GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year. gigawatts of utility-scale PV would break 2016’s record 8 gigawatts, with growth heavily concentrated in just four states: Texas with 22 percent of the national market, California at 15 percent, Florida at 11 percent and South Carolina at 10 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Read time: 9 mins While the Ohio River Valley, long home to the coal and steel industries, is no stranger to air pollution, the region’s natural gas boom and burgeoning petrochemical industry threaten to erase the gains of recent decades.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Natural gas remained as the top source of U.S. Compared to the first nine months of 2016 (i.e., “They now have a growing lead over nuclear power; surpassed coal in 2020 and will likely do so again next year; and are rapidly cutting into natural gas’s current dominance.” ” . .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

He described worrisome conditions at the Lonesome Creek plant, in Alexander, and the Garden Creek plant, in Watford City, where DeSmog recently revealed one of the largest oil and gas industry spills in U.S. North Dakota is basically a Petrostate,” said Lehto, who worked at the two plants between 2015 and 2016. history had occurred.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Exelon’s generation fleet includes 18,700 megawatts of nuclear generation capacity and another 12,300 megawatts of natural gas, hydroelectric, solar and wind energy. In July, Dominion Energy agreed to sell its competitive natural gas businesses to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for $9.7

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

Qatar, whose natural-gas exports trail only those of Russia, will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and has pledged to make the event carbon-neutral. Total acquired energy storage manufacturer Saft in 2016. Qatari national power firm Kahramaa has signed a 25-year power-purchase agreement for the output of the project.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 25, 2021

El Paso Electric seeks to convert its Newman Power Station from natural gas only to 30% hydrogen and 70% natural gas and then by 2045 to 100% hydrogen. This comes after El Paso became the first utility in Texas and New Mexico to eliminate coal generation from its energy mix in 2016, according to a statement.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Batteries will become a key grid asset during the first half of the 2020s, and long-duration projects will start to displace diesel, oil and natural-gas plants. It took 40 years to reach the first million solar installations in the United States (1976-2016).

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

In an effort to gain federal approval for a natural gas storage project in south Louisiana, Sempra LNG lobbyists crafted letters for Louisiana elected officials to send to federal regulators in support of the project. billion cubic feet of natural gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This week, the Houston-based upstream and midstream oil and gas industry investor announced that it’s “pursuing opportunities created by the global transition to a lower-carbon energy system.” “Certainly standalone storage is part of our pipeline. which has since launched the Fluence joint venture with Siemens.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Utility-scale energy storage startup Key Capture Energy has a new majority owner in a South Korean liquefied natural gas entity. Started in 2016. SK E&S Co. has acquired Key Capture Energy and will provide additional capital for the company’s growth plans in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

billion acquisition of Florida utilities Gulf Power and Florida City Gas from previous owner Southern Company, it has so far been unsuccessful in that pursuit. In 2016, NextEra’s $4.3 But beyond last year’s $6.4 Amid this welter of mergers and acquisitions proposed or consummated, U.S. And Exelon Corp.,

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. gas is produced, have been surprised to find that about 4 percent of the natural gas they pulled from the ground was leaking into the atmosphere. oil production and 1 percent of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A report from Rainforest Action Network found that Barclays was the European Union’s largest funder of oil and gas projects between 2016 and 2022. But activist groups focused on greening the financial sector portray Barclays as a holdout that has slow-walked its climate commitments, especially when compared to other European banks.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

However, natural gas prices closed the year nearly 40% lower, emphasizing the extent to which these two commodities have become unlinked. The average natural gas price will be at the lowest level in more than 20 years. Last year I passed on making a natural gas prediction, because I saw too much uncertainty in the market.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The first was that the shale gas boom in the U.S. unleashed massive new supplies of cheap natural gas. This made it economical for power plants to switch from coal to natural gas. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. has more than quadrupled.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 8, 2020

In California, the number of third-party demand response providers registered with the California Public Utilities Commission has tripled since 2016. One flexibility resource that may play a particularly important role this summer is natural-gas and diesel backup generators.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The merit order system — the method by which European and many other grid operators and energy markets choose the lowest-operating-cost resources to be brought online before more expensive alternatives — means that this is a question of whether natural-gas prices will keep gas-fired plants competitive with coal during its sunset years.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Back in 2016, First Solar proved in a California pilot project that utility-scale solar farms can provide critical transmission grid services. First Solar’s 2016 project with California grid operator CAISO and the U.S. Four years later, the leading U.S.-based How it works: Staying ahead of the curve.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The average natural gas price will be at the lowest level in more than 20 years. The lowest natural gas price since 1999 took place in 2016, when natural gas prices averaged $2.52/MMBtu Natural gas prices have shown some strength as we head into the end of the year. million BPD.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Over the entire five-year period, 208 oil and gas producers have filed for bankruptcy since Haynes and Boone’s Oil Patch Bankruptcy Monitor began tabulating E&P filings, involving approximately $121.7 As oil prices recovered somewhat after 2016, the number of filings declined to 24 in 2017 and 28 in 2018. billion in aggregate debt.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

It set ambitious targets for renewables, decarbonization and gender diversity in its management, and in 2016 named Isabelle Kocher its CEO, the first woman to lead a blue-chip French company. Despite Henry Hub natural gas spot prices below $2 per MMBtu, Avice-Huet said Engie is not investing in new U.S. My journey in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Hitachi and ABB’s emphasis on renewables and distributed energy are shared by key rivals such as General Electric and Siemens as they move to diversify from slowing markets for large-scale grid equipment and natural gas turbines. billion in 2016. GE also sold its industrial low-voltage equipment business to ABB for $2.6

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

natural gas production also skyrocketed. The price of natural gas, oil, and in turn gasoline, all plunged as production surged. By 2016, that had fallen to $1.40 From Obama’s first year in office through his seventh, U.S. oil production rose by nearly 90%. In 2008 gasoline futures averaged $2.45

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

In 2016, Idaho Falls and INL began investigating “black start” and “islanding” capabilities. The tests performed this week demonstrated that small hydropower plants like Idaho Falls’, combined with integrated energy storage technologies may prove to be as nimble as natural gas when it comes to load following (i.e.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

RBC has invested $160 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, according to a recent study by the Rainforest Action Network, making it Canada’s top fossil fuel financier in that period. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. Last year CDPQ bought Transportadora Associada de Gás S.A.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 4, 2022

Natural gas capacity grew by 3,549 MW and new oil and coal capacity increased by 19 MW and 11 MW respectively. That is up from 23.31% a year ago and 18.58% in 2016, SUN DAY said. By comparison, net growth for natural gas will be around 14,327 MW. . of all new generating capacity through the end of October.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 19, 2020

Midstream refers to the transport and storage of oil, natural gas, and finished products like gasoline. Many midstream companies — corporations and master limited partnerships (MLPs) — actually grew their distributions throughout the 2014-2016 oil price crash.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 26, 2020

We started in 2016 as a group of engineers who decided to turn our attention from other corporate ventures to being part of some of the most transformative innovations in our fight for the environment. Today, there are brilliant people creating solutions at Brightmark that can change our course and renew our world.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It partnered with utility Con Edison to install geothermal heat pumps in Westchester, where demand for natural gas has outstripped supply, leading to a moratorium on new hookups. He joined when Opower had about 30 employees, then served as chief marketing officer as the company went public in 2014 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

The idea that oil and gas companies can address ESG concerns — like climate change, workers’ rights, and executive pay — by doing things that “may not take that much” effort is reflected right now as natural gas producers claim that their fracked gas is “responsibly sourced, ” but offer little transparency about those standards.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2020

To put this in perspective, Energy UK gives the following usual breakdown of electricity sources, based on 2016 figures: 42% natural gas, 9% coal, 3.1% In March, they fell to an all-time low of 143 g carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour. other fossil fuels , 21% nuclear and 24.5%

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