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It's that time of year. Typically at the end of a year, or the very beginning of a new year, publications will pontificate on what they predict will happen in the coming 12 months. We've seen a number of such articles about the energy space, including some predictions targeted specifically for the Marcellus/Utica. We've selected
We came "this close" to a major electricity blackout in New England over the Christmas break, during the bomb cyclone cold snap called Winter Storm Elliott. The ONLY thing that prevented a major blackout (with people freezing to death) was...oil. Fuel oil, specifically. So-called renewable energy--solar and wind--bombed out during the bomb cyclone. Natural gas
The Freeport LNG export terminal, located in Quintana Island, Texas, has been offline and not producing LNG since early June due to an explosion (see Explosion Rocks Freeport LNG Export Plant – Offline for 3 Weeks). Freeport has changed its estimated restart date multiple times. The most recent declaration by Freeport LNG that it will
Last week PPL Corporation subsidiaries Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company announced today a plan to replace 1,500 megawatts of aging coal-fired generation (nearly one-third of Kentucky's coal fleet!) with two 621-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle units along with several unreliable, intermittent solar projects. The coal-fired plants are due to be retired by
The U.S. power system is facing “unprecedented” and “widespread” reliability risks this winter, according to the nation’s grid reliability coordinator, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Why? Because the Biden-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has blocked new natural gas pipelines and has introduced new policies aimed at forcing the electric grid to switch over