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China Poised To Surpass The U.S. As The World’s Top Nuclear Power Producer

R-Squared Energy

Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, natural gas production and consumption, and coal production and consumption. Today we will cover nuclear power. Nuclear power is unique among energy sources.

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Why The World Needs More Nuclear Power

R-Squared Energy

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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Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021

R-Squared Energy

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Natural Gas. Global natural gas consumption declined by 2.3%.

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EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

DeSmogBlog

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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Texas Energy System Faces a Winter Reckoning

GreenTechMedia

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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Texas Blackout Hearings Highlight Intertwined Risks of Natural Gas, Power Grid and Deregulated Market

GreenTechMedia

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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Looking for Fixes to What Broke the Texas Power Grid

GreenTechMedia

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.