- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- March 6, 2019
The Physical Impossibilities of the Green New Deal
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Testimony given in Congress the other day addressed the impossible expectations of new technology behind the Green New Deal.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 6, 2019
FPL plans to build 4 solar power plants in 2019
Florida Power & Light Co. (Fpl) announced plans to build four new solar power plants in Florida this year for an undisclosed price, with all expected to begin providing power in early 2020.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 4, 2019
Environmental Hero Acknowledges Renewables Won’t Save Anything
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … An extremely thoughtful article by a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” explains why renewables won’t “save the planet” or even the environment.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 4, 2019
Hedge fund nominates 13 candidates for PG&E board
Hedge fund BlueMountain Capital, which owned roughly 1.55% of outstanding shares in bankrupt utility Pacific Gas & Electric at Dec. 31, 2018, announced Friday it’s nominated 13 candidates for election to the company’s board.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 1, 2019
It’s Time to Sunset Some Renewable Subsidies, Not Expand Them, But…
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The expansion of renewable subsidies in the form of renewable portfolio standards is a guarantee of high electricity prices, but also more natural gas use.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 1, 2019
France’s Engie to exit 20 countries, CEO says
French natural gas and electric utility Engie will exit roughly 20 countries in the next 36 months and target new markets in developing nations, its CEO said.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 28, 2019
New York and Massachusetts Blow It with Wacky Wind Projects
... … … New York and Massachusetts are pursuing off-shore wind projects that make no sense whatsoever, while natural gas continues to get the job done elsewhere.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 27, 2019
What Has Really Reduced CO2 (And It’s Not Renewables)
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … If you think CO2 emissions are being reduced by renewable energy think again, because it is natural gas conversions that are actually making a difference.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 27, 2019
The Smothering of Spotsylvania County with Solar Panels
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Some 6,000 acres of Spotsylvania County, ironically named after a colonial governor named Spotswood, is now being cleared to create 500 MW of phony power.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2019
The Juvenile World of AOC, Where Debate Is Verboten
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The juvenile world of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or AOC, as she has styled herself for clickbait purposes, is strictly one of “do as I say, not as I do.” “Verboten” according to Merriam-Webster: Banned, barred, forbidden, impermissible, interdicted, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, taboo There is no more apt description of the juvenile attitude adopted by AOC, in her recent kitchen video, toward any thought others might have to disagree with any aspect of her views.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2019
Sempra to begin sales process for Peru, Chile operations
Sempra Energy on Monday announced it will initiate the formal process to sell its 83.6% stake in Luz del Sur S.A.A.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2019
Sempra to begin sales process for Peru, Chile operations
Sempra Energy on Monday announced it will initiate the formal process to sell its 83.6% stake in Luz del Sur S.A.A.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 24, 2019
The Economic Fantasy World of Green New Deal Play Actors
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research … . The Green New Deal is pure fantasy; a fact that immediately becomes evident upon challenging its play actors to tell us how they’d pay for the whole thing.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 23, 2019
Warning: You Don’t Want Another Broome County Solar Experience
Frank ChernegaBroome County, New York, Landowner … … Endicott resident Frank Chernega warns the Chenango County Board of Supervisors they should want no part of anything like the Broome County solar activity.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 21, 2019
New England grid vulnerable to natgas shortages: ISO-NE head
New England’s regional electric grid is facing “significant vulnerabilities” as the power generation mix shifts from nuclear and oil-fueled power plants, toward renewable energy and natural gas-fired units, the president and CEO of the grid says.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 20, 2019
“Save the Trees!” Unless We’re Talking Solar Farms, That Is
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Massive solar farms planned for Virginia are resulting in incredible amounts of forest destruction for next to nothing gained in energy production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 20, 2019
Energy Statism: The Dead End That Never Seems to Die
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research … . .. How many times do we have to learn the lesson?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 18, 2019
Vineyard proposes 1,200 MW wind farm off New York
Vineyard Wind has submitted a proposal to build offshore wind project Liberty Wind, in New York State, featuring up to 1,200 megawatts of capacity.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 17, 2019
The Green New Deal: A Grand Delusion and Inhumane Abstraction
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The Green New Deal, which presupposes a mere decade to turn the world upside down, is countered by a new report appropriately titled “Transition to Reality.” The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has just issued a very revealing report that contradicts just about every aspect of the Green New Deal, even though it doesn’t mention it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 16, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – February 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
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- February 13, 2019
Spread the Wealth Among the Wealthy: The Story of the Taycan
Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Porsche’s new electric vehicle, the Taycan, is one only the wealthy can afford, yet taxpayers will be forced to foot the subsidy bill!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 10, 2019
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on the Fast Track to Nowhere
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Politicians love schemes showing them to be doing something, especially when no one can decipher it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 10, 2019
Et Tu Bud? Virtue Signaling Budweiser Greenwashes Its Beer
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … Budweiser goes windy with virtue signaling Super Bowl ad intended to make you think the beer is beer is green, but it actually uses gas to make that beer.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 9, 2019
Obama Energy Secretary Moniz Dismisses Green New Deal as Infeasible
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Obama Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz is no fool. He knows the Green New Deal is completely infeasible economically and politically.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 8, 2019
If You Think the U.S. Can Go 100% Renewables, You’re Fantasizing
... … … Ideas that the U.S. can or should go 100% renewables are beyond crazy and those who irresponsibly suggest such fantasies are endangering the country.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 8, 2019
Vistra acquiring Crius, creates large residential power provider
Vistra Energy and Crius Energy Trust said Thursday Vistra will acquire Crius Energy for roughly $436 million, including the assumption of $108 million of debt.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 6, 2019
Natgas prices will determine future U.S. powergen mix
Projected U.S. power generation and capacity currently is significantly influenced by natural gas prices, the Energy Information Administration states. In EIA’s recent Annual Energy Outlook 2019’s (AEO2019)high oil and gas resource and technology scenario, which includes projected low natural gas prices, natural gas provides 54% of all U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 3, 2019
Green New Deal Would Be a Giant Leap on the Road to Serfdom
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research … . .. There is nothing new about the Green New Deal.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 2, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – February 2, 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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- January 31, 2019
The Green New Deal Gets Generally Cool Reception
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The fancy Green New Deal has gotten more hype than the Super Bowl in politically correct media, but it’s getting a pretty cool reaction where it counts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 31, 2019
GE combining renewable and power grid assets
Beleaguered multinational conglomerate General Electric said Wednesday it will consolidate all of the company’s renewable and power grid assets into a single Renewable Energy business.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 29, 2019
The Black Oak Wind Farm Is A Black Mark on the Solutions Project
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The Black Oak Wind Farm was supposed to be a monument to the potential for the Solutions Project to take New York 100% renewable.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 29, 2019
Renewables May Grow, But Not Much in Terms of U.S. Energy Needs
... … … The Energy Information Administration says renewables will, by 2050, still only meet 7% of U.S. energy needs despite the hype and Green New Deal fantasies.Why Most Green Energy Schemes Are Doomed to Fail
Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … There’s a huge problem with green energy schemes that no one is talking about; they rely upon planned government activity rather than spontaneous innovation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 23, 2019
States Falling for Electoral Platitudes Now Face Future Energy Trauma
Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC Governors of California, New York, et al have been issuing electoral platitudes that can only be expected to yield future energy trauma for their citizens.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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