US Department of Energy has scrapped key energy efficiency standards

A news item on the Energy Live News website discusses the latest moves in Washington to dismantle environmental policies and reduce government intervention. Fans, dehumidifiers and motors are now free from energy efficiency standards. What’s next? Trump slashes energy efficiency rules The US Department of Energy (DOE) has scrapped key energy efficiency standards, rolling … Continue reading US Department of Energy has scrapped key energy efficiency standards →

New report from Council of European Energy Regulators: Regulatory and Consumer Considerations for Decentralised Energy Opportunities

This week, CEER published its latest report, Regulatory and Consumer Considerations for Decentralised Energy Opportunities, exploring the evolving role of self-consumption, energy sharing, and energy communities in the energy transition. As the deployment of renewables accelerates and electrification reshapes consumption patterns, new decentralised energy models are emerging, presenting both opportunities and challenges for consumers, markets, and … Continue reading New report from Council of European Energy Regulators: Regulatory and Consumer Considerations for Decentralised Energy Opportunities →

The International Energy Agency is facing some pushback from critics

David M. Hart, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes on its website about the possible impact of the Trump administration on the IEA. The agency’s mandate has expanded from strengthening energy security to boosting the global clean energy transition, but it is facing pushback from critics who believe this mission undermines … Continue reading The International Energy Agency is facing some pushback from critics →

Energy in Demand News, March 23-24, 2025

Undoubtedly, executives of big companies are as pleased as could be. Many big companies have started to drop climate goals from executive pay plans, as reported by the Financial Times (behind a paywall). For example, the Swiss bank UBS’s annual report this week dropped language that linked executives’ pay to environmental, social and governance goals … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, March 23-24, 2025 →

Once upon a time electric vehicles were marketed as ‘women’s cars’

While electric vehicles are gaining market share now, in the early twentieth century, they had a large share of the market until cars powered by gasoline dominated the market. In an article on The Conversation website, Josef Taalbi, Associate Professor, Economic History, Lund University gives us an important history lesson. Electric cars were once … Continue reading Once upon a time electric vehicles were marketed as ‘women’s cars’ →

Blog by Yamina Saheb – Sufficiency: The Equity Imperative

In political philosophy, sufficiency is an equity-based distributive justice theory that shifts the focus from relative comparisons of wealth and rational choices towards prioritizing well-being, regardless of income. Harry Frankfurt's seminal essay, "Equality as aMoral Ideal," provides a compelling argument for sufficiency. He challenges the conventional focus of justice on outcomes, suggesting focusing on access … Continue reading Blog by Yamina Saheb – Sufficiency: The Equity Imperative →

Energy in Demand News, March 16-17, 2025

We are in the midst of the zero-carbon energy transition but it will be a rocky road that, realistically, we could see coming. How much commitment has there really been and how quickly can the resolve dissolve. Witness some troubling quotes just from this week: As reported by Reuters, the CEO of state oil giant … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, March 16-17, 2025 →

New report on nuclear power’s global stagnation and decline

A new report for the EnergyScience Coalition skewers claim ‘the world is going nuclear’ and nuclear ‘newcomers’ will save the industry from its decades-long decline. One of the authors of the report, Dr. Jim Green, discusses the findings in an article on The Ecologist website. Nuclear power’s global stagnation The proponents of nuclear power … Continue reading New report on nuclear power’s global stagnation and decline →

New Report from the US Solar Energy Industries Association: Solar Adds More New Capacity to the Grid in 2024 Than Any Energy Technology in the Past Two Decades

The United States installed a record-breaking 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the largest single year of new capacity added to the grid by any energy technology in over two decades. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight 2024 Year in Review report released this week by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and … Continue reading New Report from the US Solar Energy Industries Association: Solar Adds More New Capacity to the Grid in 2024 Than Any Energy Technology in the Past Two Decades →

Chart of the week from DWS

DWS, the German asset management company, has published an important “chart of the week” discussing the financial impact on Europe’s economies because of the inefficient use of energy. What are your views? Securing Europe’s security and growth with less energy waste: Europe's economies wasted billions of euros through the inefficient use of energy Europe’s … Continue reading Chart of the week from DWS →