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• Futures Exchanges Gear Up For EV Boom

  Published 22 July 2021 | viewed 1,684 times

  The CME’s Comex and London Metal Exchange (LME) are squaring up for the industrial revolution that is electrification, according to recent posts by Bloomberg and…

• China Ramps Up Coal Production To Meet Growing Energy Demand

  Published 21 July 2021 | viewed 3,097 times

  While the rest of the world is trying to come to grips with the European Union’s proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) – which calls…

• Europe Ramps Up Pivot Away From Fossil Fuels

  Published 19 July 2021 | viewed 4,013 times

  Reducing carbon emissions seems to be on the top of everybody’s agenda at the moment. A recent post in The New York Times reports on…

• Countering China’s Dominance In The Rare Earths Sector

  Published 14 July 2021 | viewed 3,215 times

  Energy Fuels Inc. and Neo Performance Materials Inc. announced that they have executed the first shipment of mixed rare earth carbonate from a mill in…

• Brexit Britain Begins To Scrap EU Trade Quotas

  Published 07 July 2021 | viewed 2,510 times

  In one of its first tests as a free trading global economy after Brexit, Britain achieved a middling mark this past week. Trade minister Liz…

• China’s Belt And Road Initiative Is Transforming Kazakhstan’s Energy Supply

  Published 21 June 2021 | viewed 4,990 times

  According to a news report by Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua, the wind farm located in South Kazakhstan near the city of Zhanatas is an…

• Aluminum And Steel Could Peak In China As Coal Is Fazed Out

  Published 13 June 2021 | viewed 4,300 times

  China’s steel and aluminum market is undergoing a quiet revolution. It’s not a revolution of investment or innovation. Peak aluminum, steel in China? According to…

• China’s Steel Industry Has Been Hit Hard By Its ‘War On Pollution’

  Published 12 March 2021 | viewed 5,683 times

  In many emerging markets, economic growth has come at the stark price of appalling levels of pollution. But the Financial Times suggested that in China,…

• Can President Biden Avoid A Critical Metals Crisis?

  Published 28 February 2021 | viewed 4,283 times

  President Joe Biden’s latest executive order seeks to secure a variety of important supply chains. For example, in one higher-profile case, General Motors recently announced…

• Is The Green Hydrogen Hype Justified?

  Published 25 December 2020 | viewed 22,502 times

  Has the time for the “fuel of the future,” green hydrogen, arrived? Recently, some of the world’s biggest green hydrogen project developers and partners joined…

• Inda Ramps Up Deepwater Gas Production

  Published 24 December 2020 | viewed 6,356 times

  The beginning of production at what is now Asia’s deepest offshore natural gas field will increase the share of natural gas in India’s energy basket.…

• The U.S. Moves To Ease Dependence On Foreign Rare Earths

  Published 07 October 2020 | viewed 3,223 times

  Late last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that seeks to curb U.S. dependence on foreign sources of critical minerals. Chief among those…

• Problems Are Piling Up For Oil Majors

  Published 07 October 2020 | viewed 12,410 times

  Consumers reacted to earlier lockdowns and continued pandemic restrictions, leading to a massive drop in demand. On the other hand, prices initially collapsed after Saudi…

• U.S. Firm Looks To Gain Ground In India’s Energy Storage Market

  Published 01 October 2020 | viewed 3,860 times

  India’s renewable energy sector, the fourth-most attractive renewable energy market in the world today, is all set to get a new player. U.S.-based ArcVera Renewables, which…

• Import Costs Rise As U.S.-China Trade Spat Escalates

  Published 28 September 2020 | viewed 2,676 times

  We have written in previous posts about volatility this year in the logistics market adding to buyers’ delivery and import cost uncertainty. At other times,…

• Can The UK Auto Industry Bounce Back?

  Published 28 September 2020 | viewed 9,757 times

  We may be coming out of the first pandemic lockdown and business does, broadly, appear to be picking up; however, but some sections of manufacturing,…

• Copper Prices Are Soaring On Growing Battery Metal Demand

  Published 11 September 2020 | viewed 13,792 times

  A fair part of the bull story for copper this year has been supply-side fears. The world’s largest mines are in South America, which has…

• The Battery Breakthrough That Could Transform An Entire Industry

  Published 28 August 2020 | viewed 13,945 times

  A team of researchers in India has introduced an eco-friendly and energy-efficient battery that is being touted as “the future” of batteries — not only…

• India To Propose World Solar Bank

  Published 27 August 2020 | viewed 3,596 times

  India will propose a World Solar Bank at the World Solar Technology Summit organized by the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in September, the Business Standard reported. Stay…

• What Role Will Hydrogen Play In The EU’s Future?

  Published 18 July 2020 | viewed 13,609 times

  The media — at least in Europe — seems to be abuzz with talk about green hydrogen. As an energy source, backers envision hydrogen powering…