Kentucky, like West Virginia, is known as a coal state. When coal is burned it produces (among another things) a fine powdery substance called fly ash that must be disposed of. Fly ash is composed mainly of silica. Sand! Fly ash is often used to make concrete and cement products. Researchers at the University of…
Read More...In September 2022, MDN told you about a new 53-mile pipeline project in Western Kentucky — a 16-inch natural gas pipeline to feed natgas to the southern Pennyrile Region (see Kentucky Spending $30M on New NatGas Pipe to Expand Biz Growth). The $115 million project is partly being underwritten by a $30 million grant from…
Read More...Welcome to Paradise, where natural gas is the fuel of choice to generate electricity! In 2017, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) held a dedication ceremony for the Paradise Combined Cycle Gas Plant in Drakesboro, Kentucky (see Paradise Comes to Kentucky: TVA NatGas Elec Plant Fires Up). The Paradise plant is a natural gas-fired plant that…
Read More...Natural gas is coming to Lincoln and Rockcastle counties in central Kentucky. Delta Natural Gas, a local gas utility and subsidiary of PNG Companies (People’s Natural Gas), which in turn is a subsidiary of Essential Utilities, broke ground on a 22-mile pipeline to provide natgas to Lincoln and Rockcastle for both residential customers and industrial…
Read More...Last December, PPL Corporation subsidiaries Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) announced a plan to replace 1,500 megawatts of aging coal-fired generation (nearly one-third of Kentucky’s coal fleet!) with two 621-megawatt (MW) natural gas combined-cycle units along with several unreliable, intermittent solar projects (see PPL Replacing Coal-Fired Power Plants with…
Read More...We have some exciting news to share! Yesterday, we told you that super secret sources whispering to Reuters say the Bidenistas will announce, on Friday, the winners of $7 billion in grant money to construct hydrogen hubs around the country (see Bidenistas to Announce Hydrogen Hub Hunger Games Winners on Friday). The same super secret…
Read More...Last December, PPL Corporation subsidiaries Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) announced a plan to replace 1,500 megawatts of aging coal-fired generation (nearly one-third of Kentucky’s coal fleet!) with two 621-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle units along with several unreliable, intermittent solar projects (see PPL Replacing Coal-Fired Power Plants with NatGas…
Read More...Last September, MDN told you about a new 53-mile pipeline project in Western Kentucky–a 16-inch natural gas pipeline to feed natgas to the southern Pennyrile Region (see Kentucky Spending $30M on New NatGas Pipe to Expand Biz Growth). The $115 million project is partly being underwritten by a $30 million grant from the State of…
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, April 14, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...In May 2021, MDN told you that Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) had won Kentucky state approval to build… Continue reading The post Court Allows LG&E to Build Tiny Pipe Thru Kentucky Arboretum Land first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Net Zero: An Existential Threat to Our Electric Grid Gordon Tomb Senior Advisor, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Our guest blogger, Gordon Tomb, recently gave an excellent presentation to the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association and the full text follows.] First, I want to say how glad I am to be in
Read More...In May 2021, MDN told you that Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) had won Kentucky state approval to build… Continue reading The post LG&E Takes Kentucky Arboretum to Court to Build Tiny Pipe first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Yesterday we told you that the Pennsylvania-blessed effort by Shell and Equinor to build (at taxpayers’ expense) a so-called hydrogen… Continue reading The post WV-Led Hydrogen Hub Proposal Green-Lighted for Next Round first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...West Virginia is taking the lead in a coalition to apply for (and build) a regional hydrogen hub, funded by… Continue reading The post Kentucky Joins Multi-State, West Virginia-Led Hydrogen Hub Coalition first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Kentucky is joining a number of other states, including Texas, West Virginia, and Florida, in putting Big Banks (and Big… Continue reading The post BlackRock, JPMorgan, Citi About to Lose Kentucky as a Customer first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
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