When Charlie Jardine started EO Charging in 2015, the Brit wanted to be central to the next big wave ? the shift from the internal combustion engine to the electric vehicle. So he built a company that will go public early this year.

It has been a chaotic year in the energy sector. Here's my list of seven of the most important energy stories in 2021.

This year's lithium market makes the rise in oil prices look tame in comparison.

With ESG-focused exchange-traded funds attracting about $120 billion globally last year, oil and gas producers can no longer afford to ignore the trend. So far, U.S. producers have responded by cutting spending on new drilling projects and allocating more capital on clean energy ventures.

It’s hard to imagine a worse way to die than being burned alive. And yet, over the past 12 months, at least 263 human beings were immolated ? and every one of those deaths was caused by extreme energy poverty.

If 2020 was the year of the great energy disconnect, 2021 was the year the people carrying out the energy debate appeared to be living on different planets, floating aimlessly through time and space and never intersecting with each other, or even attempting to do so.

The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank published a new poll this week showing that almost half of 131 oil and gas firms surveyed plan to increase oil and gas production during 2022.

For over three decades, Tantalus Systems Holding Inc. has worked to bring electric, water and gas utilities into the digital age.

For the world to reach the goal line and score, oil and gas industries and their countries need to plan together and to collaborate, to share information and research in a transparent manner.

President Biden released an aggressive plan to roll out electric vehicle charging stations. But there may not be enough money to accomplish his stated objectives.

Since humanity first harnessed the atom, active nuclear power plants have not been on the front lines of conventional conflict. A Russian invasion of Ukraine could unleash an unprecedented radiological catastrophe.

With the year 2021 now taking its final, merciful steps into the ashbin of history, it’s time to look back on what was a year of transition, just not the transition anyone really expected.

Chinese citizens criticized Musk’s space ambitions after two of his satellites nearly collided with China’s budding space station.

Both are economic laggards

The world’s biggest automakers will get serious about electric vehicles in 2022, giving Elon Musk’s company plenty of new competition.

The success of Gaussin’s hydrogen truck team in the Dakar Rally would mean a lot to the hydrogen world.

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to have a major influence on the year's top energy stories.