Energy in Demand News, August 23-24, 2026

The Trump administration is doing everything possible to crush California’s environmental policies that have been respected world-wide, New York Times reports. “Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have blocked California from setting its own limits on automobile pollution, which federal law has permitted since the 1970s. The Energy Department has announced $75 million … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 23-24, 2026 →

Buy European? voters would rather buy national

In an article on the Politico website, Aude Van Den Hove discusses recent poll findings that challenge the push for a European preference in public procurement in the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act. Brussels wants ‘Buy European’ but voters lean domestic, poll shows As the EU works on a major industrial policy bill that … Continue reading Buy European? voters would rather buy national →

Net zero needs standards — will ISO 14060 deliver?

The International Organization for Standardization opened a public consultation on the draft version of its Net Zero Standard in June 2026. The draft includes requirements for transition planning, emissions-reduction targets and pathway-setting, net-zero action, and counterbalancing residual emissions. Eve Fraser and Thomas Day write on the New Climate Institute website review the draft and provide … Continue reading Net zero needs standards — will ISO 14060 deliver? →

Energy in Demand News, August 16-17, 2026

The Financial Times, a newspaper of record for business and politics, has become almost passionate about climate change. “Even now, when weather records are being broken, when climate change is demonstrably here, not in the future, we seem frozen. We still go about our carbon-greedy lives: snapping up the last air-conditioning unit, booking another flight, … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 16-17, 2026 →

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 →

Energy in Demand News, August 2-3, 2026

Frank Elderson, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, told the Guardian that the climate emergency and the breakdown of nature poses a dramatically growing risk to the global economy. He said it was clear the rising frequency of natural disasters linked to global heating poses a threat to financial stability. “Nature-related risks … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 2-3, 2026 →

DEEP and going DEEP-er

The DEEP (De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform) is the European Commission's open-access database designed to reduce the perceived financial risk of investing in energy efficiency projects. It is one of the Commission's most important tools for demonstrating, with real-world evidence, that energy efficiency investments are often lower risk and more profitable than many investors assume. DEEP was officially launched … Continue reading DEEP and going DEEP-er →

Energy in Demand News, July 26-27, 2026

As this week’s Energy in Demand was being prepared, more than 280,000 people had been ordered to flee or lock down as huge wildfires swept Spain and France, prompting Madrid to declare a national emergency and the French authorities to order the total evacuation, by land and sea, of one of the country’s best-known holiday … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, July 26-27, 2026 →

Bridging Europe’s electrification gap

Ron Bousso writes on the Reuter’s website that Europe knows where it wants to go, but faces a perilous decade in which high energy costs could permanently damage industrial competitiveness before the benefits of electrification are realised. Europe’s electrification dream won’t spare a painful decade Europe faces a looming "death valley" of high energy … Continue reading Bridging Europe’s electrification gap →