Tag Archives: Natural Gas

Today's blog from RBN Energy discussed the outlook for natural gas at the end of this winter.  (See post here.)  A lot of the issues in today's RBN blog are related to the natural gas discussion I had in my last SeekingAlpha article. (See November 2018 Utility Review)  The RBN article helps show

With the shale revolution, natural gas has become the biggest generating fuel for electricity in the US.  This winter's high natural gas usage brought storage levels this winter to their lowest levels since the polar vortex winter of 2014.  Since the end of winter, storage levels have increased, b

Page 10 of the January 2018 issue of Power Magazine had some nice charts showing the generating mix of the five largest electricity generation regions in the world.  (Charts can be found here)  All of the charts are done as a % of total generation.  To compare the size of the different markets, h

RBN Energy's blog post this morning discussed the situation in New England for electrical generation this winter. (See post here.  It is only free for non-subscribers for a few days, so check it out soon)  The basic problem is that New England keeps adding natural gas fired generation and closing

This morning I just found a detailed report by the Union of Concerned Scientists about coal power plants in the U.S.  (The article can be found here)  There is lots of good data about different power plants around the country including which ones the UCS considers uneconomic.  Also some good maps

The Commodities Corner article in this past week's Barron's (see here) discussed the increase in coal usage for electricity generation.  As mentioned in our latest Utility Stats Monthly, the Barron's article brought up the EIA's expectations that coal will be the biggest source of electricity gener

The latest issue of Power Magazine contained an article titled, "World's Most-Efficient Combined Cycle Plant: EDF Bouchain."  This plant is located in France and entered service in 2016.  Guinness World Records has recognized the plant as the most efficient combined cycle power plant in the world,

I discovered a new visualization on Tableau Public recently.  It shows historic electricity generation by fuel type for all fifty states from 1990 to 2014. (The website says energy production, but after doing some digging I confirmed it is actually electricity production.) Below is a screenshot

Power Magazine just reported that Talen, the operator of the Colstrip coal plant in Montana has decided to continue operating the plant.  (see here)  In 2016 management said they wanted to leave the plant by 2016 because they were going to lose millions of dollars.  Now Talen has decided to stay.

Page 10 of the June issue of Power Magazine had an interesting map showing the change in coal, gas, and renewable electricity generation by state. (Map can be found here.)  I was able to use EIA data to recreate the chart for coal and gas in the lower 48 states.  I was also able to add a little i

Page B9 of today's Wall Street Journal discussed natural gas and how its role in electricity generation has changed over the last ten years.  (See here.) The article made the comment that in the past "...energy traders believed using natural gas to deliver electricity was akin to bringing Dom Peri

Just a few weeks ago I commented about how Barron's had not picked a single utility in all of 2016. (See here)  This past weekend they wrote a full page article about Vistra Energy (see here).  (You can also see a short video from Barron's discussing the stock here)  Vistra Energy came out of the