The Hindu Business Line: The transition of Orsted, the once Danish state-owned utility, from being one of the most coal-intensive utilities in Europe to a global leader in offshore wind energy provides interesting insights and learning for Indian utilities. A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) charts Orsted’s energy […]
Phys.org: Australia on Thursday approved a controversial coal mine extension, doubling down on a commitment to continue extracting fossil fuels despite growing pressure to cut carbon emissions. Environment Minister Sussan Ley green-lighted Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery mine extension near Sydney, just a week after the pro-coal conservative government said global demand was rising and vowed to […]
Australian Financial Review: Lofty international gas prices are hitting Britain and other European states hard but are providing a boost to Australia’s LNG producers, which look set to benefit from unexpectedly buoyant prices for the next six months. Spot prices for liquefied natural gas in Asia are trading at near-record levels for this time of […]
Climática: Perhaps the name Empresa Nacional de Gas does not sound familiar to a majority. Neither does the acronym by which it is known: Enagás . Despite playing a key role for the Spanish energy system, this state-owned company –privatized in the 1990s– is unknown to a large part of the Spanish citizenry. However, it […]
S&P Global Platts: Reliance Industries and BP have taken their partnership one step further by eying a bigger footprint in India’s electric vehicles charging segment, expanding the scope of their marriage that also aims to expand retail fuels presence and boost upstream gas production. The recent move by Reliance and BP to partner with BluSmart, […]
Business Standard: India alone is home to 7 per cent (21GW) of the global coal project pipeline, which is 56 per cent of South Asia’s total, a study showed on Tuesday, with the country moving slowly away from coal at a national level, however considerable progress is being made at the state level. Four countries […]
Washington Post: U.S. climate envoy John F. Kerry said Monday that he remains hopeful that key world leaders, including India’s prime minister, will announce more-ambitious emissions reduction targets in the six weeks ahead of a crucial UN climate summit in Scotland, as he and Indian officials unveiled a new renewable-energy financing scheme meant to assuage […]
Denver Post: An electric cooperative wrangling with Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association over local control and getting off coal has issued a public pronouncement that it and fellow cooperatives still need the power supplier. Just not in the current form. Brighton-based United Power, which serves about 300,000 people along Colorado’s bustling Front Range, is Tri-State’s […]
The Fuse: Natural gas prices are soaring around the world in what has become something of a global supply crunch. Prices in the U.S. recently hit a 7-year high, natural gas prices in Europe are soaring, and LNG prices in Asia have hit a record high. Higher natural gas prices are forcing up the cost […]
The Print: A recurrent issue raised in discussions of renewable energy is land use – the amount of land occupied by solar and wind generation facilities, where these are located, and the extent to which using such land for power generation conflicts with alternatives such as human habitation, farming, or the conservation of natural resources. […]
