Herculean global action to roll back the economic carnage of the coronavirus is about to bump into a new problem: climate change. With as much as $15 trillion in economic stimulus on offer – an unfathomable 17% of global GDP – we’ll see spending... 

Danish energy firm Orsted and TSMC, a Taiwan-headquartered semiconductor company which supplies businesses such as Apple, have signed a deal described as “the world’s largest renewables corporate power purchase agreement.” Announced Wednesday,... 

Demand growth for refined oil products will never return to the levels it reached before the coronavirus outbreak, Citigroup said. As the global economy restarts, fewer people will fly and use their cars, analysts including Ed Morse wrote. With meetings... 

Today we live in an age of environmental emergency due to global warming, and not without reason. The consequences of this have become very palpable in the last 10 years, with our planet suffering major and more frequent storms and other weather phenomena,... 

The future of the auto industry may boil down to the difference made by a single letter: R. As in, the difference between a lithium-ion battery, like those found in today’s electric vehicles made by Tesla and others, and the lithium-iron phosphate... 

The new BP Statistical Review of World Energy was published this week. It’s worth a look:  a treasure trove of energy data, published annually since 1952. (Full disclosure:  I led the production of the Review for a dozen years…) The Review has... 

Russia and Saudi Arabia both rely on oil sales to fund a majority of their budgets. In the last five plus years, China has become the biggest customer for both countries. In fact, China is the world’s largest importer of oil, though it could cut... 

Saudi Arabia?  Russia?  The United States—which is the world’s biggest producer of oil, natural gas, and nuclear power? Nope.  It’s China…by a long way. Why?  Well, China is the world’s biggest producer of hydroelectricity and other... 

Nord Stream 2, the company building a gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, has reportedly requested a permit allowing it to use pipe-laying vessels with anchors to complete the final roughly 120-kilometre stretch of pipeline in Danish waters. Nord... 

The latest International Energy Agency (IEA) report on the global natural gas market makes sombre reading, especially for current and would-be producers of the super-chilled version of the fuel. No doubt much of the commentary on the report, issued on... 

Volvo Trucks is now driven to roll out electrically-fueled heavy-duty trucks — the kind that makes short runs. It’s part of an effort by the state of California to help clean up air pollution and specifically in Los Angeles. Up first: about two dozen... 

The International Energy Agency has laid out a $3 trillion green recovery plan, offering governments around the world a “once-in-a-lifetime” roadmap to sustainably rebuild their economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Sustainable Recovery...