DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The fracked natural gas industry has never been the most responsible or efficient consumer of resources. Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. But what does RSG really mean? What Is RSG?

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 15, 2019

Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, global natural gas trends, and the continued explosion in the growth of renewable energy: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. Coal Demand Rises, But Remains Below Peak Levels.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Extreme Heat, Peak Load and Demand Response: Record Summer 2018 Challenges Grid Operators Nationwide. On July 24 and 25, as temperatures soared, wildfires burned, and hydropower and gas supplies tightened, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) issued calls to consumers statewide to voluntarily ratchet down electricity use.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Italian market has benefited from generous tax breaks and incentives for households and businesses undertaking green building retrofits, which has helped drive a surge in demand for new heat pumps. By comparison Germany, France, and Belgium have installed 5.75, 14.9 heat pumps per thousand homes respectively.

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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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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

playing Sherlock Holmes in the 2011 movie "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows," is asked what he sees. The trucks need energy, whether diesel, gasoline, natural gas, electricity, hydrogen, propane, etc. Commercial trucking's future is in the details. Rick Mihelic. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 01:45. Robert Downey Jr., That is my curse."

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

"I look forward to tapping into that desire and building on the strong foundation that Bob has built as we meet society’s demand for cleaner, better energy," he added. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Looney is a big believer in the future role of natural gas. Playing catch-up on renewables. That's OK.

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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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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

“The pathway for supply-chain decarbonization demands complex solutions to overcome roadblocks,”said Nobuyuki Baba, SVP and GM of Silicon Valley Branch at MCA. and an incubator in Houston, TX, Greentown Labs is home to 200 startups and has supported more than 450 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral. Finally buyers need to be empowered to demand credits that will clearly make a real difference.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. The Solutions Project.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

” Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Winter electricity demand hit record highs of more than 69 gigawatts on Sunday evening, spiking pressure on the grid. However, the root cause of the grid emergency is not excess demand but rather lack of supply. “So effectively we are seeing 30 GW-plus of load curtailment at times,” he wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

On December 18, 2020, the day when the public consultation came to a close, “the gas bloc” — Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia — submitted an unofficial document expressing their concerns to the European Commission. Like Greece, Italy has a huge stake in gas.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What would happen if you converted all the single-family homes in Texas from natural gas to electric heating? That if we electrify a lot of different end uses or sectors of the economy that power demand of the grid would double or something like that.” cents per therm for natural gas. A conservative estimate.

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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 index values in 1982 reflect the demise of the Soviet Union.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Part of the reason behind China’s coal expansion is it’s growing demand for power. While China may be rapidly building out renewable energy for power generation , and has made commitments for emissions reductions in the future, the country’s power demand is outpacing its rate of renewable power expansion. Can Coal Replace Natural Gas?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 7, 2024

Many have doubted that there would ever be adequate natural H2 to make any meaningful difference in meeting clean energy demands. Instead, grey hydrogen is currently the most popularly produced form, involving the use of processes fueled by natural gas, without abating the greenhouse gas emissions produced by this fossil fuel.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

playing Sherlock Holmes in the 2011 movie “Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows,” is asked what he sees. The trucks need energy, whether diesel, gasoline, natural gas, electricity, hydrogen, propane, etc. Robert Downey Jr., His answer: “Everything. That is my curse.” Those trucks are driven by people.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 23, 2021

In February 2011, the Obama administration and the Department of Energy launched the SunShot Initiative to reduce total solar energy costs by 75 percent. Ten years ago, the renewable natural gas (RNG) industry was nascent, but in the past five years alone significant strides have been made.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

Here’s an example: A relatively isolated area on the grid must plan for losing a transmission line or local generator during peak demand. When ISOs propose new transmission to relieve congestion in high-demand areas (and thus reduce high prices), local generators are first to complain about lost revenue. Source: NREL.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

While Texas Republicans were quick to pounce on renewable energy and to blame frozen wind turbines , the natural gas, nuclear and coal plants that provide most of the state’s energy also struggled to operate during the storm. Lessons from 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. However, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced demand for oil at a time when there was already an oversupply of the fuel, disrupting the industry to a degree unseen in decades.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. However, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced demand for oil at a time when there was already an oversupply of the fuel, disrupting the industry to a degree unseen in decades.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. “We set up rules very deliberately to say, 'Give us the cheapest gas, power and water you can get, and don’t bother me about all that other stuff,'” she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. As climate concerns lead to a slow but steady decline in the demand for oil, the companies’ collaboration represents a shift by the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

By the end of World War II, the county — which includes the city of Houston — had emerged as an international shipping hub and ground zero for America’s oil and gas industry. Last year, 11 Houston billionaires made Forbes’ “400 Richest Americans” list, and all but three had ties to the oil and gas industry.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. Oil demand was crushed beginning in the first quarter as stay-at-home orders were implemented. Oil demand was crushed beginning in the first quarter as stay-at-home orders were implemented. Demand for gasoline plunged to a 50-year low. natural gas production.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure. Instead, ERCOT’s energy-only markets rely on massive price spikes to encourage private investment in the resources needed when grid demand threatens to outstrip supply.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Since spring 2020, oil and gas has seen one bombshell after another, and the impacts are adding up. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

I think one of the things that also distinguishes the pledge is a commitment to sending these market signals, the demand for the products and services that companies need to help us decarbonize." . One example is the adoption of buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) in India’s capital city. . LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. Dozens of deaths , including that of an 11-year-old boy, have been tied to the weather.

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