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Solar & Storage Succeed When Cybersecurity Leads

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Solar and energy storage are the lowest-cost, fastest-to-build technologies available to help meet rising electricity demand. The market is quickly responding to this reality. Solar and storage accounted for 84% of new grid capacity additions in 2024, and according to SEIA’s and Wood Mackenzie’s latest Solar Market Insight Report, these technologies made up 82% of new capacity added in the first half … [continued]

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Is China Looking For Protection Against Oil Price Spikes Or Something More?

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Juan Diego Celemín Mojica just wrote an excellent piece on oil production and oil demand trends. You have to read that before getting into this one. Also, as Juan said, this is an extremely complicated and opaque topic. Reading the piece, though, I was struck by China’s stockpiling of oil … [continued]

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Oil’s Calm Before the Storm: Hidden Weaknesses, China’s Stockpiles and the Oil Demand Mirage

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A year ago, I published an article on Peak Oil Demand and the impact EVs would have in the world’s most traded commodity. I thought a followup was worth it by now because some things have become clearer, but more importantly, because weird things have been happening in the world … [continued]

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