The strategic goal for most countries is energy systems that are affordable and cannot be blocked or held hostage.
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The US produces more oil today than any other country, and there is no clear emergency on the scale of the energy crises of the 1970s. But there are some causes for concern.
Rural areas in the EU have untapped potential for solar, wind and hydropower energy production. Community engagement can help lessen resistance to new sites.
Taking advantage of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, outside investors have acquired substantial stakes in what have long been regarded as “sovereign” assets that are critical for the EU’s energy strategy.
A new federal program aims to reduce diesel-dependency in remote Indigenous communities. But are these communities able to do this on their own terms?
Australians love cooking with gas, but what if you could make your own supply, using leftover food waste? It may be time for more households to embrace home biogas – and stop paying gas bills.
The Trump administration has set a new national policy: energy dominance. But can the US really dominate other countries through fossil fuel exports?
We have the technology to make oil from algae, rather than digging up crude oil from organisms that lived billions of years ago. But bringing it to market will take a force of economic and political will.
The Obama Administration is facing a critical choice over whether to approve an extension of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. If approved it will carry heavy crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries…
The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by about 2017 and will become a net oil exporter by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) [recently predicted](http://iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/English.pdf](http://iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/English.pdf…
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Senior research associate (Resources for the Future), Lecturer (University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy), University of Michigan
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Academic Director, School for International Training, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
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Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia