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Natural Gas Ascending: Opportunities Abound For Domestic Energy Source

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After many years as a sideline in the US energy business, natural gas has become the central fuel driving new generation, with opportunities to remake the American energy economy both regionally and globally.

It is hard to remember when natural gas was flared as a waste product in the search for oil; many of those same oil giants are quickly becoming gas giants instead as the scale of the available shale gas resource becomes apparent. Increased use of natural gas has been hailed as the next step in responding to global warming threats, and as a way to reduce US dependence on energy imports. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 25, 2011 at 6:00 AM

The Game Changer: Developing Natural Gas Shales

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Can you have too much a good thing? When it comes to natural gas, massive new supply development could alleviate energy price increases, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and enhance US energy security, but finding the right price to encourage development when a glut of gas is available remains a challenge for both producers and consumers.

Covering the quickly-evolving natural gas industry requires a broad range of knowledge, and Ballard Spahr LLP partner Dena Wiggins demonstrates an unusually comprehensive understanding of the sector’s opportunities and challenges in this Breaking Energy video interview. Breaking Energy spoke with Ballard Spahr attorneys at the US Association For Energy Economics conference in Washington, DC earlier this month. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 24, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Bringing Transparency To Transmission Planning

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The average US customer is paying only 7% of their electricity bill to cover transmission investment, John Jimison of the Energy Future Coalition told Breaking Energy in this video from the US Association for Energy Economics Conference in Washington, DC.

As regulators move to address a “decades-long under-investment in transmission,” a number of incumbent utilities are opposing the approach the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has taken in one of its most recent orders, widely known as FERC 1000. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 21, 2011 at 9:00 AM

Energy Data Series Head For The Exits As Budget Cuts Pinch

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Learning to live with less is an increasingly common experience across the US federal government as budget cuts bite, but the hidden costs of those cuts are often poorly understood.

The energy business, like all industrial sectors, lives off of a continual flow of data. Much of that data originates with the federal government, and for energy much of it arises from the activities of the Energy Information Administration. The EIA’s mission, to provide independent and impartial energy information, has become so widely accepted as to be almost invisible to its users. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 20, 2011 at 10:15 AM

Kicking Off USAEE In Washington DC

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This year, Breaking Energy is covering the USAEE conference in full force.

Hosted by the United States Association for Energy Economics, the conference is taking place in Washington DC this year from October 9 – 12. In this video, Breaking Energy Managing Editor Peter Gardett kicks of the conference with a video introduction. Read his in-depth analysis of the conference: Making The Numbers Sing In DC. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Oil Spill Clean Up Prize Seeks To Award The Best And The Fastest

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If you made the mess, you should learn to clean it up, says Wendy Schmidt.

Schmidt is the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation which has funded the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge to award $1 million to the group that can clean oil up from water at both the highest Oil Recovery Rate (ORR) and the highest Oil Recovery Efficiency (ORE). Keep reading →

 /  Published October 7, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Areva: Codes Of Conduct In Nuclear Absolutely Key

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Though it is already tightly regulated, the nuclear industry might also need conduct rules.

In this video, Areva’s Corporate Business Ethics Advisor, Olivier Loubiere explains the French energy company’s “unprecedented” decision to “self-regulate” and adopt a code of conduct, what Loubiere calls in this video “a set of voluntary best practices.” Keep reading →

 /  Published October 4, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Keeping The Expertise, Even After The Project Is Over

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GE and Shell have been close partners in overseas development, particularly in gas and oil drilling.

In this video, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company’s Donald Sabatini talks about how Shell is using GE equipment to move from shallow to deeper oil and gas reserves in Nigeria and how important that relationship has been for development. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 3, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Solar Discovery Shakes Century-Old Science

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Physicists at the University of Michigan have made a breakthrough discovery that could change the way solar panels are constructed, making them cheaper to manufacture.

The team, led by Dr. Stephen Rand, a professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics and Applied Physics, discovered that at the right intensity, light traveling through a material that does not conduct electricity can generate magnetic effects 100 million times stronger than previously estimated. That magnetic power, could be used to create an “optical battery,” Rand said. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 30, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Defending The Stimulus On Energy Job Creation

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The scale of unemployment in the US makes each individual job seem less impactful than the proverbial drop in the bucket, but each individual story of a job gained still carries emotional weight well beyond the economic gains.

At least that’s the hope in this unusually personal and emotional video from the US Energy Department, posted two weeks ago on its Youtube channel as new job numbers showed a renewed slowing in an economy where growth failed to meaningfully pick up after the 2008 financial crisis despite unprecedented amounts of government stimulus. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 26, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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