A short brief on what changed in power, emissions and the grid — with the chart, the source and the link. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Grid & AI
Electricity demand per head. The measure that survives comparison between countries of very different size.
Changes every three days — next on 29 Aug 2026
Curated reporting and research from across the beats, each with our own read on it.
International Energy Agency (IEA)04 May 2026
The IEA have now published some version of the same sentence for years: more than 35 million tonnes of methane could be captured at no net cost, because the gas…
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Latitude Media28 Apr 2026
Announced data centre projects now total more than the entire US peak load. That comparison does a lot of work here, and it is the right one — it makes…
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International Energy Agency (IEA)23 Jul 2026
The headline pairing here does the work: renewables growing more than 8 percent, and power-sector emissions still rising about 1 percent. Both are true, and the gap between them is…
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Geoscience Letters (Springer, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society)28 Apr 2026
Nitrous oxide is the greenhouse gas with no pledge, no satellite constellation, no tracker and no international framework — and its growth rate has nearly doubled since the early 2000s.…
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Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG)01 Feb 2026
Treat the grades as advocacy, because they are — ACEG designed the criteria and ACEG is campaigning for more transmission. That does not make the scoring dishonest, but it does…
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Carbon Brief28 Apr 2026
The useful thing here is what did not happen. A major gas supply shock used to be a reliable trigger for a coal rebound — that was the whole shape…
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