The CITRES Digest is a journal of the energy transition, published a few times a year by CITRES. Each issue records what a season will be remembered for, and lets the rest pass.
Editor: Chaofeng Wang, University of Florida
Issues
Germany Writes the Playbook
Germany publishes the first comprehensive national roadmap to phase out fossil fuels by 2045, the US buildout quietly accelerates, and the AI data-center boom hits ratepayers and communities: who pays, who decides? Plus a COP31 preview.
Read Issue No. 5 →Paris Minus One, Renewables Near the Halfway Mark
The US exit from Paris takes effect in the same season renewables log their biggest year ever (692 GW added, 49% of world capacity), and 57 nations meet in Santa Marta for the first fossil fuel phase-out conference.
Read Issue No. 4 →COP30 in Belém and the Grid Meets AI
Ten years after Paris: COP30 strengthens climate finance but drops the fossil fuel roadmap, AI-driven data centers redraw the demand curve, and the UK marks one year without coal.
Read Issue No. 3 →The Paradox of 2024: Record Heat, Record Renewables
2024 was the warmest year on record and the first above 1.5°C, and also the biggest year ever for renewable buildout. We take stock of the paradox, and of the US and UK pulling in opposite policy directions.
Read Issue No. 2 →The End of an Era: The UK Retires Coal Power
Our inaugural issue marks the month the UK closed its last coal-fired power station, ending 142 years of coal power, and examines the US's $6 billion bet on industrial decarbonization.
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