Power crises during California’s August 2020 heat waves raised questions about how reliable the state’s grid will be on the road to its target of 100% clean energy by 2045. But new research provides c...
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Renewable Energy Plants – The New Gold Mines of the 21st Century
Last Updated on May 11, 2022 at 14:28 Experts believe new-age renewable energy plants are the gold mines of the 21 century. These offer environmental benefits, low investment risk, consistent cash flo...
VW is looking to bring back the Scout brand as an electric vehicle
This image, from 2019, is of a refurbished Scout. The brand was originally built by International Harvester between 1961 and 1980. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Volkswagen is pl...
Is California Actually Embracing Energy Realism?
California Energy Canva In a startling turnaround, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he would consider allowing the operator of the State’s one remaining nuclear power plant, located at ...
OPEC Kingpins Sound Alarm Over World’s Dwindling Energy Capacity
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region. Most Read from Bloomberg The oil ministers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates war...
Bitcoin energy utilizations story irks many
Bitcoin’s standard standing has gone from idiosyncratic web cash to unjustifiable speculative venture It is also a definitive store of significant value for many investors Bitcoin’s energy utilizati...
Collective Pain Calls For Collective Action
Collective Behavior has gotten a bad rap. When sociologist Franklin Henry Giddings coined the term more than 100 years ago, he described it as the actions that a loosely organized group of people migh...
Oil under pressure to start the week, as Saudis drop prices, China exports slump
Crude tracked a selloff in global assets on Monday, with the commodity pressured as Saudi Arabia slashed cut prices for Asian customers and elsewhere, and China reported sharply weaker export data. Pr...
Energy firms crush all other S&P 500 sectors by over 200% in Q1 2022
Stocks continued to sell-off Monday, May 9, as bond yields continued to march to new highs. Shortly after the markets opened, the Dow Jones Index fell 1%, and the S&P 500 dropped 1.6%, with Nasdaq...
Oil Prices Slip as Saudi Arabia Cuts Prices and China Lockdowns Intensify
Text size Oil prices slip Monday but are still elevated. Pichit Boonhuad/Dreamstime.com Oil prices declined Monday after Saudi Arabia, the biggest exporter, reduced prices for Asia and the northwest o...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Little Known Energy Stock for Bulls to Target
One energy stock that doesn’t get much attention but could make a decent addition to bulls’ portfolios is PBF Energy Inc (NYSE:PBF). The stock has quietly chugged higher for the better par...
Diesel fuel is in short supply as prices surge — Here’s what that means for inflation
The prices for gas and diesel fuel, over $6.00 a gallon, are displayed at a petrol station in Los Angeles, March 2, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Diesel prices are surging, contributing...
Energy Sustainability, Green Hydrogen – The Cryptonomist
The global energy industry, particularly the transport and mobility sectors, is long overdue for a paradigm shift from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy, thanks to green hydrogen. There is an inc...
These Oil and Gas Companies Could Benefit From the Push Toward Sustainable Energy
The European Union’s push to wean itself off Russian gas and oil will hasten the transition to alternative energy. Energy companies such as BP and Shell stand to benefit. Here, Germany’s PCK oil refin...
Ice cream freezers to get ‘warmed up’ in trial by Unilever
According to Unilever, the industry standard for freezer temperatures in many markets stands at minus 18 degrees Celsius (around 0 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature of freezers in the trials will b...
Orsted moves forward with plans to grow corals on wind turbines
Alongside their natural beauty, coral reefs have an important role to play in the natural world. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, around one quarter of the ocean’...
Big Opportunity For Greece At World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum (WEF) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This month, I am in Europe, which will cumulate in being in Davos for the World Economic Forum. Europe is in the midst of a massive ...
This analyst says the energy space is massively ‘undersupplied’
Now is the most profitable environment for the energy space that we’ve seen in years, says Paul Sankey. The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund is up 40% for the year. Sankey’s remarks on CNBC’s ‘Power Lun...
This trader predicted the bond meltdown, tech selloff and oil’s surge. Here’s what she says is coming next.
Fade the Fed anyone? Stocks are headed south, following a big Wall Street rally stemming from perceptions Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and co. may be less hawkish than markets think. A short-li...
Kazakhstan imposes strict energy consumption reporting requirements on crypto miners
Kazakhstan has imposed new reporting requirements that seek to determine the energy consumption rate by crypto miners. The order requires every crypto-miner in the country to provide detailed informat...
Uzbekistan Offers Tax Benefits For Crypto Miners Using Renewable Energy Sources
The new presidential decree published on April 27 will cause electricity prices pulled from the standard energy grid to increase by double. The Uzbekistan new law will support the use of solar power i...
Exxon’s Investments Are Paying Off. Expect Big Dividends, Buybacks.
Text size Exxon has been investing in its refining business while others in the industry have been holding back. Eric Thayer/Getty Images Exxon Mobil has zigged where other giant energy companies have...