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Electricity Drove Record U.S. Gas Demand in 2018
Natural gas consumption up 10% year-over-year By Richard Rostad, analyst, Oil & Gas 360 The U.S.’s demand for natural gas continues to boom, and 2018 marked an all-time high for gas consumption according to the EIA. Overall natural gas consumption rose by 10% in 2018, averaging 82.1 Bcf/d in the year. This is the first time domestic consumption has exceeded 80 Bcf/d, another major ...
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IEA launches first in-depth review of India’s energy policies
In partnership with NITI Aayog, the International Energy Agency (IEA) today released the first in-depth review of India’s energy policies. The report highlights the achievements of India’s energy policies and provides recommendations to support the government’s goals of promoting well-functioning energy markets and boosting deployment of renewables. Dr Fatih Birol (Executive ...
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EPA seeks small business participation on wastewater discharge rule for steam electric power plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses to nominate representatives to participate in a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel. This panel will focus on the agency’s development of a proposed rulemaking to strengthen and revise wastewater discharge regulations for steam electric power generating plants. Small business’ participation can help ...
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Green Mountain Power named finalist for international environmental award
Green Mountain Power has been named a finalist in the Platts 2010 Global Energy Awards. The competition is intended to honor and recognize those that have transcended the status quo in the name of excellence in leadership, innovation and performance. Green Mountain Power has been recognized in the "Green Energy Initiative" category. "We are honored to receive this recognition," says Mary Powell, ...
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Recession cut US emissions, not falling coal use
Between 2007 and 2013 emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels burnt in the US fell significantly − by about 11% − and many analysts credited this to a change from coal to natural gas in electricity production. But new research says it was, in fact, the economic recession that explains most of the decline, and more extensive use of natural gas may not do much to slow global ...
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State Energy Profiles enhanced and renewables sections added
As with national trends, the energy sectors in each state continue to experience rapid changes, including increased oil and natural gas production, new renewable electricity generation, and changing motor gasoline prices. With these and other energy trends in mind, the U.S. Energy Information Administration updated its State Energy Profiles, which are available through EIA's State Energy Portal. ...
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Deep disparities define the global energy system
Welcome to a special edition of the energy mix newsletter focused on the World Energy Outlook 2019, the IEA’s flagship report that came out this morning. Deep disparities define today’s energy world. The dissonance between well-supplied oil markets and growing geopolitical tensions and uncertainties. The gap between the ever-higher amounts of greenhouse gas emissions being ...
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Schneider Electric Launches Micro-Grid for U.S. Department of Energy`s Solar Decathlon
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced the launch of a fully-functioning micro-grid solution within the solar village at the U.S. Department of Energy's 2011 Solar Decathlon, a challenge to 19 international collegiate teams to design, build and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient and attractive. The micro-grid, which ...
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Greens hit Obama on energy plan
President Barack Obama is sticking to a fossil-fuel dependent energy policy, delivering a blow to a monthslong, behind-the-scenes effort by nearly every major environmental group to convince the White House that the policy is at odds with his goals on global warming. The division between Obama and some of his staunchest supporters has been simmering for months, a surprising schism that shows ...
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IEA Publishes World Energy Outlook 2022
The global energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is causing profound and long-lasting changes that have the potential to hasten the transition to a more sustainable and secure energy system, according to the latest edition of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook. Today’s energy crisis is delivering a shock of unprecedented breadth and complexity. The biggest tremors have been felt in ...
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Natural gas surpasses coal as biggest US electricity source
Natural gas overtook coal as the top source of U.S. electric power generation for the first time ever earlier this spring, a milestone that has been in the making for years as the price of gas slides and new regulations make coal more risky for power generators. About 31 percent of electric power generation in April came from natural gas, and 30 percent from coal, according to a recently ...
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Lawrence Livermore energy flow charts show renewable energy increase, energy efficiency down
Renewable energy resources are growing in the U.S., but overall energy efficiency is flagging, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The flow charts track the sources of energy for the nation and where it is used. Comparing 2016, the most recent year available, with 2011 showed stability in overall energy use at 97.3 quadrillion ...
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Global decrease in coal burning leads to stalling of CO2 emissions in 2015
In 2015, after three years of slow growth, the growth of global CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel use and from steel and cement production was brought to a standstill. One of the main causes was the 2% global decrease in coal burning and cement production - the largest decrease over the past five decades, apart from recessions. The global decrease in CO2 emissions from coal use was offset by ...
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Clarke Energy Provides 30MW GE Gas Engine Power Plant for Queensland LNG Project
Clarke Energy has signed a deal with Australia Pacific LNG to provide a 30MW temporary power plant to their coal seam gas processing plant in Queensland. Clarke Energy to provide 30 MW temporary power station to support operation of Reedy Creek coal seam gas processing facilities Australia Pacific LNG, a joint venture between Origin Energy, ConocoPhillips and Sinopec, is developing an ...
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Thermal Power Generation in China Industry Research Report – Now Available from IBISWorld
Power shortages, industry deregulation and the implementation of a market mechanism have stimulated growth in China's power sector in recent years. These deregulation measures, combined with increases in the number of thermal power generation plants, contributed to strong growth in revenue for the Thermal Power Generation industry in China, says IBISWorld. Over the past five years, industry ...
By IBISWorld
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US carbon dioxide pollution down 3.8 percent
The United States cut its energy-related carbon dioxide pollution by 3.8 percent last year, the second biggest drop since 1990, the Department of Energy said Monday. The only recent year with a bigger percentage drop was in 2009, when America was in a large recession. American cars and factories spewed 5.83 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 2012, down from 6.06 billion in 2011. It is the lowest ...
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Grid Investments Totaling as Much as $500 Billion Challenged by Clean Energy Technologies
US electricity generators may be committing their customers and investors to as much as $1 trillion in future investment and fuel costs through 2030 as they rush to build new gas-fired power plants. Yet advances in renewable energy and distributed energy resources (DERs) offer lower rates and emissions-free energy while delivering all the grid reliability services that new power plants can, ...
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Capture and reuse of energy: the benefits of regional synergy
Reusing energy between industries located close to one another improves overall energy efficiency and can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A recent study of the Kwinana Industrial Area (KIA) in Australia has identified collaborative energy recovery options (regional synergies), which use waste heat from one industry to cut down primary energy inputs into other industries ...
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Solar thermal electricity: catching the eye of utility companies
The American Southwest has some of the greatest solar resources on the globe, it yet remains largely untapped. This trend may be changing as solar technology matures, market forces shift and concern for climate change mounts. One of the most common arguments against large-scale use of renewable energy is that it cannot produce a steady, reliable stream of energy, day and night. Ausra Inc. does ...
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EIA: U.S. power sector carbon dioxide emissions fall below transportation sector emissions
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration “Today in Energy” report finds that U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the transportation sector reached 1,893 million metric tons (MMmt) from October 2015 through September 2016, exceeding electric power sector CO2 emissions of 1,803 MMmt over the same time period. On a 12-month rolling total basis, electric power sector CO2 ...
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