Blowout week 89
Problems for Gazprom, E.ON not to spin off nuclear after all, Hinkley “not a bottomless pit”, Japan burns record coal, Paris Climate Conference falling short, radiocarbon dates may be wrong, Scotland...
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This week we kick of with news that the oil price has returned to the level it was at when OPEC announced the production cuts that were initiated in January 2017 and the quandary that OPEC and Russia...
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At last count the state of California, 30 US cities and many major US corporations, encouraged by studies purporting to show that 100% renewable energy is a readily-achievable goal, have adopted 100%...
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Elon Musk, making good on his promise to solve South Australia’s energy woes, has signed a contract with the South Australia government to install the world’s largest (100MW/129MWh) battery bank next...
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Electric cars are very much in the news. The Tesla bubble looks like it may just have burst with static instead of exponentially rising sales, France has declared it will phase out diesel and petrol...
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Electric cars (or EVs) are more expensive than internal combustion engine (ICE) equivalents and return little tax revenue on their fuel use in the UK. In the UK electric cars are subsidised to the tune...
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This week we kick off with more electricity market reform in the UK and continue with OPEC’s continuing trials and tribulations; US shale producers cut back; the South China Sea oil & gas standoff;...
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This week’s Blowout feature article returns us to Scotland, where the evergreen government now proposes to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2032. We follow with our usual mix of stories, including...
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We celebrate our 200th Blowout with a visit to the storm-ravaged island of Puerto Rico, where Elon Musk is about to show the world how to build a grid from scratch using Solarcity panels and Tesla...
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This week we return to the Big South Australian Battery (BSAB), the alleged success of which – the “Tesla effect” – is spawning a raft of similar projects elsewhere in the country. Coming after we have...
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Without urgent action the UK will miss its climate targets, says this week’s feature story. What will it take to meet them? Carbon capture and storage and lots of electric cars. We follow with the US...
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This week we feature OPEC, which has agreed to raise production without specifying by exactly how much. The market, however, appears to regard this outcome as favorable and oil prices are up. We follow...
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In this week's Blowout we feature China, where the central government's edict to cancel over 100 planned coal plants is being ignored by local authorities who are continuing to build them anyway (the...
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