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Month: January 2020

News

Alberta Innovates launches Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge

January 16, 2020 Energi Staff

On Thursday, Alberta Innovates announced it has launched a new clean technology initiative called the Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge. The Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge is a $15 million international competition created to accelerate the development [Read more]

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Transportation fuel use set to decline due to technology, efficiency

January 15, 2020 Energi Staff

The Canada Energy Regulator’s Canada’s Energy Future 2019: Energy Supply and Demand Projections to 2040 report (EF2019) projects that energy use in the transportation sector will decline slowly over the next two decades. Energy demand from [Read more]

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Lower natural gas prices in 2020 on rising production: EIA

January 15, 2020 Energi Staff

By Kristen Tsai and Stephen York This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Jan. 15, 2020. In its January 2020 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts [Read more]

Opinion

Opinion: Oil & Gas For 2020—Follow The Money

January 15, 2020 Energi Staff

By Ed Hirs This article was published by Forbes on Jan. 15, 2020. Expect low and lower prices for oil and natural gas during Election 2020. Since long before he was elected, President Trump consistently called [Read more]

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New electric generating capacity in 2020 mostly wind, solar

January 14, 2020 Energi Staff

By Suparna Ray This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Jan. 14, 2020. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest inventory of electric generators, EIA expects 42 gigawatts (GW) of [Read more]

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US oil and natural gas proved reserves, production set records in 2018

January 13, 2020 Energi Staff

By Steve Grape This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Jan. 13, 2020. US oil and natural gas proved reserves had another record-breaking year, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s [Read more]

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New technique could accelerate waste-to-methane production

January 10, 2020 Energi Staff

By Brent Wittmeier This article was published by Folio on Jan. 10, 2020. University of Alberta engineers have found a way to turn waste fat, oil and grease into a steady supply of renewable energy. [Read more]

Opinion

Expectations high for B.C. climate action in 2020

January 10, 2020 Energi Staff

By Karen Tam Wu This article was published by Pembina Institute on Jan. 10, 2020 and originally appeared in the Province on December 30, 2019 (page A16). A year ago, B.C.’s third climate plan, CleanBC, garnered [Read more]

Opinion

Opinion: Why Canada’s Energy Future report leads us astray

January 9, 2020 Energi Staff

By Nicole Dusyk This article was published by Pembina Institute on Jan. 9, 2020. The Canada Energy Regulator (formerly the National Energy Board) recently released updated projections for energy supply and demand in Canada in [Read more]

News

2019 Natural gas prices lowest in the past three years

January 9, 2020 Energi Staff

By Victoria Zaretskaya This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Jan. 9, 2020. In 2019, natural gas spot prices at the national benchmark Henry Hub in Louisiana averaged $2.57 per million [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Energy war room’s real agenda: “greenwashing” the oil/gas industry’s marketing plan

January 8, 2020 Markham Hislop

Task of telling the Canadian hydrocarbon industry’s story to the world has to be put in the hands of competent communications professionals What is the Alberta energy war room really up to? If you answered, [Read more]

News

Three Canadian electricity generators account for over half of 2019 exports

January 8, 2020 Energi Staff

This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Jan. 8, 2020. Around 50 companies have permits from the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) to export Canadian electricity. Canadian generators, their subsidiaries, and other companies [Read more]

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Crude oil prices generally lower in 2019 than in 2018

January 7, 2020 Energi Staff

By Matt French This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Jan. 7, 2020. The price of Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, averaged $64 per barrel (b) in 2019, $7/b lower [Read more]

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Canada exports a lot of electricity and it imports a lot too: CER

January 7, 2020 Energi Staff

This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on January 2, 2020. Every year, around 40 companies import electricity into Canada from the United States (U.S.) through international power lines. In 2010, 44 companies [Read more]

News

A look back at Canada’s climate action in 2019

January 6, 2020 Energi Staff

By Josha MacNab This article was published by the Pembina Institute on Dec. 20, 2019. This was the year the world made it clear they want climate action, and they want it now. Millions of people [Read more]

News

AB methane regulations do not address major emissions sources

January 6, 2020 Energi Staff

Alberta’s current methane reduction targets will fail to meet federal targets, according to the David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute. The two groups argue the province needs to improve its oil and gas methane regulations [Read more]

News

US energy-related CO2 emissions to fall in 2019: EIA

January 6, 2020 Energi Staff

By Olivia Clark and Perry Lindstrom From December 23 through January 3, Today in Energy will feature a selection of our favourite articles from 2019. Today’s article was originally published on July 15. After a [Read more]

News

Natural gas flaring, venting up in North Dakota, Texas in 2018

January 6, 2020 Energi Staff

By Emily Geary, Steve Hanson This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Dec. 6, 2019. The volume of U.S. natural gas that was reported as vented and flared reached its highest [Read more]

News

Nearly 50 per cent rise in world energy consumption by 2050: EIA

January 6, 2020 Energi Staff

By Ari Kahan From December 23 through January 3, Today in Energy will feature a selection of our favourite articles from 2019. Today’s article was originally published on September 24. In its newly released International Energy [Read more]

Markham on Energy

The energy singularity: A hopeful and optimistic look ahead to the 2020s

January 1, 2020 Markham Hislop

Canadians are simply too innovative, entrepreneurial, and progressive to allow a few curmudgeons to hold back an entire country The energy future looks amazing – electric, efficient, low-carbon and low-cost, hydrocarbons used for non-combustion purposes [Read more]

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