Renewables are growing but don’t always behave the way you want them to. This year’s topics include the impact  of rising clean energy investment and new energy bills, how grid decarbonization is outpacing electrification, the longterm oil demand outlook, the flawed concept of levelized cost when applied to wind and solar power, the scramble for  critical minerals, the improving economics of energy storage and heat pumps, the transmission quagmire, energy from  municipal waste, carbon sequestration, a whydrogen update, the Russia-China energy partnership, methane tracking  and some futuristic energy ideas that you can just ignore, for now.