https://www.scmp.com/rss/514797/feed Dave Jones is head of data insights at Ember. He has been an electricity analyst for 20 years and is leading Ember’s expansion beyond Europe. He is lead author for Ember’s Global Electricity Review. From 2000 to 2013, he worked as a front-office electricity trading analyst at German utility E.ON. He joined the non-profit Sandbag in 2014, where he worked on phasing out coal in Europe until 2020, when he helped launch Ember, and has been helping to expand into three areas: setting up an Asia... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When Russia invaded Ukraine last February, President Vladimir Putin stepped up his strategy of weaponising energy exports to Europe. Europe responded by going on a buying frenzy for coal, gas and oil, competing against buyers in Asia, which caused global fossil fuel prices to spike. Further challenges in the European Union’s electricity sector exacerbated the situation. A one-in-500-year drought affected Italy, France and Spain, amid extensive nuclear-powered electricity outages in France caused... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3208488/no-coal-comeback-europes-renewable-energy-transition-hyperdrive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3208488/no-coal-comeback-europes-renewable-energy-transition-hyperdrive?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:00:12 +0000