IEA’s Birol: The recent price spikes in natural gas did not get good marks from millions of consumers around the world Strikes at energy exporters—and Russia—have become something of a regular occurrence for Birol Birol: Europe’s energy crisis has nothing to do with the transition to renewable energy “The deliberate policies of energy producers” are to blame for the soaring gas and electricity prices in Europe, the head of the International Energy Agency said at an industry event this week, in yet another lash-out at fossil fuel producers generally and Russia specifically. Also, not for the first time, the IEA’s Fatih Birol made a point of saying Europe’s energy crisis had nothing to do with the transition to renewable energy. As before, Birol gave no explanation as to why he believed the crisis had nothing to do with the shift to renewables. It was “wrong,” he said as quoted […]