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Energy Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Space Travel

The bootprints Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin pressed into the Sea of Tranquility on 20 July 1969 will still be visible roughly a million years from now, because the Moon has no wind, no rain and no biology to wear a footprint away — only micrometeorites slowly gardening the regolith around them

The bootprints Armstrong and Aldrin left in the Sea of Tranquility on 20 July 1969 are still crisp today, and will remain recognisable roughly a million years from now. The Moon has no wind, no rain and no biology to wear them away — only micrometeorites, working with tweezers on a geological clock.

Sep 21, 2026
Opinion Space

Nobody talks about why the most competent person in many workplaces often ends up the most resentful, and it isn’t always ego or burnout, it’s the slow realization that competence gets you more work, not more freedom

The most competent person in the office is often the most quietly resentful, and the reason is structural rather than personal. Being good at your job produces more work, not more freedom, and the moment you notice the pattern is the moment it starts to change.

Sep 14, 2026
Oil and Gas

A CROZEX study in the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean measured carbon sinking to three kilometres below the surface and found naturally iron-fertilised waters exported two to three times more carbon than adjacent nutrient-rich patches without the iron

The CROZEX cruise measured carbon sinking three kilometres beneath the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean and found that naturally iron-fertilised waters exported roughly two to three times more carbon than adjacent iron-starved patches — a natural experiment that anchors modern debates over ocean iron fertilisation.

Sep 2, 2026
Civil Nuclear

Marie Curie remains the only person ever to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, taking physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911, a double no scientist has repeated in the century since despite Bardeen, Sanger, Sharpless and Pauling each collecting a second prize of their own

Marie Curie is still the only person ever awarded Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911 — a feat unmatched despite four other scientists collecting second prizes of their own since.

Sep 1, 2026
Oil and Gas

In 1856, an American scientist named Eunice Newton Foote filled glass cylinders with carbon dioxide, set them in sunlight, and measured the temperature climbing faster than in cylinders of ordinary air, publishing the first known experimental evidence of the greenhouse effect three years before John Tyndall received credit for the same discovery.

In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote proved that carbon dioxide traps heat using two glass cylinders and a thermometer — the first known experimental demonstration of the greenhouse effect, published three years before John Tyndall received credit for the same discovery.

Aug 31, 2026
Wind Daily

A single wind turbine blade on the latest offshore machines sweeps an area larger than the London Eye with every rotation, and just one of these turbines can power roughly 20,000 European homes for a full year

A single blade on the newest generation of offshore wind turbines is longer than a football pitch, and its rotor sweeps a circle larger than the London Eye. One machine can power close to 20,000 European homes for a year — and the industry is already reaching for 25-megawatt giants.

Aug 28, 2026
Water World

The Three Gorges Dam holds back roughly 39 cubic kilometres of water on the Yangtze, and NASA calculated that shifting that much mass so far above sea level lengthened Earth’s day by 0.06 microseconds by nudging the planet’s moment of inertia

The Three Gorges Dam impounds roughly 39 cubic kilometres of Yangtze water at an average of 175 metres above sea level — enough mass, lifted high enough, to lengthen Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds by shifting the planet's moment of inertia.

Aug 23, 2026
Solar Science

The Parker Solar Probe now passes within 6.1 million kilometres of the Sun’s surface at roughly 692,000 kilometres per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, protected only by a 11.4-centimetre carbon composite shield that keeps its instruments at room temperature while the front face glows at 1,377 degrees Celsius

NASA's Parker Solar Probe now flies through the Sun's outer atmosphere at 692,000 km/h, protected by an 11.4-centimetre carbon shield that glows at 1,377°C while the instruments behind it sit at room temperature.

Aug 19, 2026
Energy Tech

In 1954, engineers at the Obninsk plant southwest of Moscow connected a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor to the Soviet grid and became the first station anywhere to sell nuclear electricity to paying customers, nearly three years before the West managed the same feat at Calder Hall.

On 27 June 1954, a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor near Moscow became the first anywhere to sell nuclear electricity commercially — beating Britain's Calder Hall by nearly three years and starting a lineage that runs directly to today's VVER-1200 reactors being built in seven countries.

Aug 18, 2026
Oil and Gas

A pumped-hydro station in Wales moves 7.2 million cubic metres of water up a mountain at night and releases it through six turbines in the morning, delivering roughly 1,728 megawatts to the grid within 12 seconds of the operator pressing the start button

Buried inside a Welsh mountain, the Dinorwig pumped storage station uses six reversible turbines and a reservoir near the summit of Elidir Fawr to swing more than a gigawatt of electricity onto the British grid in seconds — the fastest-responding power plant in the country, and a template for the pumped hydro revival now underway from Gwynedd to New South Wales.

Aug 16, 2026