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Appalachian Natural Gas Processing Capacity Key to Increasing Natural Gas, NGPL Production

Appalachian Natural Gas Processing Capacity Key to Increasing Natural Gas, NGPL Production

By U.S. EIA: Today in Energy Natural gas processing capacity in the Appalachian region has grown dramatically over the past several years as producers try to keep pace with increasing natural gas production in the region. Natural gas processing plays a key role in the natural gas supply chain. Natural gas processors separate dry natural gas from natural gas plant liquids (NGPL) and […]

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12 Years After Katrina, Hurricane Harvey Pummels Gulf Coast and Its Climate Science-Denying Politicians

12 Years After Katrina, Hurricane Harvey Pummels Gulf Coast and Its Climate Science-Denying Politicians

By DeSmog As the remnants of Hurricane Harvey (now a tropical storm) continue to flood Houston — just days before the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina — I visited Shannon Rainey, whose house was built on top of a Superfund site in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Rainey is worried about family members in Houston. She knows all too well how long it […]

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Secretary Perry Continues to Ignore the Evidence on Grid Reliability, Even His Own

Secretary Perry Continues to Ignore the Evidence on Grid Reliability, Even His Own

By EDF Energy Exchange Late last Wednesday night, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its so-called “study” on grid reliability. Secretary Perry commissioned the report in this April memo, asking the DOE to investigate whether our electric grid’s reliability is threatened by the “erosion of critical baseload resources,” meaning coal and nuclear power plants. Perry took the unusual […]

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Utility “Shadow Billing” Can Shed Light on Rate Options

Utility “Shadow Billing” Can Shed Light on Rate Options

By Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)Could two electricity bills really be better than one? Just maybe, if the second is a “shadow bill,” provided to educate customers about alternatives to the rates they are charged. Specifically, for electricity customers interested in saving money and for utilities interested in promoting certain electricity rate designs, including time-of-use (TOU) rates,…

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100% Renewable Energy for 139 Nations Detailed in Stanford Report

100% Renewable Energy for 139 Nations Detailed in Stanford Report

By Steve Hanley Mark Z. Jacobson, the famed professor at the Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, and 26 of his colleagues have compiled a report that shows exactly how 139 nations could transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050 without throwing millions of people out of work. In fact, they contend that the changeover would actually spur job […]

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Texas Shale Hit Hard By Hurricane Harvey

Texas Shale Hit Hard By Hurricane Harvey

By Oilprice.com Crude oil prices are taking a serious hit from Hurricane Harvey, slammed on multiple fronts at a time when benchmark prices were already showing some signs of strain. The post, Texas Shale Hit Hard By Hurricane Harvey, was first published on OilPrice.com. By Nick Cunningham As has already been widely noted, Hurricane Harvey has knocked out major refineries […]

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Georgia Power, SCE&G Whistling In The Dark On Growth And Nuclear

Georgia Power, SCE&G Whistling In The Dark On Growth And Nuclear

By Dennis Wamsted The nuclear morass that has ensnared utility executives, state regulators, and legislators in South Carolina and Georgia shows no signs of easing its grip. Southern is set to decide soon whether its Georgia Power subsidiary will seek to complete Vogtle 3 & 4 even though the total cost for the much-delayed nuclear project has now […]

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Class 7 All-Electric Truck From Cummins Revealed

Class 7 All-Electric Truck From Cummins Revealed

By Steve Hanley

Cummins has unveiled a prototype of the Class 7 electric truck it says will go into production in 2019. It has a 145 kWh battery and a range of 100 miles with a 22 ton load in tow.

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