Moving into the next boom time for the domestic U. S. oil and gas business doesn’t necessarily mean you will be repeating the outcomes of the last one.

Humanity’s pursuit of good trends has often unleashed unintended bad trends, as 2020 made painfully clear. As we recover, we can focus on those sectors where the good trends are decoupling from the bad.

The move to electrify and decarbonize the economy could pay off big for utilities. But are they investing enough in their infrastructures to achieve success?

A company out of Boulder, CO called Scout Clean Energy has applied for a permit to build a massive turbine wind farm in Washington State on the Horse Heaven Hills, circumventing the local government. But they’re building it in the wrong state.

As clean energy costs keep falling, China’s carbon neutral opportunity is exporting the technologies it develops to decarbonize at home, improving domestic competitiveness in international clean energy markets.

Speculation abounds about the prospect of a new mining super-cycle. We may not be quite there yet - but it won’t be long before some markets become structurally undersupplied, particularly if the energy transition accelerates.

Gasoline prices have risen sharply since the beginning of the year. Today I explain the reasons.

The lesson of the deep freeze in Texas was that sound utility infrastructure is vital to the survival of the nation.

With the partial collapse of Texas’ power grid, the way natural gas is extracted, moved and stored plays a key role. The Permian Basin is a bountiful source of associated gas that keeping Texas lit up. Yet it comes with specific requirements.conditions.

The history of the oil and gas business in the United States is that every time the “experts” all line up to declare it to be dead, it finds a way to come roaring back.

Complaints of rising gas prices overlook the obvious: Supply, Demand, Cold Weather, and A Pandemic.

Electric vehicles do not appear to be competitive with gasoline vehicles for most consumers.

To help shape a bipartisan agenda for Congress, leaders from the electric utility sector, environmental organizations, and energy think tanks have been meeting regularly since March 2020.

A total of 1.26 trillion in revenue losses is anticipated for suppliers within the next five years due to climate change, deforestation, and water insecurity.

For energy policy makers around the world, the lessons of the Texas debacle will be a warning sign in their own planning for power grid reliability and resilience to adverse events.

As the losses, lawsuits, and bankruptcies caused by the Texas Blackouts pile up, it’s no longer a question of if the state will have to bailout its electricity market, it’s a question of when, and how much it will cost.

In the courts, even with new appointees under the Trump Administration as judges, we still won over and over and over again, said Biden’s national climate advisor

The Israeli government is accusing Iran of environmental terrorism over the historic oil disaster unfolding along its Mediterranean coast line.

The firing of ERCOT CEO Bill Magness comes just days after the chair of the state’s Public Utility Commission, DeAnn Walker, resigned from her position hours after Lt. Governor Dan Patrick had publicly called for both her and Magness to take that action.

Ample is a new electric vehicle charging system which works by having robots quickly replace small modular battery packs in electric cars, getting them back on the road in a few minutes, not unlike a gasoline fill-up. Battery swap has failed before, but this might change that.

The Biden administration says that it committed to hitting net-zero targets by 2050 and to leaving no one behind. And the oil and gas sector could carbon pricing to get there.

The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office “as of today, is back in business,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced this morning.

Although fossil fuels may have no future in a decarbonized world, fossil fuel firms may still have a role to play in the decades of climate transition ahead. Can responsible financial engagement with these companies support current energy needs and climate goals?

Volvo will eliminate combustion engines by 2030, including all hybrid models, and shift entirely to all-electric powertrain over the next decade.

After ice formed on many wind turbines in Texas and caused them to shut down, it raised questions about whether that source of power could have kept running with the right modifications. Is keeping the turbines spinning in severe winter weather a cost-effective way to bolster the grid?