The expression Energy Efficiency 1st is not just a PR slogan. This week, 67 Industry players and 26 national and EU industry associations wrote to the EU’s Danish Presidency, concerned about the draft compromise text on the EU Climate Law from 31st July, which removes explicit references to the Energy Efficiency First (EE1st) principle. The … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 31, 2025
Category: GHG emissions
The green energy transition: shifting away from fossil fuels is particularly challenging
In an article on The Conversation website, Martin Brueckner, Charles Roche and Tauel Harper all from Murdoch University in Australia discuss the difficulties in getting off fossil fuels and the little progress that Australia has made to date. How much success is your country having? Getting rid of fossil fuels is really hard – … Continue reading The green energy transition: shifting away from fossil fuels is particularly challenging
Energy in Demand News, August 24-25, 2025
Encouragingly, the Financial Times reports that solar power generation in Britain so far this year has surpassed the total for 2024 “as panels are rapidly installed amid favourable weather, underlining renewable energy’s increasing importance to the grid. . . . Some 14.08 terawatt hours of electricity was produced from solar in Great Britain by August … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 24-25, 2025
Energy in Demand News, August 17-18, 2025
It was certainly disappointing that the UN negotiations for a global treaty on plastics pollution collapsed without an agreement. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and a number of other petrostates would not budge from their long-standing refusal to agree measures that address the production of plastic, agreeing only to waste management. It is not clear when negotiations … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 17-18, 2025
US EPA’s decision to stop supporting the research that hundreds of companies use to calculate their GHG emissions as “a major setback for corporate climate action and reporting”
Harry Stevens writes on the New York Times website about one of the most effective and popular databases would stop to be updated. The database helps companies calculate their GHG emissions. Its creator left the EPA after being investigated for criticizing the Trump administration. Popular E.P.A. Database Is in Limbo Amid Science Cuts The … Continue reading US EPA’s decision to stop supporting the research that hundreds of companies use to calculate their GHG emissions as “a major setback for corporate climate action and reporting”
Energy in Demand News, August 10-11, 2025
GHG emissions are “going through the roof” because of AI, according to an article on the New York Times website that explains how Big Tech’s net-zero goals are looking shaky. “Google’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 11 percent in 2024 from the year before. Amazon’s were up by 6 percent. Microsoft’s fell slightly but remained … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 10-11, 2025
Trump’s EPA cancels $7 billion in funding for solar projects
A Le Monde news item reports that the US Environmental Protection Agency has terminated the grant that was intended to help pay for residential solar projects for more than 900,000 lower-income US households − a Biden-era attempt to introduce cleaner power onto the electrical grid and to lower energy bills for American consumers. EPA … Continue reading Trump’s EPA cancels $7 billion in funding for solar projects
Understanding China’s energy transition
In an article on the China Daily website, Michael Edesess and Christine Loh from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology discuss China’s energy transition. They write that China’s example demonstrates that when a government treats the energy transition as a national imperative, rather than a market experiment, the results follow. China’s renewable … Continue reading Understanding China’s energy transition
America’s energy transition: leaving the clean energy playing field to China
In an article on The Conversation website, Stephen Lezak, Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford explains how across the world, utilities are embracing clean energy, choosing lower costs for their customers while reducing pollution and America, under the Trump administration, is choosing a different path that will … Continue reading America’s energy transition: leaving the clean energy playing field to China
Energy in Demand News, August 3-4, 2025
The EU and US agreed to a new trade deal in recent days, to a distinctly mixed reaction. The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe’s largest network of environmental NGOs, warns that the centrepiece of the deal, a €700 billion pledge to buy U.S. fossil fuels and nuclear energy over the next three years, is fundamentally … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 3-4, 2025
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