Klimaat en Energie – BL

The value of energy trade between the United States and Canada fell by 11% in 2025 to an estimated $137 billion, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Energy trade value is the total value of energy imports and exports between two countries and is driven by commodity volumes... Read more »

In the second quarter of 2026 (2Q26), 24% of new light-duty vehicles sold in the United States were hybrid electric, battery electric, or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, up from 22% in 2Q25. Between 2Q25 and 2Q26, hybrid electric vehicles continued to gain market share, reaching a record 16% of light-duty... Read more »

Energia Costa Azul, the second liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Mexico, shipped its initial cargo from Phase 1 of the terminal on July 8, according to the project developer. The completion of the project adds 0.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of nominal export capacity from a... Read more »

For the week ending July 17, 2026, commercial crude oil inventories (excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased 2.0 million barrels to 411.7 million barrels, 6% below the previous five-year (2021–2025) average. Gasoline inventories increased 0.8 million barrels, 7% below the five-year average. Distillate inventories increased 1.4 million barrels, 10% below... Read more »

On July 3, 2026, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) imported 52 gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity from Canada, the most traded between the two areas since January 2025. Some of the imported electricity flowed along the new Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) transmission line between Quebec, Canada, and New... Read more »

Crude oil inventories held at storage facilities in Cushing, Oklahoma, fell below 20 million barrels during the week ending June 19 until the week ending July 10, according to our Weekly Petroleum Status Report.... Read more »

Petroleum markets in the second quarter of 2026 (2Q26) were characterized by continued disruptions to international crude oil and petroleum product flows through the Strait of Hormuz, contributing to higher and more volatile crude oil prices through most of the quarter. The disruptions also resulted in international buyers seeking alternative... Read more »

Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade volumes increased 5.4% to a record 56.3 billion cubic feet per day last year (Bcf/d), driven largely by U.S. LNG export capacity expanding to meet growing demand, according to a recent report from the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (GIIGNL). Global LNG... Read more »

The United States remained the world's largest crude oil producer in 2025, according to our International Energy Statistics database, extending a streak that began in 2018 when the United States overtook Russia to become the world's leading producer.... Read more »

U.S. petroleum exports reached a record in April as disruptions to international crude oil and refined product flows through the Strait of Hormuz increased global demand for U.S. exports. Exports increased to 13.6 million barrels per day (b/d) in April, 15% more than the previous record set in March.... Read more »

Over the 250-year history of our nation, energy consumption has evolved from wood use in the 18th and 19th centuries to today's use of modern renewable, hydrocarbon, and nuclear technology. In 2025, total energy used in the United States was 96 quadrillion British thermal units (quads), up 2% from 2024,... Read more »

U.S. operable atmospheric distillation capacity, the primary measure of refinery capacity, totaled 18.2 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd) on January 1, 2026-down over 250,000 b/cd (about 1%) compared with January 1, 2025-according to our latest annual Refinery Capacity Report.... Read more »

An increase in electricity generation from small-scale solar in New York has decreased the midday demand for metered electricity, amid overall declining load in the state. The trend is particularly notable in the early spring (March and April), when solar generation has an outsized impact because demand is relatively low... Read more »

For the week ending June 19, 2026, U.S. refineries processed 17.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil, down 81,000 b/d from the previous week, and they operated at 96.1% capacity utilization. Gasoline production averaged 9.5 million b/d, and distillate production increased to 5.2 million b/d.... Read more »

Centralized giants, disrupted by small, cheap, networked technology. Telephones, computers — and now electricity: the same story is playing out again. The post Energy is following the path of computing appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

The world’s first large power plant at Niagara Falls solved a problem that, a few years later, helped the Wright brothers leave the ground. A story about how one breakthrough quietly unlocks the next. The post How Niagara Falls led to the first airplane appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

How a feud between Thomas Edison, his protege Sam Insull, and rival George Westinghouse created the electric utility — and the century-old monopoly model local energy is now disrupting. The post Edison, Insull, and Westinghouse: the war that built the grid appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

In this remarkably candid and personal discussion, Bill shares several stories publicly for the first time. The post Greg Robinson, host of the World Changing Podcast, interviews Bill about his journey into clean energy appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

Freeing Energy dives deeply into the lessons from computer history and their application to energy. The post How the History of Computers Predicts the Future of Energy: Bill Shares Research from Freeing Energy at the Computer Museum of America appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

FREYR may not be a household name in the US but their CEO is delivering on his vision to make the most efficient and most environmentally responsible battery plant in the US. The post Podcast 99: Tom Jensen of FREYR Battery – From Giga Arctic to Giga Americas, the most... Read more »

Forbes Magazine explores the role of innovation in the century-old electric power industry. The post Forbes Magazine interviews Bill Nussey about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and how local energy is reshaping the century-old grid appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

Michael Gale interviews Bill Nussey about "Breaking the Gordian Knot of energy thinking by 2035" The post Forbes’ Futures in Focus podcast host Michael Gale interviews Bill Nussey about the Inflation Reduction Act and the unstoppable economics of local energy appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

John Berger and Michael Grasso of Sunnova share their vision for solar+battery neighborhoods and why California's state regulators are dragging their feet The post Podcast 98: John Berger and Michael Grasso: Sunnova wants to build a ground breaking local energy powered neighborhood and that is rattling cages. Will regulators let... Read more »

In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling exposed a single hydrated DNA fibre to an X-ray beam for 62 hours in a basement at King's College London. The resulting Photo 51 showed the helix so clearly that its geometry could be read straight off the plate — months before... Read more »

Reports of a Swiss materials lab's prototype jacket that harvests close to a litre of drinking water per day from ambient humidity sit on top of a decade of peer-reviewed work on passive sorbent hydrogels — including an MIT panel that produced up to 161.5 millilitres a day in Death... Read more »

Across 8,890 square kilometres of Maasai rangeland in Kenya and Tanzania, communities have replaced fences with living-tree enclosures, rapid-response conflict teams and planned grazing — and predator attacks fell 42 percent while household incomes rose. The post What happened when pastoral communities across 8,890 square kilometres changed how they lived... Read more »

Pando, a single quaking aspen colony in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, covers 106 acres as roughly 47,000 genetically identical trunks sharing one root system — and at an estimated 6,000 tons, it is the heaviest living organism ever measured. The post How does a single tree colony in the American... Read more »

On 29 April 2020, a single continuous lightning flash stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in under seven seconds — the longest bolt ever recorded, and only visible because a new satellite instrument was watching. The post A single lightning flash in April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres across... Read more »

A 4.5-millimetre jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii responds to injury or starvation by collapsing into a cyst and reorganising itself back into a polyp — the juvenile stage it left behind — through a cellular process called transdifferentiation. Captive colonies have been observed cycling through this reset up to ten times... Read more »

Cymothoa exigua, a small marine crustacean, enters fish through the gills, severs the tongue, and attaches to the stump — where it functions as a working replacement organ for the rest of the fish's life. It is the only parasite known to do this. The post A tiny crustacean called... Read more »

South Korea reforested about 63% of its land area in four decades after the Korean War left its hills bare, planting roughly 11 billion trees — but the biodiversity ledger is more complicated than the satellite maps suggest. The post What happened when a war-flattened Asian peninsula with bare, eroding... Read more »

The 500-millilitre-per-query figure for ChatGPT comes from a 2024 UC Riverside and Washington Post collaboration, and training a single large model can evaporate 5.4 million gallons — enough drinking water for 300,000 people for a day. The fight over that number is now a projected $58 billion US infrastructure problem.... Read more »

Türkiye's solar additions from the first half of the year take total capacity to around 26.9 GW. The number of solar plants in the country now exceeds 41,000, up from around 37,600 at the start of the year. The post Türkiye adds 2.1 GW of solar in H1 appeared first... Read more »

Indonesia’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bahlil Lahadalia, says a groundbreaking ceremony will soon take place for the first phase of the country’s flagship 100 GW solar program. The post Indonesia signals start of 100 GW solar initiative appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

Colombia's Ministry of Mines and Energy awarded contracts for around 270 MW of new solar tied to 100 MW of battery energy storage in the first round of its long-term clean energy auction. The 15-year contracts begin supplying electricity in 2030. The post Colombia awards 270 MW of solar, 100... Read more »

The government of Jordan has announced the completion of the first phase of a project aiming to deploy solar-powered water heating systems at 33 hospitals in total. The post Jordan installs solar-powered water heating systems at nine hospitals appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

Uruguay is planning to deploy an additional 500 MW of new renewables before the end of the current administration in February 2030. The plan includes four new solar projects, two of which have already been identified. The post Uruguay plans 500 MW of new renewables by 2030 appeared first on... Read more »

A tender is open in Bangladesh for the design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of a 220 MW solar project. Bids must be delivered by September 15. The post Bangladesh opens bids for 220 MW solar project appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

The Berlin-based company says it intends to focus on its core sales locations in Munich, Essen and Berlin. The closure sees more than 80 sales staff laid off. The post Germany’s Enpal closes its Hamburg sales office appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

Tesla will buy around 1 TWh per year of electricity from ContourGlobal’s hybrid solar and storage project in the US state of Arizona, which is due to begin commercial operations in 2028. The post Tesla, ContourGlobal enter 1 TWh solar-storage PPA in Arizona appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

Researchers in China developed a four-terminal perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cell using bis(2-pyridylmethyl) sulfide (2PyS) coordination engineering to improve wide-bandgap perovskite stability by suppressing defects, halide migration, and phase segregation. The post Chinese researchers build 29.71% perovskite-CIGS tandem solar cell based on sulfide appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

By Olivia Rosane and Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Quick Key Facts What Is Methane? What has no color or smell and is found in wetlands, cow burps and your basement furnace? The answer is methane — a powerful greenhouse gas that is the second most important contributor to the climate crisis... Read more »

New York is now the first state in the U.S. to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas, the New York State Assembly reported. The rule was initially passed in 2023 as the All-Electric Buildings Act and was finalized with the State... Read more »

A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024. In January 2024, researchers found hundreds of dead or dying monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where Western monarch butterflies typically overwinter. As... Read more »

Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level. The new study revealed it is the deepest colony of animals ever observed. “Hadal trenches, some of the Earth’s least explored and understood environments, have long been proposed... Read more »

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to many species of rare and endangered wildlife, such as mountain gorillas, eastern lowland gorillas and bonobos. But the country has plans to open more than half its land — including 306 million acres of intact tropical forest and vital gorilla... Read more »

World hunger fell overall last year, but continued to rise in most of Africa and western Asia, according to a new report — The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) — published by five specialized UN agencies and released Monday by the Food and Agriculture Organization... Read more »

A beneficial bacterial probiotic is restoring hope for mitigating disease spread in corals off the coast of Florida. In a new study, scientists have investigated the effectiveness of a compound produced by the probiotic strain MCH1-7 for combating the deadly stony coral tissue loss disease. MCH1-7 was first uncovered by... Read more »

Earth Overshoot Day is the point in the year when human demand for materials obtained from nature exceeds what the Earth can naturally regenerate in one year. For 2025, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 24, the earliest it has been since the event was first calculated in 2006. The... Read more »

The underground fungi networks that help sustain Earth’s ecosystems are in need of urgent conservation action, according to researchers from the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). The scientists found that 90 percent of mycorrhizal fungi biodiversity hotspots were located in unprotected ecosystems, the loss of which could... Read more »

Australia's longest-serving energy minister, has called time on her career with the Victorian Labor party, advising her new boss she will not re-contest at the November election and will quit cabinet. The post Australia’s longest serving energy minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, resigns amid state political turmoil appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

Australian researchers say a new floating wind turbine design is much cheaper than bigger machines and could be useful for offshore industries who need a power source. The post Australian researchers say new floating turbine design could cut costs by 40 pct, but only for small machines appeared first on... Read more »

There was likely a lot of talk going on at the ACES summit in Sydney this week. Talk is about all the industry does these days and the Summit is no doubt a good place to do it.  The post The wind drought that no one wants but everyone talks... Read more »

Home battery capacity has overtaken grid-scale batteries, thanks to the federal rebate, and both have helped flatten the price curve as they meet evening peaks. The post Home batteries have overtaken capacity of grid-scale batteries after rebate bonanza, and reshaped the market appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

One of the biggest batteries operating in South Australia has been sitting idle for nearly a month following the decision to seek voluntary administration of its owner. The post One of state’s biggest batteries sits idle after owner sent into administration appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

If the renewable energy sector wants to replace gas and coal, it needs to fight fossil fuel-funded disinformation, an outgoing senator says. The post “We’ve got to fight back:” Energy industry urged to step up against fossil-funded disinformation appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

The quest for ultra-low cost solar is now far more dependent on cheaper construction methods and system integration rather than lower-priced cells and modules. The post Australia’s quest for ultra-low cost solar now depends on robots and drones, rather than cheaper panels appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

State signs off on one of its "most important energy projects" – a 110 km new transmission link that will close a critical gap in a still coal-dominated grid. The post State greenlights new transmission “backbone” for coal country, to help keep lights on as plants retire appeared first on... Read more »

Australia has a time-critical opportunity to position itself in low and zero-emissions steel industry, secure manufacturing and build a future made in Australia.  The post Green iron is Australia’s largest opportunity for future economic prosperity. Green steel is the way in appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »