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Climate Goals Go Up in Smoke as US Datacenters Turn To CoalPosted by msmash on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:42PM from the priorities dept.US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand. From a report:CitarAccording to a research note from financial services firm Jefferies, datacenter operators are racing to connect new capacity to the electrical grid, with accelerated load growth expected during the 2026-2028 period. This spike in demand is driving an unexpected resurgence in coal generation, which has increased nearly 20 percent year-to-date.The research note, seen by The Register, states: "We raise our estimate for coal generation by ~11 percent (driven by higher capacity factors), and staying elevated through 2027 on favorable fuel pricing vs gas (particularly for existing fleet)." Warnings emerged last year that rising energy demand from the proliferation of data centers in the US risked outstripping available generation capacity, potentially extending the operational life of coal-fired power plants.Further reading: India Needs Coal For the Next Decade and Nobody Wants To Say It.
According to a research note from financial services firm Jefferies, datacenter operators are racing to connect new capacity to the electrical grid, with accelerated load growth expected during the 2026-2028 period. This spike in demand is driving an unexpected resurgence in coal generation, which has increased nearly 20 percent year-to-date.The research note, seen by The Register, states: "We raise our estimate for coal generation by ~11 percent (driven by higher capacity factors), and staying elevated through 2027 on favorable fuel pricing vs gas (particularly for existing fleet)." Warnings emerged last year that rising energy demand from the proliferation of data centers in the US risked outstripping available generation capacity, potentially extending the operational life of coal-fired power plants.
Australia's Queensland Reverses Policy, Pledges To Keep Using Coal Power At Least Into the 2040sPosted by msmash on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:41PM from the how-about-that dept.Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve. From a report:The centre-right Liberal National Party won last year's election in Queensland, a huge chunk of land in Australia's northeast where more than 60% of electricity comes from coal-fired plants that are mostly owned by the state.
[Asunto 'Peak Oil': Mucho petróleo no debe haber si los del Mar del Norte se atreven a dar así los Premios Nobel de la Paz. Aprovecho para reiterar mi opinión de que el Pico de Hubbert no es opinable. Agotamiento también es cuando los recursos necesarios para extraer son superiores a los extraídos.]
https://www.eleconomista.es/opinion/noticias/13588297/10/25/un-techo-cercano-al-precio-de-la-vivienda.htmlhttps://www.pressreader.com/spain/el-economista/20251011/page/58/textview¿Por qué los precios de la vivienda están más cerca de su techo?https://www.europapress.es/economia/construccion-y-vivienda-00342/noticia-vivienda-asegura-ccaa-estudia-362-aportaciones-recibido-plan-estatal-vivienda-20251009195443.htmlSaludos.
El mercado del crudo se ha sostenido durante meses sobre expectativas que ahora se desmoronan. Durante todo el año, los analistas han venido repitiendo que los precios se estabilizarían en torno a los 80 dólares. Que los recortes pactados por la OPEP+ seguirían vigentes. Que el reequilibrio del mercado no permitiría grandes oscilaciones. Pero ha ocurrido todo lo contrario. El precio del crudo ha perdido ya más de un 14% en lo que va de año. El barril de referencia de la OPEP cotiza en mínimos desde comienzos de 2024 y el Brent, la referencia europea, refleja una caída sostenida y persistente.En ese contexto, la OPEP+ ha decidido no retroceder. No ha recortado. Ha subido. A partir de este mes, se suman 137.000 barriles diarios más a la oferta. De forma oficial, la justificación pasa por la típica frase de “estabilizar los mercados energéticos y responder a la incertidumbre económica global”. Sin embargo, los movimientos de fondo sugieren algo distinto. Una estrategia acumulativa, prolongada y en continuo ascenso.
Peak oil is coming — but nobody seems to know whenThe point at which consumption starts to tail off is being pushed further into the futurePity the oil-drilling bosses who have to turn constantly changing views about oil’s decline into action © Bloomberg CreativeHow much oil will the world need in future? It depends on when the planet reaches “peak oil”, that moment at which consumption hits a maximum and then starts to gradually tail off. The debate over when this might happen, and what happens thereafter, vexes academics, politicians and executives. It’s a pain for shareholders too.Two variables are particularly important in working out when peak oil will come. First, the speed at which green technologies develop; second, how big a nudge governments give them. At the moment, China is moving faster than hoped towards deploying electric vehicles, for example. But in the US, political backlash has slowed the rollout of renewables.On balance, however, peak demand is probably being pushed further out into the future. The International Energy Agency’s first “net zero” road map issued in 2021 reckoned that, in order to reach zero emissions by 2050, oil consumption should never recover to its 2019 levels. The world is now well above that. Many now think the peak will come in the early 2030s, and the IEA is reportedly preparing a scenario that nudges it into the 2040s on current policies.Pity the oil-drilling CEOs who have to turn these estimates into actions. A world committed to net zero required no new oil and gasfields to be approved for development after 2021, said the IEA at the time. Companies and investors, especially in Europe where sustainability mandates were rife, took note.For an idea of the impact this had, just think the European sector’s reserve life, a metric that measures the oil and gas reserves still underground against current production. It has fallen from 14 years at the turn of the century to 8.5 years today, according to Goldman Sachs analysis. Meanwhile, the sector is expected to return almost 12 per cent of its market value in dividends and buybacks this year.The fact that peak oil is something of a moveable feast makes things more complicated. True, at some point oil consumption must decline. But if the world is going to need more of it for longer, European majors may well decide to invest more in future supply.This strategic shift comes at a difficult time. Oil prices have fallen, which means the cash that drillers’ operations produce is not as abundant. The world’s biggest producers, led by Saudi Arabia, are expanding supply too, which puts downward pressure on the price of the commodity.That means oil companies will have to be more picky about what they do with their cash. Indeed, some are cutting people and projects, especially in US shale.Another option is to sell assets. Disposals, especially of businesses that trade at premium valuations, may be one way around the issue. BP has announced its lubricants division Castrol is on the block. But, for many of the majors, a return to long-term growth as peak oil recedes into the distance will inevitably mean the shareholder cash gusher loses pressure.
Donald Trump threatens extra 100% tariff as he retaliates against ChinaUS president says measures will include export controls on software and take effect from November 1 ‘or sooner’Donald Trump accused Beijing of becoming ‘very hostile’ in a post on his Truth Social network on Friday © AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has said he will impose additional tariffs of 100 per cent on China and threatened to cancel his summit with President Xi Jinping, reigniting trade tensions between the world’s largest economies.The US president accused Beijing on Friday of taking an “extraordinarily aggressive position on trade”, and said he would impose “large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make” as well as on “all critical software”.The new measures would be imposed from November 1 “or sooner”, depending on China’s actions, he added in a post on Truth Social.China this week unveiled a package of export controls that would disrupt global supplies of rare earths and critical minerals. Under the new rules, foreign companies would have to obtain Beijing’s permission to export critical magnets and other products that contain even small amounts of rare earths sourced from China.In response, Trump suggested he would cancel a meeting with Xi that was expected to take place on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea at the end of October. International companies had considered the planned meeting as a step towards stabilising US-China relations.“This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World,” Trump wrote on Truth Social about the new Chinese policy. “I was to meet President Xi in two weeks . . . but now there seems to be no reason to do so.”China’s foreign ministry and state media, sometimes used as an official mouthpiece, had not commented on Trump’s actions by late afternoon in Beijing on Saturday. Cory Combs, associate director of consultancy Trivium China, said Beijing might not have expected Trump’s response to be “this blunt and severe”, including the US president’s threat to walk away from a meeting with Xi.“If they had, I can’t imagine they would’ve gone with this as a strategy,” Combs said on Saturday. He added that while China could deploy more “tit-for-tat” measures — as it has throughout this year, targeting US supply chain vulnerabilities — Beijing might now be looking to adjust this approach.“The game has changed,” Combs said. But Wang Wen, dean of the Chongyang Finance Research Institute at Renmin University of China in Beijing, said: “Trump does not have the capability to completely block Chinese imports”.He said Chinese goods would still enter the US via re-exports no matter what Trump did because “a large number of ‘Made in China’ goods are irreplaceable”.Wang added that Beijing's rare earth measures were a response to US charges on Chinese vessels. “If the United States chooses to engage in conflict, China will stand firm and continue the fight.”Trump said the US had also been contacted by “other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere”.Later on Friday, Trump suggested the meeting with Xi might go ahead. “I’m going to be there regardless, so I assume we might have it,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.“We’re going to have to see what happens, that’s why I made it November 1. We’ll see what happens.” He added that the US could impose export controls on goods such as “airplane parts”.“We were just surprised at China. I have a very good relationship with President Xi, and they did that,” Trump said. “This is not something that I instigated.”The S&P 500 closed 2.7 per cent lower for its biggest one-day drop since early April following Trump’s threat. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 3.6 per cent. The yield on the two-year US Treasury sank to its lowest level in three weeks, while the dollar fell 0.7 per cent against a basket of currencies.Beijing’s announcement of export controls this week amounts to a Chinese version of the extraterritorial “foreign direct product rule” that Washington has used to require companies from third countries to obtain licenses to export chips with US content to China.The move was widely viewed as an effort to create leverage before the two leaders held their first meeting since Trump returned to office.“Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would ‘clog’ the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China,” Trump said in his post.Trump’s new levies on China raises the prospect of the two countries returning to the full-blown trade war that erupted this year when he hit Beijing with 145 per cent tariffs and Xi retaliated by slapping 125 per cent levies on goods coming from the US.The average US tariff on imports from China is near 58 per cent, according to analysis from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. China’s average tariff on US goods is about 37 per cent.The economic tensions have had a dramatic impact on trade flows, which US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent warned amounted to a de facto trade embargo.US and Chinese negotiators reached a truce in the trade war in a meeting in Geneva. But the ceasefire came under threat after China started slowing the export of rare earths, which are critical to industries ranging from the auto sector to defence.The two sides resolved the initial rare earth issue in London in June and have since held trade talks in Stockholm and Madrid that paved the way for Trump to meet Xi. The current 90-day ceasefire that holds tariffs at current levels is set to expire in mid-November.Some experts have warned that China has leverage over the US because of its dominance in rare earths. However, others have suggested the US has more options that it could deploy, such as requiring chipmakers to obtain a licence to sell any semiconductors to China.Trump said the new Chinese measures were surprising because the US-China relationship had been “very good” over the past six months, but he claimed Beijing had been “lying in wait” to attack.“There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World ‘captive’, but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the ‘Magnets’ and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least,” he said.
China is ditching the dollar, fastOfficials believe that the yuan has finally come of ageIllustration: Mariaelena CaputiCHINA’S LEADERS sense an epic opportunity. President Donald Trump’s erratic trade policy, gaping fiscal deficits and threats to the independence of America’s Federal Reserve risk badly hurting the dollar. It has slumped 7% on a trade-weighted basis since January, and had its worst start to a year since 1973. By contrast, China’s tightly controlled currency, the yuan, has reached its highest level since Mr Trump was re-elected in November. Foreign investors are piling in. So are many governments looking for dollar alternatives.(...)