Category: Energy News Beat

Zurich Issues Digital Bond Using Wholesale CBDC

Energy News Beat On Monday the Canton of Zurich issued a CHF 100 million ($113m) digital bond via the SIX Digital Exchange, Ledger Insights reported. While most of the bond terms were unexciting – it has an 11 year term and a coupon of 1.45%  – the most distinctive aspect is this transaction is that […]

Zurich Issues Digital Bond Using Wholesale CBDC

Energy News Beat On Monday the Canton of Zurich issued a CHF 100 million ($113m) digital bond via the SIX Digital Exchange, Ledger Insights reported. While most of the bond terms were unexciting – it has an 11 year term and a coupon of 1.45%  – the most distinctive aspect is this transaction is that […]

Zurich Issues Digital Bond Using Wholesale CBDC

Energy News Beat On Monday the Canton of Zurich issued a CHF 100 million ($113m) digital bond via the SIX Digital Exchange, Ledger Insights reported. While most of the bond terms were unexciting – it has an 11 year term and a coupon of 1.45%  – the most distinctive aspect is this transaction is that […]

What Is COP28 and Why Is It Important?

Energy News Beat World leaders are due to gather for annual climate change talks in Dubai in December. On the agenda: the phase down — or even phase out — of fossil fuels, a global goal to help the world adapt to extreme weather events, trading carbon emissions and a new fund to pay for the loss and […]

ESG Moment of Truth Turns Tables for Big Oil

Energy News Beat Deutsche Bank: Big Oil stocks should be included in ESG offerings because investors want them. WSJ: investors were leaving these funds at such a pace that fund managers were changing the names of the funds, removing terms like “ESG” and “sustainable.”. Oil and gas appear to remain essential for meeting the world’s […]

Oil firms face ‘moment of truth’ in climate crisis: IEA

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: As we move closer to 2024, things will become more apparent and painful. World organizations like the IEA have agendas contrary to humanity’s best interests. The IEA is working with the WHO, IMF, and the WEF. As there is an awakening in progress, those in power will behave like […]

DAVID BLACKMON: Energy Security Or Tyranny? 2024 Provides A Stark Choice

Energy News Beat One significant political development seen throughout 2023 has featured a move to more conservative governments in countries like Italy, Argentina, Greece, the Netherlands and even regions in Germany as the publics in those and other nations begin to revolt over constantly rising energy costs caused by the irrational policy choices made by […]

ENB #159 Sean Strawbridge – What do you think about critical global energy security? U.S. Energy Exports can make the difference.

Energy News Beat I have had the pleasure of interviewing and introducing Sean several times over the years, and he is a true energy leader on the front lines. With over 30 years in the Global Energy, Trade, and Transportation markets, he has undertaken a new challenge where the United States needs the talent to […]

Hydrogen project canceled :Electrolyzer is simply too expensive

Energy News Beat FREIBURG taz | Even a hefty funding commitment couldn’t save the project: the plant in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Heide (Dithmarschen district), which was once praised as “the largest electrolyzer in Germany for producing green hydrogen”, will not be realized after all. The construction costs of the industrial plant, which should have an output of 30 […]

Grid operator sounds alarm as coal plant shutdown threatens power for millions

Energy News Beat A power grid operator that serves millions of Americans across the mid-Atlantic is warning that a planned coal-fired power plant shutdown will severely threaten electricity supplies and occur before new power sources come online. PJM Interconnection — which coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the […]