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Month: October 2020

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US consumed record amount of renewable energy in 2019

October 26, 2020 Energi Staff

By Mickey Francis This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 19, 2020. In 2019, consumption of renewable energy in the United States grew for the fourth year in a row, [Read more]

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Utility-scale battery storage costs down between 2015 and 2018

October 26, 2020 Energi Staff

By Sara Hoff, Alexander Mey This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 23, 2020. The average energy capacity cost of utility-scale battery storage in the United States has rapidly decreased [Read more]

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Cenovus, Husky merge in $24 billion blockbuster deal

October 25, 2020 Markham Hislop

Highlights: job losses, low break-even costs, good fit between upstream and downstream assets of two companies, retain commitment to “ambition” of net-zero emissions by 2050 Cenovus Energy Inc. and Husky Energy Inc. are merging in [Read more]

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$100 million for energy research? Why not invest $100 billion, instead?

October 23, 2020 Markham Hislop

The energy transition is an existential threat to the Canadian hydrocarbon sector and this is no time for innovating on the cheap Ottawa committed $100 million over four years to help lower greenhouse gas emissions [Read more]

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How to sell the Keystone XL pipeline to Joe Biden

October 16, 2020 Markham Hislop

“It is tarsands that we don’t need — that in fact is [a] very, very high pollutant” – Biden If Joe Biden triumphs on Nov. 3, he intends to cancel the permit for the Keystone [Read more]

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Canada’s share of total crude oil exported to the US grows

October 14, 2020 Energi Staff

This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Oct. 14, 2020. In recent years, despite increased crude oil production in the United States, Canada’s crude oil exports to the US have grown significantly. [Read more]

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EIA’s analyzes electricity markets in India, Africa, and Asia

October 14, 2020 Energi Staff

By Ari Kahan This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 14, 2020. Countries that are not members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Asia, including China [Read more]

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Higher electricity prices for solar photovoltaic generators than other technologies

October 14, 2020 Energi Staff

By Eric Harrison This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 9, 2020. In 2019, the average U.S. wholesale price for electricity generated by solar photovoltaic (PV) technology was significantly higher [Read more]

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CCS – long-term storage capacity can cut industrial sector emissions intensity

October 8, 2020 Energi Staff

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is likely to play an important role in decreasing industrial sector emissions intensity. CCS works by capturing carbon emissions made by the consumption of fossil fuels, or by carbon emitted during [Read more]

Markham on Energy

The good, the bad, the ugly of Kenney’s natural gas strategy

October 7, 2020 Markham Hislop

Alberta will discover what all Western movie bad guys learn the hard way – there is always a reckoning for misdeeds Alberta released its natural gas strategy Tuesday and it reminds one of the old [Read more]

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Smoke from California wildfires decreases solar generation

October 2, 2020 Energi Staff

By Stephen York This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 30, 2020. In the first two weeks of September 2020, average solar-powered electricity generation in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), [Read more]

Markham on Energy

How to be an energy transition winner: invest $10 billion in Canadian infrastructure

October 2, 2020 Markham Hislop

Canada has a decade to ensure it isn’t an energy transition loser and public investments like Trudeau’s infrastructure plan are critical to the country’s low-carbon competitiveness The federal government is providing $10 billion over three [Read more]

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