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Oil Price

Oil Prices Set For Biggest Daily Drop Since Early April

Oil prices dropped by almost 3 percent on Thursday morning and were set for the biggest percentage drop since early April, after the restart of Colonial Pipelin…

United States

Colonial Pipeline Hack Exposes Lack of Federal Cybersecurity Oversight for U.S. Energy Industry

The temporary shutdown of Colonial's pipeline follows warnings by U.S. officials in recent months of the danger of cyberattacks against privately held infrastru…

Wind Power Project

Avangrid Expects the Approval of its Vineyard Wind Power Plant in 2023

Avangrid executives say they expect federal regulators to issue a final decision on the Vineyard Wind offshore wind plan in coming days, and to be sending energ…

Crude Oil

U.S. Main Fuel Pipeline Operator Aims to Restore Operation This Week After Cyber Attack

The operator of a main U.S. fuel pipeline declared on Monday its goal of restoring operational service by the end of the week after all pipeline operations temp…

United States

Biden Wants ‘Clean’ Electricity By 2035. A Pandemic-Driven Fall In Solar Jobs Complicates That

The U.S. solar industry will need to nearly quadruple its workforce by 2035 in order to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of a carbon-free electricity industry, …

Crude Oil

U.S. Energy Production Saw Steepest Drop On Record In 2020

Due to economic responses to the pandemic, U.S. energy production dropped by 5 percent last year, marking the steepest annual decline on record.

Gas power plant

Millennium Proposes $15 B LNG-to-Power Project in Vietnam

Millennium Energy Vietnam, a member of the U.S.-based Millennium Petroleum Group, has proposed to develop a $15 billion LNG project in Soc Trang province.

Electric Car

GM Partners up to Offer About 60,000 EV Charging Points Across Canada, U.S.

The automaker also introduced "Ultium Charge 360", a platform which integrates charging networks, GM vehicle mobile apps and other services to simplify the char…

Oil Price

Oil Prices End the Week Down As Demand’s Rebound Gets Patchy

Oil prices fell last week with spreading coronavirus cases in countries such as India tempering optimism around positive signs out of the U.S. and Europe.

Solar Power Plant

Samsung Unit Considers Developing $673 mln Solar Plants in Texas

A unit of Samsung C&T Corp is considering developing solar power plants worth $673 million in the U.S. state of Texas

Clean Energy Transition

Amazon Inks RNG Agreement, Considers Possible Stake in Clean Energy Fuels

Clean Energy last year secured separate partnerships with BP plc and Total SE to consider expanding U.S. RNG production.

Net Zero Emission

The U.S. Electric Power Sector is Halfway to Zero Carbon Emissions

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system.

Natural Gas

Graham: Biden Needs Natural Gas to Hit Green Energy Goals

In a letter to President Biden released Wednesday, leaders of Pennsylvania’s energy sector and its allies said Biden needs natural gas to help him reach his cl…

Japan

Japan Ups 2030 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal to 46 per cent

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the new target, compared with 2013 emissions levels, hours before the start of a virtual summit on climate change called…

Carbon Emissions

China Will "Overachieve" Its Goal on Carbon Emission: Al Gore

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday China will "overachieve" its goal to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality befor…