Erika Green Investment manager Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) said Wednesday it invested over $400 million for its clients in the Grande Prairie Wind project (GPW), Kallanish Energy finds. GPW is a 400-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Holt County, Nebraska – the largest wind energy project in the state’s history – owned by BHE Renewables, a Berkshire Hathaway … Read more
Thirty-nine months after it occurred, a 20,000-barrel (Bbl) oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up – and the company responsible for the accident has yet to set a date for completion. Though crews have been working 24/7 to deal with the Tesoro pipeline break, which happened in in September 2013, less than … Read more
A 119-turbine wind farm in Aroostook County that would have been the largest in Maine and one of the largest ever planned for New England has withdrawn its application, citing interconnection problems. EDP Renewables has told the Maine Department of Environmental Protection that it’s not going forward for now with the Number Nine Wind Farm, … Read more
Sempra Energy said Tuesday its liquefied natural gas (LNG) subsidiaries have filed applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to site, construct and operate the Port Arthur LNG natural gas liquefaction facility. The FERC application includes: two natural gas liquefaction trains capable of producing roughly 13.5 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA), or approximately … Read more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected a rehearing on unauthorized tree cutting associated with the $1 billion Constitution Pipeline in New York and Pennsylvania, Kallanish Energy reports. The rehearing had been requested by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. He had filed his objections last May and FERC had rejected them in … Read more
U.S. pipeline exports of natural gas continued to grow in 2016, having doubled since 2009, the Energy Information Administration reports. Most of the growth is attributable to increasing exports to Mexico, which have accounted for more than half of all U.S. natural gas exports since April 2015, Kallanish Energy learns. In August, … Read more
Since March of this year, the U.S. has been exporting liquefied natural gas, LNG, to a very unlikely region of the world: the Middle East. Two cargoes of LNG from Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass complex in western Louisiana were exported to Kuwait, while a third went to the United Arab Emirates, and two others were … Read more
Amazon.com said Monday it’s commissioned a new 189-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Hardin County, Ohio, to help offset the power needs of its cloud computing business, Kallanish Energy reports. Amazon Web Services, the tech giant’s cloud computing division, has vowed to fill at least half of the energy needs of its big data centers using … Read more
Companies operating natural gas-fired power plants in New York are challenging a new state subsidy put in place to keep the state’s nuclear facilities online, Kallanish Energy learns. Earlier this week, a coalition of power plant owners sued the New York State Public Service Commission in federal court over a multi-billion-dollar, 12-year program approved in … Read more
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