The transition to renewable energy is hanging on Harris being elected

From HEATED:

"Here’s the good(-ish) news: as long as Trump doesn’t touch tax credits for wind, solar, and battery storage, the analysis says his presidency should only have a “limited” negative impact on the energy transition: 25 gigawatts (GW) fewer renewables than under a business-as-usual scenario by 2040.

But here’s the bad news: if Trump does repeal those tax credits—as both he and Project 2025 have proposed—the analysis says a “significant slowdown in the pace of the energy transition” would occur.

Specifically, a Trump presidency could hinder solar, wind, and battery deployment by 212 GW by 2040 if tax credits are ended next year, according to the report.

212 GW is, for context, a huge amount of renewable energy development to lose out on. It is enough to power 159 million homes—more than all the homes in the U.S."

— Emily Atkin and Arielle Samuelson, How bad could Trump be for renewables? A previously unreported study predicts a massive decrease in solar, wind, and battery development if Trump adopts just one proposal in Project 2025., HEATED, Oct 24, 2024

Read my article: Project 2025 won't listen to climate scientists, August 12, 2024 - 8 min read on Medium

Project 2025 Annotation: A Summary. "EDGI’s Environmental Historians Action Collaborative working group annotated select sections of Project 2025, placing its environmental messages and proposals within their larger political and historical contexts."

The climate stakes of the Harris-Trump election From public health to public lands, here are 15 ways the next president could affect the climate and your life, Grist Staff, October 26, 2024

We've got a polycrisis in the Permian. Air pollution, climate pollution and water pollution. All directly related to oil production. We were assured this would never happen. "In theory, injection wells fill confined formations, and their contents never escape." The theories aren't holding up.

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— Oilfield Witness (@oilfieldwitness.bsky.social) October 29, 2024 at 8:15 AM

The same robust science that tells us that +CO₂ is a growing risk & that stratospheric aerosols *might* reduce some of those risks in the near future, also shows that you can’t simply keep increasing CO₂ for ever and cancel it out. GHGs reduction must still be fast and total.

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— Dan Visioni (@danvisioni.bsky.social) November 3, 2024 at 10:54 AM

OMG, what! [reads first paragraphs] Oooooooohhhhhhhhh www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) November 3, 2024 at 5:25 PM

🚨 New SHIFT KEY alert 🚨 @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessejenkins.bsky.social sit down with Secretary Jennifer Granholm to reflect on her years heading up the Department of Energy, and forecast our clean energy future. Listen to the full episode below.

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— Heatmap News (@heatmap.news) December 18, 2024 at 10:20 AM

FFS. We have lost our collective minds. -- "focus on AI data centers that consume at least one gigawatt of electricity, roughly the amount used by a city of 1 million residents" -- "allow construction of dedicated power plants fueled by natural gas at the same sites..." (1/2) wapo.st/4gqvudA

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— Climate Disconnect (@climate-disconnect.bsky.social) December 20, 2024 at 8:18 AM

The world’s most powerful supercomputer outside of the US is built to find more oil and gas. Full steam ahead for fossil fuels - thanks, AI!

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— Hannah Daly (@hannahdaly.ie) December 26, 2024 at 6:32 AM

The expansion of AI data centers and a rush to export fracked gas is rapidly reshaping the energy landscape.

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— Truthout (@truthout.org) December 27, 2024 at 3:49 PM

dear journalists - want to follow up my reporting on the movement in Oklahoma to ban all renewable energy? here’s a full video of the rally for the ban at the state capitol yesterday youtu.be/DYQxBaUhSwU

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— jael holzman 🤍 (@jael.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM

scoop: will oklahoma be the first state to ban renewable energy? its becoming increasingly likely. as investments from the inflation reduction act flow into red states, we're seeing backlash. republicans are disliking renewables *more* than before. cc @heatmap.news heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

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— jael holzman 🤍 (@jael.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM

What will the future of the warming stripes be? 2024 could be the start of a stabilisation of global temperatures, or it might appear to be a cool year. Which one of these stories becomes reality depends on our choices today, and every day until then. We are likely to regret not acting sooner.

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— Ed Hawkins (@edhawkins.org) January 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM