Europe’s Answer to the Oil Shock Is Yet Another Tax
The Strait of Hormuz is barely functioning, diesel prices have surged and refineries are running at their limits. Europe is facing…
AI Is Taking Over the Battery Factories Built for the EV Boom
America built a battery industry for an electric-car revolution that arrived much more slowly than promised. Now the same factorie…
Hungary and Romania Reshape the Danube to Save Their Nuclear Plants
Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant is running at a fraction of its capacity, and Romania has shut down its last operating reactor,…
Germany Prepares for an Age of Energy Scarcity
Electricity, gas and oil are expensive, increasingly scarce and heavily taxed in Germany. Now the country is preparing for rationi…
“Drill, baby, drill!” Natural Gas Fracking Has Saved Americans Trillions
New extraction methods turned the US into a net exporter of natural gas. They also lowered the costs of heating and cooking.
Germany’s Wrong-Way Energy Policy
Global energy demand is soaring, driven by the technologies of the future. Germany, meanwhile, is blowing up power plants and regu…
From Ruin to Relevance: Syria Tries to Sell Its Geography to the West
Syria shows how quickly the rhetoric around a country can change. Yet while Damascus now casts itself as a future energy hub, the …
Brussels Wants Citizens to Save Power for the AI Age
Brussels plans to make households adjust their electricity use to the availability of wind and solar power while energy-hungry dat…
The Wind Power Paradox of the Energy Transition
More wind turbines do not automatically mean more electricity. The expansion of wind and solar power is running into physical, eco…
Offshore Wind Starts to Falter
Energy giants TotalEnergies and BP are pulling back from several offshore wind sites in the North and Baltic Seas after openly que…
Why an Oil Shock May Mean More Coal, Not Less
Another oil shock, another promise of a green energy revolution. But as prices surge in the wake of the Iran conflict, the case fo…
Oil Windfall Tax Debate Exposes Central Europe’s Dilemma
Europe’s oil majors are posting bumper profits, prompting fresh calls for windfall taxes. Slovakia, however, shows why the debate …
Putin and Xi Agree on Construction of Second Siberian Gas Pipeline
Moscow and Beijing have discussed the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline for a decade. The project now appears to be gaining momentum…
The Battle Over CEZ Is About More Than Energy
The Czech government is preparing a step that could reshape the ownership of energy giant CEZ, with the huge cost of the Dukovany …
Germany and India Warn of Gas Shortages
Germany is urging citizens to save gas while denying that there is a real crisis. India, by contrast, is openly warning of the dan…