Politics for greater energy efficiency
Hundreds of millions of people already pay for electricity twice. Once to the utility, and once to keep the lights on when the utility fails. The Second Bill Nobody Talks …
The Tariff Sheet Lies. Here Is What Electricity Actually Costs When the Grid Fails Read More
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that American gas prices have probably peaked, but warned they may not fall below $3 a gallon until …
Four Dollars a Gallon, a Shaky Ceasefire, and an Election on the Horizon Read More
Spain and China are quietly building one of the more consequential economic relationships in Europe, and most people haven’t noticed yet. The headlines tend to focus on Brussels, on tariff …
Factories First, Politics Later: Spain and China Get Down to Business on the Green Transition Read More
RWE, the German energy company that has spent years repositioning itself from coal to renewables, has agreed to supply 300 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually to Network Rail, the public body …
Britain’s railways are about to run on wind Read More
Numbers tell the story before the politics do. The White House wants $4.2 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency in fiscal year 2027. That sounds like a functioning agency budget …
The Budget That Rewrites Washington’s Environmental Contract Read More
Forty years ago, a reactor exploded in northern Ukraine. I was a child in Mogilev, about 350 kilometres away, in a region that wore the fallout for years. I am …
The Renaissance That Exists Only on Paper Read More
When a single waterway closes, governments discover exactly how they built their energy systems, and exactly what that cost them A Strait. A List. A Mirror. Thirty-three kilometres. That is …
The Emergency Measures Nobody Expected to Read About in 2026 Read More
The numbers alone are staggering. Beneath the fractured economy, the exodus of millions, and the long shadow of a collapsing state, Venezuela sits atop the largest proven oil reserves on …
Black Gold, Broken State: Venezuela and the Geopolitics of a Second American Bet Read More
The flames were still visible from satellite imagery when the economists began revising their forecasts upward. Within days of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iranian territory, crude markets convulsed in …
The Last Oil Shock: Why the Iran War Could Either Break or Accelerate the Clean Energy Transition Read More
The energy transition has a scientific problem, an engineering problem, and a political problem. The first two are being worked on. The third is barely being named. Every regulatory framework …
Clean Energy Has a Policy Problem That Nobody Wants to Name Read More