Europe doesn’t need to win the frontier race for artificial intelligence. But it cannot afford to become dependent on those who do. AI, becoming a commodity like electricity, needs to be plentiful and secure in supply just for enabling our everyday business, our security and https://t.co/IWDD02OxHe #ArtificialIntelligence #TechDependency #EuropeAI #EU
August in Berdyansk: No electricity since 2 August. You wouldn't know it in Moscow, where they threaten to bomb the West where their own kids go to school and live in luxury from their parents' stolen money. (translated)
The ESB charge the second highest electricity prices in the world. Uisce Éireann have been fined €31m for not fixing leaks. This government are the opposite to accountability. People get rewarded for not doing their job right. https://t.co/S2sJhyUbOq #ElectricityPrices #Accountability #IrishGovernment #IE #ES
🇷🇺 PUTIN’S OCTOBER SURPRISE? — WATCH 1 OCTOBER 2026 Something is building inside Russia. From 1 October 2026, millions of Russians face another major increase in regulated household utility costs. Electricity transmission tariffs and other communal-service charges move sharply https://t.co/LxLyzhrIQb #Putin #Russia #UtilityPrices #RU
YES TO ELECTRIFICATION — NO TO DEINDUSTRIALISATION! I support the electrification of transport and heating. Europe should invest massively in electric mobility, modern railways, heat pumps, stronger electricity grids, nuclear power, renewables, storage and clean industrial https://t.co/fFpNlqOG6w #Electrification #SustainableEnergy #CleanTransport #EU
There we announced new Global Gateway investments. Two of them stand out. ➡️ RISED, a €269 million Team Europe programme: the electricity grid, 2,500 km of fibre and the Ashegoda wind farm. ➡️ A €150 million Digital Economy Package: infrastructure, digital skills, and reform. #GlobalGateway #Investments #DigitalEconomy #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountriesthatcanbeidentifiedbytheircountrycodes.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
There we announced new Global Gateway investments. Two of them stand out. ➡️ RISED, a €203 million Team Europe programme: the electricity grid, 2,500 km of fibre and the Ashegoda wind farm. ➡️ €64 million to help coffee farmers keep more value of the final product in the https://t.co/It0t1WPYVf #GlobalGateway #TeamEurope #SustainableInvestments #ET #DE #EU
**Load Is Not the Enemy. Unstructured Load Is.** Europe does not need to make industry consume less electricity simply for the sake of consuming less. It needs to make electricity demand more intelligent in time. Industrial flexibility means shifting, shaping and coordinating loads around electricity prices, grid conditions and production needs — without compromising the output the customer actually wants. That can mean demand response. It can mean BESS. It can mean thermal storage, EV charging, process scheduling or combining several flexible assets behind the meter. The value does not come from any single technology. It comes from **coordination**. As electricity markets become more dynamic, flexibility turns consumption from a passive cost into an actively managed energy profile. The next efficiency frontier is therefore not only about using fewer kilowatt-hours. It is about deciding **which kilowatt-hours, when, and for what purpose.** #Energy #Flexibility #Electricity
Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.
The Gov will rake in €1.67bn in Vat on fuel this year. Vat charged on electricity, gas, petrol & diesel will be €238m higher this year. FF, FG & Independent TDs are taking more in VAT on fuel than ever before in the jaws of a cost of living crisis. https://t.co/5dqhSCqJvq #CostOfLiving #VAT #FuelPrices #IE
California’s Electricity Imports Are Much Cleaner. How Much of it is Real? https://t.co/Iw8li5J9cz #California #Electricity #CleanEnergy #US
Energy and utilities: Lawrence made AI data centers his signature issue — Big Tech's buildout hitting ordinary people's electricity bills. Essentials again: when the price of power becomes a tool of extraction, regulating it becomes democratic self-defense. 6/ #EnergyEconomics #AIDatacenters #DemocraticSelfDefense #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #thereturnis:
The government spent €100,000 of public money on a KPMG report on data centres and then deleted anything negative from it! We are just paying for their propaganda to pretend that data centres aren't driving up our electricity prices and cutting across housing and transport! https://t.co/5JkbNZ2PSn #DataCentres #PublicMoney #GovernmentTransparency #IE
Two stories, same day. This is what you get by running a state owned electricity company on a commercial basis. We need to renationalise the energy sector and run ESB on a not for profit basis prioritising access to electricity for everybody and rapid transition to renewables. https://t.co/3leMpXvOrc #EnergyPolicy #Renationalisation #RenewableEnergy #IE
Shocking developments in Hungary again... While the country is facing a severe energy emergency, the government’s lack of preparedness has forced the shutdown of part of the Paks nuclear power plant. Hungary is now relying on expensive electricity imports, adding an estimated https://t.co/3wnwIS5IjA #Hungary #EnergyCrisis #NuclearPower #HU
Carte des frappes ukrainiennes 🇺🇦 sur l'infrastructure électrique en Crimée occupée par la Russie 🇷🇺 La majorité de la péninsule est sans électricité. Ces frappes sont une réponse aux frappes russes en cours depuis 3 ans sur l'infrastructure électrique ukrainienne. https://t.co/eO13ZeGQtV #Ukraine #Russia #Electricity
🇧🇷 Brazil's electricity is already 88.2% renewable. So why is it still paying for coal? A new article by @ThEnergyPioneer explores one of the biggest contradictions in the energy transition & why fossil fuel subsidies still matter. Read more 👇 https://t.co/9KfZvdkdTX #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #FossilFuels #BR
AI must be used to help solve the climate crisis — not deepen it. Its appetite for electricity, water & land is growing fast. AI companies must power data centres with renewable energy by 2030 & disclose their environmental footprint. Technology aimed at protecting people must #AIforClimate #RenewableEnergy #SustainableTech #Therearenospecificcountryreferencesinthetweetprovided.
