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Thermal Fuel

Trump Administration Considers Boost to Biofuel Mandates to Ease Farmer Anger

The Trump administration is considering ramping up biofuel blending quotas in the coming years to assuage anger in the Farm Belt over its recent broad use of wa…

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The United States, One of the Biggest Contributors to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The United States is one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making its involvement in the fight against climate a matter of critical…

Oil & Gas Trade

Crude Oil Futures were Lower, Cause Escalating Trade Tensions Between the US and China

Crude oil futures were lower during mid-morning trade at the start of a brand new trading week in Asia Monday amid escalating trade tensions between the US and …

Innovative Water Electrolysis Method Can Produce Hydrogen From Acid Mine Water

The South African-based company Hydrox Holdings has patented a water electrolysis method that is gaining attention across the globe. The company has developed a…

Oil & Gas Trade

Is China Blocking Vietnam’s Access To $2.5 Trillion In Oil & Gas?

The United States has China of interfering with oil and gas drilling operations off the coast of Vietnam in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. This is …

Nuclear Power Plant

China, South Korea Vie for Bulgarian Nuclear Power Project

Reuters reports that state utilities from China and South Korea, including CNNC and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co (KHNP), are amongst the seven groups interest…

Oil and Gas Technology

The Iraq-Turkey Oil Pipeline Dispute: Opportunity in an Arbitration

Fatigue and frustration aside, U.S. focus and engagement in Iraq remains critical to the national- and energy-security interests of the United States and its al…

Power Construction

It is Time for a Massive Public Takeover of the Nation’s Electric Grid

He held a town hall the same day he released a new climate plan, in which he declared that the days of investor-owned utilities—with their profit incentives to…

Germany Continues to Rely on Hydrogen as Energy Source of the Future

At the beginning of August, the European Union (EU) announced that the funding for the “H2 Valley” project will not go to the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region…

Microgrid

Don't Follow One-time Disasters to Find Microgrid Opportunities

Don’t follow one-time disasters to find microgrid opportunities; look instead to areas with recurring power outages and businesses interested in resilience, sa…

LNG

The African LNG Market Holds 7.1% of Proven Global Gas Reserves

Africa is an exciting frontier in the global natural gas sector. On the demand side, Africa’s large, urbanised and industrialised societies of the future will …

Coal Trade

Report Shows: China Injected $1b in "Green" Financing to Coal-Related Projects

Chinese financial institutions provided at least $1b in “green” financing to coal-related projects in the first half of this year, Reuters reported in a revie…

WAPDA Generated the Highest-ever Electricity During the Peak Hours

The hydroelectric power stations owned and operated by the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) generated the highest-ever electricity during …

Nuclear Power Plant

Rosatom Insists 2-Reactor Unit is Safe as Tests are Planned in the Arctic

On Friday, three tugs will tow the Akademik Lomonosov barge out of Murmansk to begin a 5,000km voyage to a remote port on the other side of Russia’s Arctic coa…

Oil & Gas Trade

World's Biggest Oil Hedge May Not Happen After All

Despite its track record for turning a sizable profit from its super-secret oil hedge, Mexico may not go through with its massive hedge this year, according to …