Norway’s energy major Equinor has extended key drilling and well services contracts worth a combined NOK 17 billion ($1.8 billion), reinforcing activity on the Norwegian continental shelf as the company targets production […]

Queensland tops charts for wind, solar and battery output in April and helps push monthly gas generation to its lowest monthly level in more than two decades. The post Record battery output, […]

It is profit season again, and Big Oil is raking it in, both in Europe and in the U.S., as soaring oil and gas prices boost earnings. What they are not boosting, […]

Australia may struggle to reach 82 pct renewables by 2030, but its biggest isolated grid now looks very much on course – thanks to government ownership. The post Why Australia’s biggest isolated […]

China’s most effective weapon in the rare earth war wasn’t a missile, a tariff, or a trade embargo. It was a price tag. For more than two decades, Beijing has used a […]

Global oil inventories are crashing and approaching an eight-year low, with the rate of depletion so fast that it exposes the market to further shocks, according to Goldman Sachs. Total oil stocks […]

Islanded and semi‑islanded grids cannot pretend the old fossil fleet will always come to the rescue. They must plan for independence, high shares of renewables, storage and flexible demand. The post World’s […]

The volume of coal delivered in the United States for uses other than power generation—primarily, for manufacturing—decreased by about half in the last 15 years. Coal delivered for these purposes in the […]

A single benchmark no longer exists. In some cases, charging speed is what matters; in others, it is energy density, and in still others, cost and scalability. In other words, the battery […]

The solar minigrids, to be developed by five renewable energy service companies, are expected to facilitate over 494,000 new electricity connections in Nigeria. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Norwegian investment fund […]