🇪🇺 NEW | Analysis: EU countries with cleanest energy mix to save 58% more on bills than those hooked on fossil fuels
5 countries with highest clean energy share in electricity mix to save up to EUR 8.5 bn in 2026, compared to those w/ dirtiest energy mix
energyandcleanair.org/eu-countries...
🇨🇳 📣 WEBINAR | CHINA STEEL
💡TODAY: Join CREA experts for deeper dive into H2 2025 China steel report
🗓 Friday, 17 April 2026
🕘 9:30–10:30 BST / 10:30-11:30 CEST / 16:30–17:30 CST/Beijing
📍Zoom:
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📄 Find report here:
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🇨🇳 CREA's March 2026 China Energy and Emissions Trends is now available in EN & CN👇
energyandcleanair.org/china-energy-and-emissions-trends-march-2026-snapshot/
🚗📈NEV production returned to growth but remained weak for Q2 overall; exports of new energy passenger vehicles far outpaced conventional fuel vehicles
☀️📉 Solar cell output fell YoY, largely due to a high base and shifting export patterns; strong demand from energy storage and exports drove a sharp rise in battery output
🔥📈Thermal power commissioning in the first two months of 2026 surged over 400% to a record high
🏗️📉 Weak steel demand and lower steel and cement output drove a sharp decline in industrial emissions
🛢️📉 Shipping disruptions linked to the Strait of Hormuz closure reduced China’s oil & gas imports and put pressure on refining margins and fuel trade; domestic fossil fuel output remained broadly stable
🇨🇳 NEW | #China #Energy and #Emissions Trends – March 2026 Snapshot | EN & CN
🪨📈 Weaker wind and nuclear output, combined with a low base a year earlier, drove a coal & gas-fired generation rebound in March, leading to a seasonal rise in power sector emissions
energyandcleanair.org/publication/indonesias-nickel-aimed-at-evs-but-still-parked-in-stainless-steel/
🇮🇩 NEW | BRIEFING - Branded as an #EV-driven boom, 83% of #Indonesia’s 2025 #nickel production was absorbed by stainless steel
Only 17% goes into the EV battery supply chain, a major mismatch between ‘green nickel’ marketing & actual market demand
Full briefing 🧵⤵️
🌐 NEW | Analysis: Global fossil power generation fell in March after Hormuz closure due to solar & wind growth
⚠️ Fall in gas-fired generation offset by large increases in solar & wind power, not coal
w/CREA's @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
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🇨🇳 NEW | OP-ED: China’s air pollution control enters ‘deep water’ phase
Progress to depend less on conventional reductions, more on structural changes: electrifying heavy industry & transport, clean power generation growth & reduction in coal consumption
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🇷🇺 CREA’s March analysis on fossil fuel exports from Russia is now available here in EN & 🇺🇦 UA soon to follow:
energyandcleanair.org/march-2026-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/
Find all related CREA data here:
energyandcleanair.org/financing-putins-war/
🏛️ CREA reiterates the need to practice strong enforcement of the price cap policy & address attestation fraud to adequately crunch Russian revenues
❗ In March 2026 alone, full enforcement of the USD 44.1 per barrel price cap would have reduced revenues by EUR 6.62 bn
⚓ A massive spike in oil prices following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to a rethink of a maritime services ban for Russian oil to ensure supplies for global markets
🇷🇺 The number carrying Russian fossil fuels & operating under the Russian flag has risen from 217 at start of 2025 to 297 by Mar 2026
🚢In March 2026, almost half of Russia’s seaborne oil was transported by ‘shadow’ tankers under sanctions
🏴☠️6 vessels flying false flags delivered EUR 480mn of Russian crude oil & oil products in March
Despite the EU’s ban on oil products imports made from Russian crude coming into effect, 14 shipments of oil products from refineries using Russian crude unloaded at EU ports in March
Nine of these shipments departed from Turkiye’s refineries, four from India & one from Georgia
In March, the top EU importers were:
🇪🇸 Spain
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇫🇷 France
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
📈All of Spain’s LNG installations increased imports from Russia, with the Sagunto terminal receiving its first Russian shipment since August 2024
⚠️While India’s total crude imports recorded a 4% reduction in March, Russian imports doubled
🛢️ Indian state-owned refineries’ imports from Russia saw a 148% month-on-month increase in volume terms
📈China’s imports of Russian ESPO grade crude rose to the second-highest volumes since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
In March, the top importers of RU fossil fuels were:
🇨🇳 China
🇮🇳 India
🇹🇷 Turkiye
🇪🇺 EU
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇷🇺 NEW | Monthly analysis of Russian fossil fuel exports & sanctions
In Mar 2026, Russia’s monthly fossil fuel export revenues rose to their highest levels in 2 years, to EUR 713mn/day
Early estimates show a 114% MoM rise in Russia’s Mineral Extraction Tax revenues, ~EUR 7.4bn
🇨🇳 CREA's March 2026 China Air Quality Trends is now available in EN & CN👇
energyandcleanair.org/china-air-qu...
🔴 Worst PM2.5: Harbin in Heilongjiang, followed by Changchun in Jilin, & Shenyang in Liaoning
🔴 Worst ozone: Kunming in Yunnan; Lhasa in Tibet; & Jinan in Shandong
🔴 Worst NO2: Shenyang; Tianjin, & Harbin
📈 💨Jinan, Changchun, & Wuhan saw the largest YoY rises in PM2.5 concentrations attributable to emissions
📈 🌦️ Harbin’s sharp increase was driven mostly by unfavourable weather conditions, not higher emissions
🇨🇳 NEW | #China #AirQualityTrends | March 2026 | EN & CN
⚠️💨 Air quality worsened in 15 of China’s provincial capitals in Mar 2026, with 18 failing the tightened annual PM2.5 standard, up from 6 in Feb
Monthly PM2.5 and ozone levels rose YoY in over half of those cities
🇮🇳 CREA's India NCAP FY 2025-2026 progress & March ambient air quality snapshot is now available here:
energyandcleanair.org/ncap-fy-2025...
⚠️ Haryana accounted for 4 of India’s top 10 most polluted cities, followed by 2 cities each from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, and 1 each from Rajasthan and Gujarat