Energy Update
China surpassed the US in annual gross crude oil imports in 2017, importing 8.4 million barrels per day (b/d) compared with 7.9 million b/d for the US.
Power generated by wind, solar and biomass in the European Union overtook coal for the first time in 2017, a report by Germany’s climate lobbyist Agora Energiewende and U.K. think tank Sandbag showed.
Tesla Inc. is planning a major expansion of its solar division at Home Depot Inc., embarking on a critical test of the mainstream appeal of its renewable energy products.
Rajit Gadh of the Smart Grid Energy Research Center breaks down the sectors involved in vehicle-to-grid technology, identifying the path to widespread adoption for V2G and the resulting benefits to the power grid.
(Fri, 02 Feb 2018) In July 2017, Californiaâs state legislature passed assembly bill (AB) 398 to reauthorize and extend until 2030 the stateâs economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction program. The bill sets a new GHG target of at least 40% below the 1990 level of emissions by 2030. As of 2015, about 86% of Californiaâs GHG emissions were related to the consumption of energy.
In the face of what it calls “challenging industry dynamics and other risks that could otherwise hinder its commercial performance,” the Bonneville Power Administration has released the BPA 2018-2023 Strategic Plan to help it adjust to the changing hydropower market.
Maire Tecnimont subsidiaries Tecnimont and KT-Kinetics Technology have been awarded an approximately $800m engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contract for new facilities as part of the modernization and reconstruction of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic’s (Socar) Heydar Aliyev Baku oil refinery.
There is no question that China is combining industrial and environmental policies in a way that is more radical than most, if not all, Western governments.
The commoditization of the global LNG market has had implications across several associated industries, ranging from the gas-fired power sector to seaborne gas transportation.
Ali Mani, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford, is doing computer simulations to test what could be a more efficient way to use concentrated sunlight as a heat source.
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