• Opinion

  Gas price signals show need for increased supply

  • 17 9月 2021

  European gas prices have been hitting record highs and prices have been soaring in Asia. It's clear the market needs more gas. The US has the resources to meet that demand, but has hurdles to overcome

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: A new era for climate-focused venture capital

  • 19 7月 2021

  During the height of the pandemic in 2020, venture capital poured into climate technologies at rec...

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Extreme weather keeps maxing out the grid

  • 09 7月 2021

  It’s been a very intense year for America’s power grid. Across the country, the electricity system...

• Opinion

  Trading further-out futures: tackling renewable-fuelled congestion

  • 06 9月 2021

  High renewable penetration and transmission congestion are shifting power trading dynamics in the US.

• Opinion

  US renewables project finance: five things to know

  • 08 9月 2021

  From ESG to tax equity, we look at the market and policy factors that could have an impact on the financing of clean energy projects in the US over the next few years.

• Opinion

  The slow recovery after Hurricane Ida

  • 10 9月 2021

  Hurricanes are a fact of life in the Gulf of Mexico, and the energy industry has many decades of experience in managing the risks. But Hurricane Ida has been one of the most disruptive in recent years, and about 1.5 million barrels per day of US oil production is still offline. Increased rainfall and potentially higher wind speeds in future could further complicate the challenge of resilience.

• Opinion

  Will the US gas market be a tricky balancing act this winter?

  • 11 8月 2021

  Rallying prices underscore the delicate supply-demand balance in an increasingly global market

• Featured

  Exploration under the microscope in 2022

  • 13 12月 2021

  What lies ahead for oil and gas exploration? As investors and activists ask how the search for new fields squares with the need to accelerate the energy transition, our experts pick out five key themes to look for in 2022.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The hidden science behind decarbonizing buildings

  • 30 9月 2021

  All around us, hidden inside our buildings, are a series of choices and tradeoffs – choices w...

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Where will DOE’s loan program make the next climate tech investments

  • 21 10月 2021

  The U.S. Department of Energy is crucial for funding, researching, and testing emerging energ...

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: a breakthrough in the energy game

  • 06 12月 2021

  NET Power's zero-emission, low-cost electricity, delivered to the grid from natural-gas fuelled technology. A wright-brothers first flight kind of breakthrough in energy?

• Opinion

  Learning the right lessons from the Texas crisis

  • 03 12月 2021

  The blackouts raise important questions about investment, innovation and electricity market design, as the share of variable renewable generation on the grid increases.

• Opinion

  What does the global push for electrification mean for the grid edge?

  • 30 11月 2021

  A preview of the Wood Mackenzie Grid Edge Innovation Series, sharing market insight and exploring the huge potential of technologies and tools at the grid edge.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: what the US can learn from Australia with renewables

  • 23 12月 2021

  Hitachi Energy has played an integral role in helping Australia increase the amount of energy generated by renewables with huge updates of distributed solar for both the National Electricity Market and the Western Australia Electricity Market.

• Opinion

  ExxonMobil sets a net zero emissions goal

  • 21 1月 2022

  Over the past decade, the European and US oil and gas Majors have chosen divergent strategic directions. The European companies have set more ambitious goals for emissions reduction, and moved faster to diversify into low-carbon energy sources. Recently, however, that gap has begun to close.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The European energy crisis – a failure of policy?

  • 29 7月 2022

  Host Ed Crooks is joined by regular contributor Amy Myers Jaffe from the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University, and a new voice on the Energy Gang, Vicky Bailey, founder of Anderson Stratton Enterprises.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: the present and future of California’s electricity grid

  • 01 7月 2022

  The Energy Gang welcomes Elliot Mainzer, the President and CEO of the California Independent System Operator. Regular Melissa Lott also joins Ed Crooks to examine the current state of the power grid in California and how it’s faring in the energy transition.

• Opinion

  US fuel taxes are not a key factor for prices

  • 24 6月 2022

  The Biden administration’s proposed gasoline tax holiday is an ineffective instrument for cutting fuel prices. Changes in the global supply / demand balance have much more impact.

• Opinion

  Anticircumvention investigation paralyses US solar

  • 08 6月 2022

  Shipments of equipment from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have virtually stopped. Development activity has stalled for most of the industry. What are the impacts of the anticircumvention investigation on each segment of the industry?

• Opinion

  Can the US make the switch to electric heavy-duty trucks?

  • 11 5月 2022

  The transition to heavy-duty vehicle electrification could be accelerating.

• Opinion

  Why the US oil industry could call for a carbon tax

  • 29 4月 2022

  Carbon pricing can offer a simpler and more transparent way to set incentives to cut emissions.

• Opinion

  Is the end of high US solar system prices in sight?

  • 13 4月 2022

  System prices remain high as supply chain constraints and policy uncertainties create a high-risk environment for US solar PV development.

• Opinion

  US utility-scale solar: will policy power a rebound?

  • 19 4月 2022

  Total forecasted buildout of US utility-scale solar is expected to reach 172 GW by 2027 – if the climate provisions in the Build Back Better Act are passed later this year.

• Opinion

  Competition heats up for the top three US residential solar installers

  • 29 3月 2022

  Impressive growth and market consolidation amid the top five US solar players could threaten Sunrun’s dominance in 2022.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The IPCC climate report uncovered

  • 25 3月 2022

  The gang explores how major US companies may be required to report climate risks and emissions, Canada's new emissions reduction plan and the new IPCC report.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Lessons from the Texas power crisis

  • 25 2月 2022

  Ed Crooks is joined by Emily Chasan and Joshua Rhodes to discuss the Texas Blackouts and how to avoid it happening again, the situation in Eastern Europe and how the current conflict affects the net-zero pledges made at COP26.

• Opinion

  Mass-market electric vehicles create new challenges for the grid

  • 18 2月 2022

  In this year’s Super Bowl, six companies showed ads that showcased their electric vehicles, two included EVs in their commercials, and one advertised EV chargers.

• The Edge

  The coming carbon capture and storage boom – we have lift off

  • 31 1月 2022

  CCS has to be made to work – capturing and storing CO2 accounts for 20% of the emissions reduction needed to achieve global net zero by 2050.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Saving Build Back Better

  • 28 1月 2022

  President Biden's climate agenda has been reformed. What are the implications for the Build Back Better Act? The gang also looks at EVs, and the growing problems that clean energy is currently facing.

• Opinion

  Will private operators keep pushing Permian production higher?

  • 01 2月 2022

  Private operators’ booming activity levels took Permian oil production to new highs in 2021. Can private operators sustain this momentum and continue to grow at an outlier pace?