Gavin Maguire

Until 2020, commodities traders and economists needed only a handful of data points to gauge the health and direction of China's economy, and the volumes of raw materials needed to fuel the world's largest trading partner and goods producer.

The United States' power grid has been singled out as a glaring weakness within its power system, with aging lines and transformers deemed unable to handle the rapid further jumps to both power supply and demand expected in the coming years.

China's steady expansion to coal-fired power capacity has drawn ire from U.S. power system advisers who gripe that there's little point in cleaning up generation at home while China lifts coal-fired emissions ever higher.

Energy product traders, utilities, investors and business executives are among those scrambling to assess the likely impact of new steep tariffs on the United States' largest trade partners, which kicked in on Tuesday.

An enduring spell of low wind speeds across Texas has forced the state's power firms to increase generation from fossil fuels to record highs so far in 2025, potentially leading power firms to shorten or delay planned maintenance breaks this spring.

Australians are set for a general election within the next two months that will likely trigger substantial changes to national energy policies and priorities regardless of who wins.

India has the second-largest clean power capacity development pipeline globally after China, with nearly 56,000 megawatts of new renewables, hydro and nuclear capacity under construction.

India has the second-largest clean power capacity development pipeline globally after China, with nearly 56,000 megawatts of new renewables, hydro and nuclear capacity under construction.

Natural gas producers, exporters and trading firms are banking on Asia - the world's largest and fastest-growing power market - to drive gas demand growth over the coming decades.

Following rare back-to-back economic contractions in 2023 and 2024, German businesses are hopeful that a new government formed by the conservative CDU/CSU party and the center-left Social Democrats can revive Europe's largest economy in 2025.