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On April 20, 2020, during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, the price for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil fell by 306% in a single trading day to close at negative $37.63. On Monday, October 18, 2021, WTI opened above $83 per barrel, a rise of more than $120.

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The auto giant has been drawing criticism from environmental groups for being slow to join the shift to battery-powered vehicles.

A chameleon resource has advantages that may well serve as a bridge fossil fuel to a renewable energy future.

President Biden announced a series of moves last week that he says will help relieve growing congestion in supply chains for all manner of goods in the U.S. and globally. One CEO questions whether the measures will have any positive impact on the problem at all.

As the world struggles with the impacts of high energy prices and regional shortages of supply and UN officials prepare to convene the COP26 conference later this month to assess the status of global efforts to deal with climate change, Deloitte has issued a new report quantifying the progress of...

The energy sector started out the third quarter in retreat, but came roaring back in September. Here is a breakdown of how the subsectors performed for the quarter.

The electric truckmaker has been a roller-coaster ride for investors since its June 2020 public listing, but may be winning back some lost ground with new deals and strategic partnerships.

If oil companies cut back on upstream investment, the market share for OPEC+ will soar. This could mean future oil supply disruptions are more serious.

Australia has declared that the national nuclear waste storage facility, more correctly referred to as a radioactive waste site, will be at Napandee, near Kimba, on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The choice was widely expected as the government had already picked Napandee as its preferred site.

Rising oil prices and tepid U.S. production are just the latest in a longer-term decline in available exports worldwide. That’s likely to make the transition to renewables more costly and complicated than many people thought.

Europe is in the midst of an unprecedented energy crisis, exacerbated by overly ambitious green policies and Russian opportunism.

Who's really responsible for hampering competition in the energy markets?

Gas prices have hit record levels in Europe and Asia surging 10-fold in a year. As with all perfect storms, the crisis has come about incrementally. Demand is soaring as the global economy recovers; storage is low; and there have been supply disruptions

Despite Europe's ongoing energy crisis, a crisis that is due in large part to the continent's headlong rush toward renewables, the Biden administration is pushing the Clean Electricity Performance Program which will likely provide tens of billions of dollars in new subsidies for wind and solar.

In this edition of #Solar100, CEO and founder of kWh Analytics Richard Matsui speaks with the former Director of Women in Energy at Columbia’s Center for Energy Policy, Jully Merino Carela.

Will the pace of the green energy transition accelerate or slow down? The natural gas shortage and the resulting high prices are forcing COP26 leaders to rethink their carbon-cutting strategies.