- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2022
Natural Gas Consumption for Electric Power Use Skyrockets!
Natural Gas Consumption for Electric Power Use Skyrockets! Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas consumption by the electric power sector keeps steadily rising, year after year, showing there is no better source of power than the clean blue fuel.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 5, 2022
Fuel Switching = Energy Reliability, A Lesson Being Ignored
Fuel Switching = Energy Reliability, A Lesson Being Ignored Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Fuel switching capacity is at the heart of energy reliability and natural gas provides that flexibility for electric producers, so why is this factor ignored by the climate cult?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 9, 2022
RGGI Is Dead in Pennsylvania If These Facts Get Out!
truckers Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. RGGI is dumb policy, but no dumber than in Pennsylvania, which ships more power to neighboring states than any and Tom Wolf wants to kill us with a carbon tax.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 14, 2022
Climate Games Lead to More Coal Burned Than Ever for Power
climate games Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Climate games pursued for power and money have led Western nations to chase expensive unreliables as the rest of the world burns more coal than ever for power!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 21, 2021
Natural Gas Generation Leads to Decrease in Power Sector’s Water Usage
The shift to using more natural gas for U.S. electricity generation has prompted a sharp drop in the U.S. power sector’s cooling water withdrawals, according to data from the Energy Information Administration.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 29, 2021
Clean Electricity Performance Program A Corporatist Takeover
Clean Electricity Performance Program David Wojick, PhDJournalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: The proposed Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP) is a disaster waiting to happen; a blank check for a corporatist den of thieves with Congress in tow.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 22, 2021
CEPP Raid on the Treasury Is Just Still More Green Grifting
CEPP David Wojick, PhDJournalist and Independent Policy Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: CEPP stands for Clean Electricity Performance Program, another attempt by green energy grifters to turn taxpayers into an ATM for corporatist special interests.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 19, 2021
EPA: Oil and Natural Gas Methane Emissions Fall Despite Record Production
Methane emissions in the United States have continued their downward trend from 2005 levels according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2021 Greenhouse Gas Inventory (GHGI).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 1, 2021
Wind and Solar, Though Little, Require Big Energy to Back Them Up
David Wojick, PhDIndependent Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Depending on weather-dependent energy takes not only big money but big dispatchable sources of energy when wind and solar do not produce!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 19, 2021
Natural Gas Carried the Texas Energy Mix During Winter Storm
The winter storm that slammed Texas in February brought with it complex and significant challenges for the state’s energy system as temperatures dropped far below normal winter average spiking electricity demand to historic levels and freezing infrastructure across the state.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 30, 2020
Gas Fired Generation Is Building Its Lead Over Solar and Wind
David Wojick, PhDIndependent Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Solar and wind get a lot of attention but its gas fired generation that is producing more and more of our electricity in this country.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 17, 2020
Progressive Policy Institute Tells Biden That Natural Gas Is Critical To Climate Solutions
A “left-of-center” policy group has released a memo advocating that the incoming Biden Administration embrace the use of natural gas to help meet its climate goals and to compliment the increasing deployment of renewable energy sources.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 3, 2020
Solar power generation leads the way in 2019: BNEF
Solar photovoltaic (PV) accounted for nearly half of all new power generation capacity installed during 2019, according to a new report by BloombergNEF (BNEF).- 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.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 14, 2020
Wind, solar plants supply 10% of global power in H1
Wind and solar energy have generated 9.8% of the world’s electricity during the first half of the year, a new analysis by UK think tank Ember showed on Thursday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2020
Natural Gas-Fired Generation Up 9% for First Half of 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The Energy Information Administration reports natural gas-fired generation of electric power in the U.S.- 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 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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- May 28, 2020
Japan project trials international hydrogen supply chain
A Japanese consortium has started a power generation plant running on hydrogen imported from Brunei, Kallanish Energy reports. The so-called AHEAD project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of an international hydrogen energy supply chain.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 27, 2020
Drax’s plans to build Europe’s largest new gas plant ‘legal’: court
Drax’s approved plans to build four combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) at its Selby Power plant in North Yorkshire was ruled legal by the UK High Court last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 9, 2020
Uniper, Siemens to develop hydrogen powergen
German companies Uniper and Siemens Gas and Power said on Wednesday they will develop decarbonization projects in the power generation sector using both green hydrogen and green gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 7, 2020
Renewables make 72% of new powergen capacity in 2019
Renewable energy accounted for 72% of all power expansion in 2019, with deployment reaching 176 gigawatts (GW), the International Renewable Energy Agency said on Monday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 5, 2020
Natural Gas-Fired Power Generation Helps Lower Emissions in Colorado
The production of natural gas in Colorado and its use in electricity generation has grown significantly in the past decade at the same time emissions of key air pollutants have fallen dramatically, data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 9, 2019
Gas rises, coal falls in US powergen
The share of U.S. total utility-scale power generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 34% in 2018, to 37% in 2019 and 2020, the Energy Information Administration forecasts in its October Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). EIA/STEO- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 18, 2019
Natural Gas Politics Behind Pennsylvania Pipeline Opposition
Bill Godsey CEO, Geo Logic Environmental Services, LLC Former geologist for the Texas Railroad Commission … … Natural gas politics is what’s really behind pipeline opposition in Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 17, 2019
IEA: Decarbonization key for Ireland
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said Monday Ireland has “successfully advanced the transformation” of its energy mix, especially in the power sector, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 26, 2019