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#falling Fossil Fuel Demand
Jun 22 2017 03:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
“The relentless drive to improve efficiency, . . . is causing global energy consumption overall, . . . to decelerate.” China, both the world’s biggest producer, and consumer of coal, . . . production fell by nearly, . . . 8% last year, the biggest dro...
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#37 Coal Mines Shut Down
Jun 20 2017 09:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
India cancelled plans to build almost . . . 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power stations in May, . . . as solar tariffs in the country remain in freefall. Coal India, World’s largest coal company, to retire . . . 37 mines, by March 2018, . . . that...
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#5 Oil & Gas Stocks Down
Jun 20 2017 08:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Energy prices are continuing the powerful downtrend, . . . that’s been in place since December. Several negative catalysts are in play, including: . . . . . . growing doubt about OPEC’s oil freeze agreement . . . . . . . . . to normalize the global en...
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#coal: Global Decline
Jun 14 2017 01:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Global coal production, . . . biggest decline in history. The shift away from coal, . . . is as decisive, as it is widespread, . . . with consumption in 2016: . . . . . . China down 1.6%, . . . . . . US down 8.8%, . . . . . . UK down 52.5%. 6-14-20...
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#coal = Too Expensive
May 28 2017 01:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Large coal fired plants, . . . were designed to run at high capacity, . . . creating large amounts of electricity, . . . to meet demand. When they are scaled back, or shut down, . . . because cheaper fuels are available, . . . operators say they are, ....
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#non-Renewable: Ohio
May 19 2017 05:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
FirstEnergy’s plan, for a rescue of its . . . 2 uncompetitive Ohio nuclear plants, . . . need $5 billion to keep afloat, . . . took a nosedive May 17, as the . . . Ohio House Public Utilities Committee suspended action, . . . on the company’s prop...
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#non-Renewables: India
May 19 2017 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Gujarati state officials, had planned a . . . 4,000-Megawatt ultra-mega power project (UMPP). But, that has now been scrapped, . . . because, India aims to become a solar power leader, and run off . . . one terawatt (one million million watts) of rene...
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#renewables Save Money
May 17 2017 12:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Some of the world's biggest suppliers of fossil fuel, . . . are seeking to use more renewable energy themselves, . . . as they strive to drive down costs, and curb emissions. Glencore, the world's biggest shipper of seaborne coal, . . . said i...
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#renewable Energy Forcast
May 16 2017 07:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Frost & Sullivan, . . . 2017 Global Power Industry Outlook, examines: . . . . . . power market trends, . . . . . . installed capacity, . . . . . . investment, and . . . . . . regional growth across: . . . . . . . . . coal-fired, . . . . . . . . ....
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#oil Production Cuts, Why?
May 16 2017 07:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Major oil-producing nations, (Saudi Arabia and Russia) . . . have struggled of late to bolster prices, as inventories piled up, and . . . crimped the potential for demand. Prices dipped below . . . $44 a barrel this month, their lowest level in mo...
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#fukushima Cost $188 Billion
May 11 2017 12:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Tepco, is trying to place itself on a sounder financial footing, . . . after the government in December, . . . almost doubled its estimate for the costs related to the Fukushima disaster to . . . 21.5 trillion yen ($188 billion). 5-11-2017 Source...
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#coal: Follow The Money
May 10 2017 02:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Buffett believes that ‘coal is essentially certain to decline, . . . as a percentage of the revenue’; of his BNSF railroad, amdt . . . hat in one to two decades, they’ll be shipping less coal, . . . or might no longer be burning any of it at all, . . ....
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#coal: France Say's No!
May 09 2017 06:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
France's president Emmanuel Macron’s climate policies include: . . . . . . phasing out coal power, . . . . . . doubling renewable capacity by 2022, and . . . . . . raising the carbon price to €100 a ton by 2030, . . . but needs a parliamentary mand...
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#coal Plants In Australia
May 02 2017 07:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
AGL Energy, Australia’s largest integrated energy company, says . . . Australia’s transition away from a coal power dominated national grid, . . . to low-carbon generation will largely bypass “baseload” gas, and . . . instead shift straight to large-sc...
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#coal Plants In Mexico
May 02 2017 07:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), . . . New Mexico’s Largest Electricity Provider, Proposes Going . . . 100% Coal-Free For a utility that’s been powering its customers with coal for 1/2 a century, and . . . which has aggressively defended it...
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#coal Plants In Europe
May 01 2017 03:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Follow the Money, Infographics Europe is accelerating its shift from coal power plants, . . . to more renewable and clean energy sources. The trend comes as the, . . . cost of fossil fuels become higher, . . . than their renewable counterparts. 5-1-...
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#nuclear Power
Apr 29 2017 01:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Why nuclear power has no future. In California, renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy storage, . . . cost less than continuing to operate the controversial, . . . aging nuclear power plant, at Diablo Canyon. Follow the Money, Westinghouse’s...
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#coal Mine Investment
Apr 26 2017 03:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Indian multinational Adani Group, . . . proposal to develop a new coal mine in Australia’s north-east, . . . is becoming increasingly difficult to justify, . . . because, Adani is unlikely to be able to contribute much equity, for the . . . $5 bil...
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#coal Free Day In Britain
Apr 22 2017 03:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Britain went a full 24 hours, . . . without using coal to generate electricity, . . . for the first time, . . . since the Industrial Revolution. 10 years ago, . . . a day without coal, would have been unimaginable, and . . . 10 years from now, . . . o...
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Too Much Oil Supply? Raise The Price!
Mar 27 2017 12:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Major oil producers are considering extending their recent cuts to output, . . . in a fresh bid to boost prices. Opec countries, and . . . 11 other oil-producing nations, including Russia, . . . agreed in December 2016 to slash production, . . . the fi...
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#chernobyl's Damaged Nuclear Reactor
Feb 11 2017 02:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
April, 26, 1986, . . . No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl plant experienced a catastrophic meltdown, .. . sending long plumes of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. An untold number of people, . . . suffered from various radiation-related healt...
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#fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot
Feb 11 2017 02:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Radiation levels, on TEPCO's robot, . . . inside the containment vessel, of reactor No. 2, at Fukushima, reached . . . 530 sieverts per hour, . . . a level high enough, . . . to kill a human within seconds. It now appears, that this initial estima...
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#new Coal Plants
Feb 09 2017 02:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Evaluating the future energy resources, . . . that will shape electricity production in the U.S. in the near future: 1) the pace of retirements and new investment undertaken; 2) market conditions, specifically the price of each resource going forward;...
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#fukushima Radiation Levels
Feb 04 2017 02:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Fukushima cleanup efforts threaten to span decades. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), . . . found radiation levels of . . . 530 sieverts per hour. As only . . . one sievert can cause radiation sickness, . . . some experts described the recent reading as u...
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#uk Coal-Fired Plants
Feb 03 2017 02:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
UK’s coal fleet has been cut in 1/2, dropping from . . . 2012, 17 active coal-fired plants, to only . . . 2016, 8 active coal-fired plants. 2-3-2017 Source: #UK Coal-fired plants
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