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Energy Experts

Powerlines

How Europe Can Build Without Breaking Its Cities

As billions flow into net-zero technologies, data centers and electrification, Adapteo Group’s Zoey Tsopela examines how Europe’s energy and industrial ambitions are colliding with real-world constraints on land, grid capacity and social infrastructure. From the Nordics to the U.K., Europe’s energy transition will be shaped by the hard limits of space, power and public acceptance.
By Zoey Tsopela
A large storm moving over rural farmland

The Invisible Force: How Climate Signals Are Moving Markets Before the Data Does

As commodity prices in 2026 break from historical patterns, Mind Money’s Edward Nikulin makes the case that weather is no longer a background variable but a primary driver of price formation. With traditional models still built around monetary policy signals and confirmed data releases, the gap between physical conditions on the ground and what gets reflected in prices is widening.
By Edward Nikulin
Battery storage in a city overlaid with electricity network

The Energy Transition’s Next Bottleneck Is Intelligence

Powerline’s Matineh Eybpoosh explores a growing vulnerability in the global energy transition: while battery storage is scaling rapidly across power grids, the intelligence required to operate these assets efficiently is lagging behind. As battery fleets expand across markets, Matineh argues that operational intelligence and automation will become essential to the energy transition.
By Matineh Eybpoosh
People walk through Times Square during a snowstorm on January 25, 2026 in New York City

New York’s High Energy Costs Are a Hidden Affordability Crisis

By Gabe Phillips
Map of energy transfer across the US

The A.I. Boom Is Stress-Testing America’s Power Grid

By Marlon Nichols
Data center server room

The Nordic Blueprint for Building A.I. Infrastructure at Scale

By Anders Fryxell

How Subscriptions and Flexible Ownership Models Are Rewriting the EV Adoption Curve

By Rei Vardi
Servers in a data center

Why Iceland Is Becoming a Model for Renewable-Powered High-Performance Computing

By Erling Freyr Guðmundsson
An oil pump captured at night

Tariffs, Turbulence and Tightropes: The Next Chapter in Global Energy Investment

By Igor Isaev
Pump-jack mining crude oil with the sunset

Oil Giants Retreat from Clean Energy at Their Own Peril

By Stephen H. Crolius
A 3-D render of green electric vehicles positioned at charging stations

The Silent Revolution: How Electric Cars Are Quietly Cleaning Cities

By Rei Vardi
Satellite orbiting Earth above a sunlit continent, symbolizing the global infrastructure and reach of the digital economy.

The Five Pillars of the Global Digital Economy

By Mehdi Paryavi
Aerial view of a massive oil tanker being guided by tugboats through deep blue waters, symbolizing the scale and complexity of global energy logistics.

Crude Realities: Energy Markets Are Betting on Chaos

By Igor Isaev
Abstract illustration of an energy landscape featuring white wind turbines, an oil rig-like structure, a yellow hand pointing upward and stylized elements like a blue river, fish and eye shapes

High Voltage, Higher Stakes: How the Information Economy Is Rewiring Energy Markets

By Stephen H. Crolius
A factory worker walks past a blue car.

Can the Auto Industry Make the EV Battery Math Work?

By Andrew Eil
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