Dive Brief: Global energy demand rose 1% in 2022 but the rate of energy efficiency improvements was double the average of the past five years boosted by “surging” sales in more efficient […]

For decades, people have been wringing their hands and bemoaning the fate of America’s once great industrial empire. They are used to seeing the smokestacks in Youngstown, Pittsburgh, and other industrial cities […]

I’m certainly not the only person who noticed before now that sustaining our increasing consumption of copper would be difficult as I suggested in my July 2022 piece entitled "Acceleration forever? The […]

The World Makes Too Much Methane From Our Biowaste, Yet Wants To Make More Intentionally So, burning fossil fuels is the biggest climate problem. But all of the methane from our waste […]

The ability to efficiently move substantial amounts — more than 1,000 megawatts — of power from generating sites to load centers is fundamental to large-scale electrical infrastructure. In the United States, this […]

Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 70% in April 2023 compared to April 2022. There were 928,000 registrations, making it possibly the last month with fewer than one million sales per month […]

Dive Brief: A hydrogen blending trial at Constellation Energy’s Hillabee Generation Station, a 753-MW combined cycle natural gas plant in central Alabama, operated successfully on a 38% hydrogen blend with only minor […]

The installed solar capacity could grow to up to 68GW in 2023. Image: Glyn Lowe via Flickr. The EU will add 69GW of solar and wind capacity in 2023, representing a 17% […]

The International Energy Agency has released new data that shows the recovery from the slump caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the response to the global energy crisis provoked by Russia’s war […]

The headwinds facing producers in the Permian, the Eagle Ford and other shale plays are trimming the valuations of oil and gas assets and making it easier for deep-pocketed acquirers and private-equity-backed […]