Kelvin Ross

London

Editor-in-Chief at Power Engineering International

Energy journo. Editor-in-Chief of @PowerEngInt, @SmartEnergyTV and @Enlit_Europe. Got a story? Get in touch

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Articles

Climate scientist slams AI hubris and warns over the ethics of data

2 weeks ago | enlit.world | Kelvin Ross

A leading climate scientist and expert on artificial intelligence has expressed her dismay at the way some on the field of AI are failing – or refusing – to acknowledge and tackle the extraordinary power consumption of data centres.
Trump is ‘King Canute of energy’ and why Carney climate bounce will fix COP

1 month ago | smart-energy.com | Kelvin Ross

What do you do in the face of the unravelling of climate policies in the US under President Trump? As the US President marks his first 100 days in office, two veterans of climate diplomacy offered some answers. Simon Sharpe and Sandrine Dixson-Declève were sharing the stage at the Innovation Zero World Congress in London. Sharpe is the managing director of the new non-profit S-Curve Economics. He wrote the book ‘Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change’.
Trump is ‘King Canute of energy’ and why Carney climate bounce will fix COP

1 month ago | powerengineeringint.com | Kelvin Ross

What do you do in the face of the unravelling of climate policies in the US under President Trump? As the US President marks his first 100 days in office, two veterans of climate diplomacy offered some answers. Simon Sharpe and Sandrine Dixson-Declève were sharing the stage at the Innovation Zero World Congress in London. Sharpe is the managing director of the new non-profit S-Curve Economics. He wrote the book ‘Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change’.
Trump is 'King Canute of energy' and why Carney climate bounce will fix COP | Enlit World

1 month ago | enlit.world | Kelvin Ross

What do you do in the face of the unravelling of climate policies in the US under President Trump? As the US President marks his first 100 days in office, two veterans of climate diplomacy offered some answers. Simon Sharpe and Sandrine Dixson-Declève were sharing the stage at the Innovation Zero World Congress in London. Sharpe is the managing director of the new non-profit S-Curve Economics. He wrote the book ‘Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change’.
Innovation summit told ‘now is not the time to hesitate’ on climate ambition

1 month ago | enlit.world | Kelvin Ross

Policy & Regulation Decarbonisation Finance & Investment Toxic. Unpleasant. Contentious. These are just some of the words used at the Innovation Zero World Congress in London to describe the current political discourse around climate and clean energy. Yet the speakers who used these words were quick to urge the energy sector and its financiers to stay strong in the face of an agenda that seeks to blow the energy transition off course.
Trump order to halt Equinor windfarm should 'send chills across industries investing in the US'

1 month ago | powerengineeringint.com | Kelvin Ross

Norwegian energy giant Equinor has confirmed that it will cease construction of its Empire Offshore Wind project after the Trump administration issued a ‘halt work’ order on the windfarm. In his first days in office, President Trump signed an executive order that would restrict the approval of offshore windfarms.
WEC’s Wilkinson warns Europe to not develop global ‘blind spot’ because of Trump

2 months ago | powerengineeringint.com | Kelvin Ross

Angela Wilkinson, the Secretary General of the World Energy Council, today warned that Europe could develop a “blind spot” towards global partnerships if it was too distracted by “the wobble between transatlantic relations”. She was speaking at the opening of the Start Up Energy Transition conference in Berlin in a session which examined the impact of US President Trump’s first few months in office.
Energy-space nexus resulting in a data fusion for climate resilience

2 months ago | smart-energy.com | Kelvin Ross

Lessons learned in space are increasingly resonating back on Earth as the planet grapples with increasingly frequent climate shocks while trying to enable energy transitions globally. That was the message today from a panel of experts in Berlin which explored the space-energy nexus.
Baerbock hails historic German fiscal package as renewable energy milestone

2 months ago | smart-energy.com | Kelvin Ross

On the day Germany’s parliament voted in favour of a significant €500bn infrastructure fiscal package, the country’s Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, hailed the measure as a blueprint for climate neutrality, energy security and freedom. More than 500 members of the Bundestag pushed through the proposed new laws, which will need to be approved on Friday to become set in Germany’s constitution.
Is all hope lost for US renewable energy under a Trump presidency?

Jan 7, 2025 | powerengineeringint.com | Kelvin Ross

With Donald Trump securing a second term as President, it’s easy to assume the worst for US climate change policy. Trump’s climate scepticism is no secret: his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement during his first term and recent campaign promises to scrap offshore wind projects and cut clean energy funding under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) have left many renewable energy advocates bracing for impact. But is it really all doom and gloom?