IEEFA: Acuerdo de LUMA Energy allana camino para que los reguladores de...
12 de octubre de 2020 (IEEFA) – Un importante contrato firmado con el consorcio LUMA Energy puede impedir que Puerto Rico construya un sistema eléctrico seguro, confiable y resiliente, según un nuevo...
View ArticleIEEFA: LUMA Energy deal paves way for Puerto Rico regulators to repeat past...
October 12, 2020 (IEEFA) ‒ A major contract signed with the LUMA Energy consortium may prevent Puerto Rico from building a safe, reliable and resilient electrical system, according to a new report from...
View ArticleTransAlta begins commercial operation of Alberta’s first battery storage project
Saur Energy: TransAlta Renewables has announced that its 10 MW WindCharger battery storage project began commercial operation on October 15, 2020. WindCharger is Alberta’s first utility-scale,...
View ArticleIEEFA update: Dalrymple’s potential stock market debut
Preparations to float Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal (DBCT) on the Australian Stock Exchange appear to be heating up, with a potential listing date slated for the fourth quarter of this year. Initially...
View ArticleIEEFA: Canadian assessment of LNG ‘rising tide’ would drown balance sheets in...
October 19, 2020 (IEEFA)— The Conference Board of Canada, an Ottawa-based research organization, has doubled down on a bad hand, according to an analysis by the Institute for Energy Economics and...
View ArticleIEEFA: From zero to fifty, global financial corporations get cracking on...
20 October 2020 (IEEFA): Fifty globally significant financial institutions have introduced policies restricting oil sands and/or oil and gas drilling in the Arctic including 23 to date this year,...
View ArticleTransAlta to convert its Canadian coal-fired plants to gas by yearend 2021
CBC: TransAlta will end operations at Highvale thermal coal mine by the end of 2021 as it switches to natural gas at all of its coal-fired plants in Canada. The announcement brings with it hundreds of...
View ArticleA Canadian Province Moves Aggressively Toward Development of a New Energy...
Jason Chee-Alloy, an energy market analyst with PowerAdvisory LLC in Toronto, is out with a valuable overview of Alberta’s plan to transform its electricity grid to zero coal consumption by 2030....
View ArticleAlberta Moves to Protect Taxpayers From Coal-Mine Cleanup Costs
Tracy Johnson for CBC News: As Alberta moves away from coal-fired electricity, the provincial government is trying to ensure it will not be on the hook to clean up old coal mines once they stop...
View ArticleShell Divesting From $1 Billion in Canadian Oil-Sand Assets
Chester Dawson for the Wall Street Journal: Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it had reached a deal to sell $1 billion of shale-oil and gas assets in Western Canada as part of a global divestment program to...
View ArticleIEEFA Report: Three Timely Takeaways on 2016 Global Energy Transformation
Three notable takeaways emerge from the rapid transformation of the global energy economy, as we detail in a new paper we published today as the landmark Paris Agreement officially goes into effect....
View ArticleElection Outcome Means ‘Much Work to Do’ for Pipeline Opponents
Ernest Scheyder and Valerie Volcovici for Reuters:The surprising victory by Native American and environmental groups in September to delay the Dakota Access Pipeline may turn out to be short-lived,...
View ArticleCanada Plans Coal Phase-Out by 2030
Ethan Lou for Reuters: Canada will announce on Monday a plan to virtually eliminate the use of traditional coal-fired electricity by 2030, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported, citing anonymous...
View ArticleOil Companies Begin to Consider ‘Eventual Abandonment’ of Reserves
Sarah Kent, Bradley Olson and Georgi Kantchev for the Wall Street Journal: A new era of low crude prices and stricter regulations on climate change is pushing energy companies and resource-rich...
View ArticleMarket Tide Buries Canadian Oil Sands
SNL: In the last month, Royal Dutch Shell plc and Conoco Inc. shed most of their upstream oil sands operations in the country in a pair of deals that valued their assets at just over C$30 billion....
View ArticleIEEFA Investor Memo ExxonMobil (XOM): Company Is an ‘Outlier’ in How It...
April 17, 2017 (IEEFA.org) – The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) today published an investor memo questioning whether ExxonMobil has appropriately accounted for its...
View ArticleSetback to Kinder Morgan’s Canadian Oil Sands Pipeline Project
Reuters: British Columbia will not allow Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd to begin work on public land for its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion until it “meaningfully” consults aboriginal communities,...
View ArticleCanada, Netherlands, U.K. Join List of Countries Turning Against Coal
Power Magazine: The Netherlands, a country that recently commissioned three state-of-the-art coal plants and has been reluctant to close them, on October 10 moved to phase out coal power by 2030....
View ArticleOn the Blogs: Canada, U.K., and Netherlands in Pact to Phase Out Coal
International Institute for Sustainable Development: One indication that the global transition towards low-carbon forms of energy is picking up speed is the decline in demand for coal, as renewable...
View ArticleIn Coal Phase-Outs, Canada and U.K. Part With U.S.
Globe and Mail: Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and her British counterpart, Claire Perry, will launch an international alliance to phase out coal-fired electricity at the Bonn climate summit...
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