Daily Standup Top Stories Vietnam’s shift back to coal is under EU scrutiny May 28, 2024 Mariel Alumit A heat wave in Vietnam in May and June of last year led to major power shortages across the north of the country. Factories owned by some of the world’s largest tech firms, including South Korean tech giant […] “Big Oil” companies […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Who is paying for the Free Energy Wind?- or as Penguin Empire Reports – “Who’s paying for lunch?” May 18, 2024 Stu Turley ENB Pub Note: This is a guest post from the Pengquin Empire Reports Substack. We highly recommend supporting and following them. “In the financial world, it tends to […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Texas Oil Regulator Flags Endangered Species Designation May 22, 2024 Mariel Alumit In a statement posted on its website, the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) highlighted that the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) announced that it would be listing the Dune Sagebrush Lizard (DSL) as an endangered […] EIA Warns Severe Hurricane Season […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Drowning in Sewage and Dumping Money into a Climate Rathole May 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit We humans dream of colonizing Mars, building flying cars, and achieving immortality. Yet, amidst this fervent pursuit of futures that sometimes drift into fantasy, we’re neglecting critical problems of the present. An example is rampant […] Questions the […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories 25 States Sue EPA Over Unachievable Power Plant Regulations May 11, 2024 Stu Turley West Virginia and Indiana are leading a group of 25 states asking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to declare the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule on coal, natural […] US House […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Trump Vows Day One Executive Order Targeting Offshore Wind May 14, 2024 Mariel Alumit Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order targeting offshore wind development if he wins a second term as president, making his most explicit threat yet toward the growing industry. The presumptive Republican nominee derided […] New Bloomberg Study […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories USA EIA Lowers Brent Oil Price Forecasts May 13, 2024 Mariel Alumit The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) lowered its Brent oil price forecast for 2024 and 2025 in its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released recently. In its May STEO, the EIA projected […] EU Unleashes Sweeping Sanctions Against […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Lessons from Texas for California, New York and Other Green Virtue Signaling States May 8, 2024 Mariel Alumit Drops in power generation from wind farms, hydro dams and nuclear reactors has forced the operator of the electric grid in Texas – one of the largest power systems in the United States – […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Shell sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits May 7, 2024 Stu Turley “Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place to Canada’s largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. As […] U.S. Dept. of Energy To […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Replacing a Talen Energy coal-fired power plant with battery storage is infeasible: PJM May 6, 2024 Mariel Alumit 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 […]
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