Introduction PJM Interconnection, which is the largest grid operator in America and serves more than 61 million people throughout 13 states and the District of Columbia, this week released its annual Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP). The RTEP is an important document because it charts the path for how PJM […]
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With Cheniere Energy, Inc. beginning LNG exports from the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that plentiful and cheap natural gas will help Europe replace coal with gas (thereby reducing GHG emissions), and increase energy security by lessening dependence on Russia, which currently supplies the bulk of natural
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Cheniere Energy expects the first-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) export from the lower 48 U.S. states will depart the company’s Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana today. The ship is headed to Petrobas, in Brazil. Cheniere has six LNG vessels under contract, and will use them to continue exporting gas in the
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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on CNBC now, discussing America’s energy infrastructure. On the subject of cheap natural gas’s impact on energy prices, the Secretary said that nuclear and coal (particularly small plants and plants in the Midwest) are strongly affected, but that cost reductions in wind and solar, in conjunction
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