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Tag: Fossil Fuel


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

States and companies compete for billions to make hydrogen

April 5, 2023

Via: Tech Xplore

As fossil fuel emissions continue warming Earth’s atmosphere, the Biden administration is turning to hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity. It’s offering $8 billion to entice the nation’s industries, engineers and planners to figure out […]


News and Policies, World

EU fossil fuel car ban gets final green light

March 28, 2023

Via: Tech Xplore

The 27 EU member states gave final approval Tuesday to a ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035, after Germany dropped a last-minute blocking effort. The vote was a formality after ambassadors on Monday backed the milestone […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

5 fossil fuel industry myths about hydrogen

January 10, 2023

Via: Renewable Energy World

In a recent webinar, speakers Sean O’Leary from the Ohio River Valley Institute, Erik Schlenker-Goodrich from the Western Environmental Law Center, and I discussed some of these concerns, including the pervasive greenwashing of hydrogen. The top five fossil fuel industry […]


Energy Consumption, Global

Report: World’s coal use creeps to new high in 2022

December 19, 2022

Via: Power Engineering

Coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel, the International Energy Agency said. The Paris-based agency said in a new report that while coal […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

IEA forecasts fossil fuel peak this decade

October 27, 2022

Via: Power Engineering

For the first time, global demand for each of the fossil fuels shows a peak across all World Energy Outlook scenarios, with Russian exports, in particular, falling significantly as the world energy order is reshaped. This is one of the […]


Energy Economics

The Inflation Reduction Act offers powerful tools for solving the ‘peaker problem’

August 31, 2022

Via: Renewable Energy World

Fossil-fueled peaker power plants, once embraced by utilities for their rapid response capabilities, have entered a new moment in time. Peakers are the power plants that fire up during high peaks of electricity demand, and they are often the dirtiest […]


Commercialization, Conventional Fuels

The gas industry is trying to halt building electrification — let’s not let them succeed

April 9, 2021

Via: Renewable Energy News

To repower our society with 100 percent renewable energy, we need to electrify our buildings. With electricity, we can hook our buildings up to a green grid that will eventually get all of its energy from the sun, the wind […]


Commercialization, Conventional Fuels

The Size and Vulnerability of the Fossil Fuel System Disruption

September 9, 2020

Via: Energy Collective

If there is one report you have to read in the absolute disruption we are undergoing in the Energy Transition, it is one just released by Carbon Tracker entitled “Decline and Fall: The Size & Vulnerability of the Fossil Fuel […]


Energy Consumption, Global

Global Power Sector Embracing Renewables but Ditching Fossil Fuels Too Slowly

August 31, 2020

Via: Greentech Media

A new study of 3,000 power companies across the globe has found that only a handful have been cutting their fossil fuel capacity over the last two decades. Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Pandemic Accelerates Decline And Fall Of Fossil Fuel Producers

June 5, 2020

Via: Forbes

Fossil fuel companies are set to face “terminal decline” because of falling demand and higher investment risks caused by competition from clean technologies and tougher government climate and energy security targets, according to climate finance analysts. The value of oil, […]


Mainstream technologies, Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Outstrips Fossil Fuel

April 9, 2020

Via: Forbes

The latest report on energy system developments shows that 176 GWs of new renewable energy capacity accounted for 72% of all new energy capacity additions in 2019. The data, released in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)’s annual Renewable Capacity […]


Energy Economics

Trump is rolling back over 80 environmental regulations. Here are five big changes you might have missed in 2019

December 24, 2019

Via: CNBC energy

President Donald Trump has taken historically unprecedented action to roll back a slew of environmental regulations that protect air, water, land and public health from climate change and fossil fuel pollution. The administration has targeted about 85 environmental rules, according […]


Commercialization, Conventional Fuels, Energy Economics

EU To End All Fossil Fuel Lending In Two years

November 15, 2019

Via: Forbes

After months of contentious negotiations, the governing board of the European Investment Bank, the EU’s lending arm, voted yesterday to convert itself into a ‘climate bank’ – delivering a major policy promise of incoming EU Commission President Ursula Von Der […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Gas is part of the solution in the planet’s energy transition, Goldman Sachs strategist says

July 26, 2019

Via: CNBC energy

Gas has an important role to play in the global energy transition, according to the head of EMEA natural resources research at Goldman Sachs. Speaking to CNBC Friday, Michele Della Vigna said that, in his personal view, gas was “part […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Investors Demand Oil, Gas Firms Adopt Climate Targets, But They Must Also Apply Them To Their Funds

April 29, 2019

Via: Forbes

Oil companies face an existential threat unless they adopt business models that support the Agreement’s targets on climate change, according to investors with $10 trillion of assets under management. Yet many of those same investors are failing to practice what […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels, Domestic, Energy Consumption

UAE energy minister and Siemens CEO agree it’s time for the US to move on from coal

February 11, 2019

Via: CNBC energy

Energy industry leaders issued calls for a greater commitment to developing renewable energy sources during the 2019 World Government Summit in Dubai — and some honed in specifically on the U.S. coal industry as an obstacle to those goals. Siemens […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Oil And Gas Sector Faces Massive Upheaval As Climate Rules Start To Bite

December 21, 2018

Via: Forbes

The oil and gas sector is delicately poised, between a steady and profitable past and an increasingly uncertain future. The imperative to tackle climate change means that companies are coming under greater pressure than ever before to reduce their emissions […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Oil Will Remain A Large, Viable Industry

September 14, 2018

Via: Forbes

In the previous article, I discussed the natural gas projections from the recent report Rivalry: The IHS Markit View of the Energy Future (2018-50). IHS Markit is a provider of global market data for a number of sectors, including energy. […]


Domestic, Energy Consumption

EIA: Fossil Fuel Use for Electric Generation Falls to Lowest Level Since 1994

May 29, 2018

Via: Power Engineering

Driven by massive declines in coal, overall fossil fuel use in electric generation fell to the lowest level since 1994, the Energy Information Administration reported. Total petroleum, natural gas and coal use fell to 22.5 quadrillion BTUs last year. Coal […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Fossil Fuel Companies Need to Become Renewable Energy Companies

April 20, 2016

Via: Energy Collective

It seems clear that Exxon Mobil and other parts of the fossil fuel industry have tried to suppress the science of climate change. I am not surprised that these companies acted in their short-term self-interest, and I expect them to […]