Klimaat en Energie – BL

The price of distillate fuel oil, often sold as diesel, is driven by the price of crude oil, retail margins, distribution costs, taxes, and crack spreads, the indicator we use for refining margins. Tight global supplies of distillate fuel oil and elevated crude oil prices have driven prices higher in... Read more »

On August 28, 2026, Cheniere Energy, Inc., completed its Corpus Christi Liquefaction Stage 3 Project (CCL Stage 3) in Texas, taking custody and control of the seventh and last liquefied natural gas (LNG) train in the project.... Read more »

We forecast U.S. crude oil production will average 13.8 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2026, surpassing the previous record of 13.7 million b/d set in 2025, in our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).... Read more »

Low-cost Appalachian and Canadian natural gas supplies coupled with lower-than-usual regional consumption have pushed down natural gas prices at a major New England pricing hub in recent months to trade at a discount to the widely cited U.S. benchmark, Henry Hub.... Read more »

What are crack spreads and why are they elevated? Crack spreads are indicators of the profitability of refining crude oil into petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel. One common crack spread is calculated by subtracting the spot market price of a gallon of crude oil from the wholesale price... Read more »

Sustained high temperatures have contributed to persistently high electricity demand in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the regional transmission organization for most of the state.... Read more »

U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports averaged 17.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in the first six months of the year, 23% more than the same period in 2025, according to our Natural Gas Monthly. In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, we estimate U.S. LNG exports will average 17.3... Read more »

In 2025, uranium concentrate production in the United States totaled 2.1 million pounds of triuranium octoxide (U3O8), the base component of nuclear reactor fuel. U.S. U3O8 production in 2025 was the most since 2017 and more than triple the volume produced in 2024.... Read more »

In the 2026 release of our Liquids Pipeline Projects Database, we tracked the completion of 8 liquid fuels pipeline projects since the start of 2025, and an additional 14 new projects have been announced.... Read more »

Seaborne petroleum product exports from Nigeria have grown seven-fold since 2023, playing an increasing role in the international market for petroleum products at a time when supplies from other areas have been constrained.... Read more »

Well operators in the Permian region of western Texas and eastern New Mexico are getting more oil and gas out of the ground by drilling longer, horizontal wells and increasingly incorporating so-called super-lateral wells that exceed 15,000 feet.... Read more »

Waterborne shipments of crude oil and petroleum products from the U.S. Gulf Coast (PADD 3) to the West Coast (PADD 5) more than quadrupled year-on-year in April and May following a waiver that permitted a broader group of ships to travel between U.S. ports. Shipments from the U.S. Gulf Coast... Read more »

We forecast U.S. marketed natural gas production will average 122.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2026, surpassing the previous record of 118.5 Bcf/d set in 2025, in our August 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).... Read more »

In 2025, customers in Puerto Rico experienced an average of 36 hours of power interruptions that were not caused by major events such as hurricanes, 19% more than in 2024. On average, between 2021 and 2025, Puerto Rican customers experience 29 hours of power loss each year. By comparison, electricity... Read more »

At Atlanta Tech Week I made the case that $4.6 trillion of energy tech investment is already contracted, that Georgia is one of the few places that can invent, launch, fund, manufacture, and deploy all five, and that our most underrated asset is a room full of Fortune 500s that... Read more »

At the RoboGeorgia Summit I argued the bottleneck in physical AI is not compute, it is judgment and dexterity. And that Georgia, with more kinds of real-world deployment sites than almost anywhere, is where that gap gets closed. The post When will my robot fold my laundry? My RoboGeorgia 2026... Read more »

Centralized giants, disrupted by small, cheap, networked technology. Telephones, computers — and now electricity: the same story is playing out again. The post To be written – 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 To be written – How the first, biggest hydropower plant at Niagara Falls enabled... 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 To be written – Edison, Insull, and Westinghouse: the war that built the grid appeared first on Freeing Energy.... Read more »

Harvard Business School asked me where the electricity to run the AI boom is going to come from. My answer: the alarm is warranted, the pessimism is not. The post Harvard Business School interviews Bill Nussey on the real future of AI data centers 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 »

NASA's Voyager 1, launched September 5, 1977, carries a gold-plated copper record designed to survive a billion years — a message for a reader it will not reach for 40,000 years. The post In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 carrying a gold-plated copper record with a one-billion-year lifespan, holding greetings... Read more »

Carl Jung's famous line about becoming who you truly are is usually read as a permission slip for self-expression. His actual meaning was closer to a reckoning: the slow work of integrating the parts of yourself you have spent decades avoiding. The post The quote everyone attributes to Carl Jung:... Read more »

The most competent person in the office is often the most quietly resentful, and the reason is structural rather than personal. Being good at your job produces more work, not more freedom, and the moment you notice the pattern is the moment it starts to change. The post Nobody talks... Read more »

Pronghorn eyes sweep a field of view approaching 360 degrees and register movement across miles of Wyoming sagebrush — a sensory system calibrated for predators that went extinct 12,000 years ago. The post Pronghorn have nearly 360-degree vision and can spot movement up to four miles away across Wyoming sagebrush... Read more »

A Mars-bound spacecraft endures a 500-degree temperature gap across its own hull at every second of cruise — and the foil, aerogel and plutonium pellets that hold it together. The post A cruising Mars spacecraft has to manage extreme heat and cold on the same flight appeared first on Energy... Read more »

Yuri Gagarin's single 90-minute orbit on 12 April 1961 opened a ledger that reached 600 humans by November 2021 — more than twenty times the count of people who have ever reached the deepest point of the ocean. The post On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin completed a single 90-minute... Read more »

The CROZEX cruise measured carbon sinking three kilometres beneath the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean and found that naturally iron-fertilised waters exported roughly two to three times more carbon than adjacent iron-starved patches — a natural experiment that anchors modern debates over ocean iron fertilisation. The post A CROZEX study in the... Read more »

Marie Curie is still the only person ever awarded Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911 — a feat unmatched despite four other scientists collecting second prizes of their own since. The post Marie Curie remains the only person ever to win Nobel... Read more »

In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote proved that carbon dioxide traps heat using two glass cylinders and a thermometer — the first known experimental demonstration of the greenhouse effect, published three years before John Tyndall received credit for the same discovery. The post In 1856, an American scientist named Eunice Newton... Read more »

Financial commitment for battery energy storage systems (BESS) nears approval in a bid to further cut overcapacity in Great Britain’s connection queue. Despite recent grid connection reform efforts, the connection queue is still more than double what’s needed for 2030 targets. The post UK regulator plans BESS fees to cut... Read more »

A 7-0 vote by Lamar Consolidated Independent School District approves property tax incentives for Project Crystal Sun, advancing plans for a vertically integrated solar cell and module facility in Fort Bend County. The post Tesla’s $10.1 billion Texas solar gigafactory clears key tax hurdle appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

Brazil’s PV module imports fell 48% year on year to 5.48 GW in the first half of 2026, driven by an 82% decline in demand from utility-scale projects amid widespread curtailment. Distributed generation imports fell 39%, while average module prices rose 12.9% following China’s phaseout of a 9% export incentive.... Read more »

Grid operator Eon Edis has withdrawn previously agreed import capacity for a newly opened 69 MW solar-plus-storage plant in northeastern Germany, limiting its 76.5 MWh battery to storing only power generated on-site. The post German grid operator dispute limits battery use at new solar-storage hybrid plant appeared first on pv... Read more »

The chemical industry requires enormous amounts of hydrogen for a wide range of products and processes. In the final part of pv magazine's Renewables 24/7 series, we head to the world’s largest chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, BASF and Siemens Energy are demonstrating how to integrate a green electricity-powered electrolyzer... Read more »

Germany’s PV sector remains buoyant in 2026, but regulatory uncertainty and tighter financing conditions are raising fears of a downturn. Without transitional measures, proposed limits on grid feed-in could trigger widespread insolvencies and a sharp market contraction in 2027. The post Regulatory uncertainty threatens to slow German PV deployment in... Read more »

The five-year agreement includes 16 GWh of committed deliveries for 2027 and 190 GWh of reserved capacity thereafter. The post EVE Energy signs 206 GWh battery framework with US storage supplier Fluence appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

In other news, Power to Hydrogen started green hydrogen production in Antwerp, while Dongfeng unveiled three hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles in Hannover. Moreover, Denmark opened the EU’s first full-scale CO₂ storage site, and H2 Mobility began trial operations at a hydrogen refueling station at Hannover Airport. The post The Hydrogen Stream:... Read more »

TSE’s agrivoltaic trials in France recorded barley yields of up to 96% of those in a control plot and reduced seasonal evapotranspiration by 20%. At a separate site, maize yield beneath the canopy was 19.6% higher during exceptionally hot and dry conditions. The post French agrivoltaic trials cut water loss,... 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 »

Renewables met more than 80 per cent of total grid demand for first time on Saturday, and might have met more than 100 pct were it not for heavy curtailment of wind and solar. The post Renewables hit more than 80 pct of grid demand for first time – despite... Read more »

A new Consumer Energy Resources Technical Code will define the standards and capabilities required of regulated products such as EVs, batteries and PV. The post Explainer: Who will set Australia’s rules for home energy devices such as solar, plug-in batteries and EVs? appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

Australian businesses looking to ditch gas and diesel can do the sums, find electrification will save them money, and then run smack into trying to connect to the electricity grid. The post Businesses “do the math” and want to go electric – right up until they try to connect to... Read more »

An abundance of rooftop solar generation has helped set a new record high for the total share of renewables on Australia's main grid, reaching nearly 80 per cent on a sunny Friday afternoon in Spring. The post Wind and solar hit record share of Australia’s main grid, nearly half of... Read more »

Windlab's John Martin on the project that broke the investment drought for big wind, and what makes the sector so hard. Plus: Victoria's disarray, EV milestones, and more. The post Energy Insiders: The “impossible” wind project that broke the investment drought appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

Federal Labor's determination to power new data centres with renewables, and to minimise emissions and waste, have been questioned following release of consultation paper. The post “Massive loophole:” Consultation paper stokes doubt on data centre emissions, wind and solar mandates appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

The huge, two-hour battery built at the site of a partly demolished coal plant reaches full commercial operation, marking a major milestone for the grid. The post Huge Liddell battery hits full commercial operations, completing state’s “firming” line-up ahead of El Niño summer appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

An Australian startup aiming to make green hydrogen work for heavy industry has launched an AI-optimised production line making electrolysers to split hydrogen from water.   The post Australian green hydrogen hopeful launches AI-backed electrolyser production line appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

A new Sydney suburb has become the testbed for biosolar rooftops in Australia – and the latest results from a groundbreaking project are stunning. The post Kookaburras, bees and panels: Australia’s first big “biosolar” roof slashes heat, boosts power by nearly 25% appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »