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The U.S. Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance

R-Squared Energy

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, and a look at oil supply and demand trends. Today I delve into the data on natural gas production and consumption. had dominated global natural gas production until the 1980s, at which time it ceded the lead to Russia.

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California’s Shift From Natural Gas to Solar Is Playing a Role in Rolling Blackouts

GreenTechMedia

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. CAISO’s peak demand levels over the weekend were lower than its historical highest peaks in 2006 and 2017. Friday and Saturday.

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Rethinking Future Investments in Natural Gas Infrastructure

GreenTechMedia

Cities and utilities across the United States are starting to reject natural gas — and not just for environmental reasons. San Jose, the tenth largest city in the country, recently joined a string of cities banning gas utility connections for new homes and buildings.

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Why Oil Demand Won’t Follow Coal’s Death Spiral

R-Squared Energy

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. in 2017, and surged to 7.8%

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Enel X and Eaton Team on Solar and Storage Microgrid in Puerto Rico

GreenTechMedia

The companies said the project is designed to reduce “demand on local energy infrastructure,” a common concern as the U.S. territory reimagines an electricity system severely damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Once a combined-heat-and-power project, it now relies on natural gas.

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‘Shame On You’: Indigenous Campaigners Demand JPMorgan End Fossil Fuel Finance

DeSmogBlog

Delee Nikal, a representative of the Wet’suwet’en people, addressed the crowd about the Coastal Gaslink liquified natural gas pipeline, a controversial project by TC Energy part-financed by JPMorgan which would run through their lands. “We We are fighting against the pipelines, against the capitalist institutions,” said Nikal. “It

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U.S. Crude Oil Export Surged to New Record in 2023

R-Squared Energy

as the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, this week the Energy Information Administration reported that the U.S. refiners had a significant demand for crude oil, but they had spent decades investing billions of dollars into processing heavy, sour crude oil. Fresh on the heels of a new U.S. Annual U.S.

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