The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (7011.T) are set to cooperate with the United States and Bill Gates’ venture company to build a high-tech nuclear Continue Reading
Indonesia, one of the world’s top exporters of thermal coal, is pausing exports of the fuel in January to secure dwindling supplies for domestic power plants. The monthlong halt is Continue Reading
Nature and geopolitics can interact in nasty ways. The historian Geoffrey Parker has argued that changing weather patterns drove war, revolution and upheaval during a long global crisis in the Continue Reading
Beijing’s commitment to step up purchases of U.S. goods and services under a 2020 trade pact expires Friday with China expected to miss its targets by a wide margin, creating Continue Reading
Chinese authorities have asked that state companies reduce their energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 2025 compared to 2020 levels as part of China’s plan to have its CO2 Continue Reading
Colorado Fires Spread and Burn Up to 1,000 Homes The infernos near Boulder, Colorado, destroyed as many as 1,000 homes, overwhelming firefighters as hurricane-force gusts propelled flames through suburban neighborhoods Continue Reading
Bad policy, complicated governance, and dense bureaucracy has made the entire electric grid of New England incredibly vulnerable to collapse. The region has shuttered nuclear plants, blocked pipeline expansions, and Continue Reading
The number of active drilling rigs in the United States remained unchanged this week, keeping the total rig count at 586, as oil prices remain relatively strong despite the fresh Continue Reading
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said the next few weeks would be difficult as the country headed into subdued New Year celebrations after registering 232,200 new COVID-19 cases over Continue Reading
Russia has overtaken Brazil to have the world’s second-highest death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic, behind the United States, data from Russia’s state statistics service and Reuters calculations showed on Continue Reading
A proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Germany is at the risk of never being built, with several headwinds having already prompted one of three backers to write down its Continue Reading
Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of Continue Reading
Olga Salo arrived for her first tactical military training exercise in a frosty pine forest outside Ukraine’s capital Kyiv wearing a pink ski jacket and dark blue jeans. On a Continue Reading
Brussels wants to recognize nuclear power and forms of natural gas as “green” activity as part of a landmark EU classification scheme to help financial markets decide what counts as Continue Reading
Rising power costs in Europe have resulted in reduced output at Europe’s largest aluminum smelter. Though many aluminum smelters operate on long-term power contracts, spot prices do impact costs for Continue Reading
Europe may be in the grips of an energy shortage and forced to reopen retired coal plants to cope but climate activists insist that it is time to part company Continue Reading
Highlights Revision from previous expectation of cold January weather European gas stock withdrawals slow on mild weather European gas prices continue to tumble from record highs Most of Europe is Continue Reading
