Category: Energy News Beat

A Century-Old Company The Government Owns Wants To Solve A Big Energy Problem

Energy News Beat The Biden administration wants the United States to triple the global supply of nuclear power, with American-designed reactors running on fuel enriched in the West. The goal: Usurp Russia’s near monopoly on atomic energy exports, and keep China from gaining control of yet another green energy industry. But there’s one big problem: […]

Replacing a Talen Energy coal-fired power plant with battery storage is infeasible: PJM

Energy News Beat An 800-MW, four-hour battery is “not a realistic option” for replacing Talen Energy’s 1,280-MW, coal-fired Brandon Shores power plant near Baltimore, according to the PJM Interconnection. The Sierra Club’s proposed battery storage solution to fill in for the retiring power plant fails to address all reliability problems with the planned shutdown and probably […]

GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Scientific Report Pours Cold Water On Major Talking Point Of Climate Activists

Energy News Beat The purveyors of climate doom will not tolerate the good news of our planet thriving because of modest warming and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, a recent scientific paper concludes that an optimistic vision for Earth and its inhabitants is nonetheless justified. Widely accepted data show an overall greening of Earth resulting from a […]

Spot LNG shipping rates steady, European prices rise

Energy News Beat Spot charter rates for the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier fleet remained steady this week, while European prices rose compared to the previous week. Last week, charter rates dropped slightly compared to the week before. “Freight rates in the Atlantic and Pacific basins stayed steady this week, with the Spark30S Atlantic spot […]

Gladstone LNG exports climb in April on higher China volumes

Energy News Beat Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the Gladstone port in Australia’s Queensland rose in April year-on-year due to higher volumes going to China, according to the monthly data by Gladstone Ports Corporation. Curtis Island is home to the Santos-operated GLNG plant, the ConocoPhillips-led APLNG terminal, and Shell’s QCLNG facility. These are the […]

Petrol and diesel prices rise again

Energy News Beat Fuel prices in the UK saw an increase in 2024, with petrol and diesel rising by 10p per litre since the start of the year, according to RAC Fuel Watch data. This equates to an extra £5.50 for a typical family car fill-up. Unleaded prices went up by 3p to 149.95p per […]

Surprise! The World’s biggest bankers are suddenly energy pragmatists

Energy News Beat JP Morgan, BlackRock drop out of climate banker cabal, and admit the Net Zero transition is “delayed” In February three of the four largest financial houses in the world, left the giant financial cabal called“Climate 100+” (the fourth one left a year ago). BlackRock, JP Morgan and State Street all parted ways with the billionaire-club […]

Germany Lied About The Nuclear Phaseout

Energy News Beat In 2018, everyone laughed at Donald Trump—German politicians actually laughed in his face—when he suggested that Germany would “become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course” at a UN conference. Just four years later, Russia rolled into Ukraine and the German government had to do something it had spent […]

Will making hydrogen ‘green’ depend on China?

Energy News Beat China’s dominance of supply chains for solar panels, electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries is rippling through the U.S. energy sector and drawing political fire on Capitol Hill. Now, another industry may be added to the list of concerns: “green” hydrogen. China leads the world in producing the essential technology for green hydrogen […]

Trillions in taxpayer subsidies haven’t made wind and solar power cheaper or better for Americans

Energy News Beat Despite us constantly being told that solar and wind are now the cheapest forms of electricity, governments around the world needed to spend $1.8 trillion on the green transition last year. “Wind and solar are already significantly cheaper than coal and oil” is how President Biden conveniently justifies spending hundreds of billions of dollars […]