China will continue spending heavily on both coal and alternative energy, such as wind and solar, over the next five years, Beijing’s latest five-year plan revealed this month. The apparent paradox sees the world’s largest emitter by far continue to generate a solid portion of its energy from coal while also boosting the largest alternative energy capacity in the world. The thing is, it is not actually a paradox. Ever since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, a host of countries have been working hard to reduce their reliance…

Eni is forming an energy commodity joint venture with global trader Mercuria as the Italian energy major eyes higher profits to rival the most active traders among the European energy giants. Eni on Wednesday said it had signed an agreement with Geneva-based Mercuria, one of the world’s largest independent trading groups, to create a joint venture to trade energy commodities across global energy markets. The joint venture will be equally owned by Eni and Mercuria, and will operate on an independent and unconsolidated basis through a holding…

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Investment in natural gas exploration in Australia hit the highest in ten years amid the energy crunch caused by the war in the Middle East, totaling the equivalent of $329 million in the first quarter of the year, government data showed, as quoted by Reuters. The publication cited Rystad Energy as forecasting a 10% increase in gas exploration investment fo…

A German-Japanese research team involving the University of Augsburg has made a significant breakthrough in the use of antiferromagnets. For the first time, the team has succeeded in writing magnetic information using only ultrashort laser pulses—without the need for electric currents or magnetic fields.

Over the 250-year history of our nation, energy consumption has evolved from wood use in the 18th and 19th centuries to today’s use of modern renewable, hydrocarbon, and nuclear technology. In 2025, total energy used in the United States was 96 quadrillion British thermal units (quads), up 2% from 2024, but below ... [continued] The post The 250-Year Histor…

London Climate Action Week took place during an intense heat wave last week, causing some of the planned events to be cancelled and calling extra attention to the urgency of the summit’s cause. One of the biggest takeaways of the event, underscored by the weather, is that Europe has missed critical opportunities to catalyze the clean energy transition and m…

For years, critics of the energy transition have made essentially the same argument. Renewable energy was supposedly too expensive, too dependent on subsidies, too intermittent, and too vulnerable to survive a serious energy security crisis. Sooner or later, they argued, governments and investors would return to the comfort of oil, gas, and coal. The latest…

One of the biggest criticisms of utility-scale solar is that it competes with agriculture for land. As countries race to add more renewable energy, that debate has become increasingly relevant in the Philippines, where arable land is both limited and economically important. Agrivoltaics offers a different approach. Instead of converting ... [continued] The…

Over the 250-year history of our nation, energy consumption has evolved from wood use in the 18th and 19th centuries to today's use of modern renewable, hydrocarbon, and nuclear technology. In 2025, total energy used in the United States was 96 quadrillion British thermal units (quads), up 2% from 2024, but below 2007's record 99 quads. Petroleum was the mo…