(Wed, 20 Sep 2017) Hurricane Irma struck Florida on September 10, 2017, and knocked out power to 6.7 million electricity customersâ64% of all customer accounts in the stateâaccording to reports compiled by the Florida Division of Emergency Management. About 100,000 customers (1% of the state total) remained without power as of September 19.
(Tue, 19 Sep 2017) Based on projections in EIAâs <em>International Energy Outlook 2017 (IEO2017)</em>, much of the future growth in world energy consumption will occur in the nations of Asia outside of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (or non-OECD Asia).
Florida rose from a swamp and never stopped growing. But hurricanes become harder to absorb as the buildings keep spreading.
Cal-ISO was expected to break a more than decade-long peakload record September 1 as a heat wave sat over the region, but solar changed the game.
Despite the billions of dollars that have flowed into Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA in recent years, crude oil and refining output continues to languish. It is not lack of investment hindering growth, though.
(Mon, 18 Sep 2017) Based on data recently published in EIAâs preliminary annual electric generator survey, several coal-fired electricity generators in the United States installed mercury control equipment using activated carbon injection systems just prior to compliance deadlines.
In 1968 there was an American college football game in which Harvard, an underdog entering the game, scored 16 points in the final 42 seconds to miraculously tie Yale 29-29. This sounds familiar to US scrap dealers.
(Fri, 15 Sep 2017) Hurricane Irma significantly disrupted gasoline markets in Florida, first by prompting increased demand and then by disrupting the supply chain needed to deliver the fuel.
(Thu, 14 Sep 2017) The U.S. Energy Information Administration's latest <em>International Energy Outlook 2017</em> (IEO2017) projects that world energy consumption will grow by 28% between 2015 and 2040. Most of this growth is expected to come from countries that are not in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and especially in countries where demand is driven by strong economic growth, particularly in Asia.
(Thu, 14 Sep 2017) World energy consumption is projected to increase by 28% by 2040, according to the International Energy Outlook 2017. Most of the worldâs growth is projected to take place in countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). China, India, and the other non-OECD Asia nations alone account for more than 60% of the projected increase in world energy demand.
