Energy & Environment Editor, Lonic
Elias covers energy systems and industrial decarbonisation, with a background in grid planning for a European transmission operator.
France and Spain are carrying the worst of a summer that arrived weeks ahead of schedule. The damage is severe, but the more important story is how the season is changing shape.
Heat domes, vapour pressure deficit and fuel moisture sound technical. They are also the three numbers that decide whether a spark becomes a headline.
Most evacuation failures are not dramatic. They are ten minutes lost looking for documents. A practical, evidence-based checklist for households in fire-exposed regions.
Solar and batteries won on price. The remaining emissions live in industrial heat, cement, steel and transmission — and they need different tools.
Fabs caught up. Grids did not. The binding constraint on computing has quietly moved from silicon to electricity.