- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- October 15, 2019
If Windmills Are Clean and Green, Why Are They Blowing Up A Storm?
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Andrew Cuomo’s push for more windmills Upstate is blowing up a storm of controversy as locals say they don’t want them and are fighting back, town by town.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- 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 forecasts the share of U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- October 8, 2019
Ocean City Demonstrates Off-Shore Wind Is No Easy Sell
... … … Green new dealers always make it sound as if their projects face no obstacles, have no impacts and are widely desired but Ocean City shows that’s not true.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- October 8, 2019
US solar industry gets possible boost from Trump
Some U.S. solar companies could get a lift after the Trump administration announced it will impose tariffs on bifacial solar panels, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- October 2, 2019
Group forms to defend natgas against anti-fossil fuel groups
A group backed by anonymous donors launched a campaign Monday to promote the benefits of natural gas against what it called “radical” proposals like the Green New Deal that would phase out use of the fossil fuel, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- October 1, 2019
Xcel, Evraz, Lightsource moving on Colorado solar project
Plans to build one of Colorado’s largest solar facilities are a step closer to reality as Xcel Energy, Evraz North America and Lightsource BP said they’ve reached a long-term agreement to develop a $250 million, 240-megawatt solar facility in Pueblo.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- October 1, 2019
Hyundai, Cummins to collaborate on hydrogen fuel cells
Hyundai Motor Co. and Cummins Inc. announced the two powertrain companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly evaluate opportunities to develop and commercialize electric and fuel cell powertrains.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 30, 2019
Bloom, Samsung to build fuel cells-powered ships
Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) last week announced a collaboration to design and develop ships powered by Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 27, 2019
More Than $25B Needed by NY Electric Sector to Meet Cuomo Targets?
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Roger Caiazza says New York’s new Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act will cost the electric sector (ratepayers) more than $25 billion.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 27, 2019
IEnova signs solar capacity pacts with Liverpool, Circle K
Sempra Energy’s Mexican subsidiary, Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova) has signed two 15-year contracts with subsidiaries of Comercializadora Círculo CCK, S.A.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 26, 2019
UPS converting ground fleets to RNG
Package delivery giant UPS has purchased 170 million gallon-equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG) to use between 2020 and 2026, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 25, 2019
EIA projects world energy usage will jump
World energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050, according to International Energy Outlook 2019, presented by the Energy Information Administration.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 24, 2019
Texas wind power on track to outpace coal in 2020
Texas is about to go green — by 2020, more electricity will come from wind than coal, according to analytics/consulting firm Rystad Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 24, 2019
Electric Vehicle Subsidies: On the Well Traveled Road to Nowhere
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Electric vehicle subsidies have accomplished little or nothing, mostly benefit those who don’t need financial help and are leading us into never-never land.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 21, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – September 21, 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
- September 19, 2019
Ban Fracking? What in the World Are Democrats Thinking?
John J. Interval Professional Petroleum Geologist. John J. Interval challenges Democrat Presidential candidates on their reckless “ban fracking” positions using some key facts and a lot of common sense.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 19, 2019
Gutless DRBC Commissioners Bows Down to Delaware PovertyKeeper
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) The DRBC Commissioners, in a stunning display of cowardice and obsequious attention to direction from William Penn Foundation shills, reconsiders a decision.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 19, 2019
San Jose moves to ban natural gas in new residential buildings
The U.S.’s 10th most populous U.S. city Tuesday moved to ban natural gas in most new residential buildings, beginning next year, Kallanish Energy reports.NaturalGasNOW Wants You! For Our Nation, Economy and Environment!
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … NaturalGasNOW wants your help. It takes much effort to do what we do and we want your help to get it done “for our nation, our economy and our environment.” Yes, just like Uncle Sam, we want you!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 18, 2019
Texas Wind Power Not So Reliable, As It Turns Out
... … … Texas wind energy has been touted as a big success, but several years of growth in the wind energy supply have blown away electricity expense budgets.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 18, 2019
Total, Envision form JV to pursue China’s solar energy market
Teess, a 50/50 joint venture formed by French supermajor Total and smart-energy technology firm Envision launched development of onsite distributed generation solar projects for business-to-business customers in China, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 17, 2019
German Energy Reality Shows Natural Gas is Green Energy’s Better Half
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … German energy policies (the “Energiewende”) have been a failure if real carbon emissions reduction and electricity costs matter, but there’s natural gas… Recently, I came across a remarkable study of the German energy situation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 17, 2019
Johnny Green, “The Earth’s Champion,” Takes on Worst Polluters
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Johnny Green is someone you probably haven’t heard of just yet, but he goes by “The Earth’s Champion” and you may agree after learning more about him.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 17, 2019
Rocky Mountain Institute Says Natural Gas Plants are Doomed, But…
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … A Rocky Mountain Institute study provides no definitive evidence a clean energy portfolio will soon be able to replace NY’s natural gas fired power plants.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog, Natural Gas Prices
- September 14, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – September 14, 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
- September 12, 2019
Dem. Presidential Candidates’ Anti-Gas Platforms Leave Grid Questions Unanswered
Ahead of tonight’s third Democratic presidential debate in Houston, the energy capital of the world, EID is taking a deeper dive into several candidates’ climate plans and their potential impacts on America’s power grid.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 9, 2019
The Green Corporatism Behind Most of Fractivism
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Green corporatism is always in the background when it comes to fractivism and global warming hysteria, as government rent seekers try to mold a crisis mood.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 7, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – September 7, 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.A Tree of Ignorance Grows in Brooklyn, Watered by Political Deceit
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Brooklyn, New York is apparently growing a new type of voter without the slightest clue how energy is made or delivered and politicians enable the ignorance.New York Politicians Running on Empty and Denying It
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … New York politicians, still imagining they’re living out their energy fantasies, are refusing to accept facts, as if running on empty through a bad neighborhood.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 31, 2019
Labor Day (and Every Other Day) Should Also Be “Thank Energy Day”
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Labor Day is an opportunity to reflect on the modern life made possible by natural gas and other fossil fuels; a life that rescued mankind from drudgery.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 31, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 31, 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
- August 29, 2019
Power sector still the U.S.’s largest electricity consumer
Energy consumption in the U.S. reached a record high of more than 101 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2018, surpassing the previous high recorded in 2007, by less than 0.3%, the Energy Information Administration reports.Tesla Solar Debacle Is Explained by Vanity Fair and Walmart
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … The Tesla solar debacle Is getting a lot of attention from Vanity Fair and a big lawsuit from Walmart.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 26, 2019
Renewables Reality: Isn’t It Time We Faced Up to It?
... … … The concept of a renewables reality is a foreign one to those wrapped in the ideology of the green new deal, but the problems with renewables cannot ignored.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 24, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 24, 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
- August 23, 2019
Turbine maintenance firm moving to Rhode Island
The push to transform Rhode Island into a hub for the offshore wind industry could soon take another step forward with the proposed move of a second British turbine maintenance company into the state, Kallanish Energy understands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 21, 2019
Judge to decide if Fes can emerge from Chapter 11
A federal court hearing that could result in FirstEnergy Solutions emerging from bankruptcy is expected to wrap up late Wednesday, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 21, 2019
Heelstone Energy garners Ares investment
Heelstone Energy, a utility-scale solar developer, has received an investment of an undisclosed size by Ares Management Corp.’s Infrastructure and Power (Aip) operation, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 21, 2019
Is Wind Power, Having Inflated Electric Prices, Done in Germany?
... … … Wind power has successfully exploded electricity prices in Germany, turned its neighbors into enemies and cost a fortune.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 17, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week, August 17, 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
- August 16, 2019
EV Subsidies, Like Most Green Scams, Are “Robin-Hood-in-Reverse Policy”
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) EV subsidies are disgusting because they principally benefit well-off trendy folks who can well afford electric vehicles without help from ordinary taxpayers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 16, 2019
PG&E names industry vet Vesey as utility head
Holding company PG&E Corp., operating under bankruptcy court protection, said the board of its Pacific Gas and Electric Co. unit (also in bankruptcy), has appointed Andrew M.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 16, 2019
E.ON announces 440 MW South Texas wind farm
Renewable energy giant E.ON said Thursday its largest, single-phase project, the $500 million, 440-megawatt onshore wind farm, Big Raymond, will be built in Texas’ Willacy, Cameron and Hidalgo counties, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 15, 2019
New Natural Gas Record for Power Generation Set
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … A new natural gas record was recently set for use of this energy source in producing electric power that sustains our way of living in this nation, says EIA.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 15, 2019
Michael Moore and His Turn Against Renewable Energy
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Michael Moore, the radical movie guy who has made millions attacking capitalism, has turned against renewables, realizing they’re mostly a hedge-fund scam.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 14, 2019
Trump administration upsets offshore wind plans
The Trump administration has ordered a major environmental review of the growing offshore wind industry – a review that some experts see as derailing the nation’s first major project and raises questions concerning future developments, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 12, 2019
Pg&e evaluating proposal from hedge funds
Holding company Pg&e Corp. said Friday it’s evaluating a proposal from hedge funds Knighthead Capital Management and Abrams Capital Management to provide $15 billion in equity capital commitments supporting a plan to reorganize the company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 10, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week, August 10, 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
- August 7, 2019
Offshore Wind Is No Easy Sell and Carries A High Environmental Price
... … … Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are being regularly challenged successfully on environmental impact grounds, especially by fishermen.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 5, 2019
China’s Didi teams with BP to build EV charging network
Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing behemoth, has teamed with oil supermajor BP to build electric vehicle (EV)-charging stations in China, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 2, 2019
Going Green Is No Fun; No Wonder Fractivists Are So Miserable
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Going green, regardless what fractivists may say, is no idea of a good time for most of us.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 31, 2019
Broome County Solar Farm A Rebuke of New York Energy Policy
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Broome County Solar Farm is operating and the energy produced, compared to predictions, illustrates the futility of powering New York with solar energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 30, 2019
More Power Outages Coming to New York, Thanks to Cuomo
... … … If you live in New York State you can expect more power outages thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandering attempts to curry favor with green energy scammers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 27, 2019
Leisure Class Environmentalists Are Too Often Just Selfish NIMBYs
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Leisure class environmentalists are the bane of true environmentalism or, as I prefer to call it, conservation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 23, 2019
Renewable Generation Reality; It’s Mostly Meaningless
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Renewable generation amounts to little in the big picture and must be backed up by dispatchable energy from sources such as natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 22, 2019
Wind Turbines: A Clear and Present Danger to the Environment?
... … … Wind turbines, it turns out, unsurprisingly, have serious impacts on the environment that a whole lot of people are trying to ignore as they subsidize them.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 22, 2019
DTE approved to buy Isabella Wind projects
Apex Clean Energy said last week its proposed sale of the Isabella Wind I and II projects to DTE Energy has been conditionally approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission (Mpsc), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 20, 2019