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After the Bushfires and Amid the Pandemic, Australia’s Fossil Fuel Industry Is Gaining Steam

July 13, 2020

Jacobin Oil & Gas Publishers Note: There are some key takeaways from this article from Zacharlas Szumer in Australia. The country was devastated by wildfires, then Covid, and now on to recovery. They are undergoing a typical “push-me-pullu” (Spelling from Dr. Doolittle?) The fossil fuel vs the green and renewable market place. If jobs for Australians is critical, green energy

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Mammoth Heat Wave Lasting “Weeks” Will Cause Painful Spike In Utility Bills For Poor Americans

July 11, 2020

Forbes Oil & Gas 360 Publishers Note: Nice article by Scott Carpenter, Forbes, about the rising costs of electricity to the lower income group of Americans. What many people do not realize is that the additional cost burden for solar and wind per kilowatt hr are passed through to the consumer. -” I’m just saying” In the United States, this

Stay-at-home orders led to less commercial and industrial electricity use in April

June 30, 2020

EIA Oil & Gas Publisher’s Note: This information from the EIA is not a trivial impact to the price of oil and natural gas. This is only one of the pricing and impacts that we had discussed 3 months ago with Bernadette Johnson, VP, Enverus. She had already taken these data points into consideration for the Enverus pricing models. Electricity

South Australia Solar Fiasco Suggests What’s Ahead for New York

June 21, 2020

Natural Gas Now Oil & Gas Publishers Note: This is an excellent opinion piece written by Tom Shepstone. He brings up the over and under production of electricity to the grid depending on the weather. A total power solution for all types of power based upon the market driven business model, and good stewardship of the earth, with the major

Global electricity consumption continues to rise faster than population

June 15, 2020

EIA Global electricity consumption continues to increase faster than world population, leading to an increase in the average amount of electricity consumed per person (per capita electricity consumption), according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) International Energy Statistics. Electricity is used most commonly in buildings for lighting and appliances, in industrial processes for producing goods, and in transportation for powering

Minnesota Power Energizes Great Northern Transmission Line to Move Company Closer to 50 Percent Renewable Energy by 2021

June 11, 2020

Minnesota Power, a utility division of ALLETE Inc. (NYSE:ALE), has energized its Great Northern Transmission Line, bringing online an innovative delivery and storage system for renewable energy that spans two states and one Canadian province.

EIA expects 2020 summer U.S. electricity demand to be lowest since 2009

June 10, 2020

EIA The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects U.S. electricity demand to total 998 billion kilowatthours this summer (June through August), the lowest level of summer electricity consumption in the United States since 2009 and 5% less than last summer. EIA expects electricity consumption to be lower this year largely as a result of efforts to reduce the spread of

The DEC Denied Another Pipeline Permit. Is There More to it Than That?

June 6, 2020

Spectrum News Oil and Gas 360 Publishers Note: Susan Arbetter brings a story about the regulations on natural gas pipelines in New York. She brings out some great information about the political decision makers not looking at an entire view of the energy solution. This is some of the background information on the executive orders that came out last week.

Canada is the largest source of U.S. energy imports

June 5, 2020

EIA Oil & Gas Publishers Note: I still believe that creating and using a North America Oil Producers Trade Consortium used instead of OPEC would be a great boost for our economy and national security. Why play in the Russia and OPEC+ sand box? Canada is the largest source of U.S. energy imports and the second-largest destination for U.S. energy

DOE announces $230M to build advanced reactor demonstration project

May 17, 2020

Power Engineering Building on its contention that nuclear power must be a vital part of the American energy future, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it is going to invest $230 million into a demonstration of advanced reactor technology within this decade. The DOE’s new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) will include $160 million of initial funding through cost-shared partnerships

U.S. coal-fired electricity generation in 2019 falls to 42-year low

May 11, 2020

EIA Output from the U.S. coal-fired generating fleet dropped to 966,000 gigawatthours (GWh) in 2019, the lowest level since 1976. The decline in last year’s coal generation levels was the largest percentage decline in history (16%) and second-largest in absolute terms (240,000 GWh). Although lower electricity demand in 2019 was partly responsible for less coal-fired generation, the primary driver was

Daily electricity demand impacts from COVID-19 mitigation efforts differ by region

May 7, 2020

EIA Recent business shutdowns and changes to normal routines related to mitigation efforts for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have caused daily weekday electricity demand in the central region of the United States to decrease by 9%–13% in March and April compared with expected demand, after accounting for seasonal temperature changes. This decrease is similar to declines seen in New

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