Category: Energy News Beat

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, […]

Daily Energy Standup Episode #315 – Weekly Recap: EVs, Nuclear Reactors, and California’s Climate Conundrum

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Even the World’s Biggest Electric-Vehicle Market Is Slowing February 18, 2024 Stu Turley HONG KONG—Chinese electric-vehicle makers that enjoyed years of explosive growth now face a slowdown in domestic demand, spurring them to push overseas and challenge global auto giants already struggling with a transition to battery-powered cars. A subsidies-driven […] Government […]

AI to help determine best carbon capture material

Energy News Beat   US-based researchers are working on speeding up the process of identifying metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) that are suitable for carbon capture and storage. MOFs are porous materials that can selectively absorb carbon dioxide and have three kinds of building blocks in their molecules—inorganic nodes, organic nodes, and organic linkers. These can […]

ENB #193 The Driving Force of Integration: Using Data to Transform Energy Operations

Energy News Beat When I get to have a live broadcast, it is fantastic. When it is with Dan Gualteri it is even better. This is the third podcast where Dan stopped by and we had a blast in Houston at NAPE. We covered lots of important energy topics. Some of them included what CEOs […]

Companies bid for 34 bcm of gas in new joint EU tender

Energy News Beat 19 companies have filed bids for nearly 34 billion cubic meters of natural gas in a new joint purchasing tender for multi-year deals, European Commission vice president Maroš Šefčovič said on Thursday (22 February). In the new tender scheme launched last week, companies were able to bid for gas supplies for up […]

EOG, Vitol seal long-term natural gas supply deal

Energy News Beat LNG trader Vitol has signed a long-term deal to buy natural gas from US oil and gas producer EOG. Under the sales and purchase deal, EOG will supply 180,000 MMBtu/d of natural gas, or about 1.25 million tonnes of LNG per year, to Vitol for a period of 10 years staring in […]

US weekly LNG exports reach 26 cargoes

Energy News Beat US liquefaction plants shipped 26 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes in the week ending February 21, while natural gas deliveries to these terminals decreased compared to the week before. The US EIA said in its weekly natural gas report that 26 LNG carriers departed the US plants between February 15 and February […]

Use of natural gas-fired generation differs in the United States by technology and region

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