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Mexican Senate votes to give constitutional preference to state power company

October 17, 2024

(Investing) – MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Senate voted to amend the country’s constitution late on Wednesday to give dispatch preferences to state electricity company CFE, cementing the national power generator’s preferential status above foreign or private competitors. The initiative passed the upper chamber of Congress with 86 votes to 39, meeting the requirement of two-thirds support to change the constitution. The

Europe’s renewable power prices drop

October 17, 2024

(Oil Price) – Moderating inflation and reduced market volatility compared to 2022 and 2023 resulted in lower prices for renewable electricity in power purchase agreements across Europe. During the third quarter of 2024, power purchase agreements (PPAs) for electricity sourced from renewable energy showed a 12.4% decline in price, compared to the same period of 2023, according to data from price

UK power firm burnt wood from environmentally sensitive areas in Canada

October 16, 2024

(Oil Price) – UK power group Drax has found that wood burnt at its biomass power station in the UK is “highly likely” to have come from environmentally sensitive areas of old forests in Canada, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing internal Drax emails it has seen. A Drax internal review has found that the wood from its suppliers from British Columbia

BMW says EU ban on gasoline cars from 2035 is “No longer realistic”

October 15, 2024

(Oil Price) – Germany’s car manufacturing giant BMW is warning that an EU ban on the sale of gasoline and diesel cars from 2035 is “no longer realistic” amid slow EV sales as the European auto industry will see a “massive shrinking” with such a ban. European carmakers are already struggling with their EV sales as subsidies in many countries are

The double-edged sword of AI in the Energy sector

October 14, 2024

(Oil Price) – AI could cause a catastrophic collapse of under-prepared electric grids and walk back advancements in the decarbonization of the tech industry – or, it could be the sector’s saving grace. Artificial Intelligence requires a stunning amount of energy to train and power its complex computations. As the sector explodes, the computational power necessary to sustain its growth is doubling

Spanish power giant Iberdrola doubles UK investment to $31 billion

October 11, 2024

(Oil Price) – Spanish utility giant Iberdrola plans to double its UK investments to $31.3 billion (24 billion British pounds) by 2028, Europe’s biggest electricity company said in a statement. Iberdrola, one of the biggest utilities and renewable energy developers in Europe and the Americas, previously planned to invest $15.7 billion (12 billion pounds) in the UK between 2024 and 2028. Now

Cryptominer MARA taps U.S. shale patch power generation in new pilot program

October 8, 2024

(BOE Report) – MARA Holdings Inc., the world’s largest publicly traded bitcoin miner, has begun producing power in the U.S. shale patch as part of a pilot program to fuel 25 megawatts of its mining operations with excess natural gas, the company told Reuters on Tuesday. The move comes as intensifying competition for electricity between Big Tech’s AI data

Exclusive: One Power Company at EnerCom Denver-The Energy Investment Conference 2024

August 27, 2024

Oil and Gas 360 Publisher’s Note: You can view the EnerCom Denver—The Energy Investment Conference and the Energy Transition and Emerging Technologies Series presenter replays for a limited time. One Power Company builds, owns, and operates major electrical infrastructure for industrial energy users on their side of the meter. One Power is already building the customer-centric power grid of the

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EV market softens, car makers adjust

August 7, 2024

Oil and Gas 360 Ford’s on-going” market therapy” regarding a less than enthusiastic reception for its three EV models is costing the company about $3 billion to convert a Canadian plant from its purpose-built EV design to produce more of its Super Duty truck models (F-250, 350 and 450). Trucks constitute the lion’s share of Ford’s business; its F-150 internal

AI and the grid with natural gas and coal to the rescue?- oil and gas 360

AI and the grid, natural gas and coal to the rescue?

July 31, 2024

Oil and Gas 360 “Knowledge workers” anticipating a cheap energy/low emissions post-industrial work-from-home economy are having to confront the need for more industrial production of natural resources and infrastructure as the energy needs for the data centers making their work possible via the internet, cloud and now Artificial Intelligence (AI) are growing exponentially. Data centers are increasingly recognized as another

U.S. boosts natural gas power as wind output slumps to 33-month low

July 25, 2024

Oil Price U.S. natural gas-fired power generation jumped this week amid the lowest wind power output in 33 months seen on Monday while demand for cooling is rising in the summer. On July 22, wind power output in the Lower 48 states was at its lowest level in the country since October 4, 2021, per preliminary data from the U.S.

Global electricity demand is soaring

July 19, 2024

Oil Price Economic growth, higher demand for cooling amid heat waves, the rapid rise of data centers, and continued electrification are set to push the growth in global electricity demand to one of the highest paces in the past 20 years in 2024 and 2025, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday. Electricity demand is set for growth of about 4%

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