(Yahoo Finance) – THREE MILE ISLAND, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have sat dormant for so long that grass has sprung up in the towers’ hollowed-out bases and wildlife roam inside. Armed guard stations at an entrance to the shut concrete facility, surrounded by barbed wire, sit empty. The plant,
(Investing) – WASHINGTON – The U.S. on Tuesday announced $428 million in grants to build or expand battery manufacturing and recycling plants and other clean energy manufacturing in communities that have been hit hard by recent closures of coal mines and power plants. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate in
(World Oil) – ADNOC announced today the deployment of AIQ’s Advanced Reservoir 360 (AR360) solution on more than 30 reservoirs across ADNOC’s upstream operations, following the solution’s successful initial deployment in early 2024 on two ADNOC reservoirs at Bab and Umm Shaif fields. Developed by AIQ with SLB as part of ENERGYai, ADNOC’s artificial intelligence and digital technology strategy, AR360
(Oil & Gas 360) – Earlier this week, the world-famous Paris Auto Show saw some international political heft inserted into its usual line-up of fast cars over the European Union’s electric vehicle (EV) mandates. BMW’s CEO Oliver Zipse warned that EU efforts to virtually eliminate the production of internal combustion engines (ICE) and diesel-powered vehicles over the next ten years
(Oil Price) – Moderating inflation and reduced market volatility compared to 2022 and 2023 resulted in lower prices for renewable electricity in power purchase agreements across Europe. During the third quarter of 2024, power purchase agreements (PPAs) for electricity sourced from renewable energy showed a 12.4% decline in price, compared to the same period of 2023, according to data from price
(Oil Price) – Germany’s car manufacturing giant BMW is warning that an EU ban on the sale of gasoline and diesel cars from 2035 is “no longer realistic” amid slow EV sales as the European auto industry will see a “massive shrinking” with such a ban. European carmakers are already struggling with their EV sales as subsidies in many countries are
(Oil & Gas 360) – The International Energy Administration (IEA) released its Government Energy Spending Tracker late last month detailing the nearly $3 trillion in global investment in decarbonization efforts. The United States accounts for roughly one-sixth of that number with nearly $ 600 billion allocated across six categories (outlined below). The figure equates to an approximate federal spend on
(Oil Price) – Despite the surge in renewable energy additions, the world is not yet on track to reach the goal of tripling renewables capacity by 2030, according to the Renewables 2024 report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday. Global renewable capacity is expected to grow by 2.7 times by 2030, surpassing countries’ current ambitions by nearly 25%. But it
(Oil & Gas 360) – Traffic jams and hailing Ubers could be things of the past should air taxi developers deliver on promises that are enticing enough that Toyota is investing in another round of the technology. The Japanese carmaker is investing half a billion dollars in Joby, a California-based producer of electric vehicle takeoff and landing craft (eVOTL) that has
(Yahoo Finance) – BOGOTA/MONTEVIDEO/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters)- Latin America’s wealth of hydroelectricity and other renewable energy resources could make the region a major producer of clean hydrogen as the world seeks alternatives to fossil fuels to fight the climate crisis, but some big hurdles lie in the way. Government leaders expect a major boon for the region from clean hydrogen, also
(Oil & Gas 360) – A talent deficit may be the biggest drag on the momentum behind a global nuclear resurgence as the technology is increasingly recognized as an efficient and proven way to produce reliable emissions-free electricity. A similar talent dearth has long been an oil and gas industry topic and potential threat to the United States’ dominance in
(World Oil) – Palantir Technologies Inc. and APA Corporation announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar extension to their enterprise agreement originally signed in 2021. The agreement builds on the work deployed across APA’s global portfolio over the past three years and introduces new artificial intelligence capabilities with Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) software. Over the past three years, Palantir has partnered with
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