Energy and Power
As Russia Threatens Europe’s Energy, Ukraine Braces for a Hard Winter
In a thickly forested park bordered by apartment blocks and a playground, a dozen workers were busy on a recent day with chain saws and axes, felling trees, cutting logs and chopping them into firewood to be stashed in concealed sheds around Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine. Ironworkers at a nearby forge are […]
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Climate Bill ‘Transformative’ for Auto and Energy Industries
Making electric cars more affordable. For the auto industry, one of the most important provisions in the climate bill would eliminate a cap on how many cars from each manufacturer are eligible for a $7,500 tax credit that taxpayers get for buying electric vehicles. Currently, the credits are phased out after a manufacturer has sold […]
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Germans Tip-Toe Up the Path to Energy Savings
AUGSBURG, Germany — Wolfgang Hübschle went into city government expecting a simple life, planning things like traditional festivals replete with lederhosen. Instead, these days he has the unpopular task of calculating which traffic lights to shut off, how to lower temperatures in offices and swimming pools — and perhaps, if it comes to it, pulling […]
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Delay as the New Denial: The Latest Republican Tactic to Block Climate Action
WASHINGTON — One hundred million Americans from Arizona to Boston are under heat emergency warnings, and the drought in the West is nearing Dust Bowl proportions. Britain declared a climate emergency as temperatures soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and parts of blistering Europe are ablaze. But on Capitol Hill this week, Republicans were warning against […]
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How a Florida Power Project Flew Under the Regulatory Radar
“The whole energy policy dynamic in Florida has alienated the public interest,” said E. Leon Jacobs Jr., a former chairman of the Florida Public Service Commission who was elected president of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, a nonprofit environmental organization, in September 2020. “There absolutely were issues and challenges that should have been made […]
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Can Japan Keep the Lights On? The Ukraine War Upends a Big Energy Bet.
However, the sudden surge in prices in early 2021 blindsided the company, which had not prepared for the possibility of a major jump in costs, according to a statement it released when it declared bankruptcy. Masaru Tagami, who is in charge of facilities procurement for the central Japanese city Hida, one of Hope Energy’s former […]
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Why U.S. Oil Companies Aren’t Riding to Europe’s Rescue
“The model has totally changed,” he said. Oil executives also argue that they are spending a lot of money on new oil and gas production but that inflation is undercutting their efforts. Exploration and production spending will rise more than 20 percent this year, but about two-thirds of that increase will go toward paying higher […]
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European Green Energy Firms Often Fall Short on Financing
LONDON — When Jakob Bitner was 7, he left Russia for Germany with his parents and sister. Twenty-eight years later, he is set on solving a vexing green-energy problem that could help Germany end its dependence on imported energy from Russia, or anywhere. The problem: how to make wind and solar energy available 24 hours […]
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How the Recoil From Russian Gas Is Scrambling World Markets
Mr. Di Odoardo figures that L.N.G. flows from the United States to Europe have already reached two-thirds of the bilateral target for this year, and so reaching it should be “easy.” Washington has also leaned on other countries, including Japan, to give up some of their cargoes, and this has led to a substantial drop […]
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