DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Carbon capture has never been deployed on gas-fired power stations at such a scale before — and a senior Equinor executive has made frank admissions around the technical challenges such projects face. This clean-burning fuel is made from natural gas, with carbon capture technology used to trap emissions released during the process.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 29, 2024

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. In three previous articles, I discussed: Overall highlights Trends in global carbon dioxide emissions Global production and consumption of petroleum Today I will discuss trends in natural gas production and consumption.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Today I delve into the data on natural gas production and consumption. Natural Gas Production The U.S. dominated global natural gas production until the 1980s, at which time it ceded the lead to Russia. and Russia as the world’s leading natural gas-producing region. In 2022, U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. CAISO’s peak demand levels over the weekend were lower than its historical highest peaks in 2006 and 2017. Friday and Saturday.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 2, 2022

natural gas production, I engaged in a Twitter discussion on the causes of the natural gas price surge over the past two years. The largest contributor to higher natural gas demand has been US power generation. RRapier — Richard Meyer (@RichardMeyerDC) September 25, 2022. Tcf ( Source ).

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2020

Though coal is steadily losing its crown, new natural gas combined cycle plants will remain more economic than building large-scale solar projects in some parts of Kentucky for the next couple years. Rising corporate demand in PJM. Developers working in Kentucky say corporate demand is the main driver of the current market.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Initially announced as part of South Korea’s renewable energy push, the project in the Daebul National Industrial Complex aimed to harness energy through hydrogen produced from liquefied natural gas (LNG). Prices surged more than 200% from 2020 to 2022, significantly affecting fuel cell profitability.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 30, 2022

This article is the fourth in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , carbon dioxide emissions , and petroleum supply and demand.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

But FERC needs to do more in 2022. Finally, removing the state opt-out for demand response will provide certainty in the marketplace for aggregators to bid heterogenous aggregations, including distributed resources with rooftop solar/storage. But PJM has more renewable demand given its capacity market.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 10, 2024

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. The latter consists of light liquid hydrocarbons recovered in the field at natural gas wells. Another category that may be lumped into oil production is natural gas liquids (NGLs). produced 15.6%

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Photos I shot in 2022 for DeSmog capture damage from extreme weather events and the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry — the dominant industry causing global warming. Industries reliant on methane gas continue to expand their footprint, despite bipartisan discussions about the need to develop climate solutions.

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Energy Central

MARCH 15, 2023

WHAT HAS HAPPENED Natural gas consumption in OECD Europe fell by an estimated 13% in 2022, its steepest decline in absolute terms in history.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Then someone chimed in, “Demand response, EVs, flow batteries — those are cool subjects. 1 spot until 2022 when the combination of the stepdown of the federal Production Tax Credit and the growth in solar causes wind to drop to second place. But the four of us know utility solar makes the real impact. It will hold the No.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger. That's one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify. in early 2020. in early 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

part of Ontario, Canada-based Nexus Renewables, to deploy a fleet of batteries at multiple sites in PG&E service territory and provide them for grid services starting in August 2022. megawatt/730-megawatt-hour project from Tesla being built near a natural-gas plant in the Monterey County community of Moss Landing.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Last week the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 was released, covering energy data through 2021. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Energy consumption and production dramatically dropped in 2020, but since then demand has rebounded.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. beverage sector for boiler and process heat came from natural gas. Cheaper than natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Record-high natural gas prices are fueling an energy crunch ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to power shortages in parts of the world. On one hand, developing countries eyeing a switch from coal to natural gas to support higher penetration of renewables may be dissuaded by higher gas prices.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

and Houston, Texas, May 24, 2022 — Decarbonizing supply chains is critical to reducing emissions from the manufacturing sector and beyond. More specifically, Go Make 2022 is interested in solutions across supply chain management; packaging products and materials; alternative foods and ingredients; and green fleets and battery management.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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Energy Central

AUGUST 4, 2022

This article is the fourth in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and petroleum supply and demand.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Currently, thermal energy production (not storage) for electricity is still not competitive with natural gas and other renewables. To understand the size of the industrial heat market, the Figure below shows the data for heat and cooling demand for the US.? Commercial (a) heating and (b) cooling demand by U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand. You’re allowing for more clean electrons while replacing the need for gas to help balance that," Keefe said. Gas plants are the go-to source of on-demand power for the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

For example, it calls on the Government to fund pathfinder projects that will decarbonise 30,000 homes in the next five years and recommends the sale of natural gas boilers in the UK be banned by 2035. It was chaired by Sir John Armitt, chairman of the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A new report released last week by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) outlines how better energy efficiency and a robust demand response program using distributed energy resources (DER) already on the grid could provide up to 11 GW of “flexible generation” to ERCOT, the Texas grid operator, when the grid is strained.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By the end of 2022, electrolyser capacity for hydrogen production reached almost 700 MW. If all announced projects are realised, a total of 420GW could be achieved by 2030, an increase of 75% compared to the IEA’s 2022 review. “We of total hydrogen demand.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 15, 2025

The global energy landscape has entered a transformative era as Europe decisively shifts away from Russian natural gas. The Decline of Russias European Market Russias dominance in Europes natural gas market began unraveling in late 2021, when Gazprom reduced supplies to the European spot market, triggering price spikes.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Thursday’s letter from PG&E vice president Robert Kenney to the California Energy Commission is a notable concession by the state’s largest utility to the constraints its natural gas operations will face under California’s push to attain zero-carbon emissions by 2045. Southern California Gas Co.,

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The annual conference, hosted by Energy Dialogues, brings together natural gas interests to discuss where the industry is headed, with perspectives from policymakers and civil society. Speakers talked about natural gas as the solution to a trinity of critical energy challenges: emissions mitigation, energy poverty, and energy security.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2022 this has led us to stories that have unmasked all manner of trickery: from the minutiae of misleading stickers marketing “hydrogen-ready” boilers to the sinister presence of sanctioned coal barons at this year’s COP27 climate summit. The Dangers of Liquified Natural Gas Lock-In.

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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

2022 is proving to be a year of change for the LNG business. LNG demand is growing as Covid restrictions are eased but reduced investment during the pandemic and delays in construction are slowing the addition of much needed new liquefaction capacity.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Many of our customers – such as those in the automotive sector – increasingly demand components and materials with much lower embodied carbon. This demand helps to create significant opportunity all along the value chain. However, demand for steel far exceeds available scrap levels – which is around 30% of global demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Renewables share of the power system is rapidly growing, but the growth in clean energy generation is not keeping up with "galloping" demand for electricity, the IEA warned. Last year, the deficit between demand and clean power capacity helped to drive a surge in coal-fired generation, as operators looked to sidestep record gas prices.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While there are three potential hydrogen heating solutions including hydrogen ready boilers, H 2 hybrid heating (heat pump + hydrogen boiler) and hydrogen blending in the natural gas network, the latter was identified as the likely solution for Ireland. Have you read?

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Perhaps the most noteworthy prediction from the report is of peak demand for fossil fuels within this decade. by 2030, but natural gas and oil consumption are both projected to rise. Even though global energy demand is set to grow by 7% to 2030 under the Stated Policies Scenario, demand will shift towards renewables and nuclear.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In September, Lancium broke ground on its first Clean Campus -- a 325 MW bitcoin mining data center in Fort Stockton, Texas with an expected full-scale operation target of Q4 2022. The buildout of flexible load data centers, meanwhile, results in fewer natural gas additions, according to modeling data. Courtesy: Lancium).

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