Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:40:00 +0000
Spot the contradiction: oil majors with record profits while lower income households struggle to pay their bills. Can Europe act to level the playing field? BP recorded a profit of $12.8bn in 2021 after oil and gas prices surged in the second half of the year. For Shell, profits amounted to $19.3bn and Total Energies, $16bn. On the other hand, […]
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:54:21 +0000
Shell’s Greenlots has partnered with Volvo as part of its LIGHTS electric trucking program to install the first of four planned heavy duty fleet charging stations
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:48:08 +0000
Prices for offshore wind energy in the US just set new low record, crushing the “zero carbon” dreams of fossil energy producers
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:18:52 +0000
We somehow missed this one in October, but it’s an interesting and inspiring milestone that recently crossed our desk and seemed like it needed to be covered. Shell announced in October that it wouldn’t just be adding EV charging stations to more gas/petrol stations, but that it would actually be fully converting a gas/petrol station to an EV charging station
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:26:22 +0000
Abundant and high-power charging stations can go a long way to support electric taxis. They’re a base necessity. But one thing would be better than that
Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:51:54 +0000
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The POWERGEN International exhibition and summit—one of the world’s largest power-industry events with more than 750 exhibitors—was held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 19–21, 2019. POWER was there (Figure 1) to connect with leaders from the industry and report on the latest news from the show. Hot topics […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Joshua S Hill| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:27:28 +0000
A new report from independent financial think tank Carbon Tracker has concluded that the world’s seven leading oil and gas majors must cut production by an average of 35% by 2040 if global emissions are to be reined in and kept “well below” 2°C, in accordance with the Paris Agreement’s commitment.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 03:23:23 +0000
At first, people tend to see new technologies as updated versions of older ones. Just as early TV shows consisted of filmed radio shows or stage plays, and early websites resembled the pages of low-budget magazines, many in the mainstream media still believe that vehicle electrification will mean swapping gas pumps for charging stations
Credit to Author: David Zarembka| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 21:30:05 +0000
Like Germany is to Europe, South Africa is the manufacturing powerhouse of sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it has 8 automobile assembly plants. The companies are BMW, Ford, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Renault, Toyota, and Volkswagen. In 2018, South Africa produced 610,854 vehicles
Credit to Author: David Zarembka| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:10:43 +0000
CleanTechnica has been running a number of articles on little noted negative aspects of gas/diesel vehicles. These include hundreds of US deaths annually from carbon monoxide poisoning, oil refinery explosions, 137 US oil spills last year, what to do with old oil tankers, and the 150 gas/diesel car fires daily in the US. A common concept in Africa that is not noticed in the United States or other parts of the world is what in Africa is called “Africa’s Oil Curse.”