Crude Oil News
More Blackouts in TX?!
Daily Standup Top Stories New Zealand to lift oil drilling ban amid blackout fears in blow to Starmer June 9, 2024 Stu Turley New Zealand was on Saturday night expected to revoke a ban on drilling […]
Texas
Electrical Generation / Utilities
ERCOT says Texas could face rolling blackouts in August, as Houston officials announce cooling centers
The report found that energy demand throughout the state of Texas could reach as high as 78,000 megawatts in August. And city and county officials will open 22 cooling centers for the summer. Energy demand […]
Climate Crisis
Thanks To Wind And Solar, Texas’ Power Grid Risks Blackouts Again This Summer
A power grid system serving nearly 30 million Americans could again approach failure this summer, a local utility executive told the San Antonio Express-News. [emphasis, links added] Rudy Garza, CEO of the San Antonio-owned utility […]
Electrical Generation / Utilities
EPA says no new natural gas electricity generation; Texas says hold my beer
Texas has prided itself as avoiding the heavy hand of federal regulation in electricity generation by choosing not to interconnect with neighboring power grids, which exempted Texas from regulation by the Federal Power Commission starting […]
Coal
Vistra, ENGIE and other developers move to tap $5B Texas Energy Fund for 41 GW of gas-fired projects
Dive Insight: Texas load growth forecasts are rising rapidly, and the interconnection queue for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas is brimming with solar and storage. In April, ERCOT had active generation interconnection requests totaling 346 GW, […]
Data Center
Southwest power outage causes widespread flight delays
Numerous Southwest Airlines flights were delayed as the company reported a power outage hit its data centers in the Dallas area on Wednesday. Why it matters: While a Southwest Airlines spokesperson said it had “resolved a brief technology […]
AI
Week Recap: US Gas Plants, Vietnam Coal, and Tech’s Impact
Weekly Daily Standup Top Stories The U.S. Data Center Energy Train Wreck May 26, 2024 Stu Turley ENB Pub Note: I had the pleasure of interviewing Ron Miller on the podcast, and here is one of […]
Finance
Japan’s Jera to sell part of its Freeport LNG stake to Japex
Japan’s Jera has agreed to sell a part of its stake in US LNG terminal operator Freeport LNG to compatriot Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex). Jera’s unit Jera Americas holds via Gulf Coast LNG a 25.7 […]
Exports
Golar LNG’s Macaw to deploy first small liquefaction unit in Texas
Golar LNG’s unit Macaw Energies will deploy its first small-scale liquefaction unit next month at a flare gas site in Texas for live testing and commercial use, according to Golar LNG’s CEO Karl Staubo. Golar […]
AI
Vietnam Shifting Back To Coal
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 […]