We lead with news that Bitcoin mining threatens to run the world completely out of electricity by 2020. We follow with news that oil gets into the cryptocurrency act; OPEC wakes up to US shale oil growth; cracked Forties pipeline closes 80 North Sea platforms; Wylfa nuclear power to go ahead in N Wales; Trump seeks global pro-coal alliance; Tesla’s big South Australian battery at work; EDF’s $25 billion solar push; Puerto Rico’s multi-billion microgrid; Poland’s renewable energy plan; a blow to UK battery storage; Macron despairs; Exxon capitulates and how climate change will cause large, valuable, private properties to fall into the sea. Continue reading
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