List of Renewable Energy articles
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Chimney stacks for a factory processing rare earths, elements essential for the production of mobile phones and computers, in Baotou, China. America Dropped the Baton in the Rare-Earth Race
Washington keeps trying to play catch-up in the rare-earth game with China. It’s losing ground.
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An employee of Air Liquide stands in front of an electrolyzer at the company's future hydrogen production facility of renewable hydrogen in Oberhausen, Germany. Adam Tooze: Why ‘Green Hydrogen’ Isn’t Just Hype
The renewable energy source shows promise, but there are major technological and commercial obstacles to using it more.
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A worker walks past machinery that crushes rocks at the Mughulkhil chromite mine in Logar province, Afghanistan. China’s Got Afghan Fever, Again
Nothing says forever like the promise of Afghanistan’s mineral riches.
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting on securing critical mineral supply chains in the South Court Auditorium, located near the White House in Washington, D.C. The Critical Minerals Club
The United States and allies aim to sidestep reliance on China for the materials needed for clean tech and advanced defense gear.
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A view from above shows part of the flooded town of Yusufeli in Turkey's Artvin province. Turkey’s Dams Bring Power and Heartbreak
Turkish villages are vanishing as the country boosts its reliance on hydropower.
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An aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of a Chilean lithium mine China’s Latin American Gold Rush Is All About Clean Energy
Beijing’s not after gold—but lithium.
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German Economy Minister and Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, Norway's Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland and Norway's Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre talk with journalists during a visit to the hydrogen company NEL on Herøya, Norway, on Jan. 6, 2023. Norway Is Planning to Profit From Climate Change
The oil-rich Nordic country is laying the groundwork to become a renewable energy superpower.
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green-energy-battery-infographic-ev-foreign-policy-illustration-HPb Batteries Are the Battlefield
The next geopolitical contest may be over green technology, and China, for now, is poised to win control of those supply chains.
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A worker explains a photo of construction to an interior plasma chamber. Adam Tooze: Why Nuclear Fusion Is Not the Holy Grail
A recent breakthrough is good news, but renewables are still the better bet.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a terminal inauguration day. Europe Is Learning to Live Without Russian Energy
Russian President Vladimir Putin played the energy card on Europe to undercut Ukraine. Europe called his bluff.
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Environmental activists protest against the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, sometimes abbreviated as the TTP, in Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 11. Boric Is Trapped on Trade
Resource-rich Chile stands to profit off the energy transition—if its leftist president signs a deal despised by his base.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces new European Union energy policies at the bloc’s headquarters in Brussels, on Sept. 7. With Winter Coming, Europe Is Walking Off a Cliff
Europeans won’t escape their energy crisis as long as ideology trumps basic math.
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Electricity pylons are shown under cloudy skies during rainfall near Romanel-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, on Sept. 15. Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Destroying the Multipolar World
The EU and Russia are losing their competitive edge. That leaves the United States and China to duke it out.
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Then-Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida walks in front of Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant. Fumio Kishida’s Great Nuclear Leap
A decade after Fukushima, the Japanese prime minister is walking a fine political line to reengage with the carbon-free energy source.
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An excavator transfers imported iron ore at a port in Rizhao, China, on May 15, 2019. The Inflation Reduction Act Is the Start of Reclaiming Critical Mineral Chains
Green technologies depend on the supply of a few key resources.
