All articles by Thom Atkinson

WCN's editor-in-chief

Latin America’s clean power success creates a harder problem

Latin America and the Caribbean has largely solved the problem many power markets are still struggling with: generating low-carbon electricity…
Renewable investment enters a new phase as grids become the limiting factor

According to Energy Monitor's parent company GlobalData, global renewable energy investment reached about $683bn in 2025 and is projected to…
Why freight decarbonisation is becoming an infrastructure race

Freight operators face a familiar problem with decarbonisation. Regulatory deadlines are becoming clearer just as the infrastructure needed to meet…
Data centres are becoming a defining force in power markets – can renewables keep up?

The energy transition has spent years focused on supply. The next challenge may be demand. According to GlobalData, global data…
Critical minerals are becoming the energy transition’s delivery constraint

For most of the past decade, the economics of the energy transition improved faster than many perhaps expected. Solar and…

Hydrogen’s next phase will favour execution over scale

Hydrogen did not contract sharply in the first quarter of 2026 (Q1 2026). Instead, the market became more selective. GlobalData…
Africa’s clean energy story is being rewritten by grids, not gigawatts

Africa’s energy transition is unfolding against a far less stable global backdrop than many expected even a year ago. The…
Middle East energy: a transition under fire

The Middle East’s energy transition was never going to be linear. The conflict involving Iran has made that unmistakable, after…