European energy-intensive industries have urged EU lawmakers to take swift action to deal with record high energy prices.

Energy-intensive industries have urged EU leaders to provide them with relief from high energy prices.

Break-even carbon prices, variable costs and thresholds for coal vs. gas-fired power generation, by region (US, Europe and Japan), back to 2009.

Political parties that could form a coalition government in Germany have committed to expand renewables and exit coal by 2030.

EI New Energy's proprietary data on the costs of generating electricity, known as the levelized cost of energy (LCOE), broken down into regional subsets for the US, Western Europe, Mideast, Japan and Developing Asia.

The fuel switching threshold -- the carbon price at which it becomes more profitable to generate electricity from gas than from coal, in Europe and the US.

A calculation of the gas or carbon price that would allow renewable energy to match the profitability of new gas-fired power, without subsidies.

Ongoing power shortages in China should open the way for greater gas use, industry insiders say.

A calculation of the gas or carbon price that would allow renewable energy to match the profitability of new gas-fired power, without subsidies.

The fuel switching threshold -- the carbon price at which it becomes more profitable to generate electricity from gas than from coal, in Europe and the US.