Day: January 29, 2024

Pretoria is going back to king coal – Hugo Kruger

Energy News Beat The Rooiwal and Pretoria West Power Stations, constructed almost 70 years ago when my grandfather moved to Pretoria, are now in need of attention. They were standing idle for almost 10 years and, finally, it appears that the mayor of Pretoria has recognized the urgency and is taking steps to revive these […]

You’ll Have to Pay to Use the Highway. Blame EVs.

Energy News Beat When Europe last year agreed that by 2035 all cars sold in the region would be zero-emissions (read: electric), the most obvious question in my mind was: Who would pay for that? Because gasoline and diesel vehicles are a great business — not just for the obvious companies, say Volkswagen AG and […]

High electricity prices have Europe facing deindustrialization; don’t let it happen here

Energy News Beat After years of misguided energy policies, Europe’s electricity has become so expensive that trade unions have started warning of the threat of deindustrialization. The warning will hopefully prove a salutary one for the U.S., which is now headed down the same road to energy serfdom. Despite Germany shuttering its nuclear plants and […]

California and Big Oil are splitting after century-long affair

Energy News Beat Jan 29 (Reuters) – It is the end of an era for Big Oil in California, as the most populous U.S. state divorces itself from fossil fuels in its fight against climate change. California’s oil output a century ago amounted to it being the fourth-largest crude producer in the U.S., and spawned […]

Wind turbine explodes after bursting into flames at quiet Welsh farm, showering broken parts to the ground

Energy News Beat Walkers enjoying a quiet stroll in the Welsh countryside captured a shocking sight on Sunday, after a wind turbine burst into flames before exploding. Nick Blasdale, 61, and his wife Alison, 59, were left stunned when they saw burning parts of a turbine fall more than 100ft to the ground. Firefighters were […]

European Energy Cancels Wind Project Offshore Denmark

Energy News Beat The Danish company European Energy has decided to cease the development of the Omø Syd (Omø South) offshore wind project in Denmark. European Energy has been developing the Omø South offshore wind project for over ten years and had its environmental impact assessment (EIA) approved in 2020, together with its other project in Denmark, […]

Liquefied Natural Gas Has Limited Impact in Displacing Coal Emissions

Energy News Beat Holding global temperature rise to below 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels requires the world to accelerate the transition away from all fossil fuels, including fossil gas, starting this critical decade. The fossil fuel industry is selling a false narrative that liquefied natural gas (LNG) expansion is a “climate solution” because it displaces […]

Oil Ticks Higher on Significant Inventory Draw

Energy News Beat Crude oil prices today inched higher after the Energy Information Administration reported an inventory draw of 9.2 million barrels for the week to January 19. This compared with a draw of 2.5 million barrels for the previous week, whose effect on prices was muted, however, because of another round of substantial inventory builds in gasoline and […]

GAIL and ADNOC Gas ink a Long-term LNG contract

Energy News Beat New Delhi, Jan 29 GAIL (India) Limited, India’s largest Natural Gas company, has successfully concluded a long-term LNG purchase agreement for purchase of around 0.5 MMTPA LNG from ADNOC Gas. This is pursuant to an MoU dated 30.10.2022 between GAIL and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) P.J.S.C wherein Parties agreed that, in potential areas […]

Electric buses are sitting unused in cities across the US; here’s why

Energy News Beat Between the federal government, states and municipalities, untold billions in taxpayer dollars have been spent adding electric buses to transit fleets across the U.S. in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. However, cities from coast-to-coast are grappling with broken-down e-buses that cannot be fixed, are too expensive to fix, or they have […]