Category: Energy News Beat

Why oil majors Shell and BP are combining solar energy and agricultural production

Energy News Beat At Elm Branch Solar Farm, about an hour south of Dallas, Texas, a flock of sheep grazes among a vast field of solar panels. The flock’s shepherd, Amanda Stoffels, watches over it as the sheep munch on the grass and nap in the shade provided by the panels. Stoffels owns this land, […]

California’s hydrogen fuel shortage hits three-month mark, with filling stations still offline and no end in sight

Energy News Beat It has been three months precisely since a “disruption” to the supply of gaseous hydrogen to filling stations in Southern California was first revealed — and the problem continues to persist, with no end in sight. Data from the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership shows that 23 of the state’s 53 filling stationd […]

Opinion: Net-zero policies colliding with economic reality

Energy News Beat Across the advanced economies, the politics of net zero are colliding with reality, yet most politicians seem oblivious to the dynamics at play. The inconvenient truth is that the clean energy transition is not unfolding as foretold. Three decades and trillions of dollars in subsidies later, wind and solar still represent single-digit percentages of global energy demand, which […]

ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO, Darren Woods, talks about reframing the climate challenge during the APEC CEO Summit

Energy News Beat Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Like all of us, I wear many hats. In my professional life, I’m the CEO of ExxonMobil, one of the largest investor-owned companies in the world. By training, I’m an engineer, which in many ways is how I still see myself […]

#154 Kevin Hokett, President, American Safety Services – Live in the Permian Oil Show – Saving lives everyday.

Energy News Beat Podcasts are always fun, and today is no exception. I had the opportunity to visit with Kevin Hokett, President, and Noah Dean, Business Development of American Safety Services. We were live at the Permian International Oil Show, and It was a blast. Kevin and Noah’s experience in the oil and gas market […]

Billionaire Funds the Guardian to Tune of $116 Per Reader of Print Edition

Energy News Beat In 2021 the Guardian ran a series of adverts claiming the newspaper was “not funded by billionaires”, and “our readers’ backing gives us the independence to hold the powerful to account”. Not perhaps all the powerful. The Guardian is backed by a number of billionaire philanthropic foundations, including the European Climate Fund and the Rockefeller Family […]

Experts raise alarm after Biden strikes agreement with China to shut down fossil fuels

Energy News Beat U.S. energy experts are warning of the economic and national security implications of President Biden’s pact with China this week to move towards shutting down fossil fuel production in favor of green energy. The State Department announced this week it had struck a deal with its Chinese counterparts pledging to “accelerate the substitution for […]

Why is Ukraine now claiming its disastrous counteroffensive was only a smokescreen?

Energy News Beat 16 Nov, 2023 20:24 HomeRussia & FSU Kiev’s propagandists are trying to deny the reality that Russia is gaining the edge on the battlefield A few days ago, the Kiev TV channel 1 + 1 reported that the Ukrainian army did not conduct a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, and all […]

Pro-Palestinian protest leads to lockdown at US Capitol

Energy News Beat A demonstration outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington has turned violent A protest in Washington – described by one US lawmaker as “pro-terrorist” and “anti-Israel” – has turned violent, prompting a lockdown of congressional offices and evacuations of politicians from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters. Demonstrators demanding a ceasefire […]

Russian artist jailed for seven years over anti-war price tag protest

Energy News Beat Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko has been sentenced to jail for seven years after being found guilty of spreading “false information” about the Russian military by replacing a handful of supermarket price tags with messages criticising the war in Ukraine. The 33-year-old, known as Sasha, is one of thousands of Russians to be […]