China’s installed wind and solar capacity will overtake coal for the first time this year, an industry body forecast on Tuesday. The China Electricity Council (CEC) in a yearly report said grid-connected wind and solar would make up around 40%... 

Europe needs to ramp up efforts to cut its dependency from Russian fossil fuel imports in the face of the latest crisis, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in Brussels on Friday. “All together, we are very, very well prepared for the difficult challenge... 

Fossil fuels have surpassed renewables to become the European Union’s largest source of power generation as use of natural gas reached its highest point in a decade, the bloc’s statistics office said on Thursday. While Eurostat says renewables... 

Carbon pricing, whether through trading or taxes, is considered one of the most important policies to reduce emissions. A price on carbon increases the operating costs of high carbon fuels relative to lower-carbon alternatives. This post introduces an... 

Europe is being ravaged by an unprecedented energy crisis, and it may already be spreading. Asia, the world’s biggest buyer of gas and coal, may be next, with China particularly vulnerable because of the size of its economy. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly,... 

In the light of the data announced by the US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), coal production in the country was 11.8 million tons, with an increase of 6.2% compared to the previous week, while it increased by 3% compared... 

Energy Markets Management Inc. According to the information compiled from the data, the price of one megawatt-hour of electricity in the day-ahead market was traded at 352.56 liras at the lowest and 617 liras at the highest. Energy Markets Management... 

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... 

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... 

The reigning narrative of impending global environmental catastrophe dominates the airwaves and print media. Short of a drastic reduction in the use of fossil fuels, it is asserted, we are fast approaching the “end of days”. The demonization of fossils...