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Rice University Launches Bold Climate Change Initiative with Shell

December 9, 2019 - in Energy, Featured, News

Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons. Carbon Hub's goal is a zero-emissions future in which hydrocarbons are not burned. Instead, they are split to make clean…

EU-wide Coal Power Output Down 19%, Central and Eastern European Countries Lagging Behind

December 2, 2019 - in Energy, News

European coal-fired power output went down by 19% in the first half of 2019 and is estimated to reach 23% in the second half of the year. According to…

Tech’s New Frontier? Oil and Gas

November 20, 2019 - in Energy, News, Oil & Gas

READ THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR "THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF OIL AND GAS" BOSTON - According to a new report from Lux Research, the oil companies of…

NSF-Funded Center at Purdue Could Help Power U.S. for Next Century

September 13, 2017 - in Energy, Oil & Gas

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The National Science Foundation has chosen Purdue University to lead an engineering research center, which will develop new technologies to produce fuels from U.S. shale-gas deposits that could inject $20 billion annually into the…

How Can We Increase Energy Efficiency Investments? Here are 10 Suggestions

August 16, 2017 - in Energy

This is the final post in a three-part series on understanding and increasing investments in energy efficiency by businesses and individuals. In the first post, we estimated these US investments total about $60-115 billion per year. In the second…

EIA Releases New U.S. Short-Term Energy Forecast

August 9, 2017 - in Energy

Forecast Highlights Global liquid fuels North Sea Brent crude oil spot prices averaged $48 per barrel (b) in July, $2/b higher than the June average and almost $4/b higher than in July 2016. EIA forecasts Brent spot prices to average $51/b in 2017 and $52/b…

Many States Have Adopted Policies to Encourage Energy Efficiency

August 3, 2017 - in Energy

As of July 2017, thirty states and the District of Columbia have adopted energy efficiency policies—either mandated requirements, voluntary goals, or pilot programs—designed to lower the growth of electricity consumption by using electricity more efficiently.…

Wyoming, Texas, and Pennsylvania Rank as the Top Net Energy Suppliers Among States

August 1, 2017 - in Energy

EIA recently released State Energy Data System estimates for net energy supply, which provide data on each state’s total primary energy production and consumption. Wyoming, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and North Dakota ranked as the top five net suppliers…

Natural Gas-Fired Electricity Generation so far this Summer is Below Last Year’s Level

July 31, 2017 - in Energy

The amount of natural gas used for electricity generation, also known as power burn, reached its highest daily level so far in 2017 during the past week, exceeding 41 billion cubic feet (Bcf) on July 20, according to data from PointLogic Energy. Natural gas-fired…

Energy Commodity Prices Declined More Than Other Commodities in the First Half of 2017

July 10, 2017 - in Energy

The energy component of the Standard and Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) fell 11% during the first half of 2017, the largest decline for any commodity group in the index. Other components of the index—livestock, industrial metals, precious…