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House passes H.R.1121, protecting American energy production! 🏛️ This bill aims to prevent unilateral bans on hydraulic fracturing and emphasizes state regulation of energy production. ⚡️ https://lnkd.in/gTue6Z2S #EnergyPolicy #FrackingProtection #Congress #BipartisanEfforts

House passes H.R.1121, protecting American energy production! 🏛️ This bill aims to prevent unilateral bans on hydraulic fracturing and emphasizes state regulation of energy production. ⚡️ https://lnkd.in/gTue6Z2S #EnergyPolicy #FrackingProtection #Congress #BipartisanEfforts

House passes H.R.1121, protecting American energy production! 🏛️ This bill aims to prevent unilateral bans on hydraulic fracturing and emphasizes state regulation of energy production. ⚡️ https://lnkd.in/gTue6Z2S #EnergyPolicy #FrackingProtection #Congress #BipartisanEfforts

House passes H.R.1121, protecting American energy production! 🏛️ This bill aims to prevent unilateral bans on hydraulic fracturing and emphasizes state regulation of energy production. ⚡️ https://lnkd.in/gTue6Z2S #EnergyPolicy #FrackingProtection #Congress #BipartisanEfforts

In a recent update to EPA’s power plant rule released in late April, lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate used the Congressional Review Act to introduce a resolution to overturn the rule. As a reminder, EPA is striving to aggressively limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal and new natural gas power plants. The new rule mandates inadequately demonstrated technology and unachievable emissions limits, and NRECA argues it also jeopardizes affordable, reliable electricity by forcing premature plant closures while making it harder to permit, site, and build critical new power plants. Cooperatives shouldn't have to choose between decarbonization and providing their members with reliable access to electricity. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3VmZ36B

A lot happened in Louisiana's Legislative Session, even just in the energy sector! So we put it all in one place. This blog summarizes the big and small of the bills we encountered in the energy sector this year.

Via Utility Dive: " State officials blame federal regulation for higher energy prices: ‘Customers are getting hurt.’: Proposed federal limits on fossil fuel power plants will further raise costs and weaken reliability, three state energy officials told a U.S. House subcommittee on Wednesday. " #Energy #Utility #Utilities

The Economist is wrong that nobody have heard about FERC. Everyone in the LNG business have heard about Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC is a major regulator within the US LNG space (DOE being another). They are regulating construction and siting, safety and security, environmental compliance, market oversight, public engagement and review and enforcement. However, Economist is right on the fact that FERC has become dysfunctional. It is supposed to be made up of five members nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. But Senator Manchin blocked the renomination of the commission’s chairman in 2022, another member’s term expired last year and a third commissioner is scheduled to leave in June. If FERC goes down to two commissioners then it loses a quorum making it unable to make the necessary decisons to move forward energy projects, not only LNG projects, but also interstate electricity transmission lines required to facilitate growth of renewables. #energy #us #naturalgas #lng #oil #oilgas #pipeline #pipelines #power #utilities #renewables #energytransition #shipping #maritime https://lnkd.in/d3uPq_BY

Let’s think about the problem we are trying to solve. Is it global warming? Is it air pollution? Is it water pollution? Is it for someone’s agenda to make money? Biden’s plan has merit, but what is the price? By eliminating fossil fuels, not only can you be assured of eliminating pollution, but undoubtedly a large number of the population that were the cause of the pollution. There will be a time to eliminate fossil fuels, when one of our offspring can invent a technology that hasn’t been invented yet, but we will have ZERO chance of that happening IF we can’t have reliable Uninterrupted Power. When you can put Uninterrupted Reliable Power in a CAN, then there might not be a need for fossil fuels. Well, how much battery acid is in my Green water? At least that third arm can hold your slide rule to make the proper calculation, it is surprising how much power is needed to power a datacenter, and how fast you can lose data on a computer in a crash, without Reliable Power our Nation as we know it now will make Mad Max happy, but not me.

I watched the webinar again, and the California PG&E representative shared how the California legislature simply change the "obligation to serve gas" to an "obligation to serve energy" to enable the flexibility to provide any combination of clean energy technologies to meet the customer's needs. Hopefully other states will be able to take that legislative step to enable and accelerate the clean energy transition and decarbonization of the electric grid. Do you agree? Are there other steps that need to be taken at the state government policy level? Thank you for considering my questions and thoughts. I look forward to receiving your feedback. RMI #CleanEnergyTransition #policymaking #climateaction