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Rolls-Royce's new SMR will need 10,000 times less land than a wind project and about 1,000 times less land than a solar project. The SMR proves the Iron Law of Power Density, which says the lower the power density, the higher the resource intensity.

A recognition of the real-time nature of the U.S. electric grid is behind a new platform, created by Anterix, the Woodland Park, New Jersey-based telecommunications pioneer, to bring together broadband communications networks and to support the revolution taking place in the nation’s utilities.

Come 2023 INDYCARS race fans with petroleum in their veins may need a transfusion as the series moves to a 100% renewable fuel partially made of edible substances.

The pandemic killed demand for oil and gas, leaving the world an easy mark for Vladimir Putin’s supply-side punch. The upside? Widespread shortages and sky-high prices will finally force meaningful investments in alternatives and even pariahs like nuclear and wood.

True confession: The Biden team wants higher gas prices.

Electrifying mining equipment and leveraging new technologies like microbial and cosmic-ray muography solutions can help the industry reduce its emissions and grow sustainably.

High-tech ceramics firm CoorsTek, run by the great-grandchildren of brewer Adolph Coors, says it developed a highly efficient way to make hydrogen from natural gas (and capture by-product carbon dioxide) that will make the fuel a better option for fuel cell vehicles and industrial users.

Analysts are still seeing opportunities in the consumer, healthcare and energy sectors.

A diverse coalition in West Virginia leads the way to a new energy economy.

Europe has been walking a delicate line between supporting Ukraine and provoking President Putin because of its dependence on Russian gas. But the question is not whether the gas will be cut, but on whose terms? Europe must cut the gas now—not to punish Putin, but to defend itself.

Commodities trading giant Glencore International has admitted to a decade-long scheme of bribery and market manipulation and will pay $1.1 billion in criminal fines, while its cadre of billionaire traders go free—for now.

For countries such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa, protecting their freedom to trade with a commodity superpower such as Russia is as important as ensuring that they do not become the next victims of a globalizing West wielding its dominance in international financial institutions.

Are the people making energy policy decisions at the national and global levels serious people? The evidence at hand is not necessarily encouraging in that regard.

As the tension between fossil and renewable energies increases, how quickly does a country have to cut back its fossil energies and what happens to lost jobs?

Get ready for gasoline prices to surpass $5 a gallon across the U.S. soon – and $6 gas is not out of the question by the end of this summer.

Politicians should respond to high oil prices by helping low-income people, not waiving gasoline taxes.

The range of prices for EV charging is astonishing, because we think of energy as a product, like gasoline, but it's really a service. What do people charge and what should they charge?