{"title":"From Dependency to Resilience: Europe's Energy Landscape Amid the Russia—Ukraine War","authors":"Pramod Kumar","doi":"10.1002/gas.22603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22603","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Europe responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 within a significant geopolitical context. Ukraine occupies a crucial strategic position between Europe and Russia, as most Russian energy supplies to European nations pass through Ukrainian territory. This war has severely impacted global and European energy security. The conflict's consequences for energy have reverberated worldwide, causing supply reductions, source diversification, price volatility, geopolitical tensions, and economic decline.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 3","pages":"16-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seven County: A Win-Win For the Environment and Business","authors":"Anthony Michael Sabino","doi":"10.1002/gas.22601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22601","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the enactment of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) in 1969, the term environmental impact statement (EIS) has become deeply embedded in legal and business language. As is well known to this readership, the statutory framework requires an assessment of the anticipated environmental impacts of any project that is built, funded, or approved by the federal government.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 3","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Something is Certain About US Electric Capacity Needs","authors":"Paul A. DeCotis","doi":"10.1002/gas.22604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22604","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is no secret that the US needs more electricity to meet anticipated growth in demand. Estimates suggest a two percent or higher annual increase over the coming decade. As a result, several reports highlight the need to double electricity supplies and expand the distribution grid accordingly. They also anticipate a two-to-three-fold increase in transmission infrastructure by 2050. While demand can never be predicted with certainty, the consensus is that we will see growth not experienced in over 50 years. To keep the electric grid reliable, electricity supplies and delivery infrastructures must grow alongside energy demand.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 3","pages":"22-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rewriting the Energy Playbook: Utilities and Customers Co-Creating the Energy Future","authors":"Brian Rich","doi":"10.1002/gas.22602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There's an old expression that legacy interactions between utilities and customers have historically been a debtor's relationship. Customers only contacted their utility when they needed to be connected to the grid, experienced an outage, or found discrepancies on their bill. Utilities usually reached out to customers only when they were behind on payments. Beyond these instances, there was a silent co-existence, characterized by mutual indifference.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 3","pages":"9-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methane Emissions—Recent Developments Will Impact Goal of 30 Percent Reduction by 2030","authors":"David W. South","doi":"10.1002/gas.22605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22605","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Global Methane Pledge (GMP) is a voluntary commitment by participating countries to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030. More than 159 governments, representing over 50 percent of worldwide human-made methane emissions, have signed up to the pledge. The pledge 1) encourages the development of methane plans and policies, 2) promotes data collection for methane reduction actions, and 3) secures funding for methane abatement. The GMP utilizes satellite monitoring and other data sources to track progress and identify areas needing further action. At the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29; November 2024) in Baku, Azerbaijan, participants met to review progress made over the last year and commit to new actions.<sup>1</sup></p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 3","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Decade of International Energy 2015–2025 II: Commodities, Credit, US–Canada Trade, and Careful Deregulation","authors":"Jeff D. Makholm","doi":"10.1002/gas.22477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22477","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This is my second in a series of three reviews of a decade of contributions to <i>International Energy</i>, focusing particularly on how I have regularly revisited specific themes related to the economics of regulation, energy markets, international energy disputes, and the pressure of greenhouse gas (GHG) remedies on energy regulators. In the July 2025 edition of <i>Climate and Energy</i>, I revisited five such themes. These themes highlight the fundamental challenge of regulating industry and managing social costs when regulations fall short. They are (1) costly <i>path dependence</i> exhibited by regulators worldwide, (2) the surprising fragility of long-standing US energy regulatory norms, (3) the inherently unworkable federal and state attempts at GHG regulation, (4) the increasing difficulties faced by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in regulating interstate electricity transmission, and (5) the source and remedies (or lack thereof) for the past decade's two most costly energy supply disasters—the 2021 Winter Storm Uri in Texas and Europe's energy issues resulting from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.<sup>1</sup></p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 2","pages":"22-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating the US Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems Market in 2025","authors":"Brandon Swartout, Eric Anderson, Sam Uyeno","doi":"10.1002/gas.22479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22479","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The energy industry continues adapting to changes driven by the spread of distributed energy resources (DERs), regulatory mandates, and customer demand for cleaner and on-site energy solutions. Distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) have become essential software platforms for electric distribution utilities to manage, optimize, and integrate DERs such as rooftop solar, battery storage, electric vehicles (EVs), and demand response programs into their operations. DERMS provide utilities with real-time visibility, control, and coordination of DERs, ensuring grid stability and reliability, while also optimizing distribution assets and compliance with regulatory requirements.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 2","pages":"11-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AMI 2.0: A Generational Opportunity to Transform Utilities","authors":"Brandon Downs","doi":"10.1002/gas.22480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22480","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) 2.0 presents an opportunity to transform how utilities operate across technology, strategy, and culture. AMI 2.0 provides a rare chance to modernize operations, build greater customer trust, and prepare the workforce for future challenges. However, to unlock its full potential, utilities need to change their mindset: AMI 2.0 is not simply a “technology project”; it is the foundation of enterprise-wide modernization.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 2","pages":"17-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pricing the Shock: How TTF Futures Reflected Europe's Energy Security Crisis After Russia's Gas Cutoff and the Nordstream Sabotage","authors":"Francis Stafilopatis, Thomas N. Russo","doi":"10.1002/gas.22606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22606","url":null,"abstract":"<p>After Russia invaded Ukraine on February 22, 2022, two figures shocked Europe's natural gas market. These were the €339/MWh intraday price ($97/MMBtu) of the Title Transfer Facility (TTF) gas futures contract on August 26, 2022, and zero flows of Russian natural gas from the existing Nordstream 1 pipeline by early September 2022 (<b>Figure 1</b>). Unknown entities sabotaged the Nordstream 1 and the newly completed Nordstream 2 pipelines on September 26, 2022.<sup>1</sup></p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 2","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Push for Natural Gas Infrastructure is Heating Up","authors":"Richard G. Smead","doi":"10.1002/gas.22478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.22478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Energy infrastructure has been a very high-profile topic both in Congress and at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) lately. The last two chairs, Willie Phillips and Mark Christie—one Democrat and one Republican—have been strong supporters of expanding energy infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines. On June 18, 2025, the Commission took two undramatic but helpful steps in that direction. Then, on June 30, 2025, the Commission issued new guidance on implementing reviews under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) to follow White House guidance in streamlining the permitting process.<sup>1</sup></p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 2","pages":"29-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145135658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}