Recent developments are beginning to undermine the supremacy of the world’s long-running energy information duopoly and its perennially optimistic narrative. Policymakers, investors and the public should take heed. Until now most energy price and supply forecasts and analyses were based predominately on information from the globe’s two leading energy information agencies: the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) , the statistical arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) , a consortium of 29 countries originally formed in response to the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo to provide better information on world energy supplies to its members. Both agencies provide forecasts that are […]