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Derek Brower

US energy editor

Derek Brower leads the FT's energy coverage in the US, the world's biggest and most dynamic market, reporting on companies and investors from Texas to New York; the shale patch to the solar sector; and from Washington oil politics to the environment and transition.

Brower is also the editor of Energy Source, the FT's must-read energy newsletter, published twice a week.

He has covered energy and global politics for 20 years, working across the Middle East and North Africa, North America, and Russia.

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  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    Energy Source
    Is the oil price bounce on? Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, a breakthrough for private investment in Mexico’s energy sector

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Energy Source
    Fears of an energy price surge percolate through sector Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, the push towards greener jet fuel

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Sempra’s $13bn LNG project gets the greenlight Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, the UN warns on the ‘climate time-bomb’

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil markets hit a year-low following banking rout Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, we explain how the US decides what counts as ‘green’ hydrogen

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    Oil
    Oil caught up in banking fears as US crude drops below $70 a barrel

    Prices slide on worries that stress in financial sector will spread to broader economy

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    Energy Source
    US set to become world’s largest LNG exporter Premium content

    A banner day for American fossil fuels

  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    US Inflation Reduction Act
    US energy secretary offers olive branch to EU in green subsidies row

    Jennifer Granholm says in interview that Washington wants to ‘make sure we can do this in a way that lifts all’

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    US taps big trading houses to help move price-capped Russian oil

    Treasury officials reassure world’s largest commodity traders over return to shipping Russian barrels

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Energy Source
    Inside the biggest debates at CERAWeek Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, US solar installations fall for the first time in five years

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil executives warn of higher prices now that Opec is back ‘in charge’

    Warning that the balance of supply and demand is ‘on a razor’

  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    Energy Source
    The new energy world order Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, the largest market for EVs steps on the brakes

  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Natural gas
    Gunvor chief says loss of Russian gas will cement US export role

    Energy executives see lasting change in global energy market after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    BP insists it is not slowing green transition to cash in on high oil prices

    Boss of US operations says renewables strategy unchanged despite company planning aggressive production increases

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Can Shell close the valuation gap with US rivals?

    Investors divided on new chief executive’s push to narrow distance from Exxon and Chevron while pursuing transition

  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    Energy Source
    The world is at risk of a ‘disorderly’ energy transition Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, despite the Inflation Reduction Act, US battery imports from China increase

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    Energy Source
    What’s coming down the ‘fairway’ for the shale patch Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, EU-US green subsidies dispute may be overblown

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell explored quitting Europe and moving to the US

    Executives discussed potential shift in 2021 in effort to close group’s valuation gap with US rivals

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    US politics & policy
    US makes ‘no apologies’ for prioritising American jobs, clean energy tsar tells EU

    John Podesta pushes back at European criticism of $369bn climate spending

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    Energy Source
    A year of disarray for global energy markets Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, a flood of investment in US LNG production

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Energy Source
    Inside America’s energy revolution Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, why are global oil markets relatively calm

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    The Big Read
    The US plan to become the world’s cleantech superpower

    The Biden administration’s revolution in American industrial policy is a gamble with huge geopolitical ramifications

  • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
    Energy Source
    Why a deals boom is brewing in the US oil patch Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, US tries to wrest control of the clean energy supply chain from China

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    US Inflation Reduction Act
    Rush for US clean energy subsidies boosts brokers and lawyers

    Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is sparking a revolution in financing for renewables

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    The Big Read
    What Big Oil’s bumper profits mean for the energy transition

    Few expected the supermajors to help drive decarbonisation. But this week, the market showed it will not force them to

  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    Energy Source
    BP: No longer ‘Beyond Petroleum’. Again. Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, we look at oil forecasts after Joe Biden said the US will need oil for ‘at least another decade’

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