April 18, 2016

From Michigan Business Detroit-based DTE Energy is in the middle of a five-year, $2.5 billion gas and electric infrastructure upgrade that will have the utility investing millions into projects in West Michigan.  The changes come as the utility — like others across the country — prepares for a more natural gas-dependent future and shifts away from fossil fuels, like coal.

From the The Journal – Ogdensburg, NY When regulators opened the state’s energy market to competition, they hoped to create a robust marketplace where consumers would have ample choices that would cut their heating and electric bills. It hasn’t worked out that way. Instead, consumers often pay more if they buy their electricity or natural gas from an independent supplier,

From Penn State Extension The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) is working with the Gas Technology Institute and industry partners to provide new data on how induced underground fractures spread within horizontal wellbores. Hydraulic fracturing is a complex process used to propagate fractures in subsurface rock layers with the injection of pressurized fluid through a wellbore