Tuesday, September 19, 2017
by Ersin Merdan*
China’s new role as an economic powerhouse is coming to an end following decades of double-digit growth. The retreat in this growth is evident with falling coal and iron consumption, diminishing manufacturing indices as well as the reduction in capacity of heavy industries for the first time after the global financial crises
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
by Paula Dittrick*
The US light, sweet crude oil contract for October gained modestly on the New York market Sept. 11 while heating oil and gasoline futures prices fell as Hurricane Irma moved north along Florida’s Gulf Coast
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
by Stratfor
North Korea has indeed conducted its sixth nuclear test. The U.S. Geological Service and the China Earthquake Administration recorded a 6.3 magnitude earthquake as a result of the detonation on Sept. 3, followed by a 4.1 magnitude quake due to a suspected cave collapse resulting from the explosion
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
by Sam Morgan*
Solar photovoltaic capacity (PV) will soon match and even overtake nuclear energy’s global capacity, according to new US research
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
by Matt McGrath*
Potent, climate-warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in official inventories, a BBC investigation has found.
Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from a location in Italy
Monday, July 31, 2017
by Bloomberg New Energy Finance*
It might seem like there’s more news about electric cars lately than actual electric cars on the road. Tesla took a step toward becoming a mass-producer this month when the $35,000 Model 3 sedan started rolling off a California assembly line. Volvo said it will begin phasing out cars that run just on fossil fuels in two years
Thursday, July 20, 2017
by Ross McCracken*
Qatar’s announcement Tuesday that it will double the size of its proposed new development on the giant North Field to 4 Bcf/d and use the gas for LNG exports will throw off course multiple new LNG projects elsewhere in the world. According to the International Gas Union, there were 879 million mt/year of proposed LNG projects waiting in the wings at the start of 2017
Monday, July 10, 2017
by Charles W. Thurston *
Trackers: Solar tracker manufacturers are blanketing the global market faster than ever, as regulatory regimes open new country markets, as marketers push sales beyond the massive U.S. market, and as major players vie for the bulge bracket.
Friday, June 30, 2017
by Radu Dudau*
Natural gas is the most important form of energy in Romania’s the final consumption structure. In 2015, gas accounted for 29% of the total demand, followed by oil products with 26%, 19% renewable energy sources (RES) (including hydro), 17% coal and 9% nuclear energy
Thursday, June 22, 2017
by James Crisp*
The lack of hard EU legislation for the decarbonisation of Europe’s heating and cooling systems is a failure that puts the bloc’s climate goals at risk, Maarten De Groote, the head of research at the Buildings Performance Institute Europe, has warned
Friday, June 16, 2017
by Liam Denning*
What's the right way to think about the long-term price of oil?
This question consumes the industry -- and markets -- no matter what prices are on any given day
Friday, June 9, 2017
by Nikola Tomasović*
Actual energy issues will be raised and discussed at the 10th SEEED, organized by the Regional Institute of Energy for South East Europe (IENE), which will take place in Belgrade on June 13-14. The IENE major study – “SE Europe Energy Outlook 2016/2017” will be presented at the conference for the first time in this region. The audience will be provided with an insight into the region covering counties from Slovenia to Turkey and address the regions main energy sector challenges
Saturday, June 3, 2017
by Noah Feldman*
To critics of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, it may seem like presidential fiat is a very dysfunctional way to do foreign policy. How, exactly, is such overwhelming power consistent with checks and balances? How can one man, even if he is the president, single-handedly alter our international obligations?
Thursday, May 25, 2017
by Brian Scheid, Jasmin Melvin and Maya Weber
The Trump administration: A Platts news and analysis feature
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Ian Clover*
MLPE analysis: The growth of the module-level power electronics industry has tended to bring more questions than answers, chiefly concerning the cost-performance ratio when compared to traditional string inverter solution
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
by Nicholas Borroz and Brendan Meighan*
Saudi King Salman’s ongoing visit to Asia, through which he hopes to attract Japanese and Chinese investment in Saudi Arabia, is another indication of how committed the country is to reforming its economy
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
by Francisco Jaime Quesado*
We face a New Agenda for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be more and more the new enabler of competitiveness in Europe and it is essential to mobilize the universities, companies and other actors to the challenge of competitiveness
Friday, April 21, 2017
by Mustafa Sonmez*
Following Turkey’s momentous constitutional referendum on April 16, Turkey’s best-selling daily Hurriyet trumpeted the arrival of a “new system.” Turkish voters, it said, sealed the end of “a parliamentary system implemented since 1923” in favor a new presidential regime
Thursday, April 6, 2017
by Costis Stambolis*
As Turkey is preparing to hold its contentious referendum on April 16 and Greece’s radical left government is grappling with the harsh realities of the West’s capitalist system, unable as yet to come to terms with its lenders bail out conditions, the energy links between the two countries are quietly being forged as the so called Southern Energy Corridor takes shape
Thursday, March 30, 2017
by Jeffrey Bair*
I love it when I come across something random during the day that points back to my work. (Here’s where the cynics will say, “Said no one, ever …” — but bear with me.)
We’ve just past a solemn anniversary that led to great leaps forward in energy safety
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