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Photo: Freepik (The Center Square) – Illinois drivers face another gas tax hike July 1, despite already paying the nation’s second-highest rates. Starting July 1, Illinois drivers will see the state gas tax rise to 48.3 cents per gallon—up 1.3 cents from last year—as part of an automatic inflation adjustment that keeps Illinois among the…

The Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is standing by the government’s pledge to bring down household energy bills by “up to £300 by 2030”. Energy bills went up in January and are expected to rise again in April and Miliband has faced repeated questions about whether that pre-election promise is deliverable. He has blamed fossil fuel prices for the…

Iberdrola, a través de su filila Avangrid, instalará más de 700.000 contadores inteligentes para clientes de electricidad y gas en el Estado de Nueva York (Estados Unidos), con lo que contribuirá a actualizar la infraestructura eléctrica y a potenciar la transición energética en el país, informó la compañía. De esta manera, la energética destacó que…

Photo: freepik Infrastructure investment firm I Squared, Enbridge (ENB) and MPLX (MPLX) said late Tuesday they agreed to acquire equity interests in the Matterhorn Express Pipeline from Devon Energy (NYSE:DVN) and private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners; deal terms were not disclosed but speculation had said a deal could value Matterhorn at more than $5B including debt.…

Like every industry now, the oil and gas sector is trying to figure out how to adopt and deploy artificial intelligence. They see the enormous profit potential in fit-for-purpose AI tools to help optimize processes and and control costs on a granular level that just a few years ago would have been unimaginable. Few companies…

One area that has experience significant upheaval is the consumption patterns of coal, natural gas, and renewables. This is the story of that transformation. Early 2000s: Dominance of Coal At the beginning of the 21st century, coal was the dominant energy source for electricity generation in the United States. In 2000, coal consumption stood at…

Photo: Freepik On New Year’s Eve on the last day of 2015, the Port of Corpus Christi quietly exported the United States’ first crude oil barrels in 40 years just two weeks after Congress lifted the ban that dated back to the 1973 Arab oil embargo. Less than a decade later, the sleepy Texas beachside…