Category: Energy News Beat

Black-led Chicago nonprofit sees cycling as a tool for building healthy communities

Energy News Beat ​ Biking within Black and Brown communities is complicated.  While non-motorized transportation is an important tactic for reducing emissions, many people still associate biking with something that kids do — or think of it as the last resort for people who can’t afford cars.  In BIPOC communities, that is compounded by external […]

Oil prices rise over 2%; focus on OPEC+, storm-hit Kazakh output

Energy News Beat Yahoo Finance NEW YORK – Oil prices jumped over 2% on Tuesday on the possibility OPEC+ will extend or deepen supply cuts, a storm-related drop in Kazakh oil output and a weaker U.S. dollar. Brent crude futures were up $1.88, or 2.4%, at $81.86 a barrel by 11:03 a.m. EST (1603 GMT). U.S. […]

EU tire giant to cut production in crisis-hit Germany

Energy News Beat The country’s competitiveness as an industrial location has been undermined, Michelin said French tire giant Michelin will slash over 1,500 jobs in Germany by 2025, as competition from lower-wage nations and soaring energy prices make production in Western Europe unprofitable. Michelin will fully shut down plants in Karlsruhe and Trier and discontinue […]

OPEC+ looking at deeper oil cuts ahead of Thursday meeting

Energy News Beat Today LONDON :OPEC+ is looking at deepening oil production cuts despite its policy meeting being postponed to this Thursday amid a quota disagreement between some producers, an OPEC+ source said on Monday. Source: Reuters Several analysts have said they expect OPEC+ to extend or even deepen supply cuts into next year in […]

ESG loan bubble close to bursting

Energy News Beat Oil Price Sustainability-linked loans, or SLLs, have only been around for a few years. In that short time, they have ballooned into a market worth $1.5 trillion. But now, as scrutiny comes for sustainability claims with no substance, that market faces a reckoning. And so do the banks that lent those money. […]

Oil executives flock to Venezuela despite sanctions relief uncertainty

Energy News Beat World Oil (Bloomberg) – Oil executives are flocking to Venezuela to take advantage of lighter U.S. sanctions, even though there’s a risk that access to the world’s largest oil reserves might snap shut as quickly as it opened. Source: World Oil Companies including Shell Plc., Repsol SA, Hungary’s Mol Nyrt, Sweden’s Maha […]

US kicks off a spate of oil and gas auctions just as COP28 gets underway

Energy News Beat Nasdaq The Biden administration on Tuesday will auction off 35,000 acres (14,164 hectares) of land in Wyoming to oil and gas drillers, the first in a series of such sales that will coincide with a United Nations’ conference aimed at combating fossil fuel-driven climate change in Dubai. Source: Reuters The Interior Department’s […]

Daily Energy Standup Episode #259 – Geothermal Breakthrough, Alberta’s Power Struggles, and China’s Energy Surge

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener November 28, 2023 Mariel Alumit 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 […]

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 […]