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Why The Natural Gas Price Collapse May Not Last

R-Squared Energy

Whenever I try to get a feel for the direction of natural gas prices, the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report is the first place I stop. This report provides an update on the levels of natural gas in storage facilities across the United States.

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Three-Quarters of New US Generating Capacity in 2020 Will Be Renewable, EIA Says

GreenTechMedia

gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year. gigawatts of wind power capacity to come online in 2020 surpasses 2012’s record of 13.2 Older natural gas-fired power plants in California will account for most of the 3.7 gigawatts, and pushes total U.S. gigawatts of capacity.

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Gates and Bezos backed company throws weight behind white hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel News

White hydrogen would provide an option to use similar extraction concepts currently used for extracting natural gas. This form of geologic H2 was first discovered in quantity underground in 2012 in Mali, where a store of almost pure natural H2 as discovered by oil and gas workers while they were digging a borehole.

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Blowout Erupts in West Texas’s Permian Basin, Creating 100-Foot Tower of Oily Water

DeSmogBlog

Dunlap, a long-time well control specialist and director of Well Control Management International, according to his LinkedIn bio , posted records from a 1961 well identified as belonging to El Paso Natural Gas Company, which Dunlap described as the suspected source of the blowout.

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Southern Company Commits to Net-Zero Carbon by 2050, but Seeks New Gas Plants for Now

GreenTechMedia

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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How Energy Storage’s Growth Trajectory Differs From the Early Days of Solar

GreenTechMedia

But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants. Finn-Foley displayed the Energy Information Administration's projections for national solar deployment from 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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How Oil And Gas Companies Infiltrate Higher Education to Maintain Influence

DeSmogBlog

The centers that had received large amounts of fossil fuel funding described renewable energy more critically and had a more positive view of natural gas than the centers without significant oil and gas funding, according to the study. Obama then appointed Moniz as secretary of energy.

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