Domains
Domains
Thematic areas covered by this site. Each domain connects relevant data sources, briefs, and analytical context.
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Updated Jul 2026
Critical Materials, Batteries & Mining
The EU Critical Raw Materials Act and Battery Regulation, the upstream geography that turns both into procurement risk (nickel, cobalt, lithium, graphite, rare earths), and Finland as the bloc's leading metal-mining jurisdiction. From a global base map of every metal mine by water risk down to one mine's measured discharge, plus a price-to-gate screen of whether each deposit's metals pay at today's prices, the place where Europe's rare-earth problem turns out to be processing, not mining.
174 countries • analytical dashboard
Global Electricity Costs
Country-by-country industrial, consumer, and wholesale electricity prices from national regulators and Eurostat. Choropleth map with 4 overlays. Dual carbon columns: fossil CO₂ vs CO₂e (Ember-normalized). Hydrogen viability, CBAM indirect emissions, data centre suitability, and industrial competitiveness. Three data quality tiers.
175 countries • analytical dashboard
Regional Demographics
Median age, fertility, working-age share, and old-age dependency for 175 countries, with medium-variant projections to 2050. A global choropleth with 4 overlays and region/bloc outlines, plus a region and bloc selector (ASEAN, EU, GCC, and more) driving age-sex pyramids, the below-replacement versus dividend split, and per-country median-age trajectories. Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
Deep model • Finnish bidding zone
Finland Electricity Price Model
Wholesale price elasticity model backtested against COVID 2020, the 2022 gas crisis, OL3 commercial operation, and the January 2024 cold snap. Temperature, hydro, carbon, oil inputs plus structural supply shocks. The deepest single-country analysis on the site.
Updated Jul 2026
Energy Infrastructure
Gas and oil pipelines, LNG terminals, hydrogen pipelines, refineries, and the physical layer of energy. Power generation mapped globally: solar (22,000+ farms), wind, nuclear (980+ units), hydropower (3,300+ plants), gas plants, and coal power (7,600+ plants) across 11 GEM datasets. The refinery status map tracks 600+ facilities with a 2026 Hormuz crisis overlay.
Updated Jul 2026
Maritime & Transit Risk
The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis as a live natural experiment in price transmission: crude cushioned by SPR, spare capacity, and demand destruction while diesel cracks hit records. Chokepoint sparkline board, bypass pipeline analysis, event-annotated transit data, Red Sea case study. Daily transit from IMF PortWatch, daily prices from EIA.
Updated Jul 2026
Country Intelligence
Standardised three-index profiles, compliance, sourcing attractiveness, and geopolitical and concentration risk, across 189 countries. Market-entry deep pages with decision-grade data for India and Thailand.
Updated Jul 2026
Industrial Investment Tracker
Finland's flagship industrial and cleantech investments tracked from announcement to fate: over EUR 300bn announced, 6% at investment decision, and a dated two-year cancellation wave across fuels, hydrogen, batteries and steel. Every status primary-sourced, built counterexamples kept in view, quiet deaths recorded alongside the loud announcements.
Updated Jul 2026
Power Markets & the Grid
The institutional layer behind electricity prices across 176 countries in 20 blocs: single-buyer versus competitive markets, regulators, third-party access, direct PPA, reserve margins, generation mix, cross-border interconnectors, and the binding bottleneck per country. From Thailand's take-or-pay gas lock-in to Germany's post-nuclear coal dependence to Nigeria's monthly grid collapses.
Updated Jul 2026
Trade Structure & Partners
EU import dependency and partner mix across commodity categories. Tracks the China vs ASEAN structural shift using Eurostat COMEXT data.
Updated Jul 2026
Topics & the Relations Graph
Every country, regulation, product, and risk the briefs are tagged with, cross-linked, plus the whole registry drawn as one interactive graph: structural and causal relations kept distinct, causal edges carrying their confidence, the picture growing denser with every build.
Updated Jul 2026
Forecast Lab
The prediction ledger: claims that can resolve. Timestamped claims about energy, minerals and regulation, each with a criterion and a resolution date fixed at logging, resolved publicly with misses recorded exactly like hits. Third-party claims scored alongside this site's own staked readings, kept strictly apart.
Updated Jul 2026
Biomass: Physical vs Legislative Availability
A funnel from the world to the EU: global biomass by source and totals, the competing food, feed, material and soil-carbon claims that make 'available' a residual rather than a fact, the conversion routes and the feedstock-to-route map, and what RED II and III actually let the EU count. The gap between what physically exists and what the rules recognise, with crude tall oil as the worked case.
Updated Jul 2026
Does EU Policy Actually Work
EU environmental trade measures scored against what physically happened, not what they intended. Case 1, the palm-oil biofuel phase-out: it removed 52% of EU palm-biofuel demand, but roughly 98% of that displaced to Indonesian domestic biodiesel and other markets rather than disappearing, and deforestation followed its own drivers. The carrot (buyer pressure) beat the stick (the import ban); a live used-cooking-oil panel watches the palm try to sneak back. CBAM and the deforestation regulation are the next cases.
Updated Jul 2026
EV & Fuel Observatory
Finland's vehicle electrification read from the Traficom register and followed into the fuel system, plus the bottleneck simulator it grew into: fuel demand and the distillation-column mechanism, the Finnish gas system read at its four joints with an interactive scenario board, and the global gas board that closes maritime chokepoints to show how much LNG strands versus reroutes. Dependent data joined at measured bottlenecks.
Updated Jul 2026
Physical & Climate Risk
Global flood hazard, live rain, near-real-time satellite flood detection, and live seismicity on one map, with supply-base and infrastructure assets to follow. Free, openly-licensed data: USGS, NASA GIBS, GPM, SEDAC. The free-data prototype of a satellite physical-verification layer for transaction-risk and insurance review.
Updated Jul 2026
Vegetable Oil & Biofuel Blending
ASEAN vegetable oil wholesale benchmarks (CPO, soybean, sunflower), retail consumer prices across 6 countries, and biodiesel blending mandate tracker. Connects biofuel policy to edible oil markets.
Updated Jul 2026
Feedstock Supply Chains
UCO and biodiesel feedstock trade flows into the EU. Partner concentration across Indonesia, Malaysia, China and ASEAN-6. Anchored by HS 1518 UN Comtrade data.
Updated Jul 2026
EU Compliance & Market Access
The regulatory layer governing what EU buyers can source, sell, and claim: EUDR, CSDDD, PPWR, CSRD/ESRS, GPSR, REACH, and Green Claims. Per-regulation deep pages with country exposure.
Updated May 2026
CBAM & Carbon Cost
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: the regulation with a clear euro price. Interactive cost calculator by product scope and origin, live EUA price, statutory phase-in schedule, carbon intensity data sourced to IEA, World Steel, GCCA, IAI and IFA. Political analysis and forward scenarios.
More domains will be added as coverage expands.