Oil & Gas
The EU wants to fight climate change – so why is it spending billions on a gas pipeline?
By Aled Jones
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February 15, 2018
By funding the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the European Investment Bank (EIB) is hardly signalling to the private sector that governments are committed to a green energy transition, writes Aled Jones, Professor and Director at the Global Sustainability Institute of  Anglia Ruskin University. Article courtesy The Conversation. (more…)
Energy storage does not always make the electric grid cleaner
By Naga Srujana Goteti
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February 13, 2018
Energy storage can help grids use more wind and solar power, but it does not always reduce carbon emissions, write Naga Srujana Goteti, Eric Hittinger and Eric Williams of the University of Rochester. In some cases, adding storage actually even increases carbon emissions. This happens when consumption is shifted to…
Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project gets €1.5bn public loan
By Karl Mathiesen
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February 7, 2018
TAP under construction in Greece (photo TAP) The European Investment Bank has approved a loan to the Southern Gas Corridor, in a move environmentalists described as a “historical mistake”, writes Karl Mathiesen of Climate Home News. The move brings the total public backing for Europe’s biggest…
New German government adopts coal phase-out in all but name
By Jon Berntsen
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February 6, 2018
The coalition accord between Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz includes an increase in the renewables target in the electricity mix from 50% to 65% by 2030. Jon Berntsen and Anders Nordeng of Thomson Reuters Point Carbon have analysed how this will impact the German energy sector and conclude that it…
The EU wants to fight climate change – so why is it spending billions on a gas pipeline?
By Aled Jones
|
February 15, 2018
By funding the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the European Investment Bank (EIB) is hardly signalling to the private sector that governments are committed to a green energy transition, writes Aled Jones, Professor and Director at the Global Sustainability Institute of  Anglia Ruskin University. Article courtesy The Conversation. (more…)
Energy storage does not always make the electric grid cleaner
By Naga Srujana Goteti
|
February 13, 2018
Energy storage can help grids use more wind and solar power, but it does not always reduce carbon emissions, write Naga Srujana Goteti, Eric Hittinger and Eric Williams of the University of Rochester. In some cases, adding storage actually even increases carbon emissions. This happens when consumption is shifted to…
Europe’s biggest fossil fuel project gets €1.5bn public loan
By Karl Mathiesen
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February 7, 2018
TAP under construction in Greece (photo TAP) The European Investment Bank has approved a loan to the Southern Gas Corridor, in a move environmentalists described as a “historical mistake”, writes Karl Mathiesen of Climate Home News. The move brings the total public backing for Europe’s biggest…
New German government adopts coal phase-out in all but name
By Jon Berntsen
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February 6, 2018
The coalition accord between Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz includes an increase in the renewables target in the electricity mix from 50% to 65% by 2030. Jon Berntsen and Anders Nordeng of Thomson Reuters Point Carbon have analysed how this will impact the German energy sector and conclude that it…
Russia starts LNG exports from Yamal – what it means for Europe
By Anna Mikulska
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January 22, 2018
utin at opening ceremony Yamal LNG project Russian company Novatek has started exporting LNG from Yamal in the Arctic. It is in many ways a game-changing project, writes Anna Mikulska of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy…
New NASA study underscores urgency of solving the global methane problem
By David Lyon
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January 17, 2018
flaring gas in North Dakota A new NASA study suggests methane emissions from fossil fuels may be responsible for half of the recent rise in global atmospheric methane concentrations, writes David Lyon of EDF Energy Exchange. He adds that reducing worldwide emissions of methane by the…
Can the U.S. compete in the electric car war?
By Leonard Hyman
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January 15, 2018
BYD expects 5 million EVs on Chinese roads by 2020 The U.S. needs a coherent, unified energy policy with respect to vehicle electrification and automation if it wants to keep up with China, write Leonard Hyman and William Tilles. U.S. and European auto manufacturers have equal…
Will China’s Belt and Road Initiative help or hinder clean energy?
By Sonia Aggarwal
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January 12, 2018
Leaders at Belt and Road forum, May 2017 China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the broad infrastructure and market-building initiative of the world’s second-largest economy, has a different feel than trade agreements initiated in the West – and it could have major implications for the future of…