Carbon & Energy Transition News Cloud

Protecting nature isn’t charity. It’s economic self-interest https://www.ft.com/content/d8a41c9e-7837-4edc-93a0-3896ab19d61a The effects of building systems that are out of sync with our environment are becoming all too clear

How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on the future https://www.ft.com/content/bd134250-00d8-4bfd-bf4b-d32479ac0fed How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future

South-east Asia choked in haze as Indonesia wildfires spread https://www.ft.com/content/0f3b5dea-b0d9-49ec-9b06-a86e389c4fbd?syn-25a6b1a6=1 El Niño weather cycle has intensified seasonal blazes linked to illegal land clearing

The 1.5C climate goal is dead https://www.ft.com/content/9992ac4f-2305-406d-802b-212a85cb045e?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Focus must turn to limiting the ‘overshoot’ — and managing its consequences

Spain pushes for EU oil and gas tax to pay for climate change response https://www.ft.com/content/86da564e-aec7-4d53-b7b8-93bbdd240061?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy

ORLEN and partners launch Baltic Energy Initiative https://www.energymonitor.ai/news/orlen-launch-baltic-energy-initiative/ ORLEN has signed an agreement with 13 other energy companies from Northern and Central Europe to create the Baltic Energy Initiative.

Work begins on $1bn Southwest Intertie Project-North in US https://www.energymonitor.ai/news/work-starts-swip-north/ Great Basin Transmission has started construction on the Southwest Intertie Project-North (SWIP-North), a 285-mile, 500kV transmission line.

MN8, Google and Eos launch clean energy project in West Virginia https://www.energymonitor.ai/news/mn8-google-eos-clean-energy/ MN8, Eos and Google have announced a joint project in West Virginia, US, that aims to deliver new clean energy resources to the PJM grid.

Heerema finalises offshore foundation work at Bałtyk 2 and 3 projects https://www.energymonitor.ai/news/heerema-foundation-work-baltyk-2-3/ Heerema has finished installing 100 wind turbine foundations and two substation jackets for the Bałtyk 2 and 3 offshore wind farms in Poland.

Europe’s renewables expansion is shifting value towards flexibility https://www.energymonitor.ai/analysis/europes-renewables-expansion-is-shifting-value-towards-flexibility/ Europe is set for another decade of fast renewable growth, but generation capacity is no longer the best way to spot commerci…

For sweltering Britons, rising energy prices could spark a shutter boom https://www.ft.com/content/575b676e-6ece-480b-bf0e-901af9471015?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Shares in window specialists have outperformed the broader market in the past month

Vulnerable states sound alarm as UN says planet will surpass 1.5C of warming https://www.ft.com/content/e698c3df-d1ec-418e-9774-fec19a6f846f?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Even in the most optimistic scenario, the temperature rise in the industrial era would peak at about 1.8C, agency says

Tory attempts to repeal the UK Climate Act are tin-eared https://www.ft.com/content/5b8f840e-f47c-452a-a99b-a79044ddf7c7 Summer’s droughts and wildfires demonstrate the need to stick to cross-party consensus on policy and to UK strategy on net zero

Indonesia’s lessons for the global energy transition https://www.ft.com/content/3cd95c0c-4d62-4a74-8c66-34523bc2567d?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Country’s solar push highlights momentum — and obstacles — around green energy shift

BayWa r.e.’s Teresa Casacchia on Europe’s flexibility-centric energy system https://www.energymonitor.ai/interviews/baywa-r-e-teresa-casacchia-interview/ BayWa r.e.'s Teresa Casacchia on why flexibility could be new baseload as batteries make renewable electricity more reliable and dispatchable.