R-Squared Energy

MARCH 15, 2024

Notably, recent increases in total crude oil and natural gas production in the United States have been primarily driven by the growth of production in the Permian Basin, located in western Texas and eastern New Mexico. However, that was down from more than 10 million BPD in 2005 and 2006 and was the lowest level since 1972.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Read time: 11 mins In 2005, Deb Evans and her husband Ron Schaaf bought a piece of property in Klamath County, Oregon, where they hoped to build a house and selectively harvest timber on the land. They saw it as a long-term investment. We had no idea who had put it there or why,” Evans said.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The milestone has been achieved owing to a series of green projects deployed since 2005, including: 1) Energy Optimization : The company implemented a number of energy efficiency projects to reduce energy consumption at its sites, including installing LED lighting and high-efficiency air compressors and vacuum pumps.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2022

oil consumption level of 2005 (20.5 also leads all countries in the production of natural gas liquids (NGLs), which partially end up in the oil products supply chain. BP’s definition of oil consumption excludes biofuels while derivatives of coal and natural gas are included. This marked an increase of 8.7%

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More immediately, Duke’s new plan improves on its 2017 goal to cut its 2030 carbon emissions by 40 percent, driven by “sustained low natural gas prices and declining costs for renewables and storage,” Tuesday’s press release noted. The gas question. This reliance on natural gas aligns Duke with most U.S.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 23, 2023

Categorical exclusions that apply to oil and gas The oil and gas industry enjoys categorical exclusions (CEs) for activities that require fewer than 5 acres of surface disturbance or drilling on locations that have received National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) approvals within the last five years.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

Coal made up 31 percent of its capacity as of 2018, while natural gas accounted for about 42 percent. Alliant has retired about 1,000 megawatts of coal-fired power since 2005. It has not announced plans to retire or switch over its 348-megawatt Ottumwa plant or its 275-megawatt Lansing plant in Iowa.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

NATURAL GAS DRIVES CARBON EMISSIONS LOWER. The shale gas boom in the U.S. natural gas production between 2005 and 2020. natural gas prices, and helped drive coal-fired power plants to switch to natural gas to generate firm power. caused nearly a 90% increase in U.S.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. Technologies such as geothermal, biomass and solar, which Skyven initially focused on, can provide an alternative to natural gas to generate heat for industrial processes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, the analysis note stated only that “Conventional production refers to all oil and natural gas production outside of Canada’s oil sands.” The oil sands are the biggest driver of new production and emissions growth, with emissions rising 137% since 2005.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At the same time, it's already adopting renewable natural gas to power its natural gas trucks in its short-haul fleet. . It's got close to 300 alternative-fueled vehicles, including electric, hybrid and natural gas buses, sweepers and light-duty vehicles. Just a short five years away. Media Source.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 1, 2021

EPA proposed new regulations to reduce methane and other harmful air pollution from new and existing sources in the oil and natural gas industry. Addressing methane is the “low-hanging fruit” to improve climate performance for the oil and gas industry. In November 2021, the U.S. Compliance costs are estimated at $0.10

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. So, when coal is combusted, it produces more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than oil or natural gas will produce.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If Duke Energy avoids natural gas capacity additions and adds renewable energy and energy storage under a proposed North Carolina law, the utility could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 74% over the next decade, according to a study. Combined greenhouse gas emissions throughout the Duke Energy system would decrease to 20.4

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

An industry group that’s called Canada’s federal climate targets “unachievable” and referred to opponents of oil and gas expansion as “climate alarmists” has received nearly $1.23 It counts among its affiliate members LNG Canada, a $40 billion gas export project on B.C.’s million in taxpayer money from the British Columbia government.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

Include a renewable natural gas mandate that requires 15% of natural gas consumption to be renewable. Canada is the 10th-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. Turn the Clean Fuel Standard into a Low Carbon Fuel standard, based on B.C.’s,

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. Natural gas remained the largest source of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Virginia-based Dominion Energy sold its interstate natural-gas pipeline business to Berkshire Hathaway this year to concentrate on its regulated utilities in the Southeastern U.S. Amid this welter of mergers and acquisitions proposed or consummated, U.S. and meeting Virginia's new mandate to eliminate carbon emissions by 2045.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

That’s how much additional capacity Duke expects to need in the next 15 years to make up for the retirement of its coal-fired power plant fleet and aging natural-gas plants. But in the high-wind and no-new-natural-gas scenarios, those costs increase to between $7.5 billion and nearly $9 billion.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The plan calls for cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2030, up from a 35 percent reduction already achieved by 2018, and eliminating the final 20 percent of its net emissions by midcentury. Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

MISO is in the middle of the Market Systems Enhancement (MSE) project, taking a modular approach to market systems that have not been automated since the 2005 market start date. MISO’s proposed approach chooses combined-cycle natural gas unit modeling over distributed energy resources such as solar and storage.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Costs of clean power A recent Clean Energy Canada report, A Renewables Powerhouse , looked at the costs of producing power from wind and solar in Alberta and Ontario compared to gas power. Solar power is already cheaper than natural gas power in Alberta and is on track to be 16% less expensive by the end of the decade.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. up from 9% in 2005. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005. Since 2008, U.S.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

I am confident that the upward trends we saw in 2021 will continue and that long-term investment in the clean energy portfolio of energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy will yield powerful dividends in terms of energy security, economic benefit to our country and emission reductions.”. Have you read? and the share of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. The Internal Revenue Service defines a marginal, or low-producing, natural gas well to be one that generates less than 90,000 cubic feet per day.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Canada has committed to reducing emissions by 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030, up from a previous target of 30%. Recent independent modelling indicates that the government’s current climate plan, if fully implemented, could achieve a 37%-to-41% reduction in Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. For comparison, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. In order to bend that curve and cut direct building emissions, states and cities will have to pursue policies that end the expansion of new gas infrastructure and accelerate the transition to electric heating and cooking. As a result, the U.S.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

Quebec’s emissions have declined 10% since 1990 and 12% since 2005. ” “In 2021, Washington consumed less natural gas than about half of the states, and in 2020, the state used less per capita than all but four other states and the District of Columbia. Quebec’s GHG emissions in 2020 were 76.2

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Since 2005, combined power generation from wind and solar power have increased by a factor of 22, to 411 terawatt-hours (TWh) as costs fell dramatically. The power generated last year from coal and natural gas was respectively 1,054 TWh and 1,700 TWh. Battery costs have also plummeted over that time frame.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Globally, many greenhouse operators burn natural gas to generate CO2, but this also generates heat that may not be needed in the summer months, so the utilisation of an industrial byproduct is significantly preferable.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

That number includes natural gas liquids, as do the numbers above). million BPD in 2005 to 2.3 For reference, U.S. oil production in 2018 (per the BP Statistical Review) was 15.3 million BPD, which was more than the total from Iran, Iraq, and the UAE. As a side note, although U.S. million BPD in 2018.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

It also more or less marked the end of Ontario’s smog days (of which there were 53 in 2005). Making renewables preferable to natural gas. The federal government recently updated its output-based pricing system for new natural gas plants to discourage power companies that might otherwise build them.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 3, 2019

1] At the very least, it is believed that “the revenue generated from the emissions allowance sales likely had some impact on emission levels in the region” ( Congressional Research Office ) even if the economic downturn and market-led coal to natural gas shifts might have had a bigger impact on power sector emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Between 2005 and 2015, final consumption of all types of fuel had dropped by 16.2 The biggest sectoral drop was in natural gas, down 32.8 Back in 2005, the first Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) were issued. per cent, from 159,676 kilotonnes of oil equivalent (ktoe) to 137,430ktoe. per cent within 10 years.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 10, 2021

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 gave us the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which mandated that an increasing amount of ethanol had to be blended into the fuel supply. oil and natural gas production, a dramatic drop in U.S. dependence on foreign oil. In 2007 those mandates were expanded. that still helps fuel our automobiles today.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

As the New York Times reported in 2020, FTI helped set up regional astroturf websites for its oil industry clients, such as Texans for Natural Gas, New Mexicans for Economic Prosperity, Citizens to Protect PA Jobs, Western Wire, and the Arctic Energy Center.

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