Poland is set to spend $16 billion on upgrading and expanding its power grid to accommodate additional renewable and nuclear capacity, the country’s power grid operator said on Friday. Grid operator PSE said that its draft investment plan includes more than 3,000 miles of 400 kV transmission lines in a …
Read More »EV Makers Worried about Europe’s Charging System
Carmakers preparing new EV models in a bid to take over the European market are worried grid and charging network constraints could challenge sales. According to a Bloomberg report, executives from some of the largest carmakers are flagging a lack of fast-enough grid expansion and the absence of a single …
Read More »Norway’s Ambitious Plan to Store Carbon Dioxide in the North Sea
Norway has big plans to pump waste carbon from oil and gas operations and heavy industry under the seabed of the North Sea to be stored safely underground. It believes this method will be key to decarbonizing its fossil fuel activities in the coming years and supporting a green transition. …
Read More »EIA Raises Crude Oil Price Outlook
The Energy Information Administration lifted its outlook for Brent crude oil prices for this year and next, the agency said in a Tuesday report. The EIA now sees the spot price for Brent crude oil averaging $87 per barrel, according to the latest edition of the Short-Term Energy Outlook published …
Read More »IEA, OPEC Divergence on Oil Demand becomes Too Big to Ignore
Ever since the International Energy Agency switched from a pure-play information provider to an advocate of the energy transition, its forecasts about oil demand have shifted to increasingly reflect this advocacy. This has led to a growing divergence between the IEA’s and OPEC’s outlooks on the future of the commodity, …
Read More »Indian Steelmaker Plans to Build Europe’s most Advanced Rail Mill
One of India’s fastest-growing steel companies JSW Steel, recently announced the next step in its growth plan. In a major steel news event, JSW Steel Italy SRL inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Italian government to re-start production operations at the Piombino plant via a €140 million investment. …
Read More »Oil Output in US Seen Rising more than Expected as OPEC Cuts
Oil production in the US this year will increase faster than previously expected, helping cushion global supplies as OPEC and its allies restrict output, according to government forecasts. US crude oil production is set to increase to 13.19 million barrels per day this year, up from from a previous projection …
Read More »Big Oil Pursues African Expansion despite Challenges
Investments in new oil production have been stalling since about 2014. This has led many to suggest that higher prices for longer are on the cards, supported by anti-oil industry energy policies in key jurisdictions that are home to the largest private producers. Yet a case might be made that …
Read More »U.S. Remains World’s Largest Oil Producer for Sixth Year in a Row
The United States produced more crude oil than any other country in 2023, for the sixth year in a row, with production averaging 12.9 million barrels per day, up from 12.3 million bpd in 2019, which set a global record at the time, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). …
Read More »Morocco to Allocate 1 Million Hectares to Green Hydrogen Projects
Morocco is looking to attract green hydrogen investments by allocating 1 million hectares of public land to projects, the government said on Monday. The first stage of the hydrogen project development will include providing investors with a total of 300,000 hectares of plots of land ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 …
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