- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2019
Missouri-Kansas wind farm gets go-ahead
Construction will begin this fall on a 600-megawatt wind project in southwest Missouri/southeast Kansas, following approval of the plan by the Missouri Public Service Commission, Kallanish Energy finds.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 23, 2019
Take Notice DRBC: “Sue Me” Approach to the Takings Clause Is Untenable.
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an opinion making it easier to go to Federal court for relief under the Takings Clause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 22, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 21, 2019
Natural Gas Consumption Increases 5% As Emissions Grow by Only 2%
... … … Natural gas consumption grew by 5% in 2018 with economic growth, but emissions only grew only 2%, showing how gas, by changing the energy mix is a big win.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
PG&E settles wildfire claims for $1B
Pacific Gas and Electric said Wednesday it’s reached agreements to resolve wildfire claims made by 18 local public entities (cities, counties, districts and public agencies) impacted by the 2015 Butte Fire, 2017 Northern California wildfires and 2018 Camp Fire.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
Solar Sales Pitch Goes Awry for Politically Correct Millennial
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman relates his experience dealing with a solar sales pitch from a naive millennial who simply bought into “green energy” before thinking it through.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
EU scolds 15 countries on renewables target
Industry association WindEurope said Tuesday the European Commission called out 15 countries for not meeting their renewables targets, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
National Grid Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway Isn’t Going to Appease Radicals
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … National Grid has developed a “Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway” apparently hoping to appease radicals who want no part of natural gas, but it’s not going to work.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 15, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- June 13, 2019
Southwestern states have better solar resources: EIA
Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the U.S. operated on average at roughly 25% of their electricity generating capacity, based on an average of annual values, from 2014 through 2017, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Replacing Coal with Gas Is the Only Way to Catch Up in Reducing CO2
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Replacing coal with shale gas has allowed the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions more than anyone else and for the world to catch up more of this must be done.Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 8, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.Combined-Cycle Natural Gas Power Beats Everything Else
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Combined-cycle natural gas power plants offer lower cost electricity than anything else, especially renewables, the true costs of which are never counted.NY Post Editorial Explodes Cuomo Renewables Delusion
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NY Post readers were treated to the one of the best editorials it has yet to write on the subject of energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 31, 2019
PG&E plan to use blackouts to prevent wildfires OKed
California regulators Thursday approved PG&E Corp.’s plan to impose blackouts this summer across large swaths of its territory to prevent major wildfires — and told customers don’t count on reliable electric service as the fire season gets underway.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 23, 2019
Xcel Energy Acknowledges that Natural Gas is Vital for Future Energy Economy
Xcel Energy, the largest utility provider in Colorado, acknowledged this week that it will need to use natural gas to hit its zero-emissions goals by 2050.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 22, 2019
Green New Deal Physics Simply Can’t and Won’t Work
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Green New Deal physics, that is to say, the physics required to implement the foolish ideas of juvenile green energy utopians, simply do not exist.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 21, 2019
Monster Wind Turbines Show Cuomo Energy Policy Is Pure Fantasy
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Monster wind turbines taller than 65 story buildings being proposed in Chenango County, New York are not wanted and expose Cuomo’s energy policy as fantasy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 18, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – May 18, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Our 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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- May 16, 2019
PG&E power lines caused California’s ‘deadliest wildfire’: officials
California authorities said Wednesday power lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E) caused the state’s most destructive wildfire ever – which killed 85 and nearly destroyed an entire city, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 15, 2019
E.ON calls for a CO2 tax in Germany
The CEO of German utility E.On is calling for a new carbon tax in Germany, saying Tuesday a “better and fairer energy transition” was possible, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 10, 2019
Study: Natural Gas Will Have Long-Term Role in U.S. Power, Economy
Natural gas will play a major role in the U.S. power market and wider economy through 2040, according to a new study from the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) Foundation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 9, 2019
Trump says GM will sell Ohio plant for EV production
President Trump Wednesday praised General Motors CEO Mary Barra after he says she informed him GM will sell its recently closed Lordstown, Ohio, manufacturing plant to manufacturer Workhorse to build electric trucks.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 3, 2019
Sanity Restored: PA House Approves Environmental Regulations
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) The full Pennsylvania House pass four out of five bills in a vote to restore sanity in how environmental regulations are made and paid for.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 3, 2019
Va. company proposes 200 MW wind farm in Illinois
The Goose Creek Wind Project, which would include up to 120 turbines producing as much as 200 megawatts of power in northern Piatt County, Illinois, has been proposed by Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 28, 2019
The Green New Deal Has Dangerous Authoritarian Roots
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research … . The Green New Deal is not only fantasy, but also dangerous politicization of what should be serious issues, contaminating everything with authoritarianism.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 27, 2019
Isn’t It Time to Just Let the Place Known as Planet Ithaca Go Dark?
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) There’s something virulently wrong with the water in that area of the Finger Lakes popularly known as Planet Ithaca where all common sense has now died.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 27, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – April 27, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- April 26, 2019
Elon Musk’s Glow Wearing Off? Tesla Loses Gobs of Money and Market Share!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … There was no good news in the latest Tesla financials. The millennial hero Elon Musk is starting to look like every other snake oil salesman and wizard.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 25, 2019
More on Big Green and the Big Money Behind the Big Green Curtain
... … … Big Green, Inc. outspends industry by a very wide margin in grass-roots lobbying and gets away with it by using charitable tax status to hide the spending.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 24, 2019
Sempra completes $2.5B sale of U.S. renewables, gas storage assets
Energy infrastructure company Sempra Energy has completed the sale of its U.S. renewables business and non-utility natural gas storage assets for roughly $2.5 billion in cash, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 23, 2019
Southern Power selling wood-fired plant for $460M
Southern Co.’s Southern Power wholesale energy provider unit is selling the Nacogdoches Generating Facility to community utility Austin (Texas) Energy for $460 million, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 23, 2019
Big Green, Inc. – The Sources of the Money Behind Fractivism
... … … Fractivism is anything but grassroots. Rather, it is funded and orchestrated Big Green, Inc. and the Institute for Energy Research is documenting it all.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 21, 2019
Cuomo’s Energy Initiatives Put New York City at Risk of Another Blackout
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo’s plans for New York City’s natural gas peaking plants depend on untried and technologically challenging renewables.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 20, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – April 20, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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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- April 18, 2019
The Absurdity of Nuclear Subsidies and Some Who Oppose Them
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Pennsylvania, like some other states, is considering nuclear subsidies. It’s as absurd as it gets, until you get to those who oppose all dispatchable energy.- 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
- Blog
- April 14, 2019
Batteries Can’t Replace Natural Gas Combined Cycle Plants
... … … States such as California are telling us they’re going to go 100% carbon free but the batteries required for storage to replace natural gas don’t exist.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 9, 2019
Oil & Gas Industry Moves to Innovate Away CO2: What Will Fractivists Do?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Green energy fans proclaim renewables are necessary to reduce CO2 emissions and will soon replace gas but the oil and gas industry keeps innovating CO2 away.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 6, 2019
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania Just Keeps Producing Natural Gas for the Rest
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Some states just can’t get their energy acts together. Plagued by political correctness, urban states tilt at windmills while Pennsylvania heats their homes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 4, 2019
PG&E names new CEO, 10 new directors to be appointed
Embattled PG&E Corp. and its utility Pacific Gas and Electric, on Wednesday announced the appointment of William “Bill” Johnson as president and CEO, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 4, 2019
Federal judge places new probation terms on PG&E
A federal judge in San Francisco is barring utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric from re-issuing dividends in favor of using the funds for reducing the risk of wildfires in the company’s service area.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 1, 2019
New Jersey’s Renewable Mandates Will Send Electric Bills to the Moon
... … … New Jersey’s already high electric bills are about to get higher. As the Governor proposes more renewables and subsidies, ratepayers will foot the bill.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 1, 2019
Bankruptcy judge approves Dip loan for PG&E
Bankrupt California power provider PG&E Corp. won court approval last week for a $5.5 billion loan to help maintain electricity and natural gas delivery and for investments to reduce the risk of wildfires as it reorganizes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2019
Wind and Solar Tax Credits; Green Rent Seeking Unleashed
... … … Wind and solar tax credits are horribly distorting our energy markets and need to be reined in before we end up like Germany with quadrupled electric rates.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2019
TransAlta shareholder intends to offer dissident board candidates
Power giant TransAlta Corp. said this week it’s received notice investment firm Mangrove Partners intends to nominate five candidates for election to the company’s board.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- March 28, 2019
Allete closes $270M sale of U.S. Water Services
Minnesota-based energy company Allete said Wednesday it’s closed the $270 million sale of U.S. Water Services to Kurita Water Industries Ltd., a Japan-based water-management company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- March 21, 2019
Connecticut Solar Industry Demonstrates Why It Ought to Be Shut Down
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. The Connecticut solar industry, whining about reduction of subsidies from other ratepayers and taxpayers, demonstrates why it might better be shut down.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 18, 2019
Dominion to keep Connecticut’s Millstone nuclear plant online
Dominion Energy said Friday it reached a 10-year deal with Connecticut utilities to keep the state’s only nuclear power plant in service.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- March 16, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – March 16, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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
- Blog
- March 15, 2019
U.S. installs 10,600 MW of solar in 2018
The U.S. installed 10,600 megawatts of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 2018, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy Industries Association (Seia). The total solar installed is down 2% compared to 2017, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 14, 2019
An Unsurprising Wind Energy Fail: It Can’t Handle the Weather!
... … … Just when they needed it most; the Mid-West experienced a big-time wind energy fail last month. It could handle changes in the weather, of all things!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 14, 2019
Nuclear Raid on Ratepayers Underway in Pennsylvania?
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Is Pennsylvania preparing to do a nuclear raid on electric ratepayers? This is madness. We have natural gas and it’s less expensive.Natural Gas Dominates Everything Energy in America
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … No matter how you analyze it, natural gas is dominating—absolutely dominating—energy production in America and yielding economic and environmental gains.Will Fracking Help Address the Renewables Energy Storage Problem?
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … New technology to employed in conjunction with Marcellus Shale development in Pennsylvania is going to produce Lithium, a key to renewables energy storage.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 11, 2019
Apac to remain largest combined heat and power market
The Asia-Pacific (Apac) region is expected to remain the largest combined heat and power (Chp) market in the world due to increased capacity installations led by countries such as China, India and Japan, according to data/analytics company GlobalData.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 10, 2019
The Chaos and Calamities the Green New Deal Promises
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … California is always ahead of other states — in pursuing dumb ideas. It has been practicing a Green New Deal approach to energy for years with awful results.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 9, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – March 9, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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
- Blog
- March 6, 2019