An energy transition is underway across the world. Market upheaval, defining events, and recent policy changes have accelerated a shift away from coal toward renewables. Here is how this transformation…
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A comparison of coal power plant fleets from China, the European Union (EU), Japan, and the U.S. by the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Clean Coal Centre yields surprising insights into…
The U.S. should capitalize on China's formidable experience to put its own domestic solar power sector on a more “economically sensible” path, researchers from Stanford University said in a new…
A joint strategy released by the governments of the U.S. and Canada to thwart the growing threat of cyberattacks on the electric grid sets three priorities that the countries said…
Although the U.S. and Canada are both aiming for similar greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, the two countries are embarking on decidedly different approaches to reaching their goals, according to…
By the end of this year, energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from natural gas could surpass emissions from coal for the first time in nearly 45 years, according to projections…
The U.S., Mexico, and Canada today announced an unprecedented goal to procure 50% of North America's total power generation from renewables, nuclear, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and energy efficiency…
The world's frenzied economic growth through 2040 won't be matched by electricity demand growth, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) says in the International Energy Outlook 2016 (IEO2016 ) released on…
Editors note: Corrected (Dec. 7). A previous version of this infographic listed Russia's nuclear total as 1.9 GW. It is 2.9 GW.
Nuclear costs aren't on the rise globally as has been widely thought, says a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) surveying the levelized…