Tim Schauenberg writes on the Deutsche Welle website questioning whether SMRs can live up to the considerable claims being made for them, particularly on cost, timing, safety and climate impact. Schauenberg looks at what's behind the SMR hype. The big catch with small modular nuclear reactors Many politicians and tech companies are now pushing to build new nuclear power … Continue reading Small reactors, big promises — but can SMRs deliver?
Category: energy transition
Europe looks south for its clean energy future
Felicity Bradstock writes on the Oil Price website about how Europe turning to North Africa’s enormous renewable resources to strengthen energy security and accelerate electrification. Europe Bets Billions on North Africa’s Clean Energy Potential The EU’s T-MED initiative aims to mobilize billions of euros for renewable energy, hydrogen, clean technology, and electricity networks across … Continue reading Europe looks south for its clean energy future
The growing cost of climate-proofing France’s energy system
A news item on the IN Power website discusses how the state-owned electric utility, Electricité de France (EDF), plans major investment in resilience across French generation assets. The €8.7 billion programme covers nuclear, hydropower, and island operations through 2040. EDF assigns €8.7bn to French generation resilience IN Brief: EDF’s €8.7 billion plan covers nuclear, … Continue reading The growing cost of climate-proofing France’s energy system
Can solar farms feed both AI and us?
In an article on The Conversation website, Joshua M. Pearce, John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University, discusses the apparent conflict between AI’s huge electricity appetite and protecting farmland, with agrivoltaics offering a way to solve both problems. ‘Agrivoltaics’ can both power AI data centres and increase food … Continue reading Can solar farms feed both AI and us?
The new energy security: less waste, more resilience
Deborah Gordon and Marko Solomon write on the RMI (formerly the Rocky Mountain Institute) website that that energy security, economic security and climate security can no longer be treated separately—and that efficiency, finance, policy and electrification need to work together. Bolstering Energy, Economic, and Environmental Security in a Warming World: Learnings from London Climate … Continue reading The new energy security: less waste, more resilience
The price of delay: how climate inaction fuels inflation
In an article on The Conversation website, Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, with Cross-Appointment to Geography, Environment and Geomatics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa and James Jackson, Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester argue that today’s fossil-fuel price shocks are not simply geopolitical accidents. Their impact is … Continue reading The price of delay: how climate inaction fuels inflation
Energy in Demand News, August 9-10, 2026
The US-Iran war is encouraging a global switch to clean energy. Noah Gordon, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace describes in the Financial Times the positive transition to clean energy: “With a significant proportion of global supplies of oil and liquefied natural gas bottled up in the Strait of Hormuz since the … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 9-10, 2026
Carbon capture: tackling today’s emissions and yesterday’s
In an article on The Conversation website, Ben Kolosz, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Renewable Energy and Carbon Removal, University of Hull and Jon Gluyas, Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University that carbon capture is not one technology or one task: CCUS tackles emissions from industry before they reach the atmosphere, while carbon … Continue reading Carbon capture: tackling today’s emissions and yesterday’s
Energy-efficient electric drying with superheated steam
Industrial drying processes consume large amounts of energy and negatively impact the climate since they burn fossil fuels to heat air. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB are working with industry partners on a new approach to decarbonise this process: Instead of hot air, they are using superheated steam. Combined … Continue reading Energy-efficient electric drying with superheated steam
Scotland has the wind. Others get the profits
Paul Dobson writes on The Ferret website about an investment vehicle managed by JP Morgan and state-backed firms from France, Norway and China own Scottish wind farms which have paid tens of millions in dividends this decade. The question is whether Scotland can expand renewable energy while ensuring that substantially more of the economic value … Continue reading Scotland has the wind. Others get the profits
