Klimaat en Energie – BL

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 »

Utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States increased significantly during the last three years, with an annual average growth rate of 70%. By the end of 2025, the U.S. power system had operational battery storage capacity of 43.6 gigawatts (GW). During the first six months of 2026, operators added... Read more »

Although the total 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, the trade value of natural gas and electricity between the two countries increased slightly primarily because of increased natural... 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 »

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 »

A single blade on the newest generation of offshore wind turbines is longer than a football pitch, and its rotor sweeps a circle larger than the London Eye. One machine can power close to 20,000 European homes for a year — and the industry is already reaching for 25-megawatt giants.... Read more »

The Three Gorges Dam impounds roughly 39 cubic kilometres of Yangtze water at an average of 175 metres above sea level — enough mass, lifted high enough, to lengthen Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds by shifting the planet's moment of inertia. The post The Three Gorges Dam holds back roughly... Read more »

NASA's Parker Solar Probe now flies through the Sun's outer atmosphere at 692,000 km/h, protected by an 11.4-centimetre carbon shield that glows at 1,377°C while the instruments behind it sit at room temperature. The post The Parker Solar Probe now passes within 6.1 million kilometres of the Sun’s surface at... Read more »

On 27 June 1954, a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor near Moscow became the first anywhere to sell nuclear electricity commercially — beating Britain's Calder Hall by nearly three years and starting a lineage that runs directly to today's VVER-1200 reactors being built in seven countries. The post In 1954, engineers at... Read more »

Buried inside a Welsh mountain, the Dinorwig pumped storage station uses six reversible turbines and a reservoir near the summit of Elidir Fawr to swing more than a gigawatt of electricity onto the British grid in seconds — the fastest-responding power plant in the country, and a template for the... Read more »

On January 10, 1901, the Lucas well at Spindletop erupted with an estimated 100,000 barrels a day — more than every other producing well in the United States combined — and collapsed the price of crude by 87 percent, ending the whale-oil economy in a matter of months. The post... Read more »

South Korea plans to double government funding for factory rooftop solar and agrivoltaics to KRW 1.8 trillion ($1.3 billion) in 2027, as a new law regulating dual-use solar on farmland takes effect in December. The post South Korea to double 2027 budget for farm solar, agrivoltaics appeared first on pv... Read more »

During the development of a recent utility-scale project in Texas’ ERCOT grid interconnection zone, Levona Renewables CEO Fernando Queiroz found his team spending more time evaluating transmission infrastructure, interconnection requirements, equipment availability, and utility procurement processes than discussing solar modules – a striking realization affecting project developers in the United... Read more »

Agrivoltaics account for virtually none of Switzerland’s installed solar capacity, despite having the potential to generate far more electricity than the country currently consumes. A new ZHAW report identifies legal and administrative hurdles as key barriers and calls for regulatory reform, greater investment certainty, and lessons from neighboring markets. The... Read more »

In other news, the Valencian government approved €76 million for BP-led renewable hydrogen and sustainable biofuel projects, while NaTran and Creos Deutschland started construction of the German section of the cross-border mosaHYc hydrogen network. Meanwhile, Uniper completed the expressions of interest phase for its planned Wilhelmshaven hydrogen import terminal, which... Read more »

Independent third-party testing measured more than 4 kWh of usable solar energy delivered post-conversion to the vehicle’s high-voltage battery. The post TÜV Rheinland validates 4 kWh generation in Aptera’s solar electric vehicle appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

Circular economy models encourage the extension of the lifecycle of both wind turbines and solar PV modules and the IEC is planning the appropriate standards. The post A circular future for renewables appeared first on pv magazine Global.... Read more »

The final article in a series on energy markets in Southern Africa explores how the liberalisation of the region’s electricity markets is bringing a shift from purely selling variable electricity towards products that are tailored to specific customer and system needs. The post New energy products emerge in Southern Africa’s... Read more »

Italian charging infrastructure manufacturer Alpitronic has developed a 1 MW distributed DC charging system capable of serving up to eight electric vehicles simultaneously. At a demonstration in Berlin, the system delivered more than 600 kW to the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé. The post Alpitronic unveils 1 MW EV charging... Read more »

This week, Women in Solar+ Europe gives voice to Angelica Almi, Head of Legal at Kataclima and co-founder of Italia Rinnovabile. Her message is clear: approach every professional relationship with curiosity, respect and authenticity, turn challenges into strengths, and embrace unexpected opportunities with courage and enthusiasm. The post ‘Do not... 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 »

Few organisations have so consistently campaigned to stymie climate action – possibly anywhere on the planet. So why is News Corp so worked up about the recent CCA report? The post Climate Authority’s “misinformation” report hit a nerve at News Corp for a reason appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

Tom Geiser from Good Heat on the technologies to provide carbon-free industrial heat. Plus: LNP's diesel delusions, One Nation's burning effigies, and the biggest CIS wind project to reach FiD. The post Energy Insiders: Zero carbon heat, Australia’s next big challenge appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

Days apart, one Australian minister called for reduced dependence on fossil fuels, while another literally turned the tap on new fossil gas supply, as a UN report warns we’ll overshoot 1.5 degrees. The post Australia’s climate hypocrisy on show as world braces for global warming “overshoot” appeared first on Renew... Read more »

Swiss storage giant completes purchase of the project site for big four-hour battery, setting a tentative start-date for early 2027 construction. The post Gigawatt-hour battery plan edges closer to construction as Swiss giant takes full ownership of site appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

Installation of the "golden" turbine is being hailed as a "huge milestone" for a wind farm that has survived the LNP government sell-off and remains 100 per cent owned by a state utility. The post “Golden turbine” complete, in huge milestone at rare state-owned wind farm appeared first on Renew... Read more »

A paddock of solar and an innovative converter could allow Visy to cut gas use by 40% on one site without the added cost of a new grid connection. The post Can you run a paper mill on solar and “hot bricks”? Visy says it can – on paper, at... Read more »

Australian thermal storage developer takes full ownership of energy precinct that once proposed to host a landmark solar thermal plant before evolving into a hybrid renewables and storage hub. The post Molten silicon storage hopeful 1414 Degrees takes full ownership of Aurora Energy Precinct appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

The world should brace for extreme heat as an exceptionally strong El Nino develops, the World Meteorological Organisation warns. The post “No room for doubt:” Supersized El Nino threatens to become strongest ever recorded appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »

Electric cars account for 24.9 per cent of new vehicle sales in August and outselling petrol-only and diesel vehicles individually. Plus, news of the week. The post The Driven Podcast: EVs outsell petrol and diesel cars in Australia appeared first on Renew Economy.... Read more »