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Apr

01

2020

Regulatory Reforms and Industry Initiatives at Clean Energy Crossroads

By Tom Russo

The year 2019 was unusual due to major efforts to reform renewable energy and environmental impact asse Read more

regulation

electricity

gas

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carbon capture

SMI Interview with Tom Russo on Oil & Gas Cybersecurity Issues

Why It’s Time for a Physical Natural Gas Market Remake

The Trump Effect on U.S. Hydropower

Creating a Global Spot Market in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

From Shale to Ship: The Potential for Lower Carbon U.S. LNG Production

The author argues that the production of lower-carbon US LNG will occur with or without...

Achieving Energy Security takes a lot of effort

US and Global Energy Security: Where We Are Falling Short

If it wasn't for my editor Echo Carthright, I would have titled this...

Energy Resources and Environmental Benefits

Challenges to Improving Energy Security Abound: Part 2

Since I sent this article to my editor, the world has changed. The Russo-Ukrainian War continues with no peace in sight.

Building electric transmission takes a decade

Challenges to Improving Energy Security Abound: Part 1

This article discusses the energy security of the US and whether the current trajectory of US policy will be able to achieve the latter. Energy security...

Physical and Financial Hedging of Natural Gas

Natural gas utilities and gas-fired power generators cannot afford to be caught in a green vortex and rely too much on intermittent renewable energy. Physical and financial hedging of natural gas continues...

Improving US Energy Security: Granting FERC Siting Authority over Interstate High Voltage Electric Transmission

The Biden Administration and the US Congress are giving serious consideration to granting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC...

Key Elements Needed in FERC’s Revised Pipeline Policy

All Eyes on FERC: Energy vs. Environment

FERC does not have the luxury to focus only on NEPA and issues dealing with GHG emissions, landowner and environmental justice (EJ) community issues....

Hydropower projects can produce green hydrogen

Reimagining Hydropower and Green Hydrogen

The US, European Union, and other countries that have set net-zero carbon emission targets and participate in the Paris Accord are placing big bets on wind and solar to produce green hydrogen (H2). Here in...

Comments on FERC's Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities

Russo on Energy LLC (RoE) filed comments on FERC's Notice of Inquiry on whether, and if so how, it should revised its current policy on whether interstate gas facilities are in the public interest. RoE's...

Rethinking Low Impact Hydropower and Renewable Energy Certificates

Wind and solar projects along with their related renewable energy certificates RECs) are on the minds of energy generators, consumers and policy makers. This begs the question as to why hydropower and...

Benefits of Responsibly Sourced Natural Gas

Responsibly Sourced Natural Gas: Time to Change the Natural Gas Industry’s Narrative

The majority of companies in the natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry seem fixated on promoting natural gas as the clean “bridge fuel” to further deployment of renewable energy technologies...

Carbon Pricing in Wholesale Electricity Markets—Options for Fossil-Fuel Generators

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