Month: March 2024

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

Clark Savage6

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

Clark Savage5

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

Clark Savage5

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 #327 – Solar Suppliers, Financial Shifts, AI Demands, and Regulatory Challenges

Clark Savage6

Daily Standup Top Stories Solar-panel supplier’s links to alleged abuses in China imperil US climate goal March 11, 2024 Mariel Alumit The dominance of China’s LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. in supplying solar panels to the U.S. highlights the challenge authorities face in trying to eliminate alleged labor abuses from the country’s supply chains without smothering an […] […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #326 – Federal Funding Boosts Nuclear, Utilities Profit, Aramco\’s LNG Talks, Geoengineering Debate, and Banking Implications

Clark Savage5

Daily Standup Top Stories Federal money could supercharge state efforts to preserve nuclear power March 10, 2024 Stu Turley In the coming years, a nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Michigan could become the first in the country to restart operations after shutting down. The Palisades plant in southwest Michigan could be […] Green-Plating™ the […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #325 – Weekly Recap: Gas Field Restart, Offshore Wind Turbulence, and Internet Disruption

Clark Savage5

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 […] Cancelled […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #324 – Regulatory difficulties, investment dilemmas, and shifts in policies

Clark Savage5

Daily Standup Top Stories Biden’s scaled-back power rule raises doubts over US climate target March 6, 2024 Stu Turley March 5 (Reuters) – The Biden administration’s decision to exclude the existing U.S. fleet of natural gas power plants from upcoming carbon emissions regulations raises questions over the nation’s ability to meet its climate goals, […] BlackRock and […]

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Daily Energy Standup Episode #323 – AWS\’s Nuclear Data Center Acquisition, Electric Vehicle Toxin Study, Grid Blackout Warning, and Carbon Capture Controversy.

Clark Savage5

Daily Standup Top Stories AWS acquires Talen’s nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania March 4, 2024 Mariel Alumit Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired Talen Energy’s data center campus at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. Talen Energy Corporation this week announced it has sold its 960MW Cumulus data center campus in Pennsylvania […] Electric vehicles release […]

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

Clark Savage7

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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