The amount of oil held in floating storage at Asian ports is growing, with Iranian and Venezuelan crude cargoes earlier this month pushing Asian floating inventories to the highest in three months, […]
Solar exceeds coal for first time, as renewables set new records on Australia’s main grid
It’s a significant landmark, reinforcing the scale and pace of the energy transition that has forced Australia’s two biggest utilities – AGL and Origin – to all but abandon the concept of […]
Offshore wind could help solve California’s reliability problem, report finds
Offshore wind development offers an answer to California’s reliability problem, and could greatly help the state reach its net-zero goals, according to a new report. The University of Southern California’s Schwarzenegger Institute […]
More Transmission Or Local Solar? To Quickly Cut Emissions, We Need Both.
As the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report confirmed, we must move much faster to clean up our energy system to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. International Energy Agency […]
Whatever happened to China’s revolutionary molten salt nuclear reactor program?
Several years ago during a radio interview, the host told me that the Chinese were planning on deploying a commercial modular molten salt reactor (MSR) by 2020. For context, these nuclear reactors […]
Blank Space, Part 2 – The Ins and Outs of Natural Gas Storage
The volume of natural gas in storage and the flow of gas into and out of it are among the most closely watched indicators in the U.S. gas market. That makes sense, […]
Associated natural gas production declines in 2020, following three years of growth
In 2020, annual production of associated-dissolved natural gas (or associated gas)�which is natural gas produced from oil wells�declined in the combined five major U.S. onshore crude oil-producing regions for the first time […]
Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why
Paul N. Edwards, Stanford University Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least […]
Back to Zero – Appalachia’s Dwindling Natural Gas Pipeline Takeaway Capacity
Northeast natural gas production in 2021 to date has averaged 34 Bcf/d, up 1.4 Bcf/d year-on-year, and the higher gas price environment currently is signaling more upside to production in the years […]
China Doesn’t Need Another Coal Power Plant
Leading into COP26 climate negotiations, China announced a new goal of net-zero emissions by 2060 including reaching 1,200 gigawatts (GW) total wind and solar by 2030, more than doubling current capacity. But […]
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