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• Warren Buffett Is Betting Big On Energy Stocks

  Published 06 May 2019 | viewed 8,104 times

  One of America’s most legendary investors, Warren Buffett, plans to invest heavily in energy, he revealed during the annual shareholders’ meeting of his principal investment…

• World's Largest Wealth Fund Sees Best Quarter Ever

  Published 05 May 2019 | viewed 4,552 times

  The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund—Norway’s US$1-trillion fund that has amassed its wealth from oil—earned US$84 billion in Q1 in the “strongest quarter ever”, boosted…

• Economists: Higher Oil Prices Here To Stay

  Published 02 May 2019 | viewed 5,866 times

  Economists have jacked up the projection for U.S. light crude to average $60.23 per barrel in 2019 from a $58.92 forecast in March in the…

• Tesla Launches Solar Panel Fire Sale

  Published 30 April 2019 | viewed 2,308 times

  Tesla will cut the prices of its solar panels by as much as 38 percent below the national average in a bid to regain ground…

• New Evidence Suggests Climate Is Changing Faster Than Anticipated

  Published 29 April 2019 | viewed 2,445 times

  New climate models now project even faster global warming than previous work. The models were developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Princeton, NJ),…

• Middle East Looks To Spend $1 Trillion On Energy

  Published 28 April 2019 | viewed 6,264 times

  Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have a total of US$1 trillion in committed and planned investments in the energy sector…

• The Surprising Catalyst Sending Some U.S. Home Prices Soaring

  Published 23 April 2019 | viewed 2,302 times

  House prices in the top U.S. ZIP codes for electric vehicles (EVs) are higher in areas in close proximity to EV charging stations than in…

• The Unstoppable Electric Bus Revolution

  Published 18 April 2019 | viewed 6,596 times

  The electric bus revolution is about to take off. While the prospect of major advances in electric buses receive a small fraction of the attention…

• Musk Draws SEC Attention With Another Controversial Tweet

  Published 15 April 2019 | viewed 2,855 times

  Just two months after he tweeted a production figure forecast, Tesla’s chief executive has done it again just days after he had to appear in…

• Commodities Are Hot Again

  Published 13 April 2019 | viewed 6,620 times

  Commodities are hot once again after a disastrous performance at the end of 2018 when energy prices collapsed and the escalating U.S.-China trade war spooked…

• Aramco Bond Run Could Delay IPO

  Published 10 April 2019 | viewed 10,303 times

  The Saudi plan to use their state-run oil giant, Aramco, as a piggy bank panned out fabulously for the Kingdom on Tuesday, with international investor…

• EV Superchargers Face One Key Hurdle

  Published 08 April 2019 | viewed 4,950 times

  Companies around the world are developing superchargers that can “fill up” an EV battery in a matter of minutes, but there is one problem: they…

• Facebook Pulls Misleading Solar Scam Ads

  Published 07 April 2019 | viewed 3,527 times

  As if the solar industry didn’t already face significant headwinds on its way toward world domination, a Facebook page called Solar Energy Today has promised…

• Money Managers Turn Bullish On Oil

  Published 03 April 2019 | viewed 6,094 times

  Hedge funds and other money managers expanded their bullish bets on oil prices last week amid signs that U.S. shale growth is slowing, the global…

• U.S. Reinstates Ban On Arctic Oil Drilling

  Published 01 April 2019 | viewed 2,719 times

  United States District Court for the District of Alaska judge Sharon L. Gleason decided late on Friday to reinstate the drilling ban on millions of…

• U.S. Turns Up The Heat On Companies Still Buying Venezuelan Oil

  Published 31 March 2019 | viewed 7,248 times

  The U.S. administration is trying to pressure foreign commodity traders and refiners to suspend their trades with Venezuelan oil in the latest push against the…

• Rick Perry Signs Secret Nuclear Deal With Saudi Arabia

  Published 28 March 2019 | viewed 2,718 times

  Washington has secretly given the go-ahead to several companies to sell nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports, citing a document it had obtained.…

• U.S. Nuclear Generation Reaches Record Levels

  Published 26 March 2019 | viewed 7,362 times

  Despite the fact that several nuclear power plants have closed since 2010, last year’s U.S. nuclear electricity generation beat the previous record from 2010, as…

• Tesla Struggles To Compete In European Market

  Published 24 March 2019 | viewed 11,788 times

  CEO Elon Musk and the Tesla team have succeeded in making their company the most widely used electric vehicle brand name, but this has not…

• Bejing's Sway In South China Sea Is Fading

  Published 21 March 2019 | viewed 2,273 times

  The United States military launched nuclear-capable B-52H Stratofortress bombers over the heavily disputed South China Sea last week, where they “conducted routine training”. In these…