Energy Shocks

Across Africa, electricity is a luxury afforded almost exclusively by the affluent. About 600 million poor or rural people—or two in three Africans—do not have…

Utilities are not like most businesses. They place 30-year wagers on the way we will generate and consume electricity to ensure there’s a reliable supply…

Swedish lawmakers, by an overwhelming majority vote (254 against 41), have bound the country to reach net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2045. Only one out of…

Welcome (back) to the electric era. In 1900, a third of the cars on the roads in New York City, Boston, and Chicago were electric.…

In an era where every country in the world—apart from the US, Syria, and Nicaragua—is bound by commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, it should be…

The world has never produced more electricity from wind, and each year the records keep tumbling as the technology to create bigger and bigger wind…

Our relationship with fossil fuels is like a lot of dysfunctional romances. It’s destructive, and we know it. But it seems so totally bound up…

First it was a strong handshake. Now it is a policy rebuke. France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, is relentless in his efforts to one-up his…

By the time he finished high school in the 1980s, Sumant Sinha thought he knew what he wanted to do in life. Like his father…

Update: Musk confirmed on June 1 that he would be leaving the White House’s business advisory councils following Trump’s rejection of the Paris Climate Agreement.…

To stay sane, environmental activists have to live by the mantra, “you win some, you lose some.” Earlier today (May 31), Reuters and Axios both…

Two news organizations are reporting that US president Donald Trump has decided to pull out of the Paris climate agreement. Both Axios and Reuters cite…