Just 100 years ago, when English mathematician and astronomer Arthur Eddington suggested that the stars power themselves through a process of merging atoms to create energy, heat, and light, the idea was […]
U.S. Coal Consumption Hit 60-Year Low In 2020
The is the fifth article in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2021. Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on […]
Oil Glut In Asia Worsens
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 […]
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