- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 25, 2020
Palladium, Inverdale form new solar JV
Palladium Energy LLC and Inverdale Energy Partners have formed a joint venture to develop 500 megawatts of utility-scale solar and solar storage across the United States, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 25, 2020
Entergy sets net-zero carbon goal by 2050
Entergy Corp. has announced that is accelerating its climate action goals with a plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 25, 2020
Ohio AG files suit to block nuclear bailout payments
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is seeking to keep the owner of two nuclear power plants in Ohio from getting $1.3 billion in bailout money in what has become the largest bribery scandal in state history, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 23, 2020
UK set to accelerate ban on fossil-fuel vehicles to 2030
UK’s government is expected to bring forward its ban on new fossil-fuel vehicles to 2030, in a move to reduce emissions in Britain’s highest polluting sector.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 22, 2020
Alberta solar project sold to BluEarth Renewables
Ontario-based Canadian Solar Inc. has sold of its Suffield Solar Project in Alberta to BluEarth Renewables, Kallanish Energy reports. The sales price was not disclosed.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 21, 2020
DOE awards $24M to battery, methane detection projects
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $24 million to two projects to commercialize sodium-ion battery development and methane detection technologies, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 18, 2020
Ohio board rescinds night ban on Lake Erie wind project
An Ohio regulatory agency has dropped a requirement that would have banned a 20.7-megawatt offshore wind farm in Lake Erie from operating at night, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 17, 2020
130 to lose jobs at Iowa wind turbine plant
Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Gamesa is laying off about 130 workers in Iowa, Kallanish Energy has learned. The workers at the Fort Madison, Iowa, blade factory will lose their jobs in the next 60 days, according to the Des Moines Register and other media.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 17, 2020
UK North Sea requires electrification to meet emissions targets: Rystad
Electrification of oil and gas operations in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) will play a vital role in efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 16, 2020
DNV GL to lead UK’s offshore wind grid development
Energy consultancy DNV GL said Tuesday been selected by the UK’s National Grid ESO to lead a national offshore wind grid development project, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 11, 2020
Offshore Wind Is Really A Pirate Ship on the Sea of Subsidies
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Offshore wind only survives due to subsidies created by government and wind developers are more like pirates than entrepreneurs.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 10, 2020
State Senate Reminds Tom Wolf He’s No Tsar and RGGI Is No Good
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Tom Wolf, a trust-funder personality, imagines he doesn’t need to collaborate, but the State Senate just told him he can’t do RGGI on his own.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 9, 2020
Energy storage to grow to $546B by 2035: Lux Research
The global energy storage market is projected to grow to $546 billion by the year 2035, according to a new recent report by Florida-based Lux Research.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 7, 2020
Labor Day Reminder: Fossil Fuels Make Modern Life Possible
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Labor Day is a nice reminder of the dignity of real work, but also the role of fossil fuels in making it all possible and rewarding.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 3, 2020
Vogtle nuclear expansion is 87% complete: Georgia Power
The in-service dates for Georgia Power’s Vogtle nuclear plant expansion project remain November 2021 for Unit 3 and November 2022 for Unit 4, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 1, 2020
UK renewable use soars during Q2: Drax
The use of renewables for electricity generation rose 32% year-on-year during second quarter according to a new report, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 1, 2020
Construction to start soon on Oklahoma wind project
Construction is expected to begin in late fall 2020 on a new wind farm in north-central Oklahoma, Kallanish Energy has learned.Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 29, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 28, 2020
RGGI Not So Smart, Building Trades Tell Governor Wolf
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The South Central Pa Building & Construction Trades Council told the Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee that RGGI isn’t smart.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 28, 2020
July 27 was record day for natural gas: EIA
July 27 was a record-setting day in the United States, Kallanish Energy reports. Natural gas consumed by electric power plants set a daily record high of 47.2 billion cubic feet, according to the U.S.Natural Gas Power Makes America Move Like A “Tremendous Machine”
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas power dominates in every way, fueling so much of everything about our lives today as it has made the electricity vital to us all.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 27, 2020
Financing arranged on $1.3B gas-fired power plant
Construction is expected to begin soon on a $1.3 billion natural gas-fired power plant being developed by Competitive Power Ventures and its partners in northern Illinois, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 27, 2020
Construction begins on Prospero 2 solar in Texas
New York-based CIT Group has arranged $266 million in financing to Longroad Energy for its 331-megawatt direct current solar project in West Texas, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 27, 2020
Duke Energy operating NC’s biggest battery storage
Duke Energy has started operating the largest battery storage system in the state of North Carolina, Kallanish Energy reports. The nine-megawatt lithium-ion Samsung battery system is located in Asheville, North Carolina.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 21, 2020
323M EVs on the road by 2040: Wood Mackenzie
There will be 323 million electric vehicles on the road by 2040 and annual sales will top 45 million by that year, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 18, 2020
Colombia’s powergen boosts gas sales in July
Colombia’s power generation sector has boosted the volume of natural gas contracted in the country’s primary market, with total gas demand increasing 23.4% year-on-year in July.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 17, 2020
Guangdong’s tariff cuts to benefit gas market: Fitch
The gas-fired power tariff cuts implemented this month in China’s Guangdong Province will support the government’s strategy to increase consumption of natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2020
Germany and It’s Green Utopian Plans Turn Into Dystopian Debacle
Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: The IER’s Alexander Stevens explains the implosion of the green utopia planned by Germany, a program requiring ever more corrections.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2020
Chevron investing in nuclear fusion start-up
Chevron Corp. has announced its investment in Zap Energy, a star-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear fusion reactor, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 11, 2020
Carbon Madness As Joe Biden Buys Into Spending Trillions
... … … [Editor Comment: Carbon is Democrat Kryptonite: the element that has brought Biden and his party to their knees promising anything to save themselves from it.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 11, 2020
Alberta joins push toward modular nuclear reactors
Four Canadian provinces are working to support the development of nuclear energy through small modular reactors, Kallanish Energy reports. Alberta is joining Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick that had banded together in 2019.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 11, 2020
New probation terms imposed by judge on PG&E
A federal judge has ordered Pacific Gas & Electric to track the age of its power components in high-risk fire areas and to start replacing transmission tower components at risk of failing within 90 days, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 8, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 8, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2020
103 coal-fired power plants switch to natural gas: EIA
Between 2011 and 2019, 121 coal-fired power plants in the United States were repurposed to burn other fuels, according to the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 5, 2020
Trump Energy Dominance Didn’t Happen by Chance
AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: U.S. energy dominance began on a pre-Trump foundation but the President has led the effort since and that’s why we can now call it Trump energy dominance.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2020
CMS Energy buys major stake in Texas wind project
CMS Energy has announced that it has purchased a majority stake in a 525-megawatt wind project in West Texas, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 25, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – July 25, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2020
Climate Crisis Committee of U.S. House Makes War on Energy Consumers
AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: Rep. Conor Lamb (PA), Lizzie Fletcher (TX) and others represent energy-producing areas, but they support Nancy Pelosi and her climate crisis war on energy.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 22, 2020
Five arrested in Ohio energy racketeering case
Federal officials on Tuesday arrested the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives in connection with a $60 million bribery and racketeering case tied to the $1 billion bailouts of two FirstEnergy Solutions (now Energy Harbor) nuclear power plants in Ohio, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 20, 2020
Trump administration invests in ‘new future’ for coal
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Friday it will provide $118 million in funding to support research and development of technologies to make coal power generation clean.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 17, 2020
PG&E sued over 2019 Kincade wildfire
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has been sued in a California state court by 50 businesses and individuals in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 17, 2020
GM to sell 5 million EV s by 2026: WoodMac
U.S. auto giant General Motors (GM) is expected to hit 5 million in cumulative electric vehicle sales by 2030, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 10, 2020
Alabama solar project gets new owner
Longroad Energy has announced the financial close and sale of a planned solar project in Alabama, Kallanish Energy reports. The buyer is Denmark-based Orsted.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 9, 2020
Ørsted signs world’s largest long-term PPA for offshore wind
Danish offshore wind leader Ørsted signed on Wednesday the world’s largest long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Taiwan’s semiconductor company TSMC.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 9, 2020
Libyan officials meet Eni, NOC CEOs to discuss partnership
The head of the presidential council of the Libyan Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, met Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi and his counterpart at the national oil company NOC, Mustafa Sanalla, on Wednesday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 8, 2020
UAE’s largest gas-fired power project reaches financial close
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) announced Tuesday the project to build the largest independent gas-fired power plant in the UAE has reached financial closing, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 6, 2020
AEP to proceed with $2B three-state wind project
Ohio-based American Electric Power is proceeding with its planned 1,485-megawatt North Central wind project, despite Texas regulators rejecting the $2 billion project.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2020
US solar photovoltaic prices dropping quickly: WoodMac
United States solar photovoltaic system costs are falling faster than had been expected, despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2020
Testing electrochemical technology for turning CO2 into RNG
Three companies have announced that they have demonstrated further advancement of a new cutting-edge electrochemical technology that converts carbon dioxide in raw biogas to pipeline-quality renewable natural gas (RNG).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2020
Vattenfall delays FID on Dutch biomass plant
Swedish energy company Vattenfall said on Thursday it will delay the final investment decision (FID) on a biomass project in the Netherlands until next summer, as it seeks more clarity over public and government support.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2020
Myanmar enters LNG importing arena
Myanmar has become the newest country to start importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), as the fuel is adopted as the fastest solution to recent power shortage and increased power demand.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 23, 2020
Southern Power operating 200-megawatt Kansas wind farm
Southern Power has announced that its 200-megawatt Reading Wind Facility in eastern Kansas is now operational, Kallanish Energy reports. The facility with 62 turbines is in Osage and Lyon counties in Kansas, said the company, a subsidiary of the Georgia-based Southern Company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2020
Xcel Energy proposes $3B in projects to help Minn. economy
Xcel Energy has proposed $3 billion of energy projects as a way to help the Minnesota state economy back on track after the coronavirus pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2020
Vietnam welcomes XOM’s interest in LNG-to-power opportunities
Vietnam government said last week U.S. supermajor ExxonMobil is considering to invest in the country’s power sector, through LNG-to-power plants, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2020
PG&E names new board of directors
Pacific Gas & Electric has announced the selection of a new board of directors as the company works to emerge from Chapter 11 reorganization, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2020
US solar projected to grow 33% in 2020: WoodMac
The U.S. solar industry installed 3.6 gigawatts of new solar photovoltaic capacity in the first-quarter of 2020, according to Wood Mackenzie and the Solar Energy Industries Association in a joint statement.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 8, 2020
Companies launch ‘green steel’ project in Norway
Celsa Nordic, the Norwegian unit of Spanish steelmaking group Celsa, has signed an agreement with power utility company Statkraft and Mo Industrial Park to develop the use of hydrogen in industrial manufacturing for steel processing.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2020
Germany to invest $10.2B in hydrogen expansion
Germany announced it will invest €9 billion ($10.2 billion) to boost its hydrogen strategy, aimed at becoming a global supplier of “state-of-the-art” hydrogen technology, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2020