Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Carbon dioxide storage is a lot closer than fractivists suppose and it will destroy any advantages claimed by renewables as that sector faces big problems. One of our alert readers who spends a lot of time studying these issues sent me three articles that, read together, tell us
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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. Natural Gas Is the Future for Electricity The numbers keep stacking up: Across the U.S., gas could supply
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Combined-cycle natural gas power plants offer lower cost electricity than anything else, especially renewables, the true costs of which are never counted. Our friends at the Institute of Energy Research have come out with a study that finally examines the true costs of renewables, including their impacts on
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NY Post readers were treated to the one of the best editorials it has yet to write on the subject of energy. It demolishes Cuomo’s renewables delusion. The NY Post has neatly summarized the immense problems with Andrew Cuomo’s renewables delusion. Indeed, I have to wonder if some
Read More...Energy infrastructure company Sempra Energy has completed the sale of its U.S. renewables business and non-utility natural gas storage assets for roughly $2.5 billion in cash, Kallanish Energy reports. The announcement comes with Monday’s completion of the sale of its remaining ownership interests in operating and development-stage wind assets to American Electric Power for $584 million in cash.
Read More...Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … ConEd and Cuomo’s PSC say some combination of solar, other renewables and heat pumps can substitute for the gas Cuomo keeps stopping at the border. Dumb idea. New York’s proposed Community and Climate Protection Act has a goal for “the state of New York to reduce greenhouse
Read More...General Electric Renewable Energy held a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday in Rotterdam, The Netherlands for its behemoth 12-megawatt wind turbine. Designed as an offshore wind turbine, the GE Haliade-X 12 will be built onshore to “facilitate access for testing.” Construction of the turbine’s foundations began earlier this year. Its nacelle, blades and tower parts will arrive later this
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