Natural Gas
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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Germany Hopes to Outrace a Russian Gas Cutoff and Bone Cold Winter
Russian natural gas has fired the furnaces that create molten stainless steel at Clemens Schmees’s family foundry since 1961, when his father set up shop in a garage in the western part of Germany. It never crossed Clemens’s mind that this energy flow could one day become unaffordable or cease altogether. Now Mr. Schmees, like […]
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The Ukraine War Is About to Enter a Dangerous New Phase
When trying to explain the recent improvements in the Russian Army’s operations in Ukraine, some Ukrainian officials have taken to saying, “All the dumb Russians are dead.” It’s a backhanded compliment, meaning that the Russians have finally figured out a more effective way to fight this war since their incompetent early performance that got thousands […]
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As European Leaders Visit Kyiv, Putin Cuts Their Gas Supply
BERLIN — As the leaders of Europe’s three biggest economies appeared in Kyiv on Thursday to send a message of support to Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had his own message for them: Don’t forget, your industries are at my mercy. With inflation already near a 40-year high, gas prices surged further as […]
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Romania Sees an Opening to Become an Energy Power in Europe
CERNAVODA, Romania — A row of hulking concrete domes loom along the Danube-Black Sea Canal in Cernavoda, about two hours east of Bucharest. Two of the structures house nuclear reactors feeding Romania’s electrical grid. Two others were begun decades ago and are still waiting for completion — though, perhaps, not for long. “We have major […]
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Biden Has ‘Only Bad Options’ for Bringing Down Oil Prices
HOUSTON — When President Biden meets Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, he will be following in the footsteps of presidents like Jimmy Carter, who flew to Tehran in 1977 to exchange toasts with the shah of Iran on New Year’s Eve. Like the prince, the shah was an unelected monarch with a […]
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The War in Ukraine Could Empower Qatar
RAS LAFFAN INDUSTRIAL CITY, Qatar — Over the past quarter-century, the tiny Persian Gulf state of Qatar has dispatched increasing amounts of natural gas to a growing list of customers around the world, amassing profound wealth and acquiring a geopolitical importance it would otherwise lack. Now, in part because of the war in Ukraine, Qatar’s […]
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