Energy Transition

Since Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, countries around the world are shifting their energy priorities, according to a group of experts who spoke in New York City on Wednesday. The last 10 months have brought the issues of energy security, climate change and affordability “into contention,” according to Fahad Alajlan, president of Saudi Arabia’s King…

As Sempra Infrastructure continues to progress its LNG export terminal projects on the Gulf Coast and in Mexico, President Dan Brouillette said demand for natural gas is also helping influence the investments in alternative fuels.  The subsidiary of San Diego-based Sempra and Avangrid Inc. disclosed a potential partnership on Wednesday to explore multiple projects to…

Chevron Corp. and California Bioenergy LLC are expanding their dairy biomethane business to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) as a transportation fuel in the Golden State.  Subsidiary Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and CalBio, as it is known, invested in a second holding company, CalBioGas Hilmar LLC, to build infrastructure for biomethane projects in Merced County. “We…

Infrastructure developer and investor Glenfarne Group LLC has created Glenfarne Energy Transition LLC (GET), focused on high-growth emerging markets and energy solutions, renewable power and grid stability. “GET believes that the world needs to adopt renewables at an accelerating rate to fight climate change and achieve energy security, but economies globally lack sufficient grid stability…

Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) were able to identify and measure the ratio of ethane to methane from different polluters, which the laboratory said could bolster efforts in achieving the Global Methane Pledge.  The University of California’s Office of the President and Laboratory Directed Research and Development at Los Alamos National Laboratory…

New York, following the green trail of California, last month adopted several measures to speed up the state’s adoption of electric vehicles (EV) and zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV).  Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) urged the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to issue regulations that would require all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state…

Colorado-based Carbon America has inked a deal for a project to capture and store about 175,000 tons/year of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Bridgeport Ethanol LLC production facility in Nebraska. The figure is equivalent to 95% of total emissions from the facility’s fermentation process, and would have the annual impact of taking 38,043 passenger vehicles…

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow, in which NGI Senior Markets Editor Kevin Dobbs interviews Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright. Wright is bullish on natural gas demand for years to come – and says fossil fuels will be needed for many decades, likely much longer.   Against that backdrop,…

Thirteen Massachusetts-based municipal public power entities have agreed to purchase more than 110 GWh/year of electricity from two hydroelectric power plants in Connecticut owned by FirstLight Power Resources Inc. The offtaker under the power purchase agreement (PPA) is Energy New England (ENE), a wholesale risk management and energy trading organization serving municipal utilities in New…