Day: March 13, 2024

ADNOC kicks off early EPC activities for low-carbon Ruwais LNG project

Energy News Beat The notice for early EPC activities was issued to a joint venture comprising Technip Energies, JGC Corporation, and National Petroleum Construction Company, ADNOC revealed in a statement on March 12. ADNOC said the early EPC award marks a significant milestone as the project advances toward the final investment decision (FID), which is […]

Nuclear energy finance bans prevent the world from buying American

Energy News Beat Challenging Russia and China’s dominance in the global nuclear energy sector requires more than sanctions and wishful thinking. It’s essential to offer our energy-hungry world a genuine alternative to heavily subsidized, state-owned nuclear energy suppliers. That begins by empowering U.S. government agencies to support nuclear projects and eliminate finance bans at multilateral banks, which give unfair […]

The Energy to Prevent and Prosecute Wars

Energy News Beat Whatever one thinks about its causes, course, and consequences, the war in Ukraine rages on. That unavoidable fact has brought many in Europe to something of an epiphany. In late February, at a summit of European leaders in Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron asserted that “[t]his is a European war,” and asked […]

Solving energy poverty was a liberal cause, but green energy policies may have made it much worse

Energy News Beat Fighting energy poverty is a cause many liberal organizations claim to champion, and often the solution they propose is a transition away from fossil fuels. As energy costs rise and people take a closer look at the negative effects energy transition has on the problem, that may start to change. Rising costs […]

Should Russia Reconsider Inviting Pakistan To Participate In “Outreach”/“BRICS Plus”?

Energy News Beat Cliched talking points aside about all countries being considered by the RIC core of BRICS as equals and third parties’ sensitivities not influencing any of their bilateral relations, the reality is altogether different in practice. Sensitive balancing acts and the “politics of affection” sometimes result in the formulation of policies that contradict […]

Putin outlines terms for peace talks with Ukraine

Energy News Beat Negotiations should be based on reality rather than some “wants,” the Russian president has said Russia is ready for peace talks to end the Ukraine conflict, but Moscow is looking for meaningful dialogue that would provide security guarantees for the country and wants to be sure that negotiations will not serve as […]

Parsing legal definitions, power industry pushes back on EPA coal ash enforcement 

Energy News Beat   A legal debate over semantics of the U.S. EPA’s 2015 coal ash rules could decide whether groundwater-soaked coal ash can remain in place next to an Ohio power plant. In oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week, power companies argued the rules don’t […]

California’s biofuel bias is hampering its EV future. Can that change?

Energy News Beat   This story was originally published by Canary Media. One of California’s marquee programs for cleaning up transportation emissions is at a crossroads. Decisions made in the next few months could set the decade-and-a-half-old Low Carbon Fuel Standard on one of two very different paths. One path, favored by fossil fuel and renewable […]

Bulk carrier with 23 crew hijacked off Somalia

Energy News Beat US Navy A Bangladesh-flagged bulk carrier Abdullah with 23 crew was boarded in the Indian Ocean Tuesday by suspected Somali pirates some 600 nautical miles east of Mogadishu. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said it had received reports from the “company security officer” of multiple armed persons boarding and taking […]

Minnesota ‘innovation plans’ call on gas utilities to imagine their clean energy future 

Energy News Beat   Climate and clean energy advocates weighing in on CenterPoint Energy’s ideas to decarbonize its natural gas business in Minnesota applaud the effort but say it falls short of what’s needed to meet the moment. The state’s largest gas utility submitted an “innovation plan” last summer to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, […]