• Opinion

  US residential solar: why is customer acquisition still so costly?

  • 02 11月 2021

  US residential solar customer acquisition costs remain high. How will installers evolve their strategies to meet rising demand while scaling their business sustainably?

• Partnered

  ESS-SoftBank battery deal heralds a new Iron Age

  • 08 10月 2021

  SB Energy, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of SoftBank, has confirmed a record purchase of long-duration iron flow batteries from U.S. manufacturer ESS.

• Opinion

  The disappointment and ambition of the US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

  • 11 10月 2021

  Can the infrastructure bill create opportunities for EV infrastructure, grid resilience and transmission? The electricity industry remains unsure.

• Opinion

  Oil recovery shows demand is still on a rising trend

  • 08 10月 2021

  When consumption plunged as the pandemic hit, there were claims that the world had passed Peak Demand for oil. As demand rebounds, those claims are set to be refuted and the price has jumped heavily for oil, gas and coal.

• Editorial

  What does an accelerated energy transition mean for retail energy?

  • 20 9月 2021

  A look into the benefits and drawbacks the industry is facing

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: A new era for climate-focused venture capital

  • 19 7月 2021

  During the height of the pandemic in 2020, venture capital poured into climate technologies at rec...

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Extreme weather keeps maxing out the grid

  • 09 7月 2021

  It’s been a very intense year for America’s power grid. Across the country, the electricity system...

• Opinion

  Trading further-out futures: tackling renewable-fuelled congestion

  • 06 9月 2021

  High renewable penetration and transmission congestion are shifting power trading dynamics in the US.

• Opinion

  US renewables project finance: five things to know

  • 08 9月 2021

  From ESG to tax equity, we look at the market and policy factors that could have an impact on the financing of clean energy projects in the US over the next few years.

• Opinion

  The slow recovery after Hurricane Ida

  • 10 9月 2021

  Hurricanes are a fact of life in the Gulf of Mexico, and the energy industry has many decades of experience in managing the risks. But Hurricane Ida has been one of the most disruptive in recent years, and about 1.5 million barrels per day of US oil production is still offline. Increased rainfall and potentially higher wind speeds in future could further complicate the challenge of resilience.

• Opinion

  Will the US gas market be a tricky balancing act this winter?

  • 11 8月 2021

  Rallying prices underscore the delicate supply-demand balance in an increasingly global market

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: a breakthrough in the energy game

  • 06 12月 2021

  NET Power's zero-emission, low-cost electricity, delivered to the grid from natural-gas fuelled technology. A wright-brothers first flight kind of breakthrough in energy?

• Opinion

  Learning the right lessons from the Texas crisis

  • 03 12月 2021

  The blackouts raise important questions about investment, innovation and electricity market design, as the share of variable renewable generation on the grid increases.

• Opinion

  What does the global push for electrification mean for the grid edge?

  • 30 11月 2021

  A preview of the Wood Mackenzie Grid Edge Innovation Series, sharing market insight and exploring the huge potential of technologies and tools at the grid edge.

• Featured

  Exploration under the microscope in 2022

  • 13 12月 2021

  What lies ahead for oil and gas exploration? As investors and activists ask how the search for new fields squares with the need to accelerate the energy transition, our experts pick out five key themes to look for in 2022.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The hidden science behind decarbonizing buildings

  • 30 9月 2021

  All around us, hidden inside our buildings, are a series of choices and tradeoffs – choices w...

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Where will DOE’s loan program make the next climate tech investments

  • 21 10月 2021

  The U.S. Department of Energy is crucial for funding, researching, and testing emerging energ...

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: what the US can learn from Australia with renewables

  • 23 12月 2021

  Hitachi Energy has played an integral role in helping Australia increase the amount of energy generated by renewables with huge updates of distributed solar for both the National Electricity Market and the Western Australia Electricity Market.

• Opinion

  ExxonMobil sets a net zero emissions goal

  • 21 1月 2022

  Over the past decade, the European and US oil and gas Majors have chosen divergent strategic directions. The European companies have set more ambitious goals for emissions reduction, and moved faster to diversify into low-carbon energy sources. Recently, however, that gap has begun to close.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The European energy crisis – a failure of policy?

  • 29 7月 2022

  Host Ed Crooks is joined by regular contributor Amy Myers Jaffe from the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University, and a new voice on the Energy Gang, Vicky Bailey, founder of Anderson Stratton Enterprises.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: the present and future of California’s electricity grid

  • 01 7月 2022

  The Energy Gang welcomes Elliot Mainzer, the President and CEO of the California Independent System Operator. Regular Melissa Lott also joins Ed Crooks to examine the current state of the power grid in California and how it’s faring in the energy transition.

• Opinion

  US fuel taxes are not a key factor for prices

  • 24 6月 2022

  The Biden administration’s proposed gasoline tax holiday is an ineffective instrument for cutting fuel prices. Changes in the global supply / demand balance have much more impact.

• Opinion

  Anticircumvention investigation paralyses US solar

  • 08 6月 2022

  Shipments of equipment from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam have virtually stopped. Development activity has stalled for most of the industry. What are the impacts of the anticircumvention investigation on each segment of the industry?

• Opinion

  Can the US make the switch to electric heavy-duty trucks?

  • 11 5月 2022

  The transition to heavy-duty vehicle electrification could be accelerating.

• Opinion

  Why the US oil industry could call for a carbon tax

  • 29 4月 2022

  Carbon pricing can offer a simpler and more transparent way to set incentives to cut emissions.

• Opinion

  US utility-scale solar: will policy power a rebound?

  • 19 4月 2022

  Total forecasted buildout of US utility-scale solar is expected to reach 172 GW by 2027 – if the climate provisions in the Build Back Better Act are passed later this year.

• Opinion

  Is the end of high US solar system prices in sight?

  • 13 4月 2022

  System prices remain high as supply chain constraints and policy uncertainties create a high-risk environment for US solar PV development.

• Opinion

  Competition heats up for the top three US residential solar installers

  • 29 3月 2022

  Impressive growth and market consolidation amid the top five US solar players could threaten Sunrun’s dominance in 2022.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: The IPCC climate report uncovered

  • 25 3月 2022

  The gang explores how major US companies may be required to report climate risks and emissions, Canada's new emissions reduction plan and the new IPCC report.

• Opinion

  The Energy Gang podcast: Lessons from the Texas power crisis

  • 25 2月 2022

  Ed Crooks is joined by Emily Chasan and Joshua Rhodes to discuss the Texas Blackouts and how to avoid it happening again, the situation in Eastern Europe and how the current conflict affects the net-zero pledges made at COP26.