Four people died in a fire that occurred Tuesday at a facility operated by Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), Kallanish Energy learns. Three individuals were fire personnel of the police arm of the Central Industrial Security Force, while the fourth person was a resident production superintendent at the Uran Plant in Mumbai.
The share of U.S. total utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 35% in 2018, to 38% in 2019, and then decline slightly in 2020, according to the latest Steo, Short-Term Energy Outlook, produced by the Energy Information Administration. EIA/Steo forecasts the share of U.S. generation from coal will average 24%
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that he is “shooting for the moon” and spending $500 million “to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas,” through a Beyond Carbon campaign led by the Sierra Club. But the proposal is out-of-touch with reality and