Eraring power station, the New South Wales giant coal plant whose retirement has been pushed out from this year to at least 2027, experienced around 6,000 hours of outages across its four […]
Virtual Insanity – As Power Needs Soar, ‘Virtual’ Power Plants Proliferate, But What Are They?
The U.S. power sector is undergoing a major expansion to keep pace with the rising demand for electricity from data centers and other consumers, and trying to do a lot at once. […]
Heat pumps could be set for a revolution
In 1834 Jean Charles Peltier, a French watchmaker and part-time physicist, found that an electrical current would produce heating or cooling at the junction of two dissimilar metals. Unsurprisingly, this became known […]
India tenders record 73GW utility-scale renewables as challenges arise
Despite last year seeing a record 73GW of renewable energy utility-scale tenders, it has also witnessed a rise in undersubscribed tenders. Nearly 8.5GW of capacity was undersubscribed in 2024, a fivefold increase […]
U.S. butane exports reached a new record in 2024
The United States is exporting record volumes of normal butane as global demand for liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) surges. U.S. normal butane exports averaged nearly 500,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2024, […]
Gas Prices Heat Up as Europe Rushes to Refill Storage
As the first proper winter in Europe in three years is drawing to an end, the continent faces a race against time – and prices – to restock with natural gas for […]
Indonesia’s Gas Demand Rising as LNG Starts to Replace Diesel for Power
Indonesia has started replacing diesel as a fuel in dozens of power plants with LNG, which is set to boost demand for natural gas in one of the world’s top LNG exporters. […]
How much longer will the good times roll for fossil fuel companies?
New study claims that asset writedowns could reach $2.3tn via Financial Times – Energy https://ift.tt/MRxqsQK
Norway Raises Estimates for Oil and Gas Resources
Estimated resource volumes on the Norwegian continental shelf rose 36 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent (scmoe) to 15.61 billion scmoe – before accounting for production – as of year-end 2024, Norway’s upstream […]
EIA Expects USA NatGas, Petroleum, Renewables Demand to Rise in 2025
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects U.S. natural gas, petroleum, and renewables consumption to rise in 2025, according to figures sent to Rigzone by the EIA this week. The figures forecast […]