Category: Energy News Beat

Daily Energy Standup Episode #302 – Nuclear Shifts, Arctic Adventures, and Geopolitical Tensions

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories After scrapping nuclear reactors, Germany to spend billions on new gas power plants February 5, 2024 Mariel Alumit Berlin has agreed to spend €16 billion to build four major natural gas plants to meet electricity demand in a major overhaul of the country’s energy grid. In a statement Monday, […]

Daily Energy Standup Episode #302 – Nuclear Shifts, Arctic Adventures, and Geopolitical Tensions

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories After scrapping nuclear reactors, Germany to spend billions on new gas power plants February 5, 2024 Mariel Alumit Berlin has agreed to spend €16 billion to build four major natural gas plants to meet electricity demand in a major overhaul of the country’s energy grid. In a statement Monday, […]

After scrapping nuclear reactors, Germany to spend billions on new gas power plants

Energy News Beat Berlin has agreed to spend €16 billion to build four major natural gas plants to meet electricity demand in a major overhaul of the country’s energy grid. In a statement Monday, officials said the new strategy came “in addition to the consistent expansion of renewable energies,” and was key to ensuring steady […]

China objects to UN fund warnings on solar’s forced labour risks

Energy News Beat China has opposed green projects by the UN’s flagship climate fund because their documents mentioned the risk of forced labour in the Chinese-dominated supply chains of solar panels. At a meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), China’s board representative Yingzhi Liu objected to six projects because their risk assessments highlighted the potential of forced labour […]

Nuclear Icebreakers Escort Russian LNG Modules Through Thick Arctic Ice

Energy News Beat A convoy of two nuclear icebreakers and two polar-class heavy lift vessels is making slow but steady progress through Russia’s Arctic waters carrying the final modules for the second train of Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 project. Heavy-lift vessels Audax and Pugnax, operated by Singaporean Red Box, loaded two 10,000-ton prefabricated modules at the Penglai shipyard in […]

Relying on interconnectors for imports carries risks

Energy News Beat Britian’s latest subsea interconnector, the 1.4 GW Viking Link with Denmark began commercial operations at the end of December. Initially its capacity will be limited to 800 MW until internal grid reinforcement in Denmark is completed, since if it ran at full capacity the link would risk overloading the Danish network in the West […]

Energy Realities #97 – SPIRIT COOKER – Filmed Live On YouTube on February 5, 2024

Energy News Beat ENERGY REALITIES EPISODE #97 – SPIRIT COOKER Highlights of the podcast: 00:34 – Spirit Cooker 03:28 – The consequence of growth of EVs. 07:05 – Problems with electric cars 09:56 – Some countries are defining EVs as the only car types and their territories 14:19 – Biden’s LNG decision is a win […]

Smack Dab In The Middle – Williams Acquires Gas Storage Near The Heart Of LNG Export Demand

Energy News Beat Natural gas storage — especially well-sited storage with lightning-fast deliverability rates — is taking on a new significance (and value) as LNG export facilities and power generators seek to manage their often-volatile gas demand. But developing new gas storage capacity is costly and, with only a few exceptions, it’s hard to make […]

Steinberg Embraces Nuclear Energy, Supports Third Nuclear Reactor at Millstone

Energy News Beat Once a skeptic of nuclear energy, Energy and Technology Co-Chair State Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, D-Westport, is now one of its staunchest supporters. Steinberg told CT Examiner this week that, like many of his contemporaries, he questioned the benefits of using nuclear energy. But those concerns have been alleviated through research, talking to […]

Supply and Demand Shocks Still Rocking Energy Markets

Energy News Beat A year and a half after a renowned Harvard professor described the pandemic of 2020 as “the mother of all shocks” to energy markets, oil and gas prices are still being rocked by supply and demand shocks, with economic growth trends and geopolitical tensions offsetting or exacerbating them. “One reason why oil […]