R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Officials from one corporation, Venture Global, repeatedly told government regulators that CCS was incompatible with the company’s plans to build three massive new liquified natural gas export terminals in south Louisiana. exporters of liquified natural gas. The company is poised to be one of the largest U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

This transition is being driven by several factors, including environmental regulations, competition from natural gas, and the declining cost of renewable energy. To date, a large fraction of coal’s displacement has come from natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

The company is one of the biggest in the oil and gas infrastructure sector, with close to 85,000 miles of pipelines and 144 terminals either under ownership or interest, according to reports. Kinder Morgan is not the first oil and gas giant firm to make head-turning moves toward lower carbon initiatives.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

PG&E has been held criminally responsible for 84 deaths in the November 2018 Camp fire and is under criminal probation for its role in the deadly 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion. Finally, PG&E needs to invest about $40 billion over the next five years in its infrastructure, much of it to prevent future wildfires.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The company, which emerged from the X "Moonshot Factory" in 2017, has grown to around 100 employees and installed hundreds of sites in New York state. 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.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

That's one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify. and attracting major investments for its electric buses and vans still in development.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

The "ultimate end goal" is undoing Mexico's 2013 energy market reform, which opened up the country's energy sector to private investment, Gaylord wrote in an email. AMLO focused on the energy sector as soon as he came to power. COVID-19 impacting Mexican renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

By misleading the public about these facts, the oil and gas industry, along with partners like investment banking company CitiGroup , hope to get billions in public money to pursue blue hydrogen without having to worry about its economic viability. In April, CGEP released a paper advocating for large investments in the U.S.

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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. How we invest our resources is really a reflection of our priorities. He likes saving money on gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Over the last 30 years, the transition away from centralized energy infrastructure, global climate events like the devastating hurricanes of 2017, extreme volatility in the cost of fossil fuels, and a growing demand for renewable energy have shaped an unfamiliar theoretical term into not only a buzzword but a cornerstone of infrastructure planning.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

James Murray, Editor at Business Green told DeSmog: “Policymakers and grid operators are well aware of how the grid will have to evolve and the investments that will be required to ensure energy security – and they are making those changes.” The IPCC has said it is “unequivocal” that human influence has caused “unprecedented” global warming.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers and regulators to improve its safety after a string of deadly wildfires in 2017 and 2018. PG&E is under criminal probation for convictions related to the 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion and pled guilty to 85 counts of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the 2018 Camp Fire.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 18, 2020

Actual wind and solar costs for 2017-2018 were lower than most models’ projected costs for 2030-2035, while battery prices have fallen 85 percent since 2010. trillion of private investment into the economy over 15 years, supporting 530,000 new net jobs per year, and cutting wholesale power prices 10 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Pierce was on the institute’s board of directors from 2017 to 2020, according to the institute’s annual reports. Shell has no immediate plans to move to a net-zero emissions portfolio over our investment horizon of 10-20 years.”.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In 2017, oil major BP took a 43 percent stake, which has since been converted into a full 50:50 joint venture. That’s when Lightsource recognized that the sector was ready to industrialize and that it would need a partner to do so, which led it to approach the investment bank Rothschild.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

GW in 2012 to 130 GW in 2017, according to data from the Asia Europe Clean Energy Advisory. Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data. That solar surge saw the country’s cumulative installed PV capacity go from 6.5

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 12, 2021

That made sense when the primary new resource being added to the grid were large-scale natural gas generators that could pick and choose advantageous interconnection locations. But regionally planned transmission investment has dropped in half since 2010, as these efforts concluded and none were started to take their place.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Leading oil majors have taken steps to reduce methane emissions in recent years, with the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative group of oil and gas giants reporting late last year that they had collectively cut methane emissions 22 per cent since 2017.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Central to BP's approach will be offering "firm" power-purchase agreements backed by the company's natural gas as well as renewables, with merchant risk thrown in to boost returns. That said, BP knows needs to invest now to build its clean power business and reach the scale it is targeting.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. billion funds have been invested into GHG-reducing projects. To date, $10.5

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Solar farms can also modulate how much power they’re feeding to the grid, slightly limiting their output to provide “headroom” to move that output up and down, much like hydroelectric or natural-gas-fired turbines do today. At times, it may issue direct instructions during grid emergencies.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

Honda insisted the discontinuation of the Clarity is not the end of the road for its hydrogen fuel cell vehicle business, noting that it planned to make "significant investments in fuel cell infrastructure and battery technology".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Sales of gas-powered cars already peaked in 2017, and global automakers are racing to meet electric-vehicle (EV) demand. Second, governments must come together now and invest in future-proofed industries where Canada holds a competitive edge. We already know they were right about that last part.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In order to bend that curve and cut direct building emissions, states and cities will have to pursue policies that end the expansion of new gas infrastructure and accelerate the transition to electric heating and cooking. The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning Natural Gas.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. As the study also pointed out, however, these firms invested just 1.7

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Defend Our Future

DECEMBER 18, 2020

percent, or nearly double that, adding 7,794 jobs in 2017-2019. Market forces suggest that natural gas will continue to replace coal as a low-cost energy source into the next decade. According to reports released by the Wolf administration in August 2020, the energy sector provided 269,031 jobs, or 4.5

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

A cadre of storage industry veterans and MIT scientists started Form Energy in late 2017 to tackle one of the hardest problems in clean energy: how to make renewable power available whenever it's needed. And its stated capability blows away anything else on the market.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Basaldú is fighting plans by Houston-based oil and gas company NextDecade to build a $10 billion facility on the South Texas coast near his hometown of Brownsville. The scheme would supercool fracked gas from the Permian Basin for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Now these generators may face a new threat from PG&E’s massive public safety power outage (PSPS) events, meant to prevent its power grid from starting another fire like the 2017 and 2018 blazes that drove it into bankruptcy.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2019

Independent analysis found that pollution in the province was lower than it would be otherwise, people drove less , invested in more fuel-efficient cars , and used less natural gas at home. to 6 times more likely because of climate change, while the 2017 record-breaking B.C. “The evidence from B.C.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

CNG Fuels' biomethane compressed natural gas - Bio-CNG - is currently 100 per cent sourced from waste feedstocks such as food waste and it claims the fuel is both cheaper and less-carbon intensive than traditional diesel.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

The LCFS Program was most recently, and most significantly, amended in 2018 in response to the 2017 Scoping Plan, which “made it clear that developing a more ambitious LCFS is a critical part of the state’s efforts to achieve the SB 32 goal.” [2] Endnotes. [1] 1] Draft Scoping Plan at 225. [2] 2018), available at : [link]. [3] at 150-51. [5]

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