Jeffrey Ball
Fortune
Stanford, CA, United States
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The electrification of the auto industry is speeding up—and shaking up the energy economy
The shift to decarbonize the planet is kicking into high gear. In few sectors are the risks or the ripple effects greater than in the auto industry. → Read More
Why the coronavirus crisis could make Big Oil greener
Plummeting prices and consumer demand are squeezing the oil industry like never before. But those forces are also making renewable energy a more attractive investment for the industry’s biggest players. → Read More
Big Oil hopes to remake itself with carbon capture
Oil companies are betting big on “carbon capture” technology that sucks greenhouse gases out of smokestacks and the air. It could help a polluting industry remake itself. But is it too little, too late? → Read More
Climate Change Is Hitting the Insurance Industry Hard. Here's How Swiss Re Is Adapting
The world's biggest reinsurer confronts the financial impact of the climate crisis. → Read More
Electric Car Gold Rush: The Auto Industry Charges Into China
Global carmakers like Volkswagen are betting that electric vehicles are the future. But to win in the world’s largest EV market, they will have to battle a host of fierce new Chinese competitors. Oh, and Tesla. → Read More
From Fringe to Core: The ‘Green’ Economy Grows Up
Convening global leaders to define what it takes to win in the new sustainability economy. → Read More
The Trade War Is Distracting Us From a "Green China" Moment
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China are hurting the renewable energy industry globally-- and costing U.S. business a big opportunity. → Read More
The Race Is On to Build a Better Battery
Renewable energy could reshape the global economy—but only if it can be cheaply and safely stored. → Read More
The Race Is on to Build a Better Battery
Renewable energy could reshape the global economy—but only if it can be cheaply and safely stored. Meet the companies racing to crack the anode code. → Read More
Baking a "Jellyroll": How Batteries Get Made
Inside a Chinese factory that's a key link in the electric-vehicle supply chain. → Read More
Norway's State-Controlled Oil and Gas Giant Is Backing a Battery-Research Fund
The fund, Volta Energy Technologies, hopes to help Big Energy convert to cleaner fuels. → Read More
The Global Electric-Car Showdown Is Officially on in China
Tesla, General Motors, and Volkswagen are betting big on the world’s largest market for electric vehicles. But the country’s domestic manufacturers, like BJEV, have a huge head start. → Read More
Carbon prices are like unicorns and fairy dust
Cap-and-trade is all but meaningless in practice, writes Jeffrey Ball, of Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance → Read More
How the Permian Basin Oil Boom Is Driving U.S. Production to Record Levels and Creating Sudden Wealth
The Permian Basin oil boom in Texas is driving record U.S. production, creating sudden wealth, and attracting oil majors like Exxon Mobil. → Read More
Inside Oil Giant Shell's Race to Remake Itself For a Low-Price World
Fueled by a belief that the age of high oil prices is over, petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell is remaking itself for a new-energy world. → Read More
Why Concerns About Trump's Paris Accord Pullout Are Overblown
The world will continue curbing carbon emissions even without Washington. → Read More
Making Solar Big Enough to Matter
China’s solar industry is expanding in ways that make it imperative for the United States to up its game. → Read More
Germany’s High-Priced Renewable Energy Revolution
Germany has made huge but costly strides toward renewable power and energy sources. Can any other nation afford to follow it? → Read More
Germany’s High-Priced Renewable Energy Revolution
Germany has made huge but costly strides toward renewable power and energy sources. Can any other nation afford to follow it? → Read More
Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson: Conflict Ahead?
Both the President-elect and his pick for State are successful businessmen. That’s where the similarities end. → Read More