Simon Evans

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Last Notes

2026-03-05 18:05:01 UTC

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: [www.carbonbrief.org/...](https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-fall-2-4-in-2025-as-coal-hits-400-year-low/ )
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2026-02-12 07:38:38 UTC

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
[www.carbonbrief.org/...](https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-21-months/ )
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2026-02-10 07:25:44 UTC

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.
All due online by 2029.
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2026-01-28 09:03:03 UTC

NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC
"Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021."
[www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...](https://www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-gas-still-biggest-driver-of-high-uk-electricity-bills-says-ukerc/ )
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2025-11-12 09:02:12 UTC

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
[www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...](https://www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-fuel-use-will-peak-before-2030-unless-stated-policies-are-abandoned/ )
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2025-08-20 13:40:43 UTC

Great chart from the FT showing the French nuclear fleet is now routinely flexing down, to accommodate rising solar generation
(People often talk about how some reactors CAN flex; but it's often assumed that they WON'T, due to economic incentives)
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2025-06-17 09:17:24 UTC

IEA: Oil still on track to peak by 2030; oil for fuel to peak in 2027
"annual growth slows…to just a trickle over the next several years, with a small decline expected in 2030, based on today’s policy settings and market trends"
Here are some of the most striking charts 🧵
1/8
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2025-06-12 14:57:26 UTC

Apropos of nothing in particular, just resharing this chart showing why North Sea gas is drying up (we burned it all already)
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2025-03-27 13:00:53 UTC

NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024
As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)
Our analysis: [www.carbonbrief.org/...](https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-fall-3-6-in-2024-as-coal-use-drops-to-lowest-since-1666/ )
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