• Opinion

  The LNG Majors' strategies in five key charts

  • 01 8月 2024

  LNG remains at the heart of the Majors’ growth strategies.

• Opinion

  Nuclear power needs a way to break the stalemate

  • 25 6月 2024

  Political support is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a revival in investment in new reactors in the US.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: what the US can learn from Australia with renewables

  • 23 12月 2021

  Hitachi Energy has played an integral role in helping Australia increase the amount of energy generated by renewables with huge updates of distributed solar for both the National Electricity Market and the Western Australia Electricity Market.

• Opinion

  ExxonMobil sets a net zero emissions goal

  • 21 1月 2022

  Over the past decade, the European and US oil and gas Majors have chosen divergent strategic directions. The European companies have set more ambitious goals for emissions reduction, and moved faster to diversify into low-carbon energy sources. Recently, however, that gap has begun to close.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The European energy crisis – a failure of policy?

  • 29 7月 2022

  Host Ed Crooks is joined by regular contributor Amy Myers Jaffe from the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University, and a new voice on the Energy Gang, Vicky Bailey, founder of Anderson Stratton Enterprises.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: the present and future of California’s electricity grid

  • 01 7月 2022

  The Energy Gang welcomes Elliot Mainzer, the President and CEO of the California Independent System Operator. Regular Melissa Lott also joins Ed Crooks to examine the current state of the power grid in California and how it’s faring in the energy transition.

• Opinion

  US fuel taxes are not a key factor for prices

  • 24 6月 2022

  The Biden administration’s proposed gasoline tax holiday is an ineffective instrument for cutting fuel prices. Changes in the global supply / demand balance have much more impact.

• Opinion

  Anticircumvention investigation paralyses US solar

  • 08 6月 2022

  Shipments of equipment from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have virtually stopped. Development activity has stalled for most of the industry. What are the impacts of the anticircumvention investigation on each segment of the industry?

• Opinion

  Can the US make the switch to electric heavy-duty trucks?

  • 11 5月 2022

  The transition to heavy-duty vehicle electrification could be accelerating.

• Opinion

  Why the US oil industry could call for a carbon tax

  • 29 4月 2022

  Carbon pricing can offer a simpler and more transparent way to set incentives to cut emissions.

• Opinion

  US utility-scale solar: will policy power a rebound?

  • 19 4月 2022

  Total forecasted buildout of US utility-scale solar is expected to reach 172 GW by 2027 – if the climate provisions in the Build Back Better Act are passed later this year.

• Opinion

  Is the end of high US solar system prices in sight?

  • 13 4月 2022

  System prices remain high as supply chain constraints and policy uncertainties create a high-risk environment for US solar PV development.

• Opinion

  Competition heats up for the top three US residential solar installers

  • 29 3月 2022

  Impressive growth and market consolidation amid the top five US solar players could threaten Sunrun’s dominance in 2022.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The IPCC climate report uncovered

  • 25 3月 2022

  The gang explores how major US companies may be required to report climate risks and emissions, Canada's new emissions reduction plan and the new IPCC report.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Lessons from the Texas power crisis

  • 25 2月 2022

  Ed Crooks is joined by Emily Chasan and Joshua Rhodes to discuss the Texas Blackouts and how to avoid it happening again, the situation in Eastern Europe and how the current conflict affects the net-zero pledges made at COP26.

• Opinion

  Mass-market electric vehicles create new challenges for the grid

  • 18 2月 2022

  In this year’s Super Bowl, six companies showed ads that showcased their electric vehicles, two included EVs in their commercials, and one advertised EV chargers.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Saving Build Back Better

  • 28 1月 2022

  President Biden's climate agenda has been reformed. What are the implications for the Build Back Better Act? The gang also looks at EVs, and the growing problems that clean energy is currently facing.

• Opinion

  Will private operators keep pushing Permian production higher?

  • 01 2月 2022

  Private operators’ booming activity levels took Permian oil production to new highs in 2021. Can private operators sustain this momentum and continue to grow at an outlier pace?

• Opinion

  The Interchange Recharged podcast: Innovation and data are revolutionising the grid

  • 21 1月 2022

  The American Electrical Grid is in need of physical updates and digital modernisation. A constantly growing energy demand has seen the strength of the existing grid tested to the limit. How can we use data and new tech to enable the grid to cope with the new demands?

• Opinion

  Policy changes threaten California’s solar industry

  • 28 1月 2022

  Distribution generation has grown rapidly in California, Brent Crude breaks US$90 a barrel, and winners and losers from an accelerated energy transition.

• Opinion

  Inflation Reduction Act tailwinds – and other tales from the grid edge

  • 26 10月 2022

  Three key trends from the latest grid edge quarterly briefing.

• Opinion

  US gas exporters target a changing European market

  • 21 10月 2022

  Europe is replacing its lost imports from Russia with LNG. The shift is putting its gas infrastructure under strain.

• Opinion

  The grid edge of the future: delivering distributed energy and electrification at scale

  • 18 10月 2022

  From EV charging infrastructure ownership to the future of microgrid technology: a preview of the Grid Edge Innovation Summit 2022.

• Opinion

  What will REPowerEU and the Inflation Reduction Act mean for hydrogen?

  • 05 10月 2022

  Flagship climate policy in the EU and the US could give hydrogen the jumpstart it needs.

• Opinion

  The Interchange Recharged podcast: solving the food-cooling conundrum - making storage sustainable

  • 02 9月 2022

  David is joined by Manik Suri from Therma, a tech start-up that builds safety and sustainability tools to eliminate food waste and improve energy efficiency. They are focused on solving this often overlooked but important piece in the energy transition puzzle.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: exploring the great American climate bill

  • 12 8月 2022

  The gang discuss The Inflation Reduction Act. Is the bill an indication the energy transition is finally getting the momentum it needs? What new technologies will benefit?

• Opinion

  Lower 48 oil and gas economics Q4 2023: three key takeaways

  • 16 4月 2024

  As winter 2023 comes to an end in the US, read about some of the key gas production and pricing updates from the last quarter

• Opinion

  Home energy storage booms in the US

  • 15 4月 2024

  Residential solar in the US suffered two damaging blows last year: higher interest rates and changes to net metering rules in California. The upside has been a boom in sales of solar systems with battery storage attached.

• Opinion

  China’s solar growth sends module prices plummeting

  • 05 4月 2024

  Excess capacity has sent solar panel prices tumbling. In the early 2010s, the stretch goal was to get the cost down to 50c a watt. Now they are selling in China for just 11c. That is great for solar deployment, but less good for manufacturers.

• Opinion

  How the MENA region and its NOCs are diversifying into new energies

  • 05 4月 2024

  The Middle East is faced with a significant challenge – building a new energy economy means accelerating nascent diversification efforts and pushing towards ambitious net zero goals.