Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:36:18 +0000
Solar and wind power continue to dominate new power capacity in the United States. July was actually a poor month relatively speaking, with just 56% of new power capacity coming from renewable energy sources due to a notable fossil gas (aka “natural gas”) capacity addition, but for the first 7 months of the year as […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:30:50 +0000
0.6 million tons of CO2 are escaping through the holes they’ve drilled to create energy, so they are going to try to capture some of it at great expense and pump it back into the same place it’s escaping from.
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:20:39 +0000
A Maryland-based power generation group said it will build an 1,800-MW combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in West Virginia, a project that will utilize carbon capture and storage to take advantage of a government tax credit. Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) on Sept. 16 said it plans for the project to be operational later this decade. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:53:38 +0000
A new study from business and environmental researchers at Oxford University disputes the notion that a strategy to transition global power generation toward renewable energy and away from fossil fuels is too expensive to pursue. The study, released Sept. 13 and published in the journal Joule, reports that decarbonizing the world’s energy systems would save […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:04:20 +0000
Multiagency effort aims to identify and characterize lost wells, including methane emissions and other environmental impacts
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:49:13 +0000
Anytime anyone uses the term ‘energy independence’, correct them to ‘strategic energy interdependence’.
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:45:06 +0000
The Biden administration has laid out a comprehensive roadmap to help five energy-intensive manufacturing sectors reduce their fuel- and power-related carbon emissions and achieve net-zero by 2050. The pathways proposed for the iron and steel, cement and concrete, food and beverage, chemical manufacturing, and petroleum refining sectors may have substantial implications for future power demand. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:30:15 +0000
California’s grid operator issued a Stage 3 energy emergency alert (EEA) at 5:17 p.m. PST on Sept. 6, warning it would order rotating power outages to lower soaring power demand and stabilize its grid, if necessary. The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) cautiously raised the emergency alert from Stage 2, which it had declared earlier […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 14:43:19 +0000
California is cooking in extreme heat, Russia has shut down a key gas pipeline to Europe, and there are changes in the White House with regards to climate and energy. Scroll down below for the updates. Heatwave Breaks Records, Threatens Human Health: Extreme heat shattered records up and down the West Coast over the weekend, threatening […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 03:40:08 +0000
Federal Working Group Announces Establishment of Rapid Response Team to Support Energy Communities in The Four Corners: energy communities in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization last week announced the creation of a new Four Corners Rapid Response […]