Dr Charles Ellinas

What happened in Spain and Portugal on April 28 brought home how insecure our energy systems have become. For about 20 hours Spain, Portugal and parts of southern France experienced a widespread ...

With President Trump pausing his punitive tariffs for 90 days, it will take time before the negotiations that will follow realign global trading to the new developing international order. Already analysts ...

In an article in MEES, Peter Stevenson reveals that ExxonMobil’s Electra well in block 5 was unsuccessful. It encountered gas, but not in commercial quantities. There were high expectations that ...

Even though energy commodities – oil, natural gas and refined products – were largely spared collateral fallout from US President Donald Trump’s new ‘Liberation Day’, the new tariffs have pushed oil ...

Given its importance to Cypriot consumers and industry, I am returning back to the burning subject of electricity prices. These must come significantly down now and not just wait for ...

That was the headline following the publication in December of a ‘Joint Employment Report (JER)’ by the European Commission (EC) that provides an annual overview of key employment and social ...

The age of electricity is upon us, but in Cyprus it is finding us unprepared. Most of the issues outlined below also apply to Cyprus. In a keynote address at ...

Much of the discussion at the FT’s International Energy Policy Forum in Brussels earlier this month applied to Cyprus as well as other areas of the world. The event ...

Following the publication by the EU of ‘Justice-focused approach key to effective energy poverty solutions’, energy poverty in Europe was again in the news last week. This is based on ...

As the development of Cyprus gasfields gets closer, so the claims about their importance in supplying Europe’s gas needs get louder, totally oblivious to whether Europe needs such gas, ...

By Charles Ellinas The US Energy Information Administration has just published new forecasts for oil production, consumption and prices to the end of 2026 as shown in Figures 1 and 2 below.  Clearly, ...

According to the ministry of energy the government is close to approving Chevron’s development plan (FDP) for the Aphrodite gas-field, centered around exports to Egypt using a subsea pipeline, ...

Natural gas prices in Europe have been rising for most of 2024, as a result of increasing gas demand, and are still rising, especially in the aftermath of the ending of ...

Energy was constantly in the news in 2024, but serious progress was limited. By far the biggest success was the ‘Photovoltaics (PV) for All’ scheme. With the failure of utility-scale renewables (...

By Charles Ellinas Developments in Syria have been precipitous and momentous. Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that deposed al-Assad last Sunday, has ...

One of the key subjects discussed at the Sustainable Future conference organised by Politico in Brussels this week was how the Green Deal will pan out under the new European ...

Climate summits are notorious for running into overtime and into the weekend and COP29 is no exception. We have a deal of sorts, but more iterations are expected during the ...

Intense negotiations continued until late on Thursday, but to no avail. All parties appear to be determined to hold onto their positions until the very last moment, with overtime beyond ...

Following the lead from the G20 meeting in Rio, discussions at COP29 on Wednesday were all about money. The amount that appears to be gaining momentum among developed countries is ...

In what is seen as a boost to COP29, the G20 backed a new climate finance goal. In their joint declaration on Tuesday, they said “We look forward to a ...

We have entered the second and final week of COP29, with the closing plenary session scheduled to take place on Friday 22 November. But given the status of negotiations so far, ...

We are entering week two at COP29 and progress is still painfully slow and often acrimonious. Too many issues are still open and require closure this coming week. Top priority ...

COP29 has completed its first week with some successes, but also with a series of controversies. France’s top climate official is not going to COP29 in Baku after Azerbaijan’...

By Charles Ellinas Much has been said about Donald Trump’s return to the American Presidency and his likely impact on world politics. The bewildering mixed-bag of views is a ...