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India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October
India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October India produced a record amount of electricity from coal in October to make up for a shortfall in hydro generation following lower-than-normal monsoon rains. Coal remains fundamental to the country’s energy security, despite rapid deployment of wind and solar generation, underscoring the challenge of reducing […]
Electricity Has Been in a Slump for 14 Years, But All Heck Has Broken Loose in How it’s Generated
Electricity Has Been in a Slump for 14 Years, But All Heck Has Broken Loose in How it’s Generated Electricity generating capacity additions & retirements in 2021, and the long-term change in the power mix. In 2021, developers and power plant owners plan to bring 39.7 gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity on line, […]
UK climate emergency is official policy
UK climate emergency is official policy Heathrow’s expansion is now in question. Image: By J Patrick Fischer, via Wikimedia Commons Major changes in the government’s policy on fossil fuels will be vital to tackling the UK climate emergency that Parliament has recognised. LONDON, 3 May, 2019 − The United Kingdom has taken a potentially momentous policy decision: […]
Every Big Bit Helps
Every Big Bit Helps The post describes how new supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle turbines may revolutionise the efficiency of electricty generation. Background image, existing Rankine Cycle steam turbine. Foreground, Brayton Cycle turbine with same power rating. Let’s say you and I need to move 1 million tons of sand. You show up to the site […]
The BP 2018 Statistical Review, electricity and CO2 emissions
The BP 2018 Statistical Review, electricity and CO2 emissions The just-issued 2018 BP Statistical Review contains a number of variables that were not available in previous reports, in particular electricity generation from oil, gas and coal since 1985. Combining these variables with BP’s nuclear, hydro and renewables generation numbers and with BP’s CO2 emissions data […]
Pathways to Deep Decarbonization
Pathways to Deep Decarbonization As energy transition proceeds we’ll need to move well beyond decarbonizing electricity generation and into transportation and space heating powered by renewables. But we’re only beginning to figure out the pathways by which we might do that, and since each region has its own particular sources of renewable energy and its […]
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a third of America’s electrical supply will come from natural gas, […]
Estimating life-time costs for Renewable Energy in Europe
Estimating life-time costs for Renewable Energy in Europe Summary Electricity generation by using gas-fired installations is significantly cheaper than Renewables in terms of both installation capital cost and Operation and Maintenance costs, even when accounting for the cost of fuel. The € 1.1 trillion capital costs already spent on Renewables in Europe would have been sufficient […]
China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption
China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption Chairman of large power company slips, apparently. OK, we’ve heard the official story. China is transitioning from a manufacturing economy to a consumption-based economy. Consumers are king. They’re going to buy stuff. And that’s going to heat up the economy. Imports and exports have been plunging for months, but […]
IEA recommends more government funding for energy sector
IEA recommends more government funding for energy sector New report suggests public support for research is dwindling in Canada Canada should increase funding to the energy sector, according to a new IEA report. (Kyle Bakx/CBC) Canada’s energy industry needs more research and development funding from government, according to a new report by the International Energy […]
Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Operate For 80 Years?
Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Operate For 80 Years? The nuclear industry in the United States has been at a standstill for several decades. After an extraordinary wave of construction in the 1960s and 1970s, the nuclear industry ground to a halt. A confluence of events killed off new construction, including high interest rates, cost overruns, […]
