The attack on the Abqaiq oil facilities in Saudi Arabia has sparked geopolitical tensions but has had only a minor impact on oil prices.
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Energy-wise, the fallout from the attack on Saudi oil facilities has so far been very muted. The surge in oil production in the US over the past decade helps explain why.
Solid waste in Mulago, Kampala, 2010. The city’s residents have found ways to recycle waste into energy.
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Residents have come up with solutions to make usable products out of organic waste materials.
Free competition is supposed to give customers the best deal – but that’s not happening in Victoria.
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‘Switchers’ who change their energy retailers often are following accepted wisdom, but research shows it saves them far less than expected.
Australia’s energy market has a logjam,
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The likelihood of half of Victoria being plunged into blackout are low – but the question reveals growing tension between the energy market and its regulators.
In the absence of federal policy, states are pursing their own renewable targets.
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State renewable energy targets have been driving energy investment in Australia. ‘Where and when’ the generation and transmission build occurs varies substantially under a national approach.
The laws of physics are on display at the Daytona International Speedway.
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High speeds, the threat of dangerous crashes, the excitement of the crowd – and the laws of physics on full display. A physicist explains the science of NASCAR.
Only more gas and less demand will shift gas prices. There’s only so much the government can do.
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Only an optimist would expect prices to fall after a series of announcements, some of which are to “consider” doing something.
Australia’s stable geography is suitable for below-ground nuclear storage.
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There’s precious little business case for nuclear power in Australia, but we could start with the end product: storing radioactive waste.
Industrial users of gas have brought the energy regulator’s methodology under the scrutiny of the courts.
South African courts have been reluctant ‘to step into the shoes of the regulator’. But the confirmation by the Constitutional Court of the ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal has changed all that.
Demand response sounds good, but is punishingly difficult to execute.
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Proposed rules for managing energy demand could potentially lower prices and reduce blackout risk, but there are reasons to be skeptical.
A rig off the coast of Cyprus explores the region’s gas potential.
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Russia’s influential position as Europe’s main supplier of natural gas is under threat from new discoveries.
Steam rises from Neurath coal-fired power plant near Cologne, Germany. May 2 2019.
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A new study lays out what must happen immediately for any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
Aerial view of Kariba dam.
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Zimbabwe has a severe energy crisis because its major sources of electricity are struggling to keep up with demand.
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Electricity consumption will grow as more people switch to electric cars – but this could drive up emissions, unless power is sourced from renewables.
Solar has lit up remote communities. The next step is to link these communities to an energy market.
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South Africa could become a test bed of technologies that enable households, especially in remote areas, to join electricity trading markets.
Outside a coal burning power station in Witbank. Companies will now pay each time they emit a ton of greenhouse gases.
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South Africa will introduce the carbon tax which should be used to ensure benefits to poor communities.
Electric cars charging on Hainan Island, China.
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When it comes to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from transport, the future is already here on small islands.
It’s a 50km long patch in the middle of Queensland that’s causing a lot of trouble, but many people couldn’t even point it out on a map.
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Everything you need to know – where it is, the environmental impact, Indigenous land rights issues and actual profitability – of the Adani Carmichael coal mine in one simple interactive.
There is a lack of discernment in reporting research results on carbon reduction targets.
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Transitioning to renewable energy will cost us something, but the benefits far outweigh the price.
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Labor’s policies have to get a lot more ambitious if they want to see real reductions in emissions.