For a decade, Argentina’s governments have viewed the 7.5-million-acre Vaca Muerta, or Dead Cow, shale formation as an economic silver bullet. Since President Cristina de Kirchner nationalized YPF in 2012, Peronist administrations have […]
Old Man Winter Finally Wakes Up as Natural Gas Forward Prices Surge
With a mid-January arctic blast lining up to drive strong heating demand and disrupt production volumes, regional natural gas forwards raced higher during the Jan. 4-10 trading period, NGI’s Forward Look data […]
We expect Henry Hub natural gas spot price to average under $3.00/MMBtu in 2024 and 2025
We expect the U.S. benchmark natural gas spot price at the Henry Hub to average under $3.00 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) in 2024 and 2025 in our January Short-Term Energy […]
As Utility Bills Rise, Low-Income Americans Struggle for Access to Clean Energy
Cindy Camp is one of many Americans facing rising utility costs. Ms. Camp, who lives in Baltimore with three family members, said her gas and electric bills kept “going up and up” […]
FERC Order 2222 hurdles require new options for deploying aggregated DERs: Guidehouse
Aggregators of distributed energy resources, known as DERs, will need to find “alternative methods” to deploy their products as long as barriers remain to the full implementation of FERC Order 2222, according […]
Rhodium: US greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2023, despite economic growth
Dive Brief: Greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.9% in the United States last year, the largest non-pandemic influenced fall since 2016, despite a projected 2.4% economic growth for the country in 2023, according […]
How Fracking Helped the U.S. Become the World’s Top LNG Exporter
In 2003, the late author and investment banker Matther Simmons predicted that with “certainty,” by 2005 the U.S. would enter a long-term natural gas crisis for which the only solution was “to […]
Shall We Gather At The River – Distinguishing Gas Gathering Pipelines From Transmission And Why It Matters
U.S. natural gas production continues to increase, with more growth expected at least through the middle of this decade to feed new LNG export capacity coming online along the Gulf Coast. Production […]
Roof top solar proves to have key benefits over large solar farms
London, Canada (The Conversation) Jan 11, 2024 A new study shows size matters in solar energy. The first ever life-cycle analysis comparing big and small solar photovoltaic systems has concluded that small-scale […]
U.S. battery storage capacity expected to nearly double in 2024
U.S. battery storage capacity has been growing since 2021 and could increase by 89% by the end of 2024 if developers bring all of the energy storage systems they have planned on […]