In brief | 13 November '26

Argus Media: Germany weighs up reserve power plant market return

The return to the open market of 7.45 GW of coal-fired and 805 MW of oil-fired reserve capacity would only be possible in the event of a gas shortage, namely if the level is raised to "alarm" or "emergency" status, according to draft document.

Reuters: RWE would be 'happy to sell' Urenco holding but any sale is tricky, CFO says

Germany's largest power producer would gladly sell out of uranium enrichment firm Urenco, its finance chief said, noting that any sale was difficult to pull off.

The Guardian: World is now in ‘age of electricity’, energy agency chief says

Fossil fuels no longer dominant energy source, IEA leader Fatih Birol says, as COP31 summit considers electrification pledge.

Bloomberg: Data centre investors underestimate climate risk, report says

The fallout of climate change may expose the world’s data centres to losses that investors aren’t currently pricing in, according to a report published on Friday by Jupiter Intelligence.

The Guardian: Datacentres are deeply unpopular. Has Sweden made one we can all love?

It is built of wood, resembles an Ikea and its power is totally renewable. Plus, it was built with the local community in mind.

Euronews: Europe could save 40% on electricity costs if solar and batteries ‘work in harmony’

Report from the Schneider Electric Research Institute (SERI) finds that if deployment of distributed energy resources is coordinated with electrification, the overall cost of running the electricity system could be cut by as much as 40 percent by the 2030s as these technologies scale up.

Politico: Climate science says 1.5C is dead. No one wants to bury it.

Leaders at COP31 want to keep the totemic goal alive, even after the U.N. declared it impossible to hit.

Bloomberg: As US burns less coal, country’s energy emissions are set to fall in 2026

Despite Trump’s push to revive the coal industry, use of the fuel is down, a new analysis showed.

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