R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Global natural gas demand declined by 3% in 2022 dropping just below the 4 trillion cubic meter mark achieved for the first time in 2021. MMBtu in 2022 – their highest annual level since 2008. growth in output.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano. Meanwhile, battery costs have followed a similar downward path.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 25, 2020

These lumps of hydrocarbons historically played a vital role in America’s electricity mix, accounting for a third of the country’s energy production as recently as 2008. coal production has dropped 40 percent since its peak 12 years ago, and the commodity accounted for only 14 percent of the country’s electricity generation last year.

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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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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2008 — his last full year in office — production averaged 5.0 natural gas production also skyrocketed. The price of natural gas, oil, and in turn gasoline, all plunged as production surged. In 2008 gasoline futures averaged $2.45 oil production declined all eight years they were in office. million BPD.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Instead, most oil and gas policies in the IEEFA database are exceedingly narrowly focused on removing extreme project finance (tar sands and arctic drilling) which still leaves room for everything else under the sun. It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Hydrogen, liquified natural gas and technologies geared at improving the energy efficiency of ships are among Shell's proposed solutions to decarbonise its shipping business. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is also set to play a "critical role" in making Shell's shipping operations more sustainable, according to yesterday's update.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

In contrast, coal power generation is expected to witness a steep eight per cent decline, the largest drop since the Second World War, and natural gas is poised to see a five per cent decline, marking a major U-turn following 10 years of uninterrupted growth.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The industry accounts for nearly 3 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, a number that’s expected to rise if ships keep using the same dirty fuels, according to the International Maritime Organization, or IMO, the United Nations body that regulates the industry. Yet it’s not exactly a climate win.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This means not just upgrading the existing infrastructure but building a whole new network with renewables at the center instead of natural gas and coal. The major difference is that many times the best renewable sources are in different locations than the best fossil fuel sources.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Another effort at misleading the public into thinking it was a grassroots effort, the API-funded Energy Nation campaigned against taxes on the natural gas industry, which was flourishing under the fracking boom. However, studies, including from the gas industry, show it is expensive and impractical at a large scale.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Fraser Institute was described in a 2008 climate change lawsuit brought on behalf of the Alaskan village of Kivalina as having a long history of disseminating “misleading information to downplay the severity of global climate change.”.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2020

The data indicates that declines in coal use was the main factor that led to last year’s carbon emissions decrease, as both oil and natural gas usage levels remained unchanged. carbon emissions from coal dropped by as much as 80%, while natural gas was by 20% and oil by only 6%. The Act provides the U.K.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. Decreasing residential natural gas consumption between 6.9% Cutting diesel consumption by 3.3% The carbon price incentivized B.C.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, in 2018, the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) adopted a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions 50% below 2008 levels by 2050. This pressure comes from a variety of sources. Nevertheless, hydrogen is still seen as a major tool to reduce direct GHG emissions from the shipping sector.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

The goals require the sector to cut its emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 from a 2008 baseline, and cut the carbon intensity of shipping by 40 per cent by 2030. Environmental campaigners have slammed the targets as insufficiently ambitious, warning that they would allow emissions from the sector to continue to rise for years to come.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On November 29, Coterra Energy and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a consent order allowing the operator, one of the largest natural gas producers in the state, to drill laterally beneath an area that has been mostly fracking-free since 19 households found methane in their water in 2008 and 2009.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Canada’s oil and gas patch is partying like it’s 2008, though most Canadian drivers are not enjoying the festive mood. It’s no secret that the oil and gas industry is cyclical: as prices drop, the music stops, the lights come on. But historically, prices go back up, and the cycle repeats.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

That number includes natural gas liquids, as do the numbers above). By 2008, U.S. 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. According to the Energy Information Administration, the high point for U.S. million BPD).

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that “the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 ” Meanwhile, the coal and natural gas industries are also collapsing around us — a swift decline from the shale fracking boom.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

They include groups such as “Texans for Natural Gas”, which presents itself as a grassroots, non-corporate organisation while being designed and staffed by FTI employees, in a practice known as “astroturfing”.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

Because of the change in season, natural gas and coal generators often “schedule routine maintenance for the spring…and many coal plants spen[d] part of April offline for planned, temporary outages.” ” This illustrates why wind generation is typically relied upon most in springtime.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

Because of the change in season, natural gas and coal generators often “schedule routine maintenance for the spring…and many coal plants spen[d] part of April offline for planned, temporary outages.” ” This illustrates why wind generation is typically relied upon most in springtime.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

That year, a piece of legislation called the Base Load Review Act (BLRA) passed fairly quietly, which allowed PSC-regulated utilities to collect revenue for major construction long before the projects were put into service —projects such as two new reactors proposed for the SCE&G/Santee Cooper VC Summer nuclear plant, approved in 2008.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Historically, this process has been employed to manufacture agricultural fertilizers using natural gas (fossil fuel) as the source of hydrogen. However, this process is energy intensive and produces high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas. New ammonia analyser.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. The negative values in 1996 are due to a slowing economy associated with the Asian financial crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

As DeSmog reported in 2018, quoting from The Big Short , a book about the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis: “All these subprime lending companies were growing so rapidly, and using such goofy accounting, that they could mask the fact that they had no real earnings, just illusory, accounting-driven, ones.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. The rest of the money goes toward projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve water quality.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2017, Bolloré Logistics posted a 30-minute video on YouTube “illustrat[ing] the management of the day-to-day operations on the Logistics Oil & Gas Shore Base of Bolloré Transport & Logistics in Port Gentil, Gabon, entirely dedicated to Shell, a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies.” refinery.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

It's aiming to be the first shipbuilder to deliver a cargo ship for ocean operation that runs entirely on fuel cells powered by natural gas. In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. And the goalposts are high.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano. Meanwhile, battery costs have followed a similar downward path.

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Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 28

R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

If it was removed from the market today, the price of oil would skyrocket far past the previous record price set in 2008. That brings me to Russia’s natural gas. In the short-term, one of the issues is Europe’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity. Let’s consider the natural gas industry in the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

New figures released by the ENA today show gas and electricity networks in the UK have already delivered over 1,100 green grid innovation projects since 2008, which it claims have helped to slash emissions, reduce costs, and deliver better services for customers.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The insurer’s directors hold current board memberships at Koch Industries , Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL), ExxonMobil, and utility company Eversource Energy which services Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, and has been targeted by campaigners for its support for the natural gas industry.

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Jigar Shah

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

kWh/year in 2008 to 7.2 American homeowners have seen sharp prices increases for home security, cable TV, electricity, natural gas, water, and other costs. Although unprecedented, this move is simply the latest by Apple to meaningfully reduce their carbon footprint. kWh/year in 2017.

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Jigar Shah

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

kWh/year in 2008 to 7.2 American homeowners have seen sharp prices increases for home security, cable TV, electricity, natural gas, water, and other costs. Although unprecedented, this move is simply the latest by Apple to meaningfully reduce their carbon footprint. kWh/year in 2017.

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