Energy


Business

A new electricity supercycle is under way

Why spending on power infrastructure is surging around the world

Christmas Specials

How premodern energy shaped Britain

And the lessons for life after

United States

The Biden administration pursued a mistaken policy on LNG exports

It will be reversed eventually, but not before the courts have had their say

Britain

The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain’s clean-energy disrupter

The boss of Octopus Energy wants to change the way the world uses electricity 

Finance & economics

How much oil can Trump pump?

The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron

The World Ahead Business in 2025

Grid-scale storage is the fastest-growing energy technology

From giant batteries to compressed gas, energy storage is booming

The World Ahead United States in 2025

What Donald Trump’s return means for energy policy

Does this spell the end for America’s green-energy push?

Briefing

The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think

Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances

The Americas

Blackouts in Cuba highlight the island’s extreme energy fragility

The failure of a decrepit, oil-burning power system has plunged Cubans into darkness and misery

Asia

Kazakhstan’s referendum on nuclear energy could benefit Russia

The opposition have been barred from campaigning or locked up

United States

On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degrees

Green subsidies will probably survive Mr Trump’s re-election, and Big Oil will probably do just fine under Ms Harris

Business

Why the hype for hybrid cars will not last

Fully electric vehicles will win the race

Science & technology

Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power

Tricks from the oil industry have produced a hot-rocks breakthrough

China

China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race

They have pioneered a new generation of reactor

The Americas

Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy plan

She cannot boost renewables while propping up the state oil and power giants

Finance & economics

Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy

The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom

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