Given the challenges involved in retrofits this would also be an enormouse sink for labor and hence employment. The vector of money would need to change, which of course is why modernization of this kind is opposed by legacy money holes such as firms selling products intended to be burned as rapidly as possible (an ideal situation for any vendor!).

"Individual building-level approaches are needed to understand the full potential of rooftop photovoltaics (PV) at national and regional scale. Here we use the European Digital Building Stock Model R2025, an open-access building-level database, to assess rooftop solar potential for each of the 271 million buildings in the European Union. The results show that potential capacity could reach 2.3 TWp (1,822 GWp residential, 519 GWp non-residential), with an annual output of 2,750 TWh based on current PV technology. This corresponds to approximately 40% of electricity demand in a 100% renewable scenario for 2050. Already by 2030, over a half of buildings with floor area larger than 2,000 m2 could generate most of remaining capacity for the 2030 target with 355 GWp. Across member states, non-residential rooftops could cover 50% or more of their PV targets, with several exceeding 95%."

#EnergyModernization

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01947-x

NEPRA unveils 2025 net metering rules

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1420828/nepra-unveils-2025-net-metering-rules/

Kazakhstan to Invest $24 Billion in Energy Modernization

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/kazakhstan-to-invest-24-billion-in-energy-modernization/

"While JLR did not say what specific vulnerabilities it sees in armoured electric vehicles, key engineering roadblocks are likely to include the extra weight from the battery cells, range issues and the time needed to recharge."

Because after being chased for a couple of hundred kilometers by terrorists and with no response from the rest of the security apparatus, recharging won't be respected by the malefactors, who otherwise would gladly stand by during refueling.

#EnergyModernization

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/01/jaguar-land-rover-electric-armoured-cars-safety-levels

"This paper focuses on the specific role of installers, a category of often overlooked diffusion intermediaries doing the actual implementation of energy transitions. We adopt an ecosystems perspective and aim to provide new knowledge on the installers' role in energy transitions, possible changes in this role, and the challenges installers face. Based on evidence from case studies in Gothenburg and Rotterdam, we first show how installers make or break energy transitions. They differ from other intermediaries in their long-term trust relations with customers, their deep contextual knowledge, and involvement in post-technology deployment. We unveil new nuances regarding downstream (installers deploy strategies to include budget-constrained customers in energy transitions) and upstream actors (installers face manufacturers' lock-ins and are trained by wholesalers and manufacturers). Secondly, we show challenges installers face caused by regulatory, market and technological dynamics in transitions, and identify new roles for them as IT-specialists, manufacturers and holistic advisors."

#EnergyModernization

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625003718?dgcid=rss_sd_all

If one was working for the fossil fuel industry, this is exactly the right move so as to paralyze financing of #EnergyModernization.

Parsimony suggests this as the most likely reason for the halt.

But why did the narcissist sell himself and sell us out so cheaply? The price is so low that it beggars belief.

Anyway, every day of delay is another day to monetize a stale resource.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/climate/trump-administration-halts-revolution-wind.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.OxoC.uK4rjuw3xgbh&smid=nytcore-android-share

"I addresses the following empirical puzzle – how can we explain the IRA’s environmentally contradictory combination of decarbonization efforts alongside further embedding fossil fuel production? I argue that this ‘one step forward, two steps back’ approach to energy transition emerged from state officials’ reactivation of a Hobbesian–Hamiltonian nexus between sovereignty, security, and prosperity in response to changing global conditions. Neo-Hamiltonian discourse strategically enfolded energy policy with broader goals of industrial modernization, prosperity, and national security, subordinating decarbonization within hybrid logics. Domestic decarbonization is balanced with maintenance of existing interdependencies between an expanded American shale oil and gas sector, economic growth, and the geopolitical leverage of American energy exports. This strategy is fundamentally unstable."

#EnergyModernization
#decarbonization
#EnergyPolitics

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2025.2540683?af=R#abstract

“They say comparison is the thief of joy. That’s especially true if you suck and you compare yourself to people who are awesome – and since Elon sucks like it’s his job, I’m thieving a ton of joy by comparing the 140-odd number of Tesla Semi trucks out there to Volvo’s much larger, less-sucky 5,000-plus number."

#EnergyModernization
#EHGV

https://electrek.co/2025/06/29/volvo-delivers-5000th-electric-semi-with-little-fanfare-sending-a-big-message/

Bit of a vicious circle in play, according to this.

"Recent research found cross-sectional evidence that conspiracy belief is an important predictor of wind farm opposition. The current work extends this finding and sheds light on the temporal relationship between these variables. A preregistered, three-wave study among German adults (N = 297) using Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel analyses found support for our hypothesis that an increase in conspiracy mentality (i.e., the general propensity to believe conspiracy theories) predicts more negative attitudes towards wind farms close to one's hometown four months later. We also found evidence for the opposite direction, namely that an increase in negative attitudes predicts higher conspiracy mentality four months later. Thus, conspiracy belief and wind farm opposition seem to mutually reinforce each other."

(With small N scrupulous methodological process becomes extra important-- but disagreement on that basis will need some effort, not "oh, the sample is so small!")

#ConspiracyIdeation
#EnergyModernization
#WindTurbines

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494425001033?dgcid=rss_sd_all