Pakistan's booming rooftop solar "shadow grid" has quietly grown larger than the country's official grid, saving billions while slashing fossil fuel imports. They also look at the staggering costs of keeping aging coal plants alive in the U.S., including millions spent just to maintain shutdown-ready facilities. Plus: a groundbreaking Inuit-owned hydro project replacing diesel power in the Arctic, bats vs. wind turbines, EV sales exploding in Canada, China's battery charging buildout, and why hailstorms are becoming a major challenge for solar farms.

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Topics this week include:

• Pakistan's massive solar "shadow grid" now bigger than the official grid - end of show!

• Trump-era coal plant extensions costing hundreds of millions

• Coal pollution reducing global solar output

• Inuit-owned hydro project cuts Arctic diesel use by 80%

• Researchers study how bats interact with wind turbines

• OPEC instability and what oil prices mean for the energy transition

• DOJ investigates emissions-tuning car app data

• BYD rapidly expanding ultra-fast charging stations

• Denmark hits nearly 82% EV sales

• Texas adding 12.9 GW of grid batteries this year

• Renewables overtake natural gas on the U.S. grid for the first time

• Hailstorms become the top cause of solar insurance losses

• XPeng predicts Level 5 self-driving by 2030

The Lightning Round covers drone strikes on nuclear infrastructure, floating solar over manure lagoons, sodium batteries, Ukraine targeting Russian oil infrastructure, and more.

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In Chile, organized crime gangs are now stealing solar panels and copper wiring from giant solar farms in coordinated nighttime raids. James explains how Saskatchewan could spend over $520 million a year on coal fuel alone — enough money to build massive amounts of solar and battery storage every single year instead. In Ohio, voters accidentally upheld a renewable energy ban because the ballot wording was nearly impossible to understand.

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Plus: China donates 5,000 solar systems to Cuba during ongoing blackouts, the EPA blames Asian pollution for smog in Phoenix and Salt Lake City, Vestas tests red wind turbine blades to reduce bird collisions, Norway hits nearly 99% EV adoption, and Amsterdam bans fossil fuel advertising. Also in the Lightning Round: giant Alaskan tsunamis, Ozempic crushing junk food sales, Meta's Manhattan-sized AI data center, rooftop solar for dairy barns, and why heat pump dryers are secretly amazing.

The Lightning Round includes:

• Norway reaches 98.6% EV market share
• BYD adds LiDAR to a $10K EV
• Used EV searches double in Canada
• Meta plans 10 new gas plants for AI expansion
• Amsterdam bans meat and fossil fuel ads
• Heat pump dryers use up to 60% less electricity
• Ozempic may already be reshaping freight demand
• The IEA says the fossil fuel era may never recover after the current oil shock

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A global climate meeting in Colombia brings together mostly Global South nations, Europe, and Canada to talk seriously about ending fossil fuels—without binding agreements, but with real momentum. France goes further than anyone else, announcing a full phase-out by 2050.

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CATL signs a massive 60 GWh deal and says sodium-ion batteries are ready for prime time—cheaper, longer-lasting, and ideal for grid-scale use.

Hospitals are a bigger climate problem than you think. One Australian doctor is tackling single-use waste and high-emission anesthetic gases like nitrous oxide, which can be hundreds of times more potent than CO₂.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/the-doctor-fighting-medicine-s-addiction-to-plastic-waste

"Guerrilla solar" is booming in the Philippines as frustrated customers bypass slow permitting to install rooftop systems—raising both safety concerns and questions about red tape.

Listener Mail: EV charging from street lamps is coming to Washington, DC.

Lightning Round highlights:
• BYD sales shift globally
• Alberta adds a solar panel tax
• EVs saving Canadian households hundreds per month
• Wind + solar beating nuclear on cost
https://www.theenergymix.com/renewables-mix-beats-nuclear-on-price-in-future-energy-systems/
• UK solar installs surge
• Texas hits nearly 2/3 solar power at peak

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