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.
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, July 29, 1922! 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...Diversified Gas & Oil (DGO) is a fascinating company (see our DGO stories here). DGO’s strategy is to buy wells in “the long tail.” That is, wells already drilled with production far along the decline curve, but wells that will continue to produce small amounts for years to come. In October, DGO CEO Rusty Hutson,
Read More...On August 1, Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Pipeline Company (TETCO) pipeline exploded in Lincoln County, Kentucky–killing one and sending six to the hospital (see TETCO Pipe Explodes in Kentucky Killing 1; Southbound M-U Gas Stops). Since that time one of the three TETCO pipes in the area has returned to service. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous
Read More...Last Thursday the Texas Eastern Transmission Company (TETCO) pipeline exploded near a trailer park in Lincoln County, Kentucky (see TETCO Pipe Explodes in Kentucky Killing 1; Southbound M-U Gas Stops). The blast and resulting fire killed one woman, injured five more, and destroyed five homes in the area. It shut down the pipeline in that
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