Day: November 27, 2023

Can ERCOT show the way to faster and cheaper grid interconnection?

Energy News Beat In a landmark decision, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in July ordered transmission providers to revise their interconnection rules to help ease a massive backlog of requests by generators and energy storage developers for permission to connect to the grid. While the new requirements are viewed as a major improvement, the Department of […]

Reliability v. sustainability: Inside the debate over the EPA’s proposed carbon rules

Energy News Beat Electric reliability has been a hot topic lately — from congressional hearings to regulatory agencies and at the regional transmission organizations that run the electric grid in much of the country. The American electric grid is undergoing a major change, prodded by state and federal decarbonization policies, market forces pushing cheaper and cleaner […]

NOG Announces Bolt-on Acquisitions; Expands Northern Delaware Position and Enters Ohio Utica Shale in Appalachia

Energy News Beat MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE: NOG) (“NOG” or “Company”) today announced two acquisition transactions. “After closing, our Permian lands will approach ~40,000 net acres and definitively become our most active and largest basin in terms of activity and production” NORTHERN DELAWARE BASIN TRANSACTION NOG has entered into a definitive agreement […]

French court opens case against teens over beheading of teacher

Energy News Beat Six teenagers have gone on trial behind closed doors in connection with the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty. The murder, which shocked the country, took place in 2020 after the teacher had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression. list of 4 […]

While America Pursues Renewables, Worldwide Expansion Is Underway for Nuclear Generated Electricity

Energy News Beat Sweden, China, India, Russia, and others are changing from occasional electricity from renewables to fossil-free electricity from nuclear that is continuous and uninterruptible. American political leaders such as President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom continue “to dream the impossible dream” that intermittent electricity from wind and solar can run the […]

Lorries line up at Poland-Ukraine border as truckers expand blockade

Energy News Beat News|transport Polish truckers and farmers have started a blockade of one of the busiest border crossings with Ukraine, expanding a protest against what they say is unfair competition from Ukraine and demanding more government support. The Polish truckers and farmers began an around-the-clock blockade of the southeastern Medyka crossing on Monday. list […]

US says Somali pirates likely behind attempted tanker seizure near Yemen

Energy News Beat News|Houthis The United States has said that a group of attackers who tried to seize an Israel-linked cargo ship over the weekend were probably Somali pirates rather than Houthi fighters from nearby Yemen. Speaking on Monday, Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder noted that the US has not ruled out a Houthi […]

Iran Sees Its Oil Production Rising to 3.6 Million Barrels per Day by March 2024

Energy News Beat Iran expects its oil production to rise to 3.6 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the current Iranian year in March 2024, from around 3.3 million bpd now, Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji has said. The minister talked about Iranian oil production during a visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to […]

‘We want permanent ceasefire,’ Palestinians in Gaza say as truce extended

Energy News Beat Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Ayman Harb, a father of three children, stuck it out with his family in the Gaza City neighbourhood of Shujayea for more than a month of the war, even as Israeli bombs and tanks destroyed the besieged enclave’s largest urban centre. Last week, just before a four-day […]

Gaza truce extended by two days, Qatar and Hamas say

Energy News Beat A humanitarian pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas will extend by two days, mediator Qatar and Hamas have said, hours before an initial four-day truce in Gaza was set to expire. “The State of Qatar announces that, as part of the ongoing mediation, an agreement has been reached to extend the […]