Daily Energy Standup Episode #330 – Weekly Recap: Grid Exploitation, Banking Woes, Solar Ethics, AI Demands, OPEC-IEA Divide, and California\’s Price Surge

Daily Standup Top Stories Green-Plating™ the Grid: How Utilities Exploit the “Energy Transition” to Rake In Record Profits March 10, 2024 Stu Turley ENB Pub Note: This article is from the Energy Bad Boys Substack! I have invited them on the Energy News Beat podcast and am getting it scheduled. We recommend subscribing and supporting them! […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #329 – California Prices Surge, Biden Budget Impact, Shell\’s Shift, and Currency Changes

Daily Standup Top Stories Exploding Energy Prices in California March 13, 2024 Mariel Alumit “California leaders know that rising prices are a huge problem. The state is now considering a plan to tie utility rates to personal income so that the rich pay more and low-income residents pay less. Costly California […] Shell considers slowing pace of carbon emissions […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #328 – Disparity in Oil Demand Forecasts, New Mexico\’s Royalty Rate Standoff, and Market Volatility

Daily Standup Top Stories OPEC, IEA at most divided on oil demand since at least 2008 March 12, 2024 Mariel Alumit LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) – Producer group OPEC and the International Energy Agency, the world’s most closely watched forecasters of oil demand growth, are further apart than they have been for at least 16 years […] […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #321 – TotalEnergies Resumes Denmark Gas Field, Solar Farms on the Market, and More

Daily Standup Top Stories TotalEnergies upholds March restart date for Denmark’s largest natural gas field March 2, 2024 Stu Turley TotalEnergies EP Danmark, a subsidiary of France’s energy giant TotalEnergies, has confirmed the previously set restart date for the Tyra II redevelopment project, which is said to be Denmark’s largest natural gas field. According to […] Solar […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #318 – Surging LNG Demand, Wyoming\’s Wind Boom, and Market Uncertainties

Daily Standup Top Stories U.S. Electricity Generation by Source in 2023: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Petroleum February 27, 2024 Mariel Alumit By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Electricity generation, as measured in gigawatt-hours, has gotten hammered by a near-stagnation in demand since 2007, as efforts to make everything more efficient have produced results for […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #317 – Granholm\’s Clean Energy Agenda, First Solar\’s Impact, and Saudi Arabia\’s Oil Woes

Daily Standup Top Stories Energy Secy. Granholm explains the clean energy ‘battle’ – Really? February 26, 2024 Stu Turley The Biden administration has made some big investments into infrastructure and clean energy initiatives within the US. However, two years into the push to transition the country to clean energy, the government is still behind […] First Solar […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #314 – Russia\’s LNG Ambitions: A Game-Changer for Global Energy Markets

Daily Standup Top Stories Russia to triple LNG exports by 2030 – deputy PM February 21, 2024 Mariel Alumit The country now ranks fourth in the world in terms of liquefied natural gas sales, according to Aleksandr Novak Russia plans to continue ramping up both output and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Deputy […] Ford cuts […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #313 – Wind Farms Paid to Stay Offline and China\’s Real Estate Woes: Affecting Oil Demand Dynamics

Daily Standup Top Stories Two Wind Farms Received Over $100 Million To Switch Off February 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit Regular readers will know that I have long been concerned over the extraordinary level of payments to wind farms to switch off. These so-called ‘constraint payments’ are deemed necessary when the wires in the transmission […] The Kremlin […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #311 – EV Market Slump, California Oil Battles, and Nuclear Power Advancements

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 […] China’s stock market collapse […]

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