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Low Wholesale Natural Gas Prices Don’t Immediately Result in Lower Retail Prices

March 10, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

While natural gas wholesale spot prices have dropped to relatively low levels since the end of 2014, these low prices have not translated directly into lower retail prices for consumers who use natural gas to heat their homes and businesses, according to the Energy Information Administration. This short-term lag is ... Read more »

Voluntary Agreement Reduces Energy Consumption of TV Set-Top Boxes

March 3, 2015 by Karen Henry

Energy efficiency advocates, set-top box (STB) manufacturers, service providers and the federal government have voluntarily agreed to improve energy efficiency of STBs, generally based on the Energy Star program’s product specifications, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports. About 85 percent of US households have at least one STB that delivers ... Read more »

Natural Gas Inventory Exceeds Five-Year Average

February 23, 2015 by Karen Henry

Working natural gas in storage has surpassed five-year average levels for the first time in more than a year, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). At 2,157 billion cubic feet (Bcf) as of February 13, stocks are 58 Bcf greater than the five-year average. Extremely cold weather may ... Read more »

Energy Consumption by US Government at All-Time Low

February 5, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The US Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) shows total delivered-to-site energy use by the federal government fell to 0.96 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in fiscal year 2013, the lowest recorded since 1975, the earliest year for which data are available. Energy consumed in federal government facilities ... Read more »

EIA: Wholesale Power Prices Increased Across US in 2014

January 13, 2015 by Karen Henry

Wholesale on-peak electricity prices were up across the nation between 2013 and 2014, according to the US Energy Information Administration. The increases were driven largely by increases in spot natural gas prices and high energy demand caused by the extreme cold-weather system that covered much of the United States during ... Read more »

Energy Commodities Prices Plummet in Late 2014

January 6, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

During the last four months of 2014, crude oil and petroleum product prices fell dramatically, and ended the year with the largest price drops of all major commodities in the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI), according to the US Energy Information Administration, based on Bloomberg. In 2014, the energy ... Read more »

Boston, NYC Winter Natural Gas Prices to Remain High

November 25, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Despite expectations of a milder winter for 2014, marketers anticipate high prices for natural gas in Boston and New York City, according to the US Energy Information Administration, based on Bloomberg. Natural gas prices are expected to be lower than last winter, but higher than the average of previous winters, ... Read more »

Plenty of Natural Gas, Says Short Term Energy Outlook

November 13, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

According to the Energy Information Administration’s November 2014 Short-Term Energy Outlook, power generation capacity in the Northeast is undergoing a significant change as the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is scheduled to cease operations in December and nearly 3 GW of coal-fired capacity has been retired in the region in the ... Read more »

Natural Gas Storage in Good Shape for Winter

November 11, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Working natural gas in storage ended October at 3,571 billion cubic feet (Bcf), a record increase of 2,734 Bcf during the April 1 to October 31 injection season, and within 7 percent of the average of the last five end-of-season storage levels, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Increased ... Read more »

HFC-Free Technology Digest Launched

July 28, 2014July 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has published a report focused on HFC-free climate-friendly technologies, Putting the Freeze on HFCs: A global digest of available climate-friendly refrigeration and air-conditioning technologies. Hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs — which have global warming potentials (GWPs) ranging from hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2 — ... Read more »

Petroleum Refineries’ Capacity Increases

July 1, 2014July 1, 2014 by Ken Jennison

The capacity of US petroleum refineries increased by 101,000 barrels per calendar day between 2013 and 2014, according to a report by the US Energy Information Administration. There are currently 139 operating refineries and three idle refineries with total atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity of 17.9 million bbl/cd in the ... Read more »

US Produced 84% of Total Energy It Used in 2013

June 3, 2014 by Leon Walker

Total US energy production reached 81.7 quadrillion British thermal units, or quads, in 2013, enough to satisfy 84 percent of total US energy demand, according to the US Energy Information Administration data. Natural gas was the largest domestically produced energy resource for the third year in a row and, together ... Read more »

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