AI
Oil Prices Fall
Daily Standup Top Stories Data Center Boom Sparks Utility Spending—But How Real Is the Demand? April 9, 2025 Clark Savage ENB Pub Note: AI and data centers will have a profound impact on energy demand. Look […]
Pennsylvania
AI
Data Center Boom Sparks Utility Spending—But How Real Is the Demand?
ENB Pub Note: AI and data centers will have a profound impact on energy demand. Look for them to be built in Republican states with energy-friendly policies and near natural gas pipelines. And as of […]
Climate Crisis
Pennsylvania’s Coal Industry Crumbles As Plant Closures Mount
On March 22 at 7 a.m., Shawn Steffee stood on a hill overlooking the Homer City Generating Station with his family and the community he grew up with. [emphasis, links added] They were all looking […]
AI
Plugging Program Paused
Daily Standup Top Stories A Big Coal Plant Was Just Imploded to Make Way for an AI Data Center – WSJ April 2, 2025 Clark Savage ENB Pub Note: Interesting article from the WSJ. They bring […]
Downstream
Average state tax rates for retail gasoline and diesel fuel nearly flat since July 2024
In-brief analysis February 21, 2025 Average state tax rates for retail gasoline and diesel fuel nearly flat since July 2024 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, federal and state motor fuel taxes As of January 1, 2025, […]
EIA News
Electric power sector has driven rising Pennsylvania natural gas consumption since 2013
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-923, Power Plant Operations Report, Monthly Generation by State Natural gas-fired electric power generation has increased in Pennsylvania since 2013 as the state has shifted toward natural gas as its main […]
Big Oil Companies
The American Shale Patch Is All About Depletion Now
ENB Pub Note: Michael and I will cover this on our next podcast. As I have said, there will be no “Drill Baby Drill”, it will be more like: “Drill Baby when fiscally responsible.” Goehring […]
CO2 & GHG
Week Recap: Exxon’s Expansion, EV Challenges, and Tesla’s Triumphs
Weekly Daily Standup Top Stories EV Sales Slump: A Global Reality Check December 8, 2024 Clark Savage Global EV sales are slowing down due to high prices, concerns about charging infrastructure, and reduced government subsidies. Major […]
EIA News
Five states drove record U.S. natural gas production in 2023
Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas Monthly Note: 2024 YTD=Jan–Aug Five states produced more than 70% of the record 113.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of U.S. marketed natural gas production in 2023. Texas accounted […]
CO2 & GHG
Stop the ‘green hallucinationists’ plan to close all 200 coal power plants.
America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather dependent wind turbines and solar panels, to replace coal power plants, with the expectation that America, with about 4% of the world’s population, […]