How this works

MyGreenSuit is written and edited by one person: Brian Farrey.

Data and energy geek.

Four beats, and nothing outside them.

• Grid & AI — Data-centre load growth, interconnection queues, transmission and curtailment.
• Power Mix — What was generated, from what fuel, where — and at what carbon intensity.
• Carbon Ledger — Emissions: who emits, from which facilities, and which way the trend runs.
• Data Watch — The status of the public environmental datasets themselves.

• Every number links to a primary source — the body that actually measures the quantity, not a secondary summary of it.
• One chart, one point. A figure that needs three readings to make its case does not run.
• Uncertainty is stated: provisional data, revisions, estimation methods and known gaps are named in the text, not buried.
• No advocacy in the Brief. The Brief reports what changed and links the evidence; it does not argue for an outcome.
• Every chart carries its source organisation, dataset, period, licence and a link to the data. Where a chart has been re-cut, it is labelled as adapted.

MyGreenSuit is not neutral, and pretending otherwise would be its own kind of dishonesty. We have a point of view about how this problem gets solved. It shapes the questions we ask. It does not shape the numbers — where the evidence cuts against what we think, we say so, and you should hold us to that.

Non-partisan — we call balls and strikes.

Criticism goes where the evidence points, including at people we usually agree with.

There is blame on all sides for where we are.

Industry, government, advocacy groups and consumers all made the choices that got us here.

Every part of the economy contributes.

Power, transport, buildings, industry, agriculture and waste each own a share. No single industry is the whole story.

Science and technology are how this gets solved.

Through efficiency, new capability and cleaner options, not by doing less of everything.

Government should enable rather than mandate.

We are more interested in what unblocks building than in what forbids it — and we hold enabling policy to the same evidence standard as regulation, because a subsidy that does not work fails just as surely as a rule that does not.

The communities affected belong at the table.

When a line, plant or data centre lands somewhere, we ask who bears the cost, who decides, and who pays the bill.

Barriers to entry should come down.

We flag it when a rule, queue or tariff protects incumbents or prices out small entrants — including when the barrier was well intended.

Ideas succeed or fail on their merits.

No cheerleading for favoured technologies, no dismissal of unfashionable ones. Cost, schedule and evidence.

Sustainability is a worldwide problem.

Not a regional one, and not a proxy for power politics.

Innovation and experimentation deserve credit.

We give it to whoever goes first and carries the risk — and we are honest when an experiment fails, because a failure that produced knowledge is not a waste.

One of these is not like the others. Point five is itself a contested position, not a neutral one, and we would rather say so than let “non-partisan” do work it cannot do. We hold it as a prior, we argue for it in the open, and we try to apply the same scepticism to the policies we like as to the ones we do not.

Corrections are made in place, dated, and logged publicly. Nothing is silently edited.

To report one, email bfarrey@gmail.com with the piece, the figure in question and the source you believe is correct.

Read the corrections log

How it is paid for: self-funded.

What it does not take: no sponsored posts, no guest content, no advertising, no paid placement, and no funding from utilities, developers, trade bodies or advocacy groups. If that ever changes, the change is stated here before it takes effect.

Original writing is CC BY 4.0 — quote it, translate it, republish it with a link.

Embedded charts and third-party data remain under their own licences, stated per figure.

Email: bfarrey@gmail.com