MARKET CONTINUES TO SHOOT SKYWARD, PASSING $7.00 THE NATURAL GAS MARKET ROSE OVER A DOLLAR LAST WEEK. Storage concerns for next winter continued to drive the price of Natural Gas up and up with no ceiling in sight. A combination of storage worries, Ukraine worries, and cooler weather sent the market up more than a…
DetailsOn Tuesday, March 29, wind turbines in the Lower 48 states produced 2,017 gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity, making wind the second-largest source of electric generation for the day, only behind natural gas, according to EIA’s Hourly Electric Grid Monitor. Daily wind-powered electricity had surpassed coal-fired and nuclear electricity generation separately on other days earlier this year…
DetailsAccording to stakeholder filings in a recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceeding, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address growing concerns about electric grid reliability.
A new study ties the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and its heavy rainfall to climate change, demonstrating that the problem is not decades away but already here. Read the article. #climatechange #weather
DetailsEnergy News: E.U. Recommends Russian Ban The E.U. recommends a complete oil, gas, and coal ban on Russian energy. This recommendation carries no official weight, and, so far, only Russian coal has been sanctioned. But this recommendation is another step closer to Europe banning all Russian energy over the Ukraine invasion. The U.S. will have…
DetailsDon’t wait to get your natural gas rate locked in for the coming winter: PECO requests natural gas delivery rate increase. Bills could go up 13%!
A federal appeals court rules in Baltimore’s climate lawsuit against major fossil fuel producers and sellers by sending the case back to state court.
A company announces it will develop a 250 MW solar farm on 3,000 acres of a former West Virginia coal mine, which organizers say will be the largest solar project in the state. https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/a-new-light-shining-over-west-virginia-seva-wv-will-develop-former-hobet-mine-site/article_a459e4de-b284-11ec-bb5d-8bf35eb79055.html
DetailsMore than 800 utility-scale, commercial rooftop, community solar, and solar storage projects in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania are waiting in queue with transmission organization PJM Interconnection. https://www.bayjournal.com/news/climate_change/more-than-800-solar-projects-in-bay-states-stuck-waiting-for-review/article_71a4375a-af6a-11ec-9071-03d4665eb07b.html
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