Ed Crooks

New York

Vice-chairman of Energy, Americas at Wood Mackenzie

Host at The Energy Gang

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

Articles

Clean energy finance in uncertain times

3 days ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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.
US Congress threatens to cut support for nuclear power

1 week ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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.
It’s looking bleak for clean energy in the US as Congress threatens to shred the Inflation Reduction Act

2 weeks ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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.
Macro vs micro: the impact of tariffs on the energy industry

3 weeks ago | energyconnects.com | Ed Crooks

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 significantOn 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.
Can we add dozens of giant new data centres to the electricity grid?

3 weeks ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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.
Falling crude prices raise questions over US oil production

3 weeks ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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.
Tariffs begin to redirect global energy trade flows | Wood Mackenzie

1 month ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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.
Energy Gang and Interchange Recharged join forces to discuss flexibility on the power grid

1 month ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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.
What do the tariff wars mean for low-carbon energy?

1 month ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

“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.
Keeping cleantech investment alive

1 month ago | woodmac.com | Ed Crooks

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?