The North Sea Has Plenty of Wind. What It Lacks Is Cable.
Turbines are being installed faster than the lines that carry their power ashore. A shortage of high-voltage cable, and the ships that lay it, is now the bottleneck.
Business
Frankfurt's Banks Brace for a Year of Thin Margins
Falling rates were supposed to lift lending. Instead they have squeezed the spread that German lenders depend on, and the cost-cutting has begun.
The Data Centers Are Coming for the Grid
Applications to connect new computing facilities now exceed the spare capacity of several national grids. Utilities are starting to say no.
Rotterdam Bets Its Future on a Fuel That Does Not Yet Arrive
Europe's largest port has built the terminals and pipelines for imported hydrogen. The ships are still mostly hypothetical.
Europe's Lithium Problem Is Not Geology. It Is Paperwork.
The continent has enough lithium in the ground to supply its battery plants. Getting permission to dig it up takes, on average, eleven years.
The Hydrogen Airliner Was Promised for 2035. The Date Is Slipping.
Europe's planemaker has quietly moved its zero-emission aircraft to the next decade. Engineers say the problem is not the engine but the tank.
Traffic Through the Suez Canal Is Recovering. The Shipping Lines Are Not Rushing Back.
Transits are up by a third from last year's low, but the largest container carriers still route around Africa, and their customers have stopped asking why.
