(Fri, 12 Apr 2019) Electricity generated from biomass and waste totaled 70.6 million megawatthours (MWh) in 2018, or about 2% of total U.S. electricity generation. Expansion in electricity generation from biomass and waste has ended in recent years, after growing from 2004 through 2014, and in 2018 was 2% below its peak generation of 71.7 million MWh in 2014.
House Democratic leaders criticized the president on immigration and Fed picks but also hoped to cut deals with him and Senate Republicans to deliver campaign promises.
(Thu, 11 Apr 2019) During winter 2018â19, timely natural gas supply provided by imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at major regasification facilities serving New England played an important role in moderating natural gas prices in the region.
(Thu, 11 Apr 2019) Many U.S. households do not pay energy utilities or other suppliers directly for using electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, or propane but pay indirectly through rent, fees, or to a third party such as a housing authority. Data from the most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that, in 2015, 12.4 million of the nationâs 118 million households (11%) paid some or all of their energy costs indirectly.
(Thu, 11 Apr 2019) Working natural gas in storage in the Lower 48 states as of March 31, the traditional end of the heating season (November 1âMarch 31), totaled 1,137 billion cubic feet (Bcf), according to EIAâs Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report released on April 11. As of March 31, estimated working gas stocks were 491 Bcf (30%) lower than the current five-year (2014â18) average for the end of the heating season.
There are a number of promising plans to repair the detested Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But solving the problem will take an act of collective will.
Thirty million people went without power for nearly a week, making the country’s troubled political and economic situation even worse.
(Tue, 09 Apr 2019) Annual U.S. crude oil production reached a record level of 10.96 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2018, 1.6 million b/d (17%) higher than 2017 levels. In December 2018, monthly U.S. crude oil production reached 11.96 million b/d, the highest monthly level of crude oil production in U.S. history. U.S. crude oil production has increased significantly over the past 10 years, driven mainly by production from tight rock formations using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. EIA projects that U.S.
The Washington Post says that democracy dies in darkness. If that’s the case, then The Washington Post’s story about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is a solar eclipse.
(Mon, 08 Apr 2019) During the past five years, only a small amount of new underground natural gas storage capacity was built in the Lower 48 states and no new storage facilities have entered operation in that time. EIA measures underground natural gas storage capacity in two ways: design capacity and demonstrated maximum working gas volume (or demonstrated peak). Both of these metrics showed decreases in 2018, with design capacity falling by 0.3%, or 13 Bcf, and demonstrated peak capacity falling by 1.2%, or 54 Bcf.
