(Oil Price)– A House committee has approved a bill that the U.S. withdraw its funding to the International Energy Agency as the Republican lawmakers consider that the IEA has strayed from its mission to safeguard energy security and has been pushing green energy policies instead. The House Appropriation Committee said in a report this week that the IEA “has strayed from its
(World Oil) – The American energy industry has always taken great pride in being innovative, independent, and committed to free market principles. Recently, however, executives at some of the nation’s biggest oil and gas companies are publicly embracing the same corporate welfare schemes that have propped up unreliable so-called “green” energy for decades. This is discouraging because government subsidies distort markets, encourage dependency, and waste taxpayer dollars,
Nasdaq WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Energy said on Wednesday it is granting $750 million to projects across 24 states that are building capacity to produce and use clean hydrogen. Hydrogen is a fuel that the administration of President Joe Biden sees as crucial to reducing use of fossil fuels and cutting emissions from hard-to decarbonize industries such as
CNBC Hydrogen has an important role to play in any transition to net-zero and its generation could develop into a market worth over $1 trillion a year, according to Goldman Sachs. “If we want to go to net-zero we can’t do it just through renewable power,” Michele DellaVigna, the bank’s commodity equity business unit leader for the EMEA region, told CNBC’s “Squawk
Reuters COPENHAGEN -Orsted, the world’s largest offshore wind farm developer, is ramping up its investment in renewables to $57 billion by 2027, seeking to become a global leader in green energy and fend off growing competition. The Danish firm, which sold its oil and gas business in 2017, has benefited hugely from policies to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement, a
Reuters When Microsoft Corp made a massive purchase of carbon credits in January, it turned to a relatively new source: farmers who plant crops meant to trap carbon in the soil. The credits are financial instruments generated by projects that reduce or avoid the release of greenhouse gases, such as solar farms or tree-plantings. The projects’ owners can sell the
Reuters BRUSSELS – The European Union’s executive will push for a 10-year phase-out of the protection for fossil fuels under an international energy treaty, following calls from some countries to quit the accord unless it can be aligned with Europe’s climate goals. The more than 50 signatories to the Energy Charter Treaty will next month resume talks to update the
CNBC LONDON — The chief executive of French oil major Total called on governments to explain the cost of carbon neutrality pledges, urging policymakers to make the “affordability” of an energy transition clear to everybody. His comments come at a time when the global oil and gas industry is under immense pressure to pivot away from the burning of fossil fuels, amid deep
Reuters LONDON – Investors are pouring money into green funds, banking on a Joe Biden presidency in the United States for a further boost to the renewable and alternative energy industry at the expense of traditional oil and gas businesses. Shares in solar and wind energy businesses, electric vehicle companies and environmental technology pioneers have been on the rise for
Reuters LONDON – Two energy industry veterans plan to launch an investment fund focused on hydrogen this year as more and more governments include the niche fuel in their global warming battle plans. Hydrogen has long-been touted as a potential clean fuel as it only emits water vapour but it has failed to gain traction, mainly because of historically high
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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
