Category: Energy News Beat

Germany Has Traded Austerity for a Mess

Energy News Beat The German government has finally revised its debt rules—by making them more confusing. ​Analysis By Philippa Sigl-Gloeckner, the managing director of Dezernat Zukunft, a German macrofinance think tank. On Tuesday, March 18, the German parliament ended the country’s economic Sonderweg, or “unique path.” On that day, two-thirds of members voted for a […]

Big Oil Retreats: Europe’s Energy Giants Ditch Green Pledges

Energy News Beat Europe’s oil and gas giants are increasingly scaling back their climate goals as they struggle to deliver on their ambitious clean energy pledges. In 2022, Norway’s state-controlled energy giant Equinor ASA laid its roadmap to achieving net zero emissions. However, in February Equinor scrapped a pledge to devote more than 50% of […]

Trump Moves To Reopen Coal Plants, Citing U.S. Energy Needs And Global Competition

Energy News Beat Trump is moving to reopen coal plants and rolling back regulations, citing U.S. energy needs and competition abroad. ​Donald Trump announced a massive reversal to decades of American environmental policy on Monday as he vowed to ‘immediately’ open coal-fired power plants. [emphasis, links added] The United States has been moving away from […]

Fed’s Operating Losses Declined to $78 Billion in 2024, “Unrealized Losses” Rose to $1.06 Trillion

Energy News Beat QE has produced years of hangover. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Fed disclosed two types of losses in its audited annual report today: An operating loss of $77.6 billion for the year 2024, substantially less bad than its operating loss in 2023 of $114 billion. And cumulative “unrealized losses” of $1.06 trillion at […]

The Guardian’s Cyclone Alarmism Collides With Real-World Data

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: Because Energy Policies are based upon elected officials having to pay attention to lobbies with money, they have paid attention in the past. We are seeing a trend that the money is drying up, and it could lend itself to more realistic energy policies. The world will broken into […]

China Is No Climate Savior

Energy News Beat The numbers don’t lie: Beijing will not drive a global energy transition. ​Analysis China Is No Climate Savior By Seaver Wang, the co-director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute, and Vijaya Ramachandran, the director of energy and development at the Breakthrough Institute. Since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has […]

The UK’s Heathrow Power Outage sheds light on Net Zero Policies

Energy News Beat Net Zero has forced global financial and companies to become carbon-neutral. But the why is only one question that we will tackle on another day. Today, let’s look at the energy policies that countries force upon critical infrastructure in the name of Net Zero and only cause harm to people and even […]

Atlantic LNG shipping rates rise to $31,000 per day

Energy News Beat Spark’s data lead, Qasim Afghan, told LNG Prime on Friday that global LNG freight rates rose again this week to reach the highest rates of 2025 so far. “Spark30S (Atlantic) freight rates increased by $5,250 to $31,000 per day, whilst Spark25S (Pacific) rates experienced its largest week-on-week rise in seven months, rising by […]

America Should Lead the Fight Against Global Energy Poverty

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: Gabriel Collins, Baker Botts fellow, has excellent points in this article about building U.S. energy as an export. We may see some of this play out with President Trump talking about taking over some of the utilities in Ukraine and owning and operating the nuclear power plant. Energy as […]

EPA Reversing Biden’s Impossible Power Plant Rules, Averting Blackouts And Higher Rates

Energy News Beat EPA rolled back Biden’s emissions rules, avoiding blackouts and billions in costs as coal, gas plants faced strict compliance or closure by 2039. ​ Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would roll back the Biden administration’s greenhouse gas emissions standards on power plants. [emphasis, links added] That’s great news for […]