Another ARCH2 hydrogen hub project going down in flames. Joins at least five others. The result of absurdly undercapitalized companies trying to develop a product for which there is no market. www.wastedive.com/news/empire-...

A month from hell. Northern Appalachia's economic development strategic triad of natural gas, petrochemicals, and hydrogen is failing. Natgas doesn't generate job growth and petrochemicals and hydrogen can't get off the ground. Time for a new strategy. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/a-month-from...

From my ORVI colleague, Ted Boettner, as an underequipped and historically deficient state agency prepares to assume regulatory responsibility for carbon sequestration. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/abandoned-we...

The tragedy is that many state leaders think growing reliance on natural gas is economically beneficial when in fact it contributes to job loss, population loss, and rising electric bills. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

PJM, utilities, and the natural gas industry are using predictions of rapidly rising electricity demand to frog-march the region into greater dependence on gas-fired electricity - a decision that could result in electric rates going up by a third or more. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/load-growth-...

PJM, utilities, and the natural gas industry are using predictions of rapidly rising electricity demand to frog-march the region into greater dependence on gas-fired electricity - a decision that could result in electric rates going up by a third or more. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/load-growth-...

Meanwhile, across the Pond, Germany will shutter a key LNG import terminal in the first quarter of 2025, as EU energy crisis eases. oilprice.com/Latest-Energ... 🛢️🔥 🔌💡

The Appalachian Regional Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) is losing developers and support principally because the underlying technology, blue hydrogen, is fundamentally uneconomic for most of its imagined applications. www.eenews.net/articles/blu...

Update this morning on Peabody Energy, a US coal-producing giant, venturing into solar and storage business www.spglobal.com/marketintell... Here's a previous story about coal producers' ventures into the world of greener energy: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

Anyone who ever took ECON 101 should have understood that Trump's claim that increased natural gas exports would drive down prices in this country was absurd. Zibel quantifies the absurdity.

CCS has, for the most part, been "decarbonization theater".

Data centers alone will drive new natural gas consumption “equivalent to roughly 10-30 percent of current U.S. demand for gas-fired power generation,” according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report.

No. Just: no. We do not want or need hydrogen for home heating.

The ARCH2 hydrogen hub is struggling badly as projects and developers drop out. Things may get even worse under the Trump administration. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

This is of particular concern in the Ohio River Valley and northern Appalachia where the economy is already sagging due in large part to an over-reliance on natural gas.

The situation in Fairmont is frighteningly similar to the case of Austin Master Services which dumped radioactive waste along the Ohio River in Martins Ferry, Ohio. In that case, Ohio's attorney general took action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4tX...