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The Texas electric grid made it through recent cold snaps with no real problems, despite the record-setting winter demand one day in January and the need to appeal twice to the community for conservation.
Media Outlet: San Antonio Express-News
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle
A differentiated natural gas market is emerging as a key mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across global natural gas supply chains. Trust in such voluntary markets across civil society, industry and governments depends on a transparent framework for reporting independently verifiable and accurate emissions data.
Media Outlet: Nature Energy
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar
A recent report from the International Energy Agency finds that an investment of $75 billion — a fraction of the oil and natural gas industry’s profits last year — would meaningfully lower emissions of methane.
Media Outlet: NPR’s Marketplace
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar
The most urgent and necessary priority is, and must remain, reducing global emissions to net zero by 2050 to keep global warming below the 1.5-degree-Celsius tipping point identified by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Media Outlet: Real Clear Energy
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle
Texas oil and gas regulators are proposing new rules for the first time in almost 40 years to address how companies in the sector build and maintain waste pits.
Media Outlet: Politico Energy Wire
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle
The pledge, back[ed] by 49 oil and gas companies, aims to dramatically reduce methane leaks to “near zero” by 2030. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Media Outlet: NBC
Featured Faculty: Arvind Ravikumar
Washington Shouldn’t Restrict Hydrogen Energy Incentives
With three Texas energy projects now competing for a piece of the $7 billion pie set aside by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) for hydrogen development, there is considerable hype around the state’s potential to lead the nation in accelerating the 2050 transition to net-zero. But to meet that goal, we must stay grounded in reality.
Media Outlet: Dallas Morning News
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle
Investigation: Texas Failed to Crack Down on Gas after Grid Crisis
Since a deadly February 2021 freeze interrupted the flow of natural gas to power plants across Texas, state regulators have inspected gas facilities to see if they’re prepared for winter.
Media Outlet: Politico Energy Wire
Featured Faculty: Hugh Daigle
Nanobubbles, NGLs Show Promise in Oil Recovery
Cost, access and inefficiency drive the push for EOR research and the results — using nanobubbles and NGLs — are showing promise.
Media Outlet: Hart Energy E+P
Featured Faculty: Mukul Sharma
Home Heating Oil Prices Have Dropped from Record Highs
The price of home heating oil has fallen significantly, according to the Energy Information Administration. It’s down to $4.47 a gallon this week after hitting a record high of $5.93 per gallon in November.
Media Outlet: NPR’s Marketplace
Featured Facuty: Hugh Daigle
