Energy Shocks

We live in the most turbulent period of energy-driven disruption since John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil. At stake are today's geopolitical power balance, future environmental stability, and fortunes lost and made. We follow the trends from traditional fossil fuels through to new energy technologies, extreme weather, and the personalities driving events.

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India’s booming solar sector has one major flaw: poor quality

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BLOCK AND TACKLE

India just pushed its booming solar industry into chaos

The biodigesters in Hanoi used to turn pig wastes into methane gas.

Vietnam is reducing carbon emissions by transforming pig waste into energy

Earth Day 2018 sand sculpture on the banks of the river Yamuna in Allahabad, India.

Kids around the world are suing governments over climate change—and it’s working

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THERMAL AND A QUARTER

Costly coal has pushed Karnataka to become India’s renewables leader

Thieves made off with $10 million worth of cobalt in a warehouse heist

MASKED PROBLEMS

China has a new air-pollution crisis in ozone

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Tech startups are helping India’s creaky power sector cope with the renewable energy boom

UNRULY BREAKFAST

Trump brands Germany a “captive of Russia,” days before he meets Putin

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India’s investments in renewable energy are growing faster than even China’s