Every year, the biggest wild card regarding Gulf of Mexico (GOM) crude oil production is the severity of the Atlantic hurricane season. A season generally free of major storms in offshore production […]
Decarbonizing Buildings: A Carbon and Climate Issue or a People and Pocketbook Issue?
As governments across Europe finally start tackling the outsized carbon footprint associated with the built environment, responsible for roughly 40 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions, there’s something often overlooked that […]
IEA Roadmap Guides New Methane Reduction Funding Scheme
A group of 50 organizations including the International Energy Agency and the Climate Bonds Initiative has set up a scheme to fund oil and gas companies committing to methane emission reduction, Bloomberg […]
Global Offshore Wind Installations Projected to Exceed 520 GW by 2040
Global offshore wind projects have faced significant headwinds due to recent inflationary pressures and supply chain disruptions, exemplified by postponed permitting processes, delayed auctions and slow supply chain build-ups. Despite these challenges, […]
Give More Power to the People – Virginia and Carolinas Utilities’ Focus: Gas-Fired Plants and Solar
Utilities in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, all anticipating rapid growth in electricity demand through the 2030s, have ambitious plans for renewables but are acknowledging that solar and offshore wind will […]
How much are renewables contributing to emissions reductions this year? | Latitude Media
In large swathes of the country, clean energy projects are making less of an impact on regional emissions than last year, according to research out today from clean energy software company REsurety, […]
EIA: US added 12GW of solar PV in H1 2024
All utility-scale technologies combined added 20.2GW in H1 2024, a 3.6GW increase from the same period a year ago. The EIA expects 42.6GW of capacity to be added in the second half […]
Low-cost iron-air technology to feature in world’s biggest battery project in US
American energy storage technology newcomer Form Energy says it has received funding to deploy a groundbreaking 85 MW/8.5 GWh iron-air multi-day battery, which will be capable of up to 100 hours of […]
Big Oil Cashes In as Clean Fuel Startups Falter
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022-IRA was supposed to accelerate the transition from petroleum-based fuels to what the act termed “Cleaner Transportation Fuels.” The IRA provided billions of dollars in tax credits […]
The World’s Biggest Gas Reservoir Is At A Tipping Point
Iran is embarking on a US$70 billion investment programme of measures to attempt to halt a dramatic decline in output from its crucial South Pars gas field. A failure to do so […]
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