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New 1.2-GW Natural Gas-Fired Plant Announced for Texas

POWER Magazine

GW natural gas-fired power plant in Lee County, Texas, with construction expected to begin in 2025. GW Natural Gas-Fired Plant Announced for Texas appeared first on POWER Magazine. A Texas-based energy company has announced plans to build a 1.2-GW Sandow Lakes Energy Co. […] The post New 1.2-GW

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Duke Energy Pledges to Eliminate Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Business by 2030

GreenTechMedia

Duke Energy has upped its net-zero carbon by 2050 goals, pledging to eliminate methane emissions from its natural gas business by 2030 through a combination of better pipeline leak detection, more efficient operations, and investing in renewable natural gas to reduce the carbon intensity of its supplies.

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Orsted Sells LNG Unit, But Says Its Natural Gas Business Isn’t Going Anywhere

GreenTechMedia

Danish energy company Ørsted has sold off its LNG unit but will hang on to its gas trading business. The firm, previously known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas, sold its upstream fossil fuels business to Ineos in 2017 and is phasing coal out of its generation mix by 2023. That trend is set to continue.

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Mitsubishi gas turbine being developed to burn ammonia commercially by 2025

Renewable Energy World

The Japan-based power equipment giant, which already is hard at work adapting its natural gas-fired turbines to burn hydrogen , now is aiming at another potential carbon-free power resource. The company hopes to guide the ammonia-fired technology toward commercialization by 2025.

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You say old coal plant, I say new green hydrogen facility

GreenBiz

At the same time, advances in natural gas production such as fracking (controversial in their own right) have made natural gas-fired power a better economic choice than coal-generated power. Like natural gas, that hydrogen contains heat that can be released with combustion to drive a generator. I disagree.

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Solar and wind with battery storage are set to produce cheaper electricity than natural gas in Alberta and Ontario: report

Clean Energy Canada

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors.

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US oil production forecast to reach new heights despite drilling slowdown

Financial Times: Energy

Government agency eyes record crude and natural gas output in 2024 and 2025