The Year’s Best Energy Stories

It’s been a red-hot year for energy news, and Forbes’ elite corps of energy contributors have covered it all, with hundreds of hot takes on everything from sub-zero oil prices to revolutionary batteries to how Covid-19 lockdowns might save more lives by reducing pollution than by stopping the virus. Here is a selection of 2020’s best reads.

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After relying for generations on coal for jobs and cash, the Navajo tribe was looking for a change. Instead, thanks to NTEC chairman Tim McLaughlin, they got deeper into mining. How could the way out of coal be … more coal?

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Founder K.R. Sridhar’s fuel cells have been little more than a great green hype.

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EMP weapons are not just the stuff of conspiracy theories. The next Pearl Harbor could be a nationwide blackout.

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Pigs are extremely efficient: For what farmers put into them, they get a lot out, including copious amounts of clean-burning methane gas.

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With enough billionaire backing, we could finally achieve a nuclear renaissance, with small, modular reactors.

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“I’m a gearhead; I grew up racing,” says Thomas Healy, 28, one of the big winners of the SPAC boom of 2020.

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Renewable energy is now cheap and ready for prime time—if, like billionaire Michael Polsky, you don’t mind angering farmers and chopping up a few bald eagles.

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High-frequency-trading pioneer Ed Bosarge is trying to get rid of his wife while keeping her hands off his constantly changing array of murky trusts.

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