🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 Latest Military Situation Map on the Taiz Front

The Yemeni Army (Ansarallah) continue taking key heights west of the city of Taiz and to the south slowly encircling the PLC garrison defending the city and the roads leading up to it.

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🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Close-up footage of the large fire at the Saudi ARAMCO Riyadh Refinery, southern outskirts of Riyadh, central KSA.

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⚡️ 🇬🇧 📉 Electricity generation per person in the United Kingdom has fallen by a third from its early-2000s peak.

Globally, electricity generation per person has grown by more than 50% this century.

In the United Kingdom, things have moved in the opposite direction. Its generation per person peaked in 2003 and has fallen by more than a third since then.

You can see this in the chart, which shows generation per person since 1920. Today, levels are back to where they were in the late 1960s.

Some of that decline is a change in electricity imports, rather than demand: net imports have increased from 1% of electricity demand in 2010 to 9% in 2025. But it’s still true that the UK consumes much less electricity than it used to.

The most common explanation is deindustrialization: as the economy shifted from manufacturing to services, electricity demand fell. That’s part of the explanation, but far from all of it.

Sectoral data from the International Energy Agency confirms that electricity consumption in industry has fallen by one-quarter since 2005 (more if we calculate this per person). But residential and commercial electricity use has fallen by just as much.

Deindustrialization has reduced demand, but improvements in energy efficiency — such as the shift from incandescent to LED lightbulbs and the introduction of efficiency standards for appliances — have played an important role too.

Explore how electricity generation has changed in your own country:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?source=total&metric=generation&frequency=annual

Other sources & data:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=line&country=%7EOWID_WRL&source=total&metric=per_capita&frequency=annual

📎 Our World in Data

🛢 Hegseth on Iran:

More oil is going through the Strait of Hormuz today than before the conflict even started, because incredible pilots control the airspace.

🔗 Clash Report (@clashreport)

🇮🇷⚔️🇦🇪 Google updates its satellite imagery for Google Earth and conflict observers spotted damage to a military satellite array in Dubai coordinates 25.0291 N, 55.1254 E that was damaged by Iran during the 40-day War.

This target went unnoticed during the conflict.

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🇪🇹🇪🇹⚡️ — Ethiopian federal forces and allied Tigray Peace Forces have captured Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, after TPLF rebel forces withdrew.

🇩🇪⚡️ — Germany’s Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state is building a large-scale drone detection network along its Baltic Sea coast, with around 150 passive radio sensors providing real-time tracking of drones, SZ reports.

The network will focus on ports, energy infrastructure and military sites, including areas around the Lubmin nuclear storage facility, Sassnitz LNG terminal, and Baltic 1 offshore wind farm, which have previously experienced drone overflights.

Authorities expect the system to detect around 90% of drones, with real-time data available by spring. The sensors will be used solely for detection rather than actively disabling drones.

🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — Scenes from the Royal Saudi Air Force airstrikes against Sana'a, capital of Ansarallah-controlled Yemen.