Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Warren Buffet Funds Fractivists: It’s All About His Money This is nothing new as we explained here, here and here, but
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Joe Biden, while denying it, has proposed a Green New Deal that would be nothing less than disastrous for Americans and others. Some 90% of all US wells are now hydraulically fractured. Fracked wells in shale formations open up vast supplies of oil, natural gas and petroleum
Read More...John Droz, Jr.Physicist & Citizen AdvocateAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions … John Droz effectively lays out the ugly nature of S.2657, an especially bad Senate bill epitomizing the smell of the Federal swamp. This is a simplified tale of how good intentions were cleverly hijacked by self-servingspecial-interest parties — with little publicity, and to the
Read More...German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has secured a contract to supply turbines to a wind farm located in Texas, U.S., Kallanish Energy reports. Under the terms of the agreement, announced on Friday, will see Nordex deliver and install 65 N149/4.0-4.5 wind turbines in the 4.8 megawatt (MW) operating mode, for a total capacity of 312
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Will California Blackouts Lead to A Pennsylvania Wipeout? Dan Markind raises this interesting question in one of his latest pieces for
Read More...Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The recent Supreme Court decision in the case of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline reveals the true very non-green political agenda of those who say they’re green. The US Supreme Court recently ruled 7-2 to reverse a lower court ruling that had invalidated a permit for the Atlantic
Read More...Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Crony capitalism or real capitalism? The answer is obvious yet too many companies in recent years, GE being the prime example, drifted toward the former.] A May 27, 2020, piece at EnergyWire (E&E News) reported the latest
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Senator Yudichak Speaks His Thoughts on Energy Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, in cooperation with Penn’s Northeast, the Wyoming County Chamber
Read More...Offshore wind should become a $1 trillion business by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday, with global capacity set for a 15-fold increase, Kallanish Energy reports. According to the IEA’s Offshore Wind Outlook 2019, investment last year in the sector neared $20 billion, compared to under $8 billion in 2010. With today’s investment
Read More...Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Andrew Cuomo’s push for more windmills Upstate is blowing up a storm of controversy as locals say they don’t want them and are fighting back, town by town. Politics don’t start with the President and work their way down to us. No, real politics
Read More...The share of U.S. total utility-scale power generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 34% in 2018, to 37% in 2019 and 2020, the Energy Information Administration forecasts in its October Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). EIA/STEO forecasts the share of U.S. electric generation from coal will average 25% in 2019, and 22% in 2020, down from
Read More...Texas is about to go green — by 2020, more electricity will come from wind than coal, according to analytics/consulting firm Rystad Energy. Propelled by the surging shale revolution, Texas now contributes 40% of total U.S. oil production and nearly 25% of marketed natural gas production, Kallanish Energy reports. However, the “Lone Star State” is
Read More...Ahead of tonight’s third Democratic presidential debate in Houston, the energy capital of the world, EID is taking a deeper dive into several candidates’ climate plans and their potential impacts on America’s power grid. Top tier contenders including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris have laid out plans to achieve a net-zero
Read More...Energy consumption in the U.S. reached a record high of more than 101 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2018, surpassing the previous high recorded in 2007, by less than 0.3%, the Energy Information Administration reports. For nearly 70 years, the electric power sector, which both consumes and produces energy, has been responsible for some of the
Read More...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%
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