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Here’s Why Wind Could Replace Natural Gas

June 20, 2016

The Accelerating Growth of Wind and Solar Energy is Being Driven by Government Climate Policies, Global Corporations Thrusting Themselves onto the Green Bandwagon, Fervent Activism Against Fossil Fuels, a Carbon Concerned Millennial Generation that is Willing to Pay More for Renewable Energy, and for Some Large Electricity Buyers–Attractive Economics Last week, Oil & Gas 360® published an exclusive interview with Martin Keller, Director of

Renewable Energy could Replace Fossil Fuels for Power Gen by 2066: an OAG360® Exclusive Interview with NREL Director Martin Keller

June 17, 2016

If Martin Keller’s prediction comes true, in 50 years the U.S. won’t be using nearly the amount of crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas or coal as the legacy energy industry has been supplying for the past 100 years – Part One The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, is a place you might label as the federal government’s

Enbridge to Acquire 50% Interest in French Offshore Wind Company

May 10, 2016

CALGARY, ALBERTA–(Marketwired – May 10, 2016) – Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB)(NYSE:ENB) (the “Company”) today announced it has agreed to acquire a 50% interest in Éolien Maritime France SAS (“EMF”), a French offshore wind development company, for an investment of CAD$282 million inclusive of transaction costs and past and future pre-Final Investment Decision (“FID”) development costs. EMF will be co-owned with EDF

Wind v. Natural Gas

April 29, 2016

Wind v. natural gas. Is it a race? To create electricity you need fuel. So you have to harvest naturally occurring resources—either the ones that exist above ground or the ones that exist underground. The underground resources—the legacy ‘go-to’ fuels that generate the U.S.’s cheap baseload electricity are coal, natural gas and uranium. The three fuels are responsible for about

Wind Sector Job Boom Could Offer Shelter to Displaced Oil & Gas Employees

April 15, 2016

88,000 Wind Jobs and Hiring It may not be anywhere close to the size of the oil and gas industry, but the wind industry has been on a hiring binge of late. The wind sector supported 88,000 jobs at the start of 2016, according to the U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report Year Ending 2015, from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

Statoil Involved in World’s First Floating Wind Farm

March 21, 2016

Norwegian E&P Hopes to Make Wind Profitable When oil major Statoil (ticker: STO; StatOil.com) acquired Brigham Exploration in 2011, the Norwegian company became a major operator in the Williston basin, with approximately 330,000 net acres in the play and an extensive gathering system including three operating oil facilities, seven operating saltwater disposal facilities, approximately 700 miles of pipeline and ten

Michael Teague, Energy Secretary of Oklahoma, Speaks with OAG360 about Regulations and State Energy Programs

September 24, 2015

The United States technological revolution has made rock stars out of flashy, emerging new plays like the Bakken, Niobrara and Utica. And everybody wants to get in on the next hot area. Oklahoma, on the other hand, is old school. It’s a model of consistency when it comes to United States energy development. The Sooner State has always been among

Australia Removes Wind Projects from $2 Billion Renewable Development Fund

August 25, 2015

The Australian government will no longer allow the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in wind Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) received a directive from the Australian government to stop investing in future wind power projects. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the decision was made in hopes of refocusing the CEFC on developing new technologies, rather than supporting

A U.S. First – an Offshore Wind Project is Under Construction

August 20, 2015

Block Island wind project is expected to generate 30 MW of electricity Deepwater Wind’s Block Island project is beginning construction three miles off the coast of Rhode Island, making it the first offshore wind energy project to reach the construction phase in the United States. With the full $360 million in project financing in its coffers, the Block Island Wind

Where You See a Depleted Oil Well, Quidnet Sees Green Energy Storage

June 25, 2015

With Hollywood seed funding, startup is testing abandoned oil and gas wells as grid-scale energy storage solution for wind and solar generation “Our goal is to get to a cost point that’s potentially lower by a factor of about ten times than the batteries that you read about in the popular media, especially from companies like Tesla,” Aaron Mandell, Quidnet

EIA: Expect Natural Gas to Carve Out a Greater Market Share

May 4, 2015

Natural gas continues to grow The Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects natural gas to account for 31% of electricity generation by fuel type by 2040. In the EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2015, the administration predicts that the percentage of electricity of generated from natural gas will gain 4% of the market share on top of its existing 27% share

Leading Wind Energy Developer Coming to the U.S.

April 9, 2015

Dong Energy takes over a U.S. offshore wind development project Denmark’s Dong Energy recently entered into an agreement with U.S. renewable energy company RES Americas Developments to take over an offshore wind energy development project off the coast of Massachusetts. The lease covers an area that could accommodate more than 1,000 MW of wind energy, according to the company’s press

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