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The $32-Trillion Push To Disrupt The Entire Oil Industry

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Global oil and gas companies are increasingly facing an uphill battle as global warming policies are taking their toll. Most analysts and market watchers are focusing on peak oil demand scenarios, but the reality could be much darker. British accountancy firm Moore Stephenson stated that lower prices were the main cause.

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Lux: Total is leading example of oil supermajor expanding into solar plus storage and distributed generation

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Expanding into an area outside of the oil supermajors’ expertise is risky—batteries are a hard business to win even for industry veterans—but action is key as transportation and the grid increasingly march toward more electrification, Lux suggests. —Cosmin Laslau, Lux Research Senior Analyst and lead author.

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BCG report finds advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power, and solar photovoltaic tracking to make significant market impact sooner than commonly assumed

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Advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power (CSP), and solar photovoltaic power (PV) will see accelerating adoption and growth and are on track to change the global energy mix far earlier than is often assumed, according to a new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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DNV GL paper suggests near-term success for LNG in shipping; alternative fuel mix to diversify over time

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DNV GL has released a position paper on the future alternative fuel mix for global shipping. While LNG is expected to be an early success, the picture becomes more diversified over time, as more than 20% of shipping could adopt hybrid propulsion solutions featuring batteries or other energy storage technologies, according to the paper.

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Study finds no alternative to widespread switching of direct fuel uses to electricity to meet 2050 California GHG targets; putting detail in climate wedges

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Pacala and Socolow proposed a way to stabilize climate using existing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation technologies, visualized as interchangeable, global-scale ‘wedges’ of equivalent emissions reductions. rather than relative prices of technology, energy, or carbon as. biofuels; CCS; on-grid energy storage; electric vehicle.

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US DOE progress report says 1M plug-ins by 2015 ambitious but achievable; not likely to be constrained by production capacity

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This plan is intended to drive demand and position the United States as a global leader in manufacturing and deploying next-generation vehicle technologies. Earlier post.). There is clearly substantial consumer interest in electric vehicles, as demonstrated by the larger-than-anticipated pre-orders for the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt.

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Roland Berger E-Mobility Index finds government subsidies for and projected sales of xEVs declining worldwide

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Extracting oil by fracking could stabilize the oil price over the next few years. In this context, the lithium-ion energy storage systems used in most of the EVs and PHEVs currently on the market are safety-critical components. Infrastructure is becoming a global hurdle.