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Alliant Energy Brings Iowa’s Largest Solar Farm Online

POWER Magazine

Alliant Energy said a 200-MW solar facility in Linn County, Iowa, was recently brought online. The Pleasant Creek Solar installationrenamed after being known as Duane Arnold Solar during development and […] The post Alliant Energy Brings Iowa’s Largest Solar Farm Online appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Is the EU still transitioning to renewable energy?

Energy Transition

The EU promised a renewable energy future – but is it still on track? As political shifts, policy delays and legal battles unfold, the energy transition faces new hurdles. Are we still moving forward, or is Europe starting to backpedal? Seden Anlar reports. Once upon a time – 2019, to be exact – the European Green Deal was the golden child of EU policy.

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Gold Prices Sink as China Dumps Stockpiles

OilPrice

Just one week ago, China seemingly couldn't get enough of gold, and the price of spot briefly touched a record $3500 as a result of, among other things, staggering inflows into Chinese gold ETFs such as the Huaan Yifu, Bosera and Guotai gold ETFs. But, as with all things momentum-based in China, it's easy come, easy go in the land of Dragons, and as Goldman commodity trader Adam Gillard writes, China liquidated what it bought last week ahead of the Labor Day holiday, resulting in total onshore p

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Regional Partners Insights on Downstream Technology Strategies at PRC Europe 2025

Oil & Gas 360º

( Oil & Gas 360) – The Petrochemical and Refining Congress: Europe 2025 unites industry leaders in Milan on 19-20 May to address technological advancements: circular economy principles, low-carbon hydrogen ecosystem, energy transition and innovations in sustainable fuels. Supported by Regional Partners Technip Energies, Sonatrach Raffineria Italiana S.r.l., Wood and Saras S.p.A., the event facilitates strategic discussions on reshaping the downstream sectors future.

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Alberta’s Deregulated Grid Is Bracing for 11 GW of New Demand

POWER Magazine

While Alberta’s historical energy legacy has been defined by coal and crude oil, the Canadian province has embraced renewables and carbon capture over the past two decades, and is now exploring small modular The post Alberta’s Deregulated Grid Is Bracing for 11 GW of New Demand appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Gas-Fired Turbine Builders Largely Sold Out Through 2028

Marcellus Drilling News

Houston, we have a problem. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the data centers (banks of hundreds or thousands of computers) that support AI are being planned right now. All those data centers need reliable power supplies.

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Is Saudi Arabia Preparing for Another Oil Price War?

OilPrice

US benchmark WTI crude is down nearly 4% as Saudi Arabia reports emerge that not only can the Saudis sustain todays low oil prices, but output increases are likely to be announced next week, for June output, sources speaking to both Reuters and Bloomberg have indicated. On Wednesday, Reuters cited five unnamed sources as saying that the Saudis have no intention of boosting oil markets with further supply cuts, as Riyadhs budget can tolerate sustained low prices.

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The Next Five Years Will Define U.S. Nuclear’s Fate

POWER Magazine

The U.S. stands at a critical juncture. Were experiencing electric load growth for the first time in decades, as fierce global competition reshapes the energy landscape. Nuclear power, both the […] The post The Next Five Years Will Define U.S. Nuclears Fate appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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MDN Off May 1 – 9 for Graduation, Vacation

Marcellus Drilling News

A brief note to let our valued subscribers know that MDN will not be published from Thursday, May 1, to Friday, May 9. We will return with full-strength MDN on Monday, May 12. MDN editor Jim Willis and his wife are traveling to South Carolina to watch their youngest son graduate with a PhD! We.

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World Bank: Get Ready for a Commodity Price Freefall

OilPrice

It looks like the post-COVID commodity party is over - with the World Bank predicting a rather bleak end. In its latest report, the bank predicts that global commodity prices will plunge 12% in 2025 and another 5% in 2026, dragging them all the way back to their pre-pandemic levels. The World Bank expects energy prices, specifically, to fall 17% to their lowest levels in five years, and then another 6% next year.

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EnerCom opens registration for the 30th annual EnerCom Denver – The Energy Investment Conference- August 17-20, 2025

Oil & Gas 360º

(Oil & Gas 360) –Join us as we celebrate three decades of bringing together the energy industrys companies, investors, analysts, and industryleaders! Investors are encouraged to register for EnerCom Denver The Energy Investment Conference featuring a broad group of public and private energy companies at www.enercomdenver.com A robust list of companies has confirmed their participation, and more are being added daily Sponsorship opportunities are available for companies seeking to

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POWER Digest [May 2025]

POWER Magazine

Major German BESS Project Closes Financing. Energy transition bank NORD/LB announced it has closed an €87 million ($94 million) financing package with Nofar Energy for construction of a 104.5-MW/209-MWh The post POWER Digest [May 2025] appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Evolution’s Record-Breaking Marcellus Milestone Drilling EQT Well

Marcellus Drilling News

Evolution Well Services, headquartered in Houston with a regional office in Pittsburgh, specializes in electric fracking (“e-fracking”) using natural gas from the well pad instead of diesel fuel to power turbines that create electricity to drive fracking pumps.

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The AI Boom Runs on Oil, Gas, and Nuclear Power

OilPrice

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) have said that all options, including oil and gas, are on the table as tech giants continue to grapple with surging power demand by AI workloads. Energy and tech executives have gathered at the Hamm Institute for American Energy in Oklahoma City to discuss how the U.S. can meet the growing energy needs for AI data centers.

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US Weekly Oil Data

Energy Outlook Advisors

April 30, 2025 Energy Outlook Advisors' Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. EOA’s Main Takeaway Although inventory changes followed historical trends, the recent decline in gasoline inventories was larger and steeper than usual and the decline in crude inventories surprised traders.

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The Key to More Clean Energy? Wasting Less of It

POWER Magazine

The clean energy transition is progressing rapidly, but this extraordinary transformation is not without its challenges: outdated power grids and a lack of balancing technology means that we are wasting […] The post The Key to More Clean Energy? Wasting Less of It appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Dartmouth Sells Itself to Rockefeller Gang via Climate Study

Marcellus Drilling News

Isn’t it shameful how major Ivy League universities, like Cornell, Harvard, and now Dartmouth, sell out to the radicalized left? They offer up (sell) their prestigious names to be plastered on blatantly fake research studies that bash fossil energy. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from Dartmouth College have compromised their integrity, arguing.

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Indian Refiners Scoop Up Russian ESPO Crude As China Steps Back

OilPrice

India bought more Russian ESPO Blend oil in April than any month since August 2024, stepping in to scoop up what weakening Chinese demand for the blend has left behind, Reuters reported on Monday, citing LSEG data. In April, the Reuters report shows Indian ports taking in around 400,000 metric tons of Russian ESPO, up from only 100,000 metric tons the month prior.

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Scaling the Cisco AI Assistant for Support with Splunk

Cisco: Oil & Gas

Cisco needed to scale its virtual support engineer that assists its technical support teams around the world. By leveraging its own Splunk technology, Cisco was able to scale the AI assistant to support more than 1M cases and free up engineers to concentrate on more complex cases, creating a 93+% customer satisfaction rating, and ensuring the critical support continues running in the face of any disruption.

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GE Vernova Boosting Gas Turbine Capacity With Technology Upgrade

POWER Magazine

GE Vernova will install new equipment at a power plant in Iraq, its first use of the company's upgraded AGP XPAND technology. The latest version is an evolution of GE Vernova's Advanced Gas Path (AGP) system introduced more than a decade ago on the companys 9E.03 fleet to boost gas turbine capacity. The post GE Vernova Boosting Gas Turbine Capacity With Technology Upgrade appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Pennybacker’s Miami LNG Changes Name to Sawgrass LNG & Power

Marcellus Drilling News

Weve talked plenty about the big LNG export facilities scattered along the Gulf Coast that export a fair amount of Marcellus/Utica molecules, along with the two LNG export sites on the East Coast, both of which export 100% M-U molecules (Cove Point and Elba Island LNG).

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China's Oil Inventories Soar to Highest in Nearly Three Years

OilPrice

Crude oil inventories in China rose to the highest in almost three years in March, suggesting demand growth was lagging behind refinery processing rates, which hit a one-year high last month as Chinese oil processors took advantage of cheap Iranian and Russian crude. Reuters Clyde Russell reported that 1.74 million barrels daily went into storage last month in China, citing official data from Beijing and noting that this is the highest rate of storage inflows since June 2023.

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Oil price, Prospex. And finally…

Malcolm Graham Wood

Crude has given back a little ahead of the Opec+ meeting on Monday and Prospex has better news from Italy than it did from Spain. The post Oil price, Prospex. And finally… appeared first on Malcy's Blog.

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Solar and Steel Offer Resilience Against Breakage, Tariffs, Supply Chain Woes

POWER Magazine

The commercial solar industry, now more than 50 years old, is facing a pivotal moment. Years of rapid growthdriven by exponentially falling costs and rising demandare running up against global supply chain instability, geopolitical tensions, and structural vulnerabilities in the latest module designs. The post Solar and Steel Offer Resilience Against Breakage, Tariffs, Supply Chain Woes appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Bloomberg Admits NatGas No Longer a “Bridge” – Now the Destination

Marcellus Drilling News

What have we been telling you for YEARS? That natural gas is not a “bridge” to an unreliable renewable energy nirvana, but is, instead, the destination (see Baker Hughes CEO Says NatGas is the Destination, Not Just a Bridge). That truth is now so obvious that even the Commies at Bloomberg can no longer deny.

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Venezuela Sees Oil Exports Plunge 20% After Canceling Chevron Cargoes

OilPrice

Venezuela saw its oil exports slump by nearly 20% in April from March to the lowest level in nine months, after state-owned oil firm PDVSA canceled cargoes for Chevron, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing shipping documents and tanker-tracking data. Last month, the country holding the worlds largest crude oil reserves exported just 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude and fuels, according to the data.

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Emperor’s Clothes Syndrome and the energy transition

Energy Voice

To ensure the UK's energy transition is just industry needs a 'little boy in the crowd' much like in Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

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Utility Global, Hanwha Collaborate on Hydrogen Production Using Biogas

POWER Magazine

Utility Global, a clean hydrogen production group, announced it will partner with Hanwha Corp. E&C Division to carry out a preliminary front-end engineering (pre-FEED) and design study for the deployment of its proprietary H2Gen system at wastewater treatment plants in South Korea. The post Utility Global, Hanwha Collaborate on Hydrogen Production Using Biogas appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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WV Gov. Morrisey Signs Law to Store CO2 Under State-Owned Parks

Marcellus Drilling News

Last Thursday, West Virginia Governor Pat Morrisey signed Senate Bill (SB) 627 into law. SB 627 removes the previous ban on leasing “pore spaces” under state-owned parks. However, the bill explicitly prohibits any surface disturbance on state park land for drilling or injection. All lease revenues generated must be used exclusively for improvements and maintenance.

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Oil’s Forward Curve Flashes a Rare, Wobbly Smile

OilPrice

If oil had a face right now, it would be grinning awkwardlyand Morgan Stanley cant look away. According to the banks latest note, the Brent crude forward curve has twisted itself into a bizarre shape: its sloping down hard across the first nine contracts, then turning upward into 2026. In Morgan Stanleys words, there is little historical precedent for this lopsided smile.

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Site unseen: Where will all these data centers be built?

Enverus

CALGARY, Alberta (April 30, 2025) Enverus Intelligence Research (EIR), a subsidiary of Enverus, the most trusted energy-dedicated SaaS company that leverages generative AI across its solutions, has released a report analyzing connections between data center developers and landowners. The report evaluates the capacity potential of data center buildouts across the Lower 48, highlighting developer efficiency, targeted regions and capacity estimates based on owned acreage.

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Modernizing Hydropower to Maximize its Potential

POWER Magazine

As wind and solar dominate global investment in renewable energy, hydropowers potential to enhance grid resilience and expand energy supply remains largely untapped, and that potential is only expanding with the integration of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI). The post Modernizing Hydropower to Maximize its Potential appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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French Investment Firm Buys Out SW Pa. Gas-Fired Power Plant

Marcellus Drilling News

A power project we’ve been tracking since 2017 is a 620-megawatt (MW) Marcellus-fired electric plant in Greene County, PA, called the Hill Top Energy Center (see our stories here). In 2019, investment firm Ardian, based in Paris, France, announced that it had purchased a 41.9% stake in the project, becoming the majority owner (see SWPA.

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Raindrops Power New Renewable Energy Breakthrough

OilPrice

Raindrops could hold the key to next generation renewable energy. Scientists in Singapore recently managed to generate electricity from rain-like water droplets with a surprisingly promising amount of efficiency. If this scientific breakthrough proves to be scalable and, eventually, commercially viable, this could have major implications for the global decarbonization movement, and could provide a new form of residential clean energy production.

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Oil price, Zephyr, Corcel. And finally…

Malcolm Graham Wood

Oil fell as data, gossip and inventories proved negative. Zephyr announce that the well has nearly finished testing and Corcel are on the move at KON-16 in Angola. The post Oil price, Zephyr, Corcel. And finally… appeared first on Malcy's Blog.

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Aggreko Expands Data Center Solutions with Liquid-Cooled Load Bank

POWER Magazine

Aggreko said it has launched a 500-kW liquid-cooled resistive load bank, purpose-built for liquid-to-liquid data center commissioning and testing for North American customers. The energy solutions group said the load […] The post Aggreko Expands Data Center Solutions with Liquid-Cooled Load Bank appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center in SWPA to Use Local Wells

Marcellus Drilling News

In January, MDN brought you the news that TECfusions, based in Tampa, Florida, had purchased 1,395 acres in Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County), PA, for a groundbreaking data center project called TECfusions Keystone Connect (see Massive 3 GW Gas-Fired AI/Data Center Coming to Southwest Pa.). The site is the old Alcoa R&D campus and the surrounding.

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