Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election will trigger a race among journalists, analysts and traders to explain what it means for energy policy and markets. But the president-elect does not yet have clearly formed policies on most energy issues so the implications will become clear only in the weeks and months ahead as he starts to build an administration. Energy analysts tend to make the mistake of assuming that everyone thinks about the detail of energy policy as much as they do themselves. Trump’s energy-related policies are probably not even known in detail to the president-elect himself – much less knowable by anyone else. In contrast to his rival Hillary Clinton, who conducted a classic programmatic campaign, accompanied by highly detailed energy policies, Trump mounted a […]