- 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 14, 2020
La La Land Is California Today and New York Tomorrow
Jerry RussellBinghamton Area Landowner [Editor’s Note: Jerry Russell talks about his recent trip to La La Land, otherwise known as California and, sadly, soon to include New York State.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 12, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 12, 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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- November 28, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 28, 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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- November 14, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 14, 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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- November 3, 2020
Medicine Hat Swallows Bitter Solar Pill While Trying to Grin and Bear It
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Medicine Hat, Alberta, threw a cool $12 million into a solar facility that still cannot compete with natural gas; it’s bitter medicine.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 26, 2020
Addition to Calif. solar, battery storage project
Canadian Solar Inc. has announced a supply contract and long-term service agreement to deliver and integrate a 75 megawatt/300 megawatt hour lithium-ion battery storage project in California, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 24, 2020
Biden Plans for Green New Deal Offer Devastating Future
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Joe Biden, while denying it, has proposed a Green New Deal that would be nothing less than disastrous for Americans and others.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2020
NIPSCO plans 900MW solar, battery storage in Indiana
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. LLC (NIPSCO) announced on Wednesday that it intends to develop an additional 900 megawatts of solar power and battery storage in Indiana, as part of its long-term generation strategy, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 20, 2020
Wind, solar costs to further pressure coal/gas powergen in 2025: BNEF
Wind and solar energies are already the cheapest source of power generation in most places, and by 2025 it will be cheaper to build a new wind/solar farm than run an existing coal/gas-fired power plant.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Canadian company buys Spanish solar assets
Q-Energy has announced the sale of 73 solar assets in Spain to Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ), a global institutional investor, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Two solar farms serving Chickasee, Choctaw nations
OG&E has completed construction on two small solar farms in southeastern Oklahoma, Kallanish Energy reports. The two 5-megawatt facilities are in Davis and Durant.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Total, Adani expand Indian solar portfolio to 2.3GW
France’s Total added three new solar power plants to its portfolio in India, through a partnership with AGEL, the renewables subsidiary of the Adani Group.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 6, 2020
Eden Renewables secures new 1.35 GW Indian solar project
The renewables joint venture between EDF Energy and Total has secured a contract for the development of three solar firms in India, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 2, 2020
Ohio sets Dec. 3 hearing on Madison Fields solar project
The Ohio Power Siting Board has scheduled a Dec. 3 virtual public meeting on a proposed solar project in Madison County, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 2, 2020
GFG Alliance, Ignis to build 1.2GW of green energy in Spain
Global conglomerate GFC Alliance and Spain’s renewables developer, Ignis, announced Thursday a deal to build 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity in Spain.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 29, 2020
S.2657: The Ugly Underbelly of An Especially Bad Senate Bill
John Droz, Jr.Physicist & Citizen AdvocateAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions … John Droz effectively lays out the ugly nature of S.2657, an especially bad Senate bill epitomizing the smell of the Federal swamp.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 29, 2020
Vattenfall connects its first floating solar plant
Swedish green utility company, Vattenfall, announced Monday it has opened its first floating solar farm in Gendringen, the Netherlands. The 1.2-megawatt (MW) solar farm was built on the site of sand and gravel extraction company Netterden.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 28, 2020
France’s renewable capacity rises to 55GW
The total renewable energy capacity of France rose to 54.69 gigawatts (GW) by the end of the first half of 2020, driven by new wind and solar photovoltaic additions, Kallanish Energy reports.Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – September 26, 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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- September 25, 2020
Solar dominates Maine’s renewables procurement
Solar projects dominated Maine’s largest renewables procurement, Kallanish Energy reports. Solar will provide about 482 megawatts of the 546 megawatts of projects approved for long-term energy projects earlier this week by the Maine Public Utilities Commission.- 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 12, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – September 12, 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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- September 10, 2020
Latam set for renewables capacity boom by 2025: Rystad
Renewable energy capacity in Latin America (Latam) is set to rise to 123 gigawatts (GW) over the next five years, according to new analysis from Rystad Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 8, 2020
Pipeline Opponents Will Learn the Worm Always Turns
Craig RuckerExecutive Director, Co-Founder, CFACT … … [Editor’s Note: Pipeline opponents, funded by mega-rich special interests, have used lawsuits as weapons that can easily and will be used against them.]- 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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- September 2, 2020
Chevron Speaks Truth to Greenout Power: Oil and Gas IS the Future
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: As Bob Bradley explains, Chevron is speaking truth to the politically correct powers who want to milk “green energy” for all it’s worth.]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.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
California Power Crisis Generates Excuses and More Excuses
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Bob Bradley nails the very real problem inherent in the California power crisis; the failure of its architects to acknowledge the reality.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 25, 2020
Upstate Forests Being Sacrificed on An Altar of Solar Fiction
Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist . … Vic Furman documents the loss of Upstate forests as New York State bulls ahead with green energy schemes based on pure solar fiction.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 22, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 22, 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 20, 2020
RWE raises €2B to boost renewables growth
German utility RWE raised on Tuesday €2 billion ($2.4 billion) of new capital to accelerate and expand its renewables growth, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 18, 2020
Renewables could curb Asia Pacific LNG plants’ emissions by 8%
Liquefaction plants in the Asia Pacific region could reduce their emissions by 8% if they run on renewables power instead of feedgas, Wood Mackenzie said on Monday.- 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
China Is the Enemy and Renewables Mean Dependency On China
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A great report issued last month by Power the Future highlights a huge problem for green energy schemes; they depend on China, our enemy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2020
Tokyo Gas to buy 500MW solar power project in Texas
Japan’s No. 1 gas supplier, Tokyo Gas, created on Thursday a new subsidiary to operate a 500-megawatt (MW) solar power plant it plans to acquire in the U.S.,- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 9, 2020
Fossil Fuel vs. Ecologically Destructive and Unsustainable Green Energy
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Fossil fuel energy sources are hammered for risks but ecologically destructive and completely unsustainable “green” energy is getting away with everything.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 6, 2020
Global renewables capacity up 7.5% in 2019: IRENA
Global renewable energy capacity increased 7.5% year-on-year in 2019, led by growth from solar and wind sources, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).- 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 25, 2020
Ohio Cracker Project A Target of the Usual Anti-Gas Suspects
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … A absolutely phony group called the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis has done a hit job on an important proposed Ohio cracker project.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2020
Pipeline Case Reveals the Non-Caring Elitist Agenda of Greens
Paul Driessen Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The recent Supreme Court decision in the case of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline reveals the true very non-green political agenda of those who say they’re green.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2020
South Australia Solar Fiasco Suggests What’s Ahead for New York
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … If you’re looking to see into New York State’s energy future, look no further than South Australia where green political correctness has turned dark.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2020
Growth in global renewables consumption offers ‘pivotal moment’: BP
The continued increase in global use of renewable energies could provide a “pivotal moment” following the Covid-19 pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2020
Iberdrola starts ‘friendly takeover’ of Australia’s Infigen
Spanish renewables giant Iberdrola announced Wednesday it has launched a takeover bid for Australia’s renewables company Infigen Energy for roughly €510 ($572.3) million, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 1, 2020
Virginia Adopts Policy of Destroying Villages to Save Them
Paul Driessen Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The Virginia Clean Economy Act force residents to finance private solar facilities on nearly 500 square miles of crop, scenic and wildlife habitat lands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 1, 2020
Trump administration change aids renewable projects
The Trump administration provided a major boost to developers of renewable energy, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 1, 2020
Largest New Jersey solar facility is operational
New Jersey’s largest solar facility is now in operation. The 28.5-megawatt facility in located on Naval Weapons Station Earle in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 10, 2020
The Absolute and Amazing Futility of New York Energy Policy
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … New York energy policy today constitutes nothing less than reckless endangerment of life’s necessities for the Empire State; dependable heat and energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 9, 2020
AREGCBA Is An Exercise in Diving Into A Pool With No Water
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … AREGCBA isn’t Andrew Cuomo clearing his throat. It’s New York’s leadership diving into a swimming before checking to see if there’s any water in it.- 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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- April 3, 2020
Worldwide solar installation to drop 16% in 2020: IHS Markit
Solar installations worldwide are likely to drop by 16% in 2020 and a rapid solar recovery this year is unlikely, according to a new report by IHS Markit.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 26, 2020
Fairgrounds Are the Subject of Major Grandstanding by the Governor
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo is a grandstanding governor to be sure, but who among us knew he would engage in grandstanding with the New York State Fairgrounds?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 6, 2020
Florida approves $1.8B community solar project
Florida regulators have approved Florida Power & Light’s $1.8 billion SolarTogether program, Kallanish Energy reports. Approval came from the Florida Public Service Commission.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2020
Africa Energy Situation and Future Suffers from NGO Condescension
Steve HeinsEnergy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist“The Practical Environmentalist and Word Merchant” … Africa is making progress but the condescension of NGOs and supposed world leadership toward the continent is reflected in politically correct energy help.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2020
Cuomo Proposes to Shove Renewables Onto Your Town, Like Them or Not
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act is the Andrew Cuomo plan to put an industrial solar or wind facility in your yard.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2020
Wisconsin regulators OK $208M solar farm buy
Wisconsin regulators have approved the sale of half of a 300-megawatt solar farm under construction in southwestern Wisconsin to Madison Gas and Electric and We Energies, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 21, 2020
US solar jobs up 167% since 2010: survey
U.S. solar industry jobs have jumped 167% in the last decade, from just over 93,000 jobs in 2010, to 249,983 jobs in 2019, according to the 10th annual “National Solar Jobs Census,” Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 15, 2020