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All things energy @woodmackenzie. Host of @TheEnergyGang podcast. Formerly @FT, @BBCNews. Opinions my own
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Articles by Ed Crooks

Shell set to clash with investors

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By Kate Burgess, Ed Crooks
| Minerva Analytics
It is only a few weeks since BP clashed with its shareholders about pay for its top executives at its annual meeting. Now Royal Dutch Shell appears to be heading in the same direction.... .... it will be the second year the Shell board has clashed with shareholders over pay. Last year, they [institutional investors] objected to the oil group’s plan to pay a discretionary award to hold on to three directors in the running to be chief executive.
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How are energy supply chains changing as electricity demand surges?

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
ACORE, the power and renewables industry group, is this week hosting its annual Policy Forum in Washinton DC. It’s an event where industry leaders and experts discuss how the changing landscape of US energy policy is shaping infrastructure investment, the growth of electricity supply, and the affordability of power. Host Ed Crooks is recording two special episodes from the forum.
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US plans largest nuclear power program since the 1970s

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By Ed Crooks
| MSN Verified
The United States aims to embark on its most active new nuclear construction program since the 1970s.
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Can $80 Billion Transform U.S. Nuclear Energy Landscape?

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By Ed Crooks
| Fixing the Future
The United States aims to embark on its most active new nuclear construction program since the 1970s. In its most high-dollar nuclear deal yet, the Trump administration in October launched a partnership to build at least $80 billion worth of new, large-scale nuclear reactors, and chose Westinghouse Electric Company and its co-owners, Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco, for the job.
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U.S. Plans Largest Nuclear Power Program Since the 1970s

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By Ed Crooks
| Aol Verified
The United States aims to embark on its most active new nuclear construction program since the 1970s. In its most high-dollar nuclear deal yet, the Trump administration in October launched a partnership to build at least $80 billion worth of new, large-scale nuclear reactors, and chose Westinghouse Electric Company and its co-owners, Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco, for the job.
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Energy intelligence drives industry transformation

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By Ed Crooks
| Energy Connects
Wood Mackenzie After years of cautious sentiment, a renewed confidence in the longer-term outlook for oil and gas was evident as the global energy industry convened in Abu Dhabi for ADIPEC 2025 – the world’s largest energy conference. IOCs and NOCs discussed building portfolio resilience for the long term, while anticipating near-term price volatility.
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What the

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
Securing control of the US Presidency, Senate and House of Representatives in last year’s elections put the Republicans in a strong position to implement their policy agenda, and this year they have taken full advantage of that. The legislation informally known as the “one big beautiful bill”, signed into law by President Donald Trump last week on 4 July, advanced Republican priorities in a wide range of areas, including taxes, Medicaid, food stamps and immigration enforcement.
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Ceasefire in the Israel-Iran conflict

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
The hostilities between Israel and Iran, and the US intervention in that conflict, escalated rapidly this month with little warning. They now appear to have de-escalated just as quickly. By Monday afternoon, less than 48 hours after US aircraft and missiles hit three Iranian nuclear sites, President Donald Trump was congratulating Israel and Iran on having agreed a ceasefire.
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EBOS: the unsung hero that’s accelerating clean energy deployment

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
EBOS – electrical balance of systems – includes everything that carries electricity from solar panels to the grid: wiring, switches, connector boxes and other components. It might not grab headlines, but it’s the backbone of every solar and storage project, and is essential to performance, reliability and project success.
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What the US attack on Iran’s nuclear installations means for energy

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
Just after midnight on Friday night, seven B-2 stealth bombers took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, heading for Iran. Supported by about 120 other aircraft, including tankers for in-flight refuelling, they dropped 14 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) “bunker-buster” bombs on two Iranian nuclear facilities, at Fordow and Natanz, before returning safely to base. Another nuclear site, at Isfahan, was also hit by US submarine-launched cruise missiles.
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How do we adapt to a warming world?

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
The world is experiencing a new reality: infrastructure, agriculture, and supply chains were built for a historical climate that no longer exists. Last year the average global surface temperature was about 1.47° C warmer than in the late 19th century, according to NASA. On current trends we are on course for perhaps 2.7° C of warming by the end of the current century: far in excess of the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5° C.
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What the conflict between Israel and Iran means for energy

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
The conflict between, the most serious outbreak of hostilities between the two countries in their history, continued over the weekend. Israel used missiles, drones and aircraft to strike Iran’s leadership, nuclear sites and other installations. Iran responded with missile and drone attacks on Israel. The fighting has potentially wide-ranging implications for global oil and gas markets.
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Geothermal, dealmaking and the future of clean energy finance

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
In the third and final special episode recorded live from the ACORE Finance Forum, host Ed Crooks and regular guest Amy Myers Jaffe talk to industry leaders to explore some key issues in renewable energy technology and finance. Amy starts the episode by speaking with David Ulrey, CFO of Fervo Energy, an innovative geothermal startup. David shares insights into Fervo’s projects, including their initial commercial pilot in Nevada and the ambitious 100-megawatt development in Utah.
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Renewables in the US face a future without tax credits

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, close allies during last year’s election campaign and in the first few months of the new administration, have fallen out. Musk has been repeatedly critical of the version of the tax and spending legislation, supported by the president, that was passed by the US House of Representatives last month. “Call your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok! KILL the BILL,” Musk posted last Wednesday.
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Energy and the ‘big beautiful bill’

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
As the US races against China to develop the most advanced capabilities in AI, energy is critical. In this second episode from the ACORE finance forum, we speak to experts about how US energy policy, and in particular the reconciliation bill now being debated in Congress, might affect that race. Host Ed Crooks and regular guest Amy Myers Jaffe talk first to Joseph Webster, a Senior Fellow at the think-tank the Atlantic Council.
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Clean energy finance in uncertain times

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
The Energy Gang are at The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Finance Forum in New York City, which brings together industry leaders, investors, and bankers to discuss the hottest issues in clean energy. Host Ed Crooks and regular guest Amy Myers Jaffe talk to ACORE Chief Executive and President Ray Long about the uncertainty hanging over the industry following the debate in Congress over repealing energy tax credits.
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US Congress threatens to cut support for nuclear power

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
One of the best-known sayings of the celebrated free-market economist Thomas Sowell is: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” The Trump administration has faced a sharp demonstration of that point over its policy on nuclear power. President Donald Trump last week signed four executive orders aimed at delivering the often-promised “nuclear renaissance” for the US.
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It’s looking bleak for clean energy in the US as Congress threatens to shred the Inflation Reduction Act

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
Legislation with massive implications for clean energy in the US has been making progress in Congress. The Republican party’s “big beautiful bill”, introducing sweeping changes to taxes and government spending, would phase out most of the tax credits for low-carbon energy that were created, expanded or extended in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022.
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Macro vs micro: the impact of tariffs on the energy industry

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By Ed Crooks
| Energy Connects
While the impact of the actual and threatened tariffs will be complex and far-reaching, beyond the microeconomic impacts on specific sectors and companies, the macroeconomic consequences may end up being more significant On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump promised steep increases in US tariffs, and in office he has been acting swiftly to make good on those pledges.
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Can we add dozens of giant new data centres to the electricity grid?

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
It’s the most talked-about academic paper this year in the world of energy. Rethinking Load Growth, co-authored by Tyler Norris of Duke University has caused a stir in energy circles because it offers a new perspective on the hottest issue of the moment: how to provide power for new data centres and other large consumers.
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Falling crude prices raise questions over US oil production

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
President Donald Trump was elected in part because of voters’ concerns about rising prices. Reducing the cost of living has been one of his declared objectives. His record so far has been mixed: consumer prices excluding food and energy continue to rise, albeit at a much slower rate than at the peak of US inflation in 2022. One product that has come down in price is gasoline.
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Tariffs begin to redirect global energy trade flows | Wood Mackenzie

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
The period between the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 and Germany’s invasion of France in 1940 became known in Britain as the “phoney war”, because of the lack of large-scale engagements. The trade war that was declared by the US last month currently has a similar sense of unreality. The full impacts of the Trump administration’s tariff strategy have not yet been felt.
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Energy Gang and Interchange Recharged join forces to discuss flexibility on the power grid

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
They called the film Avengers: Infinity War the most ambitious crossover event in history. We can’t  quite make the same claim, but at Wood Mackenzie’s 2025 Solar and Energy Storage Summit, we did record a crossover episode. Ed Crooks, host of Energy Gang, is joined by Sylvia Leyva Martinez, Wood Mackenz’s principal analyst for solar power and host of Interchange Recharged, to discuss the future of energy, and of the electricity grid in particular.
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What do the tariff wars mean for low-carbon energy?

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
“With great uncertainty comes great opportunity”, says Abby Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, in this special episode of the Energy Gang, recorded live at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit. Is she right? And what are those opportunities? To find out, host Ed Crooks welcomed Abby and Shyam Srinivasan, CEO and Co-Founder of Zitara Technologies, for a special discussion on the state of the solar and storage industries today.
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Keeping cleantech investment alive

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
These are hard times for investment in low-carbon energy. The lack of progress in international climate negotiations, threats to policy support, and an increased awareness of the challenges of decarbonisation, have created some strong headwinds. Everyone agrees that more breakthroughs in innovative emissions-reducing technologies are essential for tackling climate change. So how can innovative energy companies raise the capital they need to scale?
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Tariff shockwaves shake the energy industry

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump promised steep increases in US tariffs, and in office he has been acting swiftly to make good on those pledges. Last week, he announced a broad-based package of new tariffs on US imports, in what is being seen as one of the most radical moves to reshape the world economy in decades. The new tariffs, announced on what was billed by the administration as “Liberation Day” last Wednesday, are scheduled to take effect on 9 April.
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How can the power industry meet the challenge of rising demand?

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
If President Trump’s tariff strategy succeeds in sparking a revival in US manufacturing, one consequence will be surging demand for power. We are already seeing electricity demand starting to pick up after 15 years of stagnation, driven by new data centers for AI and a wave of factory-building for semiconductors and batteries that is already under way. How can the electricity industry increase capacity to meet that growing demand and provide the power that the country needs?
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Trump Appointments Signal Aim To Boost US Energy Investment And Production

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By Ed Crooks, Tyler Durden
| Conservative Angle
Go to Article Trump Appointments Signal Aim To Boost US Energy Investment And Production By Ed Crooks of Wood Mackenzie “Personnel is policy.” That aphorism about the realities of US presidential government was coined by Scot Faulkner, who was director of personnel for Ronald Reagan’s triumphant election campaign in 1980. What he meant was that, while US presidents can do almost anything, they can’t do everything. The day-to-day business of the administration is carried on by appointed officials.
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Solar import duties highlight the challenges in building up US manufacturing

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By Ed Crooks
| Wood Mackenzie
It has been another busy week for US tariffs. Conflicting signals from the Trump administration have left the outlook for tariffs unclear but raised hopes in the financial markets that an all-out trade war can be averted. The S&P 500 index opened on Friday morning 6% above its close on Monday night, and only 7% below its level at the start of the year. The US and China have remained at loggerheads, apparently unable to agree even on whether or not trade negotiations have been taking place.
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US anger at OPEC+ production cut [GGP]

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By Ed Crooks
| naturalgasworld.com
US anger at OPEC+ production cut [GGP] “If you want a friend, get a dog.” The line, as used by Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street, described the life of a successful investor, but it can be readily applied to politics and international relations as well. Countries do not have friends, they have interests, and governments take decisions based on their perceptions of how those interests are best advanced.
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A Pipeline Runs Through It — the golden age of oil

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By Ed Crooks
| Financial Times Verified
When Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in October 1911, there was one man he wanted to talk to immediately.
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A New Marshall Plan for Energy

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By Ed Crooks, Wood Mac
| RealClear Energy
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Energy played a key role in the Marshall Plan, implemented by the US between 1948 and 1951 to help rebuild the shattered economies of Europe. More than 10% of the aid under the plan’s European Recovery Program was spent on oil, and 56% of the oil bought from American companies by recipient countries was financed by US government agencies.
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Trade becomes a new tactic for curbing emissions

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By Ed Crooks, Wood Mackenzie
| naturalgasworld.com
Trade becomes a new tactic for curbing emissions Steel is one of the great paradoxes of the energy transition. It is essential for low-carbon energy technologies: the weight of a wind turbine is typically about 70% steel, for example. But steel production is also a massive contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. It accounts for about 7% of total carbon dioxide emissions from energy use. A new trade agreement between the US and the EU attempts to start to resolve that paradox.
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Plugging the methane leaks

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By Ed Crooks, Wood Mackenzie
| naturalgasworld.com
Plugging the methane leaks “A small leak will sink a great ship” was a favourite saying of Benjamin Franklin, the writer, scientist, diplomat and Founder Father of the US. It could also be a pretty good slogan for the struggle to prevent catastrophic climate change. Methane emissions from leaks, venting and other sources have increasingly come into focus in policy discussions and among businesses as an important contributor to global warming.
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Wood Mackenzie: events of 26 May 'defining moment' for oil and gas industry

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By Ed Crooks, Wood Mackenzie, Nicholas Woodroof Verified
| Oilfield Technology Verified
Wood Mackenzie’s Ed Crooks has commented on the issues facing Big Oil as investor pressure and court challenges over climate change grow. The events of 26 May 2021 look like a defining moment for the oil and gas industry. In the space of a few hours, three decisions crystallised trends that had been building for years at the large international oil companies, showing the pressure they are under to address climate change and the energy transition.
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| Financial Times Verified
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What will the 2020 elections mean for U.S. energy? - Canadian Plastics

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By Ed Crooks, Wood Mackenzie
| Canadian Plastics Verified
Photo Credit: Stock.adobe The 2020 elections present American voters with a choice between two radically different visions for the future of energy. President Donald Trump rejects the idea of using government policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and talks about energy in terms of prices and jobs. Joe Biden says he would create jobs through a “clean energy revolution” to set the U.S. on a path to net zero emissions by 2050.
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| Financial Times Verified
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US leaders must not flunk historic opportunity on energy spending

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By Ed Crooks
| Financial Times Verified
As the coronavirus pandemic has sent governments scrambling to respond, many politicians have drawn a parallel with another global...
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The Bridge — the political power of gas pipelines to Europe

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By Ed Crooks
| Financial Times Verified
After the US military killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike on January 3, one of the first diplomatic responses was...
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By Ed Crooks
| Financial Times Verified
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| Financial Times Verified
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| Financial Times Verified
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Sunshine revolution: the age of solar power

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By Ed Crooks, Lucy Hornby
| Financial Times Verified
The suburbs of Las Vegas do not look like the cradle of a revolution.
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