Energy Update
ACCRA, July 7 (Reuters) - It is too close to call whether
Ghana's President John Mahama will win re-election in November,
but on one score success is starting to look attainable: the
government is on course to get through an election year without
triggering a fiscal crisis.
MOSCOW/MINSK, July 7 (Reuters) - When Russia annexed
Ukraine's Crimea region, Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko began trying to loosen his close ties with Moscow,
fearing his country would be the next target.
Nuclear power, which for a long time was among the lowest-cost electricity sources, is now having trouble competing in the US.
(Thu, 07 Jul 2016) EIA recently released preliminary data from its annual survey of electric generators (EIA-860), which provides information on pollution control equipment at electric power plants. A significant amount of such equipment was recently installed in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).
(Thu, 07 Jul 2016) Steel industry energy consumption in 2010 totaled 1,158 trillion British thermal units (Btu), representing 8% of total manufacturing energy consumption. Energy consumption in the steel industry is largely for crude steel production using basic oxygen furnace (BOF) and electric arc furnace (EAF) technologies. Overall energy intensity in EAF, used primarily to melt scrap steel, is significantly lower than in BOF which is used to create virgin steel from iron ore.
MEXICO CITY, July 6 (Reuters) - Delegates of Mexico, the
United States and Cuba met on Wednesday to discuss the limits of
the Western Polygon, an area in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico
that has oil and gas deposits but no clear boundaries, two
sources close to the discussion said.
With regard to solar project development PPA prices, normally, it is local deployment over time that gradually gets solar prices down.
SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose in early
trading on Thursday, supported by a report of another fall in
U.S. crude inventories as well as a weaker dollar, although a
glut of refined products and economic growth concerns continue
to weigh on markets.
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