Day: December 17, 2023

How do sanctions negativily impact the enviornment? – A discussion with Armando Cavanha and Stu Turley

Energy News Beat Armando Cavanha is a global thought energy thought leader with years of experience with Big Oil and is now a professor with international reach. Please follow Armando on his LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cavanha/ Some of the unintended consequences of the weaponization of the U.S. Dollar are critically hindering the move to net zero […]

A Shale Oil CEO’s Second Act: Going Green

Energy News Beat For almost a decade, Tony Sanchez III was the epitome of a shale-boom CEO—furiously drilling oil wells, piling on debt and hunting quail and nilgai with fellow executives near his family’s ranch in South Texas. Then tumbling oil prices and heavy debt helped send his company, Sanchez Energy, into bankruptcy in 2019. Now Sanchez […]

DAVID BLACKMON: This Agency Is Scrambling To Adjust Its Absurd ‘Peak Oil’ Predictions

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: David Blackmon’s articles on the Daily Caller, Forbes, and Substack are fantastic. We recommend subscribing to them all, and his Substack is HERE: https://blackmon.substack.com/.  The IEA also just released their 2023 coal report which is a stark opposite of their predictions of “Peak Oil.”.  The full report on coal […]

Germany Ends Electric Vehicle Subsidies Abruptly In Latest Blow To Tesla

Energy News Beat Germany on Saturday effectively ended electric vehicle subsidies immediately. Tesla already is losing Model 3 subsidies in France and the U.S. Electric vehicle subsidies are ending in Germany abruptly, the government announced Saturday, a blow for Tesla (TSLA), Volkswagen (VWAGY), BMW (BMWYY), Stellantis (STLA) and more. German’s coalition government, facing a budget crisis, is ending the “environmental bonus” program as […]

Russia boosts fuel exports to Central Asian country

Energy News Beat More than 176,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas have been supplied to Afghanistan this year Afghanistan has doubled imports of Russian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) since the beginning of the year, as Moscow diversifies its energy flows from the EU to new markets, Reuters reported this week. Russia supplied over 176,000 tons […]

Russia wants to improve ties with NATO, not fight – Putin

Energy News Beat Moscow has no fundamental disputes with Western countries, but they insist on confrontation, the president has said Russia does not have the slightest reason to attack NATO, President Vladimir Putin has said, adding that the US-led military bloc is well aware that Moscow has no plans to do so. In an interview […]

US electricity load growth forecast jumps 81% led by data centers, industry: Grid Strategies

Energy News Beat U.S. electric load is growing significantly faster than grid planners previously expected, led by new manufacturing and industry and the growth of data centers, according to a Tuesday report from Grid Strategies. Electrification, hydrogen production and severe weather are also contributing. Reports filed this year with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission show […]

Rising peak demand, 83 GW of planned retirements create blackout risks for most of US: NERC

Energy News Beat Rising peak demand and the planned retirement of 83 GW of fossil fuel and nuclear generation over the next 10 years creates blackout risks for most of the United States, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said Wednesday in its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment. While most regions should have sufficient electricity supply in normal […]