Courtesy and © Focus Features Dodged a bullet. Whistled past the graveyard. Rolled the dice. Whatever metaphor you prefer, it looks like utility communicators will not get “fracked” by the…
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Monthly Issue | April 1, 2013
Source: Antandrus/en.Wikipedia Shale—the titular “rock” this month—has been in the energy news almost continuously the past year or two. It’s impossible to go to an energy conference, something I do…
Source: Wikipedia/Creative Commons Speaking at the IHS CERAWeek conference in Houston Mar. 4–7, the leaders of several natural gas and power companies revealed starkly different views of the future of…
Readers of GAS POWER are probably aware that, since the late 1990s, there has been a fundamental shift in the U.S. natural gas market: Power generation has gradually replaced industrial…
The California Energy Commission (CEC) held a workshop on Mar. 7 entitled Costs of Non-Renewable and Fossil Fueled Generation in California. Perhaps a better title—based on the presentation material, anyway—would…
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) has thus far been an issue mainly for coal plants as they struggle with the means of complying with impending U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carbon…
The vast new shale gas reserves in North America have created an oversupplied natural gas market with historically low gas prices. However, this same low-cost gas will enable many world-scale…