On Monday, TransAlta announced its Clean Energy Investment Plan which will see the company convert its existing Alberta coal assets to natural gas. TransAlta says its $2 billion plan will advance its leadership position in [Read more]
By Bill Sanchez This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 5, 2019. In 2018, US utility-scale electricity generation facilities consumed nearly 39 quadrillion British thermal units(quads) of energy to provide [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on July 16, 2019. The International Energy Agency has launched a new online tool that tracks oil and gas-related sources of methane, a major and often [Read more]
By Slade Johnson and Kien Chau This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 26, 2019. Between 2010 and the first quarter of 2019, U.S. power companies announced the retirement of [Read more]
By Olivia Clark, Perry Lindstrom This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 15, 2019. After a 2.7 per cent increase in U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, EIA’s [Read more]
By Michael Mobilia, Owen Comstock This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 1, 2019. Fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—have accounted for at least 80 per cent of energy consumption [Read more]
By Patricia Hutchins This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on June 26, 2019. In April 2019, US monthly electricity generation from renewable sources exceeded coal-fired generation for the first time based [Read more]
This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on June 19, 2019. By Scott Jell Lower natural gas prices in recent years have spurred the construction of new natural gas-fired power plants in [Read more]
By Kien Chau This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 29, 2019. In January 2019, Germany’s government-appointed coal commission introduced a proposed pathway to phase out all coal electricity generation by [Read more]
This article was published by the C.D. Howe Institute on April 23, 2019. New federal government carbon pricing regulations for electricity generators will reduce the average carbon cost for coal plants, while decreasing incentives for [Read more]
The Chinese government announced on Friday that due to falling construction costs, it will launch a number of subsidy-free solar and wind power projects in 2019. ImagineChina/Corbis photo. Subsidy-free solar, wind power projects to generate [Read more] [Read more]
According to the US Energy Information Administration, wind, natural gas and solar will make up the bulk of new utility-scale electric generating capacity additions. Repower photo by Jan Oelker. Wind to account for 46% of US [Read more] [Read more]
The Rhodium Group released a report on Tuesday which showed US CO2 emissions rose in 2018 after falling for the previous three. Cold weather and rising fuel demand were blamed for the increase. CO2 emissions [Read more] [Read more]
The International Energy Agency predicts that global coal demand will remain stable through to 2023, despite declines in Europe and North America. Robbie Morrison photo via Wikimedia Commons. Chinese coal demand expected to fall by [Read more] [Read more]
With global oil demand set to grow in 2018, global gas use also increasing and large numbers of new coal power plants coming online in 2018, CO2 emissions are expected to grow. CC0 public domain photo. [Read more] [Read more]
The electric power sector is the nation’s largest consumer of coal, accounting for 93 per cent of total US coal consumption between 2007 and 2018. Getty Images photo. 2018 US coal consumption will be 44 [Read more] [Read more]
As the use of natural gas fired power plants rises, a number of coal-fired power plants have been retired. ELP.com photo. Natural gas prices drop below coal prices, boosting gas use at natural gas fired [Read more]
In its quarterly report on US coal production, the US Energy Information Administration showed production during the second quarter of 2018 totalled 180.8 million short tons, 3.7 per cent less than the previous quarter. The [Read more]
Decline in CO2 emissions in residential, commercial sectors mostly due to milder weather U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2017 fell to 5.14 billion metric tons, 0.9% lower than their 2016 levels, and coal [Read more]
Cheap natural gas replacing coal and nuclear for electricity generation in United States Electricity generators that use fossil fuels continue to be the most common sources of electricity generation in most states. In all but [Read more]
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