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Enrique Dans

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IMAGE: The cover of The Economist in May 22nd, 2025, with the letters “POLAND” in red four times, on a white background, and fading into white as they go downwards

IMAGE: The cover of The Economist in May 22nd, 2025, with the letters “POLAND” in red four times, on a white background, and fading into white as they go downwards

Realpolitik and renewables: what’s behind Poland’s bold energy transition?

IMAGE: A flat-style digital illustration depicting China’s energy transition. In the foreground, there’s an orange electric car. To the left, solar panels and wind turbines represent renewable energy. In the background to the right, a coal power plant emits smoke, with a red building featuring the Chinese flag. The scene contrasts clean energy with traditional fossil fuels, set against green hills and a red sun in a clear sky

IMAGE: A flat-style digital illustration depicting China’s energy transition. In the foreground, there’s an orange electric car. To the left, solar panels and wind turbines represent renewable energy. In the background to the right, a coal power plant emits smoke, with a red building featuring the Chinese flag. The scene contrasts clean energy with traditional fossil fuels, set against green hills and a red sun in a clear sky

Beyond coal: how China is quietly leading the clean energy race

Spain’s blackout: blaming renewables only reveals ignorance and conflicts of interest

IMAGE: A diagram explaining how a redox flow battery works

IMAGE: A diagram explaining how a redox flow battery works

Why flow batteries are going to change our energy matrix

IMAGE: A green square with the sodium symbol, Na

IMAGE: A green square with the sodium symbol, Na

Why sodium is an increasingly viable alternative to lithium for certain battery uses

IMAGE: An illustration representing the worsening climate emergency. It visualizes various natural disasters intensifying, with elements like wildfires, floods, and droughts all in one scene, symbolizing the critical impact of climate change

IMAGE: An illustration representing the worsening climate emergency. It visualizes various natural disasters intensifying, with elements like wildfires, floods, and droughts all in one scene, symbolizing the critical impact of climate change

Donald Trump’s victory will be remembered as a dark day for the planet

IMAGE: An illustration representing the concept of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). It visually showcases the process of injecting water deep into the Earth’s crust, where it gets heated by natural heat sources, and is then pumped back up to the surface to generate completely renewable electricity

IMAGE: An illustration representing the concept of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). It visually showcases the process of injecting water deep into the Earth’s crust, where it gets heated by natural heat sources, and is then pumped back up to the surface to generate completely renewable electricity

There’s another kind of energy under the ground that’s clean, cheap, and plentiful

IMAGE: Several generators in a wind farm

IMAGE: Several generators in a wind farm

Renewables are changing the UK’s energy map: time to rethink its pricing system?

IMAGE: A comic-style illustration of a map of Kenya with the flag, a large nuclear power facility, and a big question mark hovering over it

IMAGE: A comic-style illustration of a map of Kenya with the flag, a large nuclear power facility, and a big question mark hovering over it

Kenya is about to make a very expensive mistake

IMAGE: The Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station, the last coal plant in the UK, that will be decommissioned in September 2024

IMAGE: The Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station, the last coal plant in the UK, that will be decommissioned in September 2024

Cleaning up Europe’s power sector: we’re getting there