Energy Industry

A Chinese investor looks at stock index and prices of shares (red for price rising and green for price falling) at a stock brokerage house in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, 14 February 2019.The China stock market on Thursday wrote a finish to the five-day winning streak in which it had surged almost 150 points or 5.9 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just beneath the 2,720-point plateau and it may extend its losses on Friday (15 February 2019). The global forecast for the Asian markets is mixed to lower on concerns for trade and the outlook for interest rates. The European and U.S. markets were mostly lower and the Asian markets are likely to open in similar fashion. The SCI finished barely lower on Thursday following losses from the energy producers, while the financials and properties came in mixed. For the day, the index dipped 1.37 points or 0.05 percent to finish at 2,719.70 after trading between 2,707.49 and 2,729.46. The Shenzhen Composite Index rose 9.16 points or 0.66 percent to end at 1,398.84.No Use China. No Use France.

Order from Chaos

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David G. Victor

Friday, April 3, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Pump jacks operate at sunset in an oil field in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo

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How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting global energy markets?

Samantha Gross and Adrianna Pita

Monday, March 30, 2020

India

Impact of temperature on electricity demand: Evidence from Delhi and Indian states

Rahul Tongia

Monday, March 30, 2020

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Energy Industry

Inside ‘Project Odessa,’ an experiment in greener fossil-fuel power

Jeffrey Ball

Monday, March 16, 2020

Reports

Policy 2020

The United States can take climate change seriously while leading the world in oil and gas production

Samantha Gross

Monday, January 27, 2020

A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at "Solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E5A71NB401

Climate Change

Renewables, land use, and local opposition in the United States

Samantha Gross

January 2020

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Energy Security

The shifting energy landscape and the Gulf economies’ diversification challenge

Samantha Gross and Adel Abdel Ghafar

December 2019

Climate Change

Accelerating the low carbon transition

David G. Victor, Frank W. Geels, and Simon Sharpe

Monday, December 9, 2019

Report

Ten facts about the economics of climate change and climate policy

Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O’Donnell, Jay Shambaugh, Lawrence H. Goulder, Charles D. Kolstad, and Xianling Long

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: Kenyan nurses wear protective gear during a demonstration of preparations for any potential coronavirus cases at the Mbagathi Hospital, isolation centre for the disease, in Nairobi, Kenya March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi/File Photo

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: New EU-Africa strategy, impacts of the oil price crash, and spread of coronavirus

Christina Golubski and Anna Schaeffer

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Order from Chaos

COVID-19 is a reminder that interconnectivity is unavoidable

Morgan D. Bazilian and Samantha Gross

Thursday, March 12, 2020

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Figure of the week: Funding Africa’s power sector

Payce Madden

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

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