France is banning short-haul domestic flights when there is a regular and frequent train option that takes less than two and a half hours, after a 2021 climate law, No 2021-1104, received permission from the […]
As we detailed earlier, a clear division is arising between Europe and the United States over Washington’s more hawkish and hardline stance on resisting all negotiations with Russia, but instead which is centered on encouraging […]
Are the Conference of Party (COP) meetings losing steam and if so, what might be done to advance the climate agenda? COP26 in Glasgow and more recently, COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, underline decarbonization’s political […]
Record inflation continued to rack the French economy in November, beating economist expectations, according to new numbers reported on Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Research (Insee). Preliminary estimates indicated that consumer […]
Households could have been paid up to £100 for not using their electricity A major winter emergency electricity plan will not be going ahead tomorrow night (Tuesday November 29), the National Grid has announced this afternoon. The […]
Just after 2:30 yesterday afternoon, National Grid ESO issued the first Capacity Market Notice (“CMN”) of the winter, predicting a spare generation margin of just 177 MW at 7pm – CMNs are issued automatically if the margin […]
The United States’ 92 nuclear reactors currently in operation have a mean age of 41.6 years, the third oldest in the world. The only nuclear fleets that are older are those of Switzerland (46.3 years) […]
The two main narratives in oil markets today revolve around a supply crunch sending prices higher and the global economic slowdown destroying demand. While there are both supply and demand issues, it seems that the […]
This week EDF updated its expectations for its nuclear fleet for this winter, downgrading its output forecasts to 275-285 TWh, compared to the previous estimate of 280-300 TWh. The main driver of the downgraded forecasts is a […]
NewsMigration France says it will evacuate four of the more than 200 passengers onboard the Ocean Viking rescue ship, citing health reasons, following tense exchanges with Italy on which country should allow the boat to […]
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