Oil Price Despite record investments in renewables, the current funding for clean energy deployment is insufficient for the world to reach the 1.5 degrees Celsius pathway under the Paris Agreement, renewable energy think tank REN21 said in an annual report. Despite record renewables investments, which hit as much as $622.5 billion in 2023, the world is still far from what is
World Oil (Bloomberg) – Support for the energy transition will wane if ordinary citizens aren’t able to keep the lights on, a lawyer for Shell Plc argued as a crucial climate case got underway. Lawyers for Shell said on the first day of the appeal in The Hague that a 2021 ruling ordering the oil and gas giant to slash
Oil Price The Netherlands’ five largest pension funds have said they are willing to invest billions in the country’s renewable energy sector and the electricity grid. The funds, with a combined 900 billion euros ($975 billion) in assets, have offered to help with finances and expertise in the nation’s electric grid expansion and sustainable heating projects. “We want to make a bigger
Nasdaq HOUSTON – Top oil executives and ministers descend on Houston this week for one of the world’s biggest energy conferences emboldened by blockbuster mergers, stable oil prices and less pressure for a large scale move to clean fuels. Global oil prices LCOc1 have remained in a range between $75 and $85 per barrel, a level fueling profits but not hurting economic
Oil Price Lithium Americas Corp has received a conditional commitment for a $2.26-billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to help it build lithium processing facilities in Nevada, as the Biden Administration looks to support America-produced lithium and reduce dependence on Chinese supply. Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass project in Humboldt County, Nevada, is located next to a mine site that contains
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
Yahoo Finance OTTAWA – Canadian province Alberta’s ban on some renewable projects could hurt C$11.1 billion ($8.24 billion) in investments and stall up to 6.3 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power capacity, a study said on Monday. The new rules can potentially impact 42 projects valued at over C$11 billion and several thousand jobs, the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based
Oil Price Bank of America is looking to expand its business related to the energy transition, boosting carbon trading, and power and natural gas markets trading, senior executives have told Bloomberg. Banks in the United States and Europe are looking to boost exposure to trading products and financing projects that are deemed of key importance to the energy transition. Bank of
Nasdaq LONDON/DUBAI – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), three sources told Reuters. Other oil companies, including Exxon MobilXOM.N and Occidental PetroleumOXY.N, plan to take advantage of emerging technologies to filter lithium from
Nasdaq NEW YORK – Shell’s SHEL.L U.S. solar business Savion has put around a quarter of its assets up for sale, according to a marketing document and industry sources, as the oil major extends a retreat from owning renewables projects under CEO Wael Sawan. Investment bank Jefferies JEF.N is running the sale of up to 10.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar generation and storage
World Oil (Bloomberg) – bp Plc is showing signs of a pivot back toward oil and gas that should boost returns, but is doing it too quietly to benefit its share price, according to activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners. Four years into its plan to shift away from oil and gas, bp is under increasing pressure from some shareholders to
Nasdaq SYDNEY – Australia plans to unveil a range of financial incentives to drive investment in the local clean energy sector and keep money and talent from being pulled overseas by subsidies in the U.S. and Europe, the Australian Financial Review reported on Friday. Like countries across the developed world, Australia is responding to the massive raft of clean energy
