Updated Aug 22, 2024
8/22/24
California’s largest oil producer, which cleared Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization earlier this year, has gained national recognition for its decarbonization efforts just as its CEO Todd Stevens, 53, is leaving.
Fortistar President Mark Comora is sticking to his guns to ramp up additional renewable natural gas (RNG) projects, with a new Florida project to fuel natural gas vehicles (NGV).
California’s grid operator this week brushed off recent FERC staff criticism of its handling of last summer’s heat wave that resulted in state-ordered rolling blackouts throughout the nation’s most populous state last Aug. 14-15.
Natural gas remains essential to the global energy transition, according to most U.S. executives, but many see a reduced or evolving role as renewables gain and the energy transition accelerates.
With an anti-fossil fuel push across the Pacific Northwest, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee recently rolled out a climate change program that focuses on electrification to decarbonize.
Natural gas remains essential to the global energy transition, according to most U.S. executives, but many see a reduced or evolving role as renewables gain and the energy transition accelerates.
Poised to rise back to 2019 levels and beyond, the global capex spending on renewables is estimated to grow 8.5% to $255 billion in 2021, according to IHS Markit.
Proponents of the natural gas, oil and renewable energy sectors all found something to like about a $2.3 trillion omnibus spending and coronavirus relief package passed late Monday by the House and Senate, although President Trump stalled the proceedings in a surprise video address Tuesday.
A major distributor of renewable natural gas (RNG) for transportation has crafted separate partnerships with global supermajors BP plc and Total SE to expand U.S. production of the potentially carbon-negative fuel.
California has authorized Sempra Energy’s two state utilities to begin a three-year voluntary pilot program that would offer renewable natural gas (RNG) to residential and small commercial/industrial customers.