energy

On one Sunday in late January, more than one-third of electricity in the Texas grid came from the sun — a record for the state. Considering that the Texas economy relies heavily on oil, this may be...
An adage among real estate investors says, “You can’t make or create any more land,” while you can always build higher, you still need the land. Real estate is one of the best assets most...
The price of gasoline and oil is an important component in the energy sector of the government’s consumer price index, which measures inflation. Gas prices were the largest contributor to inflation...
Electric light has been with us in one form or another since at least the latter 19th century. For most of the 20th century, illumination by way of electricity came from incandescent lightbulbs...
The recent headline job numbers would appear to be positive. The economy added 253,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate fell from 3.5% in March to 3.4% – same as the 53-year low hit in...
According to a recent report, the world’s 60 largest banks financed $5.5 trillion in deals and loans for the fossil-fuel industry over the last seven years, dating from the historic Paris climate...
The energy sector has had a great 2022, and it dramatically outperformed the S&P 500. The year 2023, however, may not be as exciting as 2022. Commodity prices are expected to normalize in 2023,...
Saba Management has increased its stake in ClearBridge Energy MLP Fund to around 6.2%.
Energy exploration & production company TXO Energy has filed for a SPAC merger with MorningStar Partners, seeking to raise $100 million in funding.
Here is a look at six companies that transport energy products and pay extraordinary dividends to shareholders.
At least two things have happened to affect the ability of people to pay their energy bills in America. Millions of people are still out of work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this was...
The U.S. Department of Energy has completed the sale of 10.1 million barrels of crude oil from the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Here's what that means.
Some of the world's largest oil traders are beefing up their technology chops, hiring more data scientists to help them garner insights into price movements from the masses of available data. One oil...
First Solar's poor quarterly results are dragging down its peers as well. The same thing happened when SunPower announced it was splitting into two pieces. The company's stock recovered. Will First...
The International Energy Agency reported Thursday that global CO2 emissions in 2019 were flat with emissions in 2018, ending a two-year streak of rising emissions. The bad news is that the level is...