• Opinion

  Canada tries to balance energy and climate goals

  • 11 4月 2022

  The government has ambitious goals for cutting emissions. It doesn't want them to drive down oil and gas production.

• Opinion

  The Biden administration seeks help on fuel prices

  • 18 3月 2022

  The cost of gasoline has become a political problem for President Biden. He does not have many options for bringing it down.

• Opinion

  US battery storage deployment doubles in a single year

  • 24 3月 2022

  The grid-scale and distributed battery storage segments have delivered record-breaking growth in the US – despite challenges and project delays.

• Opinion

  The Biden administration tries to lead by example on EVs

  • 11 2月 2022

  The US government wants electric vans in the USPS' new fleet, France seeks an expansion of nuclear power, and exploring the progress of fusion power.

• Opinion

  US community solar market will bring 4.5 GWdc online over the next five years

  • 14 2月 2022

  Expanded incentives and program allocations boost the forecast for US community solar – but siting and interconnection challenges are growing.

• Opinion

  US natural gas infrastructure gets ready to go green

  • 21 2月 2022

  The focus turns to climate change and conservation, federal agencies look to tighten up the rules and congressional acts aim to shift the focus to renewables as midstream operators rise to the energy transition challenge.

• Opinion

  The US oil Majors set the pace in the Permian Basin

  • 04 2月 2022

  ExxonMobil and Chevron's oil and gas production plans in Texas and New Mexico, Georgia Power look to exit coal and the surging interest in CCUS and hydrogen.

• Opinion

  Will rising interest rates curb the dominance of the US residential solar loan market?

  • 26 10月 2022

  The loan segment has seen 59% year-over-year growth but rate volatility and the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will shake up the residential solar market mix.

• Opinion

  The EV boom depends on policy support

  • 28 10月 2022

  Manufacturers are betting big on the rapid growth of EV sales in the US. Political and legal uncertainty is the greatest risk.

• Opinion

  Using energy technology to balance the grid | Podcast

  • 28 10月 2022

  We are joined by the Senior Vice President of GridBeyond, Wayne Muncaster. Listen as we discuss the challenges that arise from an aging grid, the uncertainty around energy security and look at how companies can transform energy into opportunity. 

• Opinion

  US anger at OPEC+ production cut

  • 11 10月 2022

  The decision provoked some anger in the US. But the actual production cut is smaller than the headlines imply, and is coming as global demand for oil is faltering.

• Opinion

  Can Maryland make net zero work?

  • 04 10月 2022

  The US state's enhanced climate solutions bill targets zero carbon by 2045 – transmission issues and reliability concerns must be overcome.

• Opinion

  Sustainability at sea: how the maritime industry is powering through the energy transition | Podcast

  • 30 9月 2022

  We are joined by Pace Ralli, co-founder and CEO at SWITCH Maritime, to discuss how his company is building the first fleet of zero-emissions vessels in North America.

• Opinion

  US oil's cautious response to the energy crisis

  • 20 9月 2022

  Constraints including investor expectations and equipment shortages mean growth has been steady, not rapid.

• Opinion

  Distributed energy resources have yet to achieve the full value stack in PJM

  • 06 9月 2022

  One value stack layer does not exist yet and will require greater ambition from customers and aggregators.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: what does the IRA mean for the world?

  • 26 8月 2022

  We revisit the surprise of the summer: the most important US climate legislation ever. Now that The Inflation Reduction Act has officially been signed into law, what’s next?

• Opinion

  US Inflation Reduction Act set to make climate history

  • 19 8月 2022

  Two ways the flagship legislation will accelerate decarbonisation in the US.

• Opinion

  What’s the energy transition going to cost?

  • 23 4月 2024

  Dan Goldman from Clean Energy Ventures joins us to explore potential solutions to accelerate investments in clean energy and technology.

• Opinion

  Energy security and the solar supply chain: the urgent case for onshoring

  • 19 4月 2024

  A discussion with Origami Solar and Wood Mackenzie

• Opinion

  Rising electricity demand in Texas: the canary in the coalmine for the rest of the US?

  • 22 4月 2024

  This bonus episode was recorded during the spring meeting of the Gulf Coast Power Association in Houston. Our guests debate the key trends in electricity demand growth, and the ability of Texas as a deregulated competitive market to respond to these new opportunities and difficulties.

• Opinion

  2024 is a year of elections. What will they mean for clean energy?

  • 16 4月 2024

  Over half the world's countries are holding elections this year. They come at a time when resistance to the energy transition is building in many parts of the globe. Ed is joined by Amy Myers Jaffe and Vijay Vaitheeswaran to explore the ramifications of these key elections.

• Opinion

  New rules and frameworks in global carbon policies

  • 15 4月 2024

  Read on for developments in carbon policy coming out of the US, UK and EU

• Opinion

  Can we rely on nuclear as a source of clean, reliable power?

  • 09 4月 2024

  Ted Nordhaus from the Breakthrough Institute discusses achieving a net-zero emission grid by 2050, the challenges getting in the way of nuclear energy adoption and the promising advancements in SMR technology.

• Opinion

  US$802 billion on the horizon: the current state of the EV market

  • 26 3月 2024

  We are joined by Haresh Kamath from EPRI to discuss the dynamic outlook of EVs, including market sentiments, the role of battery economics and the potential game-changers like solid-slate batteries.

• Opinion

  Everyone is worrying about rising demand for electricity. Do Microsoft and Google have an answer?

  • 02 4月 2024

  The future of electricity is at a crossroads, with demand soaring because of AI, EVs and more. Google, Microsoft and Nucor have an innovative plan to boost clean energy tech and aid this rising demand. Tune in to our latest episode of The Energy Gang as host Ed Crooks, alongside experts Dr Melissa Lott and Michael Webber, explore the urgency of this issue and the role emerging technologies must play.

• Opinion

  AI helps support demand for US gas

  • 15 3月 2024

  US utilities plan to add gas-fired plants as power consumption rises. That will help support gas demand even as solar and wind grow rapidly.

• Opinion

  A groundbreaking new method of sustainable aviation fuel production

  • 13 3月 2024

  We are joined by Andrew Symes, founder and CEO of OXCCU. They’re developing a more efficient way of converting CO2 and hydrogen into hydrocarbons, potentially a monumental step towards more scalable and environmentally friendly fuels.

• Opinion

  Bonus interviews at Distributech

  • 08 3月 2024

  This bonus episode of Wood Mackenzie’s The Energy Gang is our third from the Distributech conference in Orlando.

• Opinion

  US distributed solar companies navigate economic headwinds

  • 04 3月 2024

  Innovation, product diversity and partnerships are driving resilience for publicly-traded distributed solar companies.

• Opinion

  How can we develop new energy technologies and get them deployed at scale?

  • 05 3月 2024

  As the world moves towards a sustainable energy future, government support is essential for research to develop new technologies, and for investment to deploy them at scale. But how do we know which strategies will be most effective for the progress we need, both to bring down the costs of existing technologies and to create new breakthroughs? Ed Crooks, Melissa Lott and Jessika Trancik discuss the progress of clean energy technologies.