Day: November 28, 2023

China Boosts Coal and Gas Consumption as Power Demand Nears Record High

Energy News Beat Chinese authorities have been keen to avoid a repeat of last year’s power shortages. Generally, China is certain that its winter power supply is guaranteed, but shortages could occur in the Yunnan province and Inner Mongolia. China will continue to provide high levels of coal volumes to ensure stability in power supply […]

A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener

Energy News Beat Earlier this month, one corner of the internet got a little bit greener, thanks to a first-of-its-kind geothermal operation in the northern Nevada desert. Project Red, developed by a geothermal startup called Fervo, began pushing electrons onto a local grid that includes data centers operated by Google. The search company invested in […]

Saudi Arabia seeks OPEC oil production quota cuts as some members resist

Energy News Beat (Bloomberg) – Saudi Arabia is asking others in the OPEC coalition to reduce their oil production quotas in a bid to shore up global markets, but some members are resisting, delegates said. The OPEC leader has been making a largely unilateral production cutback of 1 MMbpd since July, and is now seeking […]

Lower CO2 emissions are partially due to shifts in power generation sources

Energy News Beat We forecast the U.S. energy sector to emit about 4,790 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2023, a 3% decrease from 2022. Much of this decline results from lower electricity generation from coal-fired power plants due to higher generation from renewable sources such as solar power. We expect this trend […]

The Green Energy Wall Gradually Coming Into Focus

Energy News Beat It’s been obvious for many years that electricity generation from the intermittent wind and sun would never work to power a modern economy. But how would the infeasibility of the proposed energy transition finally manifest itself to put an end to the madness? A couple of years ago I began writing about […]

David Staples: Danielle Smith conjures up a new A-bomb to drop on Trudeau’s meddling in Alberta power grid

Energy News Beat Premier Danielle Smith is conjuring up a new A-bomb to drop on the meddling of the Trudeau Liberals with Alberta’s power grid. This newly devised weapon is the key feature in Smith’s first use of the Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, which she introduced on Monday in her bid to thwart […]

Exclusive | China wielding ‘bargaining power’ with Russia over Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline

Energy News Beat Construction of the Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline is likely to be slower than expected despite the ‘no limit’ strategic partnership between Beijing and Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to export at least 98 billion cubic metres per year of gas from Russia to China Construction of one […]

Second large Polish nuclear plant gets approval

Energy News Beat PGE PAK Energia Jądrowa submitted an application for the plant to the ministry in August this year. The application included a description of project characteristics, indicating the maximum installed capacity, the planned operating period and details of the APR1400 technology to be used in the construction of the plant. According to the […]

Here’s what Germany’s economic health depends on

Energy News Beat The German economy faces an uphill challenge as recent economic data has revealed with its health dependent on a few pending factors. Euronews Business takes a look at some of them. Germany’s economy continues to remain under pressure as indicated by recent economic data with its gross domestic product (GDP) shrinking on Friday […]

It Will Happen Suddenly – and most likley before the election

Energy News Beat Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, As the Great Unravelling progresses, we shall be seeing many negative developments, some of them unprecedented…   Only a year ago, the average person was still hanging on to the belief that the world is in a state of recovery, that, however tentative, the economy was […]