving ahead.
The country’s more than 300 ports, which ship and receive the materials, food, and other products that Americans rely on, are mostly powered by fossil fuels. Their cranes, forklifts, and other freight-handling equipment burn diesel fuel, and so do the ships and boats docked at those ports, sending not only planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere but toxic pollution that can harm the people who work and live nearby.
Countries have already promised to restore 1 billion hectares – an area larger than China – as part of international climate, nature, and land goals. However, little is known about the progress or quality of this restoration. With the World Restoration Flagships, the UN is honouring the best examples of large-scale and long-term ecosystem restoration in any country or region, embodying the 10 Restoration Principles of the UN Decade.
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♻️ The Future of Business is Circular!
Stop taking, making, and wasting. The #CircularEconomy is the roadmap for sustainable growth, profitability, and global impact. 🌍
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#Sustainability #ESG #Innovation #GreenBusiness #BestSolution #Bestsoln #GlobalImpact
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— Best Solution (Bestsoln) (@bestsoln.com) October 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Rural America is blending solar with farming—agrivoltaics means clean energy, more income for farmers, and thriving pollinators. Smart zoning helps landowners & communities benefit together. See how solar & ag can work side by side: jcshepard.com/2025/10/sola...
#Rural #Agrivoltaics #Solar #Energy
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— John C. Shepard, AICP (@jcshepard.com) October 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
No New Nukes
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BO-O-O-O-OGUS!!
Duke Energy is laying down a bold grifting plan, aimed at unconscionable subsidies paid by consumers for plants that will be over budget, far behind schedule, and polluting in creating fuel and disposing of radioactive waste.
#NoNewNukes
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— Mokurai (@mokurai.bsky.social) October 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Likewise.
Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$
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Developers of Rosebank oil field said nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming gas would be released from using oil products from the field.
But no surprise they still want to go ahead with it and UK Govt is considering whether to approve it or not
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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— Go Green (@ecowarriorss.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
