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As of July 16, 2025, Cipher has ceased publication.
Joined August 2021
After four years of delivering clear, solutions-focused coverage of climate and energy, Cipher published its final reporting today. I hope you’ll continue to follow our team as we continue this work in new ways: https://t.co/gsQ4FE3EFb – @AmyAHarder, Executive Editor
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Cipher covers the latest news and provides expert analysis on the technological innovations and solutions we need to combat climate change and transform our global energy systems to reach a clean...
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The transition toward cleaner energy is (still) happening and will not go fully into reverse, even if more localized trends stall or backtrack temporarily. @AmyAHarder shares in her final Harder Line Column for Cipher News:
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The time horizon of addressing climate change and transitioning our massive energy system to cleaner resources is spectacularly mismatched for humanity and its societal pendulum swings.
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Exclusive: Bill Gates on Trump's big bill, AI and more. Read more from @AmyAHarder in Cipher News:
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Gates told Cipher in an exclusive interview that the Trump administration’s recently enacted law rolling back many climate incentives was not as bad as could have been expected.
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Money is the key to the energy transition. Today, a greater share is being invested into clean power sources, but less is flowing to new cleantech ideas and startups. Bill Spindle shares data from the @IEA and @PitchBook in this #DataDive:
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Money is the key to the energy transition. Today, a greater share is being invested into clean power sources, but less is flowing to new cleantech ideas and startups.
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With time, a swinging pendulum shapes energy and climate change. Read @AmyAHarder's Harder Line column for our final publication.
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The time horizon of addressing climate change and transitioning our massive energy system to cleaner resources is spectacularly mismatched for humanity and its societal pendulum swings.
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Exclusive -- Bill Gates on the climate cuts in Trump's big bill: "It wasn’t quite the evisceration that a complete lack of believing in climate change might have led to." https://t.co/2oDJ0mRo6P
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Gates told Cipher in an exclusive interview that the Trump administration’s recently enacted law rolling back many climate incentives was not as bad as could have been expected.
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Hear from the Cipher team on what we can learn from the past four years and what might be ahead for the energy transition. Read more:
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Cipher News has covered the global energy transition with an eye on the possible and a clear-eyed perspective.
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As @CipherClimate ceases publication this week, our team reflects on the last four years — and looks ahead https://t.co/YFFG04l1jC
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Offshore wind is growing — except in North America. The region represents just 0.2% of total offshore wind installations, @AncaGurzu writes based on a @GWECGlobalWind report. Check out the chart here:
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Asia and Europe each have well over 200 times more offshore wind power than North America, according to a recent report. The divide feels emblematic of this moment in time.
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The Cipher team reflects on the last four years of the publication and shares their thoughts on what's ahead for the energy transition. Cipher will publish its final articles on Wednesday. Read more:
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Cipher News has covered the global energy transition with an eye on the possible and a clear-eyed perspective.
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@FT @CatClifford @theinformation @CNN @amenasaiyid .@Reuters on a deadly heat wave across Europe. https://t.co/IOuHIZVmyc
@AncaGurzu’s take: 1,500 of the deaths were linked to climate change, which made the heatwave more severe. And that's only last week.
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Of the 2,300 people estimated to have died, 1,500 deaths were linked to climate change.
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@FT @CatClifford @theinformation .@CNN on President Trump's announcement of a 50% tariff on copper imports. https://t.co/WL3oFMbvzd
@amenasaiyid’s take: With the addition of a levy on copper, a metal used in electronics, prices of machinery and cars will go up.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s imposing a new 50% tariff on all copper. However, it’s unclear when the new tariff would take effect.
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@FT @CatClifford .@theinformation on the battery company that took over the factory built by now failed Northvolt. https://t.co/QWNwlEDKf4 Bill Spindle's take: Drones, not EVs, are the target market, with militaries being the main buyers.
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Last November, European battery developer Northvolt was struggling and looking for a buyer for its state-of-the-art lithium-metal manufacturing subsidiary in Silicon Valley.When none of the industr...
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.@FT on utilities looking for regulatory approval to increase customer rates. https://t.co/mMZCUiciaQ
@CatClifford’s take: Utilities are trying to meet rising energy demand from AI data centers in addition to repairing and improving energy infrastructure.
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Customers face higher bills to upgrade infrastructure needed to power AI systems
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Check out our daily top reads & #HotTakes at https://t.co/dpas4pc7Vu! Below are a few highlights ⬇️
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Asia and Europe each have well over 200 times more offshore wind power than North America, @AncaGurzu writes based on a report from @GWECGlobalWind. Check out the chart:
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Asia and Europe each have well over 200 times more offshore wind power than North America, according to a recent report. The divide feels emblematic of this moment in time.
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Each week, we feature a photo that is somehow related to energy, the thing we all need but don’t notice until it’s expensive or gone. Email your ideas and photos to news@ciphernews.com.
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Cipher reader and portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein Luke Pryor took this photo of the Wind Scylla, an offshore wind turbine installation vessel, from a train passing through New London, CT. Check out the wind turbine tower components visible next to the ship!
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Climate startups face the "scale gap," an investment and expertise shortfall on their path from early projects to widespread adoption and commercialization, write Dawn Lippert and Avra Van der Zee of Elemental Impact in a #Voices article:
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We need financial innovation: novel ways to invest in climate solutions that can bridge the scale gap and unlock essential technologies.
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Under the hot blazing sun along the Gulf of Oman, @amenasaiyid got a first hand look at how Oman-based @4401earth is harnessing nature to store CO2 under the jagged Hajar Mountains. Read more:
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This demonstration project in the United Arab Emirates is showing how carbon dioxide can be stored in rocks.
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