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Petroleum Prices Set Records in 2011
Without much fanfare, the Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy released a report on 2011 energy commodity prices yesterday. It confirmed that crude oil and key petroleum products set annually averaged price records last year. This largely snuck up on us, because it occurred without the kind of dramatic price spike we experienced in 2008 or in the oil crises of the 1970s. Prices rose early in the year, during the Libyan revolution, and they didn't fall much, subsequently. [read more]
What’s So Bad About Exporting Gasoline?
One of my Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 was the fact that the U.S. had become a net exporter of finished petroleum products such as diesel and gasoline. In fact, because gasoline and diesel prices were so high, fuel exports were valued at $88 billion, which made them the top value export in 2011 for the first time ever: [read more]
Maine Passes Historic Law to Reduce Oil Use
Oil dependence is an issue that can bring together people from all over the political spectrum, as it touches on national security, economics and the environment. So it’s not terribly surprising – although it is encouraging -- that the nation’s first oil-savings bill was passed in a state led by a Tea Party governor and a Republican-dominated legislature. [read more]
Texas' Record Electricity Demand Creates Battling Headlines about Wind Power
Last Wednesday, August 3rd, saw a new record set in the ERCOT electricity service area. ERCOT wasted no time in putting some data from these events online. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), put up a blog post titled Wind helps meet new Texas record for electricity demand. Now, that's something we would expect, except for... [read more]
Will Natural Gas Save Us?
My message to the BRC became my latest post of the Energy Collective yesterday. It has not collected many readers so far, but it has collected several comments. Kiem commented,"Disruptive innovation, disruptive technology is called for."We have it already, its called shale gas. There is so much shale gas it will provide for our needs... [read more]
Why EIA Funding Cuts May Disrupt Energy Efficiency Investments
Last Thursday, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced cuts in Energy Data and Analysis Programs resulting from the Fiscal Year 2011 Budget deal. While the 14% annual cut looks small, because we are half-way through the fiscal year, this translates into a much larger cut for the remainder of the year, which ends in... [read more]
Doc Alert: DOE Annual Energy Outlook
The US Dept. of Energy released their Annual Energy Outlook 2011 last week, at least the online version plus downloadable data. We now have the full document [246 page, 3.8MB PDF]. From the Executive Summary (page 2): The projections in the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) focus on the... [read more]
Energy Information Administration Press Release
H/T KoTR, who asks "does anybody see a problem with this?"Immediate Reductions in EIA's Energy Data and Analysis Programs Necessitated by FY 2011 Funding CutWASHINGTON, DC - The final fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget provides $95.4 million for the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a reduction of $15.2 million, or 14 percent,... [read more]
EIA releases Annual Energy Outlook 2011
Today the Energy Information Administration released the 2011 Annual Energy Outlook (link is to executive summary). This year’s outlook explores scenarios that include updated forecasts of shale gas production, which have changed considerably since last year’s outlook, as KP readers know due to Mike’s excellent analyses. Another aspect... [read more]
Arguing With the Numbers
Over the weekend I read a remark in one of the Wall St. Journal's political columns that resonated with an implicit theme of this blog since its inception in early 2004. In her discussion of the budget crises facing various states and the debates concerning how to resolve them, Peggy Noonan highlighted the benefits of focusing on the... [read more]
Is Natural Gas The Answer? Chinese Scientists Have Announced a Better One.
Sometimes holiday periods can interfere with keeping up with all of the news and opinions issued about an important topic like energy. On December 20. 2010, the National Journal asked 16 experts to provide commentary on the following question Is natural gas the answer? Unfortunately for the United States, there are apparently some... [read more]
How Cheap and Abundant Natural Gas Affects Renewables
Cost of producing energy before subsidies, per megawatt hour. Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 3rd quarter 2009. Low natural gas prices coupled with discoveries of abundant shale gas reserves have made the last 18 months an exciting time for energy in the United States. Until mid-2009, investors were scrambling to find a low cost... [read more]
Explaining residential electricity consumption: macroeconomic implications
At Grist, Sean Casten muses on the macroeconomic implications of trends in electricity consumption. His musings focus on the established correlation between electricity consumption and economic activity, an association that he fleshed out in an earlier post. In these two posts he looks at trends in residential, commercial, and industrial... [read more]
The Looming Spike in Crude Prices
Lots of very crazy stuff going on behind the scenes that's been keeping me very distracted, and writing to a minimum. Fortunately, Money Morning sent me a very timely essay this morning on crude prices. This one takes aim at the API. While I have a cordial relationship with the API, like Kent Moors who wrote the article below I think... [read more]
The Dominant Fuel in 2030
I just spent a fruitful week in Canada, learning about some of the biomass resources in Alberta. There are some interesting opportunities there for the right technology, and I expect that I will be making future trips up there.One of the questions I was asked this week by one of my new Canadian friends was "Do you believe fossil fuels... [read more]
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