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An illustration of a donut chart on top of a split screen picture of wind turbines on one side and an aerial view of waves on the ocean on the other. The whole illustration has a blue-green cast.

Offshore wind is growing — except in North America

Asia and Europe each have well over 200 times more offshore wind power than North America, according to a recent report. The divide feels emblematic of this moment in time.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu 2 min read
The jagged outcrops of the Hajar Mountains that border UAE and Oman. Photo by Amena H. Saiyid, May 5, 2025

Harnessing nature to store CO2

This demonstration project in the United Arab Emirates is showing how carbon dioxide can be stored in rocks.
Explainers
Amena H. Saiyid 6 min read
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Home court advantage: Whirling turbines, solarized schools and of course, food poisoning

For Amena Saiyid, returning to Pakistan to report on clean energy both challenged her as a journalist and gave her an opportunity to see her home country with fresh eyes.
Reporter's Notebook
Amena H. Saiyid 4 min read
An illustration that includes the Pakistani flag, two wind turbines, and a man in sunglasses standing and talking with his hands in front of some wind turbines.

Pakistan’s wind power is going to waste

Pakistan's wind potential is not being fully utilized. Cipher toured Zephyr Power's 50-megawatt wind farm in the Sindh province to understand the problems facing the wind sector.
Latest News
Amena H. Saiyid 5 min read

Solar power is everywhere in Pakistan—here’s what that looks like

To say solar power is booming in Pakistan is an understatement. On a recent trip to my native country, I was overwhelmed by the omnipresence of solar energy in nearly every corner.
Latest News
Amena H. Saiyid 6 min read
Schoolchildren shade their eyes from the strong sunlight as they watch the solar panels hoisted to the roof of their community school in Nar in Northern Pakistan. Photo by Amena H. Saiyid

Solar power is transforming Pakistan

Abundantly cheap, clean electricity is breaking down income barriers here, empowering some of Pakistan’s least privileged groups with new opportunities, comfort and — potentially — more disposable income.
Latest News
Amena H. Saiyid 6 min read
Descending rows of solar panels against the backdrop of the Karakoram Range. These panels pump water to supply the city of Khaplu's residents.

On wind power, China blows past rest of world

China greenlit far more wind energy projects in the first three months of this year than any other country.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu < 1
An illustration of a horizontal bar chart in the background and three red wind turbines in the foreground.

Utilities hold the keys to the energy transition in the Global South

They may not be shiny and exciting pieces of the energy transition, but utilities play a central role in bringing more clean energy online.
Voices
Justin Locke 3 min read
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A behind-the-scenes tour of the world’s biggest nuclear power plant

A reporter gets a look inside efforts to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear facility in Japan, the world’s largest nuclear power plant.
Reporter's Notebook
Bill Spindle 4 min read
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At world’s biggest nuclear plant, how to restart a giant

Building a new nuclear plant takes billions of dollars and many years. One way to potentially speed up that process is to restart existing nuclear plants.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 5 min read
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U.S. oil exports have boomed — but could be leveling off

U.S. oil exports have surged to record levels in recent years on the back of an unprecedented rise in oil production. But the rate of growth slowed dramatically last year, and the big question going forward is whether there’s really still room to grow.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
graphic showing a bar chart going up sharply with images of oil refineries in the background

How China dominates critical minerals in three charts

The tariff war has laid bare the Western world's dependency on China for key elements such as rare earths, silicon, graphite and more.
Explainers
Anca Gurzu 4 min read
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The U.S. and China drive data center power consumption

As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly important pillar in our day-to-day lives, demand for electricity to power all that AI is expected to rise.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu 2 min read
An illustration with a white background and a black and white globe on top of it, with a red square with the outline of the country of China in it and a blue square with the outline of the United States in it. Behind the globe and the boxes is an area line chart with sections in shades of blue, red and grey. And on top of that, there is a stylized drawing of the computer banks inside a data center.

How to protect clean energy projects against extreme weather

The trials of floating solar projects in India point to a broader trend: extreme weather exacerbated by climate change is increasingly impacting the clean energy projects intended to help combat climate change worldwide.
Explainers
Anuradha Varanasi 4 min read
A photo of solar panels floating on the surface of a lake under serene blue skies.

In rural India, this reporter saw two sides of the country’s energy transition

Contributor Anuradha Varanasi reflects on the reporting trip she took to a massive floating solar park in Central India.
Reporter's Notebook
Anuradha Varanasi 2 min read
A woman stands on a white plastic float next to rows of solar panels hovering over smooth water. The lake stretches back far in the distance behind her.

Solar’s dizzying investments return to normal level

China's investments in solar factories plunged after reaching a high in 2023. U.S. investments, meanwhile, are steadily rising.
Data Dives
Amena H. Saiyid 2 min read
An illustration that has a bar chart in the foreground and a photo of a man standing in front of a solar panel in a factory setting in the background. The photo is tinted light blue.

In rural India, a clean energy project is displacing families — again

After a massive floating solar plant was built on a giant reservoir in rural India, local villagers no longer fish on large swaths of the lake. The same villagers were displaced 20 years ago when the same reservoir was first created by a new dam that flooded their original villages.
Latest News
Anuradha Varanasi 6 min read
Eerie image at night of a dead tree sticking out of a lake in rural India with the top of a submerged temple visible in the background

Land is hard to find for solar farms. Asia’s answer? Float them.

The solar farm on the Omkareshwar dam reservoir in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is part of a rapidly growing trend across Asia of building large-scale solar farms not on land, but over water.
Explainers
Anuradha Varanasi 5 min read
A photo of islands of solar panels floating on a large lake, photo taken from the air.

India is breaking records on renewable energy

India is dependent on fossil fuels — and coal in particular. But the country has emerged as one of the most aggressive deployers of solar energy in recent years.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle < 1
An illustration with bright green bar chart in the front with a pink solar panel in the background and a small bird with blue and purple wings perching on the panel. The background is orange.

China has a new sweeping energy law. Here’s what you need to know.

China has just approved a set of sweeping new energy regulations that will set the tone for the country’s future energy development.
Explainers
Xiaoying You 4 min read
An illustration that shows a multiple choice test. The question is just the Chinese flag, and the options are a solar panel, a wind turbine, a piece of coal, and a piece of paper representing a law. The answer, which is being hovered over with by a giant mouse cursor is

Rounding up the best of Cipher in 2024

This was a big year for the energy transition and a busy year for Cipher. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite articles from 2024 and offer them to you here for easy reading.
Latest News
Cipher Staff 4 min read
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Oil and gas techniques could unlock geothermal energy’s global potential

Cutting edge technologies to tap the heat beneath the earth's surface could supply as much as 8% of the global electricity mix, according to the IEA's latest findings.
Data Dives
Amena H. Saiyid 2 min read
Illustration showing a bar chart, with the bars growing steadily to the right, on top of a photo of a geothermal system. The photo has a green overlay on top of it, making the whole image mostly green.

2024 reflections: AI power, elections and more

We knew some of what this year would bring — like consequential elections — while some events took many of us by surprise — like a sudden boom in electricity demand fueled (largely) by artificial intelligence.
Harder Line
Amy Harder 5 min read
An illustration of the Earth in the top of an hourglass, slowly disintegrating into sand that's falling through the hourglass. Next to the hourglass, on the right, the year

Analysis: A reporter hears echoes of the past in Japan’s net zero strategy

In the 1990s, Bill Spindle covered Japan's economic collapse. Returning again this year to report on Japan's energy transition, he picked up on some familiar narratives.
Reporter's Notebook
Bill Spindle 3 min read
An illustration that shows Mt. Fuji in Japan twice, once in a photo that looks old and once in a photo that looks more recent, with solar panels in the foreground. There's also a large red circle behind the photos and the background is white, invoking the Japanese flag.

Japan leads charge toward creating Asian carbon-storage trade

Japan, Taiwan and South Korea are all planning to decarbonize in part by using carbon capture technology, but none has enough capacity at home to store as much CO2 as they plan to capture.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
An illustration of a bar chart in shades of blue in front of a grey, crumpled piece of paper. In front of that is a cloud with

Japan’s idled nuclear plants increasingly eyed as a clean energy source

In a world scrambling for carbon-free electricity, nuclear power has stormed back into vogue. But these reactors don’t get built quickly or easily. Japan’s idle nuclear facilities make up one of the largest pools of ready, carbon-free energy potential in the world.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 5 min read
A photo of a large industrial plant (a nuclear power plant) in the distance next to a large body of water. In the foreground, there are houses clustered on a hill.

Japan’s plan for net zero increasingly rests on a big hydrogen bet

Japanese executives and officials hope to keep fossil fuel power generators going and gradually replace the coal and gas with low-carbon ammonia, hydrogen and biomass. Betting big on the future hydrogen is risky, however.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 5 min read
A giant hand holds up a hydrogen tank in front of the Japanese flag, a power plant and wind turbines.

This one chart shows just how much China dominates in renewable energy

It captured 41% of the global renewables investment share in 2023.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu < 1
Black and white photo of emissions seen from above the clouds, with a blue and red bar chart superimposed with no labels or values

What Trump’s win means for China’s cleantech industry

The 2024 U.S. election results mean uncertainty — and potential opportunities — to Chinese firms and researchers.
Latest News
Xiaoying You 5 min read
A photo of a solar panel in a manufacturing facility with flourescent lighting and workers in the background and big blue Chinese characters on the wall.

In China, packed ballrooms, big ambition and parties for hydrogen

Hydrogen executives and researchers talked about conquering technological bottlenecks and slashing costs at a recent trade show.
Reporter's Notebook
Xiaoying You 2 min read
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Chinese companies’ European hydrogen gambit

Several top manufacturers have flocked to Spain to open renewable hydrogen factories.
Latest News
Xiaoying You 5 min read
A miniature, tabletop model of a large renewable energy plant and factory is on display at a conference. The model includes light up red and green lights and looks convincingly life-like.

Global electricity demand set to soar, but don’t blame artificial intelligence, IEA finds

Global demand for electricity is set to soar in the coming years as the world transitions to cleaner energy largely reliant on such power systems, finds the International Energy Agency.
Data Dives
Amy Harder & Amena H. Saiyid 2 min read
An illustration featuring a line chart that has a sharp green line going up. In the background are photos of solar panels, wind turbines, hydrogen, and large transmission lines.

Southeast Asia’s path to universal energy access and net-zero emissions

Southeast Asia is projected to keep increasing its reliance on carbon-intensive fuels like coal for the next 25 years. We need to slow, and ideally reverse, that fossil dependence.
Voices
Nicole Iseppi & Sunita Dubey 4 min read
Aerial photo of a solar farm next to a small town and green fields.

Solar and China drive renewables surge over next six years — IEA

The world will be getting nearly half its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. The key to this dramatic change is — in a word — solar.
Data Dives
Amena H. Saiyid < 1
An illustration showing two bar charts imposed over a globe with solar panels and wind turbines sticking out of it.

Progress under a microscope at New York Climate Week

Cipher’s team was on the ground in the Big Apple. In all the chaos and busyness, here’s what stood out to our reporters.
Latest News
Cipher Staff 6 min read
Photo of traffic in NYC, a sign above the traffic warns of gridlock.

China, Qatar and U.S. lead, depending on how you judge emissions

Two different ways to measure emissions paint very different pictures of the problem, leading countries to conflicting conclusions about how to address global warming.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
Bar chart with smoke stacks in the background. Illustration.

China hit its wind and solar goal six years early

China’s grid was built for coal power, which generates electricity constantly, so it is struggling to adapt to wind and solar, which only generate power when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining.
Latest News
Xiaoying You 4 min read
A photograph of a red tug boat pulling a double-headed wind turbine out to sea.

Space solar inspires hope and skepticism as it inches closer to reality

The idea of powering the planet with energy from space is revolutionary and intriguing. Until recently, it seemed unfeasible. 
Latest News
Anca Gurzu 5 min read
An illustration of an astronaut of a ladder up into space from the surface of Earth, holding up a solar panel to get the rays of the sun. The solar panel is plugged into a plug on the surface of Earth.

India’s clean-energy push stalls over China tensions

The story centers on transformers, machines that adjust electricity voltages, but it offers lessons for how the global energy transition writ large is intricately affected by geopolitics, economics and even extreme weather.
Latest News
Anuradha Varanasi 5 min read
Illustration of an electrical transformer box in front of an Indian flag, a map of the subcontinent and the word

Chinese solar firms pursue U.S., Europe markets despite obstacles

At a recent solar conference in Shanghai, “going overseas” — or in Mandarin, “chu hai” — was the phrase on everyone’s lips. Chinese solar panel manufacturers aim to surmount the unprecedented trade restrictions they face in the U.S. and Europe with three key strategies.
Latest News
Xiaoying You 5 min read
Two men stand under a large solar array in a giant conference center space. Photo shot from floor level, looking up.

In Southeast Asia, it’s a slow road to phasing out coal

Asia’s fleet of coal plants are one of knottiest challenges of the energy transition globally. They emit huge amounts of CO2, but are desperately needed to meet the region’s growing energy needs. Without intervention, they’ll be in use for decades to come.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 4 min read
Illustration of snail carrying a piece of coal on its back like a dumptruck over a map of southeast asia

Electric vehicle prices remain higher than traditional cars everywhere but China

Electric vehicle prices plunged below those of traditional, petrol-fueled cars in China over the past five years but remain higher than the price of traditional cars in the United States.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
Illustration where the lines from a line chart hover over a dark drawing of a car.

Trade is key to countering China’s clean energy dominance

Contrary to today’s protectionist trends, the best antidote to concerns about China’s cleantech dominance is more trade, not less.
Voices
Jason Bordoff 5 min read
Illustration of two ships, one blue with an American flag, one red with a Chinese flag. In the sky, the clouds are slightly green and shaped like the continents of the Earth.

Singapore seeks leading role in clean energy

Southeast Asia doesn't have a regional capital to act as organizer and promoter of its clean energy efforts. Singapore is trying to step into that role.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 4 min read
Singapore's skyline at sunset, dotted by spectacular tall buildings.

Despite unprecedented clean energy growth, it’s still a fossil fuel world

It’s a testament to the exponential growth of renewables that fossil fuels’ share of global energy consumption has not risen in recent decades even as the demand for energy climbs.
Data Dives
Cat Clifford < 1
An illustration showing a line chart transposed on top of an image of the smokestack of a fossil fuel power plant.

U.S. could surpass China as clean hydrogen leader

Armed with a robust pipeline of projects, the United States could surpass China as the world's top clean hydrogen producer as early as next year, according to recent projections shared exclusively with Cipher.
Data Dives
Amena H. Saiyid 2 min read
An illustration of a bar chart imposed over a hydrogen fuel station

Nickel illustrates China conundrum on critical minerals

Nickel refining offers a case study of the complex challenges the world faces in ramping up the use of minerals needed to drive the global clean energy transition.
Data Dives
Amena H. Saiyid 2 min read
IEA graph showing Chinese dominance of the battery supply chain.

China makes most of the world’s batteries

The energy transition depends on batteries and right now, China dominates almost every stage of the process of making them, a recent report makes clear.
Data Dives
Cat Clifford < 1
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Solar power poised for even greater breakthroughs

Solar panels have become the workhorse of the energy transition. Yet visits to two of the world’s leading solar power research laboratories underscore that the technology has a lot more to deliver for the energy transition.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 5 min read
A field of solar panels under a blue sky.

How China’s clean power investments are growing

China will invest more than $150 billion in renewables each year by 2030. Meanwhile, coal use in the country’s power sector will likely peak before 2030 and then decline steadily.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu < 1

Renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels in Asia 

After spiking in 2022, the average cost of renewable energy dropped below the average cost of fossil fuels in Asia, a critical region with rapidly growing energy needs.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
Horizontal bar chart, bars in grey and green.

With China’s dominance, cement emissions poised to grow

Cement emissions in economically developing parts of the world could double by the end of this century.
Data Dives
Amy Harder < 1
Line chart.

US, Europe struggle to keep up with China’s EV growth

Nearly two-thirds of all forecasted electric vehicle (EV) sales this year will likely be in China.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu < 1

China, India lean on coal-fired power to shore up economies

The emissions increase from coal-fired generation in these two countries along with emissions from other emerging economies more than offset the declines in coal power achieved by the United States, the European Union and other wealthier economies.
Data Dives
Amena H. Saiyid < 1

Chinese solar panel manufacturing outpaces global demand

China is producing far more solar panel modules than the world is on track to use. The implications of the mismatch could reach far beyond the country’s borders.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
Four bars in a bar chart with no labels, two green and two blue.

Why we need a more ambitious global energy target

The world is committing to expanding energy access to all, but our current target is too low. Without a new approach, we will leave billions of people behind — and drive an even bigger wedge between rich and poor nations over climate policy.
Voices
Todd Moss 3 min read
Two girls are sitting in a dark field in front of unlit houses. One of them is struggling to read while the other holds up a lightbulb with a growing plant inside, eliminating the darkness.

In India, battery swapping fuels electric market for 2 and 3 wheels

India’s 2- and 3-wheeler market has taken up battery swapping, and new business models.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 4 min read
A man drives a three-wheeled auto rickshaw through the streets of Rajasthan, India. The auto rickshaw is yellow and green and the background is black and white. A woman wearing yellow sits in the backseat, her dupatta covering her face.

Clean energy fueled China’s economy last year

Massive investments in solar power, electric vehicles and battery storage accounted for virtually all of China's economic growth in 2023.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
Green bars of a bar chart.

Looking back and ahead: climate tech trends in 2023 and 2024

Amy Harder shares reflections on 2023 and outlook for 2024.
Harder Line
Amy Harder 5 min read
A thermometer with a globe at the end of it and the 2024 written next to it on a black backdrop.

Japanese venture capital takes up climate finance

Rising concern about climate among Japan’s youth combined with a burgeoning enthusiasm in traditional corporate Japan for clean technologies has led to a new focus on venture capital and startups.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 4 min read
Yasuda Auditorium at the University of Tokyo in the foreground, with a Japanese flag overlay. Additionally, in the background, there is an image of solar panels and wind turbines.

India’s steel industry faces a long path to net zero

Green steel is in India’s future. But decarbonizing one of the most stubborn sectors of the economy will take decades, according to a new report.
Data Dives
Bill Spindle 2 min read
India’s steel industry is expected to slowly decarbonize.

Billions of dollars of Chinese solar panels sit in European warehouses

European imports of Chinese solar photovoltaic (PV) panels have significantly outpaced installations.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu < 1
Line chart depicting imported solar panels and solar panel installations in the EU.

Wind Blows Favorably on Japan’s North Island

Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido offers some of the most promising waters for offshore wind development.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 5 min read
Graphic depicting wind turbines in Japan

Bonus solar tax credits depend on unbuilt U.S. factories

Solar energy developers could earn bonus tax credits for using American-made content in their solar cells—but the factories making those key parts are not yet up and running.
Data Dives
Amena H. Saiyid < 1
Bar chart in shades of blue.

Japan, an economic leader in Asia, lags on renewable energy

Japan, the only Asian member of the elite Group of Seven countries (G7), is lagging in its efforts to decarbonize the world’s third-largest economy, according to climate advocates and scientists.
Latest News
Bill Spindle 5 min read

How to get the minerals we need in a clean energy future

Securing the critical minerals we need for a green energy future will require cleaning up mining practices, boosting recycling and innovating to be less dependent on them altogether.
Explainers
Anca Gurzu 5 min read

The massive quest for the minerals we need in a clean energy future

The rush toward a clean energy future means we need to dig, extract and process Earth’s resources faster and better than ever before.
Explainers
Anca Gurzu 5 min read

Cleantech race risks sidelining developing countries

The global cleantech race underway between the United States, Europe and China could leave developing countries behind. The world’s major economies are competing to become industrial leaders in the burgeoning cleantech sector.
Latest News
Anca Gurzu 3 min read

Why we can’t sacrifice our way out of climate change

Matt Rogers helped teach millions of homeowners to look for the leaf symbol on their Nest thermostats to save money—and curb climate change.
Harder Line
Amy Harder 4 min read

Energy security and federal climate funding to shape 2023

A historic 2022 will drive what happens this year. In our last December edition, we reflected on the five trends we predicted would shape 2022. This week, we’re looking at five trends we’re watching at Cipher in 2023.
Harder Line
Amy Harder 5 min read

War and new climate law make history in 2022

Every year since 2018, I’ve looked back and ahead at the trends shaping the past year and the year to come, including reality checks of my previous predictions. We’re keeping the tradition going.
Harder Line
Amy Harder 5 min read

Climate goals rising in countries that use the most coal

The overwhelming majority of global coal consumption occurs in countries that have pledged to limit or phase out their reliance on the fuel, according to a report out this month from the International Energy Agency.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu < 1
Graph of number of countries with plans to phase down coal use and net-zero emissions pledges

As the world bakes, developing world scrambles to adapt

The world is not cutting emissions fast enough to slow climate change, leaving everyone—but especially developing nations—scrambling to adapt to a hotter planet and its extreme-weather consequences.
Latest News
Anca Gurzu 3 min read

Led by Vietnam, Asian nations fuel world’s solar capacity growth

Five of the top 10 nations with the most solar electricity capacity are in Asia, according to a new report.
Data Dives
Amy Harder < 1
Chart of top countries ranked by solar electricity capacity over time

How to unlock clean tech for the developing world

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt—A half day’s drive from this resort town where thousands are gathered at an annual climate gathering, one of the world’s biggest solar farms stands as a rare example of how clean energy can be financed and built in a developing country.
Latest News
Anca Gurzu 3 min read

Clean tech is not reaching the developing world fast enough

Not enough cash is flowing to clean energy technologies in the developing world, widening the investment gap between rich and poorer countries and hampering the energy transition.
Latest News
Anca Gurzu 4 min read

Energy security and new laws fuel clean energy race

Nations are increasingly competing to establish themselves as pioneers of clean energy technologies, racing to boost energy self-sufficiency and green their economies.
Latest News
Anca Gurzu 3 min read

Bending capitalism to fight climate change

Governments, corporations and nonprofits are coming up with novel ways to prod capitalism to help tackle—instead of fuel—climate change.
Harder Line
Amy Harder 3 min read

Europe’s solar goals caught up in high prices—and China

The European Union wants to ally with the sun to boost energy security and meet climate goals but soaring prices for essential raw materials could thwart those plans.
Latest News
Anca Gurzu 4 min read

China dominates solar-power supply chain

China has increasingly dominated the market for polysilicon, the essential ingredient in solar panels, over the last dozen years.
Data Dives
Amy Harder < 1

Cleantech investment to soar in Southeast Asia

Investments in a range of clean energy technologies are poised to increase in Southeast Asia over the coming decades, but growth really skyrockets if the world gets on a path of limiting Earth’s temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Data Dives
Amy Harder < 1

World risks being two-thirds short on wind energy

The world needs to scale up annual wind energy installations by a factor of four this decade to meet mid-century climate goals, according to a report released earlier this month by the Global Wind Energy Council, a global trade group representing the industry.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu < 1

Coal use and power demand boost CO2 emissions

Carbon dioxide emissions are up again—and increased coal use is the main culprit.
Data Dives
Anca Gurzu 2 min read

Buckshot around the world

Each country has their own unique energy mix made up of different resources and technologies—a dirtier buckshot, if you will.
Data Dives
Amy Harder < 1

China’s industrial emissions surpass all of Europe

The carbon emissions of China’s steel and cement industries exceed the entire emissions of the European Union’s energy system, according to the International Energy Agency’s new report out on China.
Data Dives
Amy Harder < 1
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