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    Amanda Chu is a business reporter, covering foreign direct investment and the reorientation of supply chains. She works on the FT-Nikkei Investing in America ranking and helps write Energy Source, the twice-a-week energy newsletter. She joined the FT as an editorial intern in 2021. She graduated from Georgetown University.

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    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Energy Source
      Nearly ‘impossible’ to manufacture batteries without China Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, US solar industry had its best first-quarter ever — and there’s no sign of a slowdown

    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Energy Source
      ‘Prickly prince’ bets on a crude price rally Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a look at how ESG funds are performing versus their fossil fuel rivals

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      Opinion: Time is up for Big Oil’s business model Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, reports of the death of Canada’s oil sands are greatly exaggerated

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      Live from ‘clean energy Coachella’ Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, just how big are the shale patch’s private drillers?

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      The energy transition’s ‘shortage of returns’ Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: the US cannot undo supply chain dependence on China overnight

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      What comes after peak coal? Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a look at America’s obsession with big cars

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      The energy mega-deal stuck in the pipeline Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, are the new solar sector subsidies worth the cost?

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      News in-depthUS immigration
      US executives call for immigration reform to staff manufacturing boom

      Clean energy and chip companies say they need influx of foreign labour for Biden’s re-industrialisation effort

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Renewable energy
      New US solar rules will do little to break China dependence, experts say

      Treasury department unveils fresh guidance but analysts say few domestic companies could fully capitalise on the subsidy

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      BP chief: Fossil fuels have done ‘enormous good’ Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, is the gag about nuclear fusion true?

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      The clean energy subsidy race is on Premium content

      Plus, asset managers aren’t putting their money where their climate pledges are, report shows

    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      News in-depthUS Inflation Reduction Act
      Biden subsidies stoke arms race among states to woo projects

      Critics question whether generous incentives to attract foreign investment deliver value for money

    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      Energy Source
      America’s cleantech lender-in-chief has a ‘ridiculously good rate of return’ Premium content

      But Big Oil has failed to come to the table

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      The energy transition’s big problem Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, Canada catches up with the US on green subsidies

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      Big Oil and Big Green make strange bedfellows Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, Biden threatens the second veto of his presidency over solar tariffs

    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      News in-depthGlobal inflation
      Critics warn US Inflation Reduction Act could keep prices high

      A scramble for workers might complicate the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool the economy 

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      The new energy crisis in the pipeline Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, corporate earnings of oil service providers point to a slowdown in the shale patch

    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      Inside the flood of clean tech investment in America Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, enforcement of the Russian oil price cap heats up

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      News in-depthUS manufacturing
      ‘Transformational change’: Biden’s industrial policy begins to bear fruit

      FT research shows commitments of more than $200bn to US manufacturing since IRA and Chips Act

    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      US manufacturing
      US manufacturing commitments double after Biden subsidies launched

      Companies plan to spend over $200bn on clean technology and semiconductors following IRA and Chips Act

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      Biden hasn’t changed on fossil fuels, says ConocoPhillips boss Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, renewables are getting pricier — but so is everything else

    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      Americans are not rushing to buy EVs Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: how the energy transition has become so messy

    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      Opec puts the power of the Russian price cap to the test Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, the US’s new role as an energy exporting superpower

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Energy Source
      Opec takes the reins Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a look at what’s slowing the energy transition

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      US Inflation Reduction Act
      Biden offers olive branch to allies in electric vehicle subsidy dispute

      Long-awaited tax credit guidance expands origins for critical battery minerals but not components

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