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Danish Oil and Natural Gas Is Getting Out of Oil and Natural Gas

Wall Street Journal: A company whose name stands for Danish Oil and Natural Gas is getting out of both businesses. Dong Energy Denmark’s majority state-owned energy company, is selling off its last oil...

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No Traction for Trump in War on U.S. Wind-Energy Expansion

Bloomberg News: President Donald Trump’s threats against wind energy have so far proven empty, according to an industry giant that expects to grow in the U.S. Thomas Thune Andersen, the chairman of...

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Editorial: Ameren Missouri Is Making the Right $1 Billion Move

Columbia Missourian: We applaud Ameren Missouri’s announcement this past week to invest $1 billion in wind and solar power technology. The utility, which operates a coal-fired power plant in Labadie,...

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IEEFA Report: Winners and Losers Among Big Utilities as Renewables Disrupt...

Oct. 4, 2017 (IEEFA) — The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) published a report today that describes how the rise of renewable energy is disrupting electricity markets...

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U.S. Renewable Generation Surpasses Nuclear for the First Time

SNL: For the first time since July 1984, utility-scale renewable electric generation in April surpassed nuclear power generation, according to the June release of Electric Power Monthly data from the...

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IEEFA Update: In Campaign to Prop Up Navajo Generating Station, Peabody...

The last time Peabody Energy got involved with developing a new power plant it ended in financial chaos for 200 Midwest communities that had been talked into taking part. Peabody was the lead proponent...

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Renewable-Energy Industry Sees Support on Both Sides of Partisan Divide

Bloomberg: With the administration of President Donald Trump moving to bail out coal plants and slap tariffs on solar imports, the renewable-energy industry is turning to a secret weapon for help:...

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U.S. Wind Exec Sees Industry Booming With or Without Tax Credits

GreenTech Media: U.S. wind installations could top 10 gigawatts a year, even after the federal Production Tax Credit runs out in 2020, a top asset holder said. “I think that 2020 is probably going to...

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South Africa’s State Utility Company in ‘Self-Styled Extinction’

Biznews South Africa: In South Africa, where electricity prices have quadrupled since 2007 and an expensive coal-fired power build-out threatens to drive prices even higher, renewables appear ever more...

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Electricity-Generation Trends in New Mexico Reflect Larger U.S. Shift

Santa Fe New Mexican: The Trump administration’s announcement Monday that it’s taking steps to repeal regulations on coal-fired power plants is unlikely to change the fact that market forces already...

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U.S. Banks Aren’t Seen as ‘Stupid’ Enough to Invest in Trump’s Coal Program

Global Trade Review: Obama’s flagship policy was intended to restrict carbon dioxide emissions and has been under attack from the Republican Party since it came into being in 2014. Now, the head of the...

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U.S. Power Companies Say They Will Continue Shift to Renewables Regardless of...

Wall Street Journal: Some of the biggest U.S. power companies said they are pushing ahead with investments in renewable and gas-fired electricity and are including climate change as a part of their...

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U.S. EPA Reversal Won’t Save San Antonio Coal Plant

San Antonio Business Journal: The Trump administration’s abolishment of the Clean Power Plan will not save a coal-fired power plant slated for closure in San Antonio. The U.S. Environmental Protection...

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In America’s Wind Corridor, a Boom Imperils Coal

E&E News: In the nation’s wind corridor, power purchase agreements are being signed for less than 2 cents a kilowatt-hour. Even adding transmission costs, wind energy is undercutting competition...

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IEEFA Update: Coal Is Dying, and EPA’s Clean Power Plan Reversal Can’t Save It

By turning the clock back on American energy policy through reversal of the Clean Power Plan, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — if he succeeds — will end up making electricity for everyday Americans...

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IEEFA Brief: U.K. Government at Risk in Over-Budget Nuclear Project That...

Oct. 16, 2017 (IEEFA.org) — A research brief published today by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis cautions the U.K. government against investing further in an unfinished nuclear...

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California Grid Operator Sees a Largely Decentralized and Renewables-Driven...

Platts: By 2030, renewables will supply about two-thirds of California’s electricity, natural gas-fired generation will be in the process of being phased out and the West will have regional grid...

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Report: Nuclear Energy in ‘Terminal Decline’

SNL: Nuclear energy is in irreversible decline across the world, with the construction of new units appearing to bottom out, a new report found. “The deterioration of the situation is accelerating,”...

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S&P Exec: Global Shift to Renewables Will Persist, All Politics Aside

Sydney Morning Herald: The global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy will continue regardless of political action such as President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Paris...

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IEEFA Asia: As India Moves, Europe Follows

As world energy markets transform at an unprecedented rate, India is at the forefront of the shift toward a profitable renewables industry, especially given how the country’s solar belt has the...

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