White House Proposes $4.4 Trillion Budget That Adds $7 Trillion to Deficits
The White House released a proposed budget that is largely irrelevant, given Congress passed a spending bill last week that outlines priorities.
The United States is projected to become a net energy exporter in most AEO2018 cases
(Mon, 12 Feb 2018) EIA projects that the United States will become a net energy exporter in 2022 in the newly released <em>Annual Energy Outlook 2018</em> (AEO2018) Reference case, primarily driven by changes in petroleum and natural gas markets. The transition from net energy importer to net energy exporter occurs even earlier in some sensitivity cases that modify assumptions about oil prices or resource extraction
A (Largely Irrelevant) Budget, a Report on Prices and an Infrastructure Plan
President Trump will unveil his plan to rebuild the nation’s aging bridges and roads. But the big news for the week will be consumer prices.
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: Modest Federal Incentives, Facing Long Odds
President Trump will call this week for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure initiative by matching up to $100 billion in funds that states and cities put toward infrastructure projects.
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan May Ignore Climate Change. It Could Be Costly.
President Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on rebuilding roads and bridges, but failing to account for climate change could add to costs later.
Utilities continue to increase spending on transmission infrastructure
(Fri, 09 Feb 2018) Spending on infrastructure to deliver power to homes and businesses has increased steadily over the past 10 years as utilities build, upgrade, and replace station equipment, poles, fixtures, and overhead lines and devices.
From (Crumbling) Airport to (Broken) Escalators: An Infrastructure Odyssey
President Trump has talked about a huge infrastructure investment, but can we even make the trains run on time? Our beleaguered columnist is skeptical.
The irresistible allure of old mine shafts
UK energy start-up Gravitricity announced February 7 it had received a GBP650,000 ($903,400) grant from Innovate UK, the UK government’s innovation agency, for a plan to use old mines shafts to store energy.
U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions expected to rise slightly in 2018, remain flat in 2019
(Thu, 08 Feb 2018) EIA estimates that U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions declined by 861 million metric tons (14%) from 2005 to 2017. In the latest <em>Short-Term Energy Outlook</em>, EIA projects that CO2 emissions will rise 1.8%, from 5,143 million metric tons in 2017 to 5,237 million metric tons in 2018, then remain virtually unchanged in 2019. In 2019, energy-related CO2 emissions will be about 13% lower than 2005 levels.
Future U.S. electricity generation mix will depend largely on natural gas prices
(Wed, 07 Feb 2018) The mix of fuels used to generate electricity in the United States has changed in response to differences in the relative costs of electricity-generating technologies and, for those technologies that consume fuel, the cost of fuel.