On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse briefly but fully obscured sunlight to utility-scale solar electric generation facilities along the eclipse’s path, from Texas through Maine. Texas was especially affected because […]
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High Interest Rates Are Crushing Renewable Energy Projects
Via Metal Miner The Renewables MMI (Monthly Metals Index) slowed its decline and began flattening out. Overall, the index dropped a slight 0.36%, demonstrating sideways price action month-on-month. Most index components, such […]
Introducing the Wholesale Electricity Market Portal
Yesterday, we publicly released the new Wholesale Electricity Market Portal to help users examine and access electricity markets data in the seven Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators. via Today in […]
Mild winter weather may lead to persistently high natural gas inventories through 2025
U.S. working natural gas inventories ended the winter heating season (November 1March 31) at 2,290 billion cubic feet (Bcf), 39% more than the previous five-year (201923) average. Relatively high natural gas inventories […]
World coal capacity growth jeopardises peak emissions forecasts
Global fleet increases in 2023 as China brings on new plants and the pace of closures slows in EU and US via Financial Times – Energy https://ift.tt/C7olAVK
US grid connection backlog, dominated by solar, grows to 2.6TW in 2023
Solar accounted for the majority of generation capacity in the queues with a combined capacity of 1,080GW, followed by wind (366GW). A total of 571GW of solar capacity in the queues were […]
VPPs in California to provide over 7.5GW of capacity by 2035
Not only could the deployment of VPPs in California generate over half a billion dollars in savings for consumers, but it could also avoid over US$750 million per year in system costs. […]
OPEC+ Faces Fork in the Road
OPEC+ once again extended its oil production cuts this month. The decision was anything but unexpected and, unlike previous production policy announcements, it had the desired effect on prices. However, it could […]
SEC reiterates no scope 3 in final climate rule
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. While the Securities and Exchange Commission is busy defending its final climate-risk disclosure rule in court, members of the agency […]
High Energy Costs Have Put German Industry at a Disadvantage
Germany’s industry is unlikely to fully recover from the energy price shock and return to the competitiveness from before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the chief executive of Germany’s top utility, RWE, […]