David Fickling

The disruption in aluminium exports is hitting beverage manufacturing and power grid build-outs

The number is a decent approximation for the price of LNG-fired electricity from an existing plant

With oil and gas supplies soon running out, Iran’s US$2 million-per-ship fee for safe passage to non-hostile nations seems pretty competitive

The supply shock from the Iran war is accelerating Asia’s electric vehicle revolution

The current geopolitical emergency shows that chip-producing South Korea and Taiwan need to increase the use of renewables

With each passing year, batteries get cheaper, lighter and more powerful

The country’s plans are best understood not as a genuine expansion, but a bid to hobble the front-runner

The country already has the power grid of the future; the problem is it’s being used in a grossly inefficient manner

Humanity’s risk of starvation is going up with falling crop yields, strained water supplies and restrictive food trade

Prices are at their lowest in a decade, and factories are saddled with more than twice the capacity they need