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
Federal and state agencies are investigating a $2 million fire suspected of being arson along the Dakota Access Pipeline in central Iowa, Kallanish Energy reports. The fire occurred last weekend near Reasnor in Jasper County. An excavator and three bulldozers owned by a contractor were destroyed. No arrests have been made. The fire is … Read more
Could western Pennsylvania be getting a second ethane cracker plant? That possibility surfaced at an Aug. 23 public meeting in Beaver County where Royal Dutch Shell has plans to build such a facility, Kallanish Energy has learned. A state official, Dennis Davin of the Department of Community and Economic Development, said the … Read more
Poland’s energy ministry said Tuesday it’s mulling construction of a nuclear power plant to help the country meet its growing electricity demand, Kallanish Energy learns. In 2009, Poland launched a project to build two nuclear power plants through state-owned power group PGE – one in the north, potentially at Zarnoweic and another in the eastern … Read more
Something’s wrong with this picture. While solar energy generally is backed by groups that want to cut greenhouse gases, a proposed solar project at a defunct Long Island, New York, nuclear power plant has stirred tensions because it requires clear-cutting 350 acres of woods. “Choosing solar over forests anywhere in the world is just plain … Read more
Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) could push forward hydraulic fracturing (fracking) exploration and the development of a shale gas industry in the UK, Kallanish Energy learns. Since the Brexit vote, the pound has dropped roughly 11% and currency weakness has made it more expensive to import gas. Without a domestic gas production, the … Read more
Nigerian militants have claimed an attack on Chevron-operated oil pipelines — less than two weeks after the government declared a cease-fire, and even as a worker strike further hampered efforts to restore production in the West African country. Rebels known as the Niger Delta Avengers late Wednesday blew up remote pipe systems, which followed an attacked … Read more
The Nigerian militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) claimed Thursday to have blown up a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), the first attack since its proposal for a dialogue with the government, Kallanish Energy learns. “At 4:00am @NDAvengers blow up NNPC Pipeline in Oruk Anam Local Government Area … Read more
Iran, which easily beat expectations for how fast it boosted crude oil exports after sanctions were lifted, now needs a massive cash injection and the easing of remaining trade barriers, or the recovery could be kaput. Most industry watchers said when the shackles on Iran’s oil exports were unbuckled in January following a nuclear pact … Read more
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