urkey set new all-time high records on Sept. 3 for daily electricity production and hourly electricity consumption, the nation’s energy and natural resources minister announced Tuesday. “Turkey’s energy production continues to rise, breaking records. Despite the (COVID-19) outbreak, we have a new record on daily energy production,” Fatih Dönmez reported over his Twitter account. According to the data shared by Dönmez, an all-time high daily generation was recorded on Sept. 3 with 1.07 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh), breaking the previous record of 1.06 billion KWh set on Aug. 2, 2018. The…
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Oil Demand Growth is Dead
The world is past the era of growing crude oil demand, BP said in its annual energy outlook report, which was released today. The message of the outlook, according to media reports, is that oil consumption may never recover to pre-pandemic levels, and not just because of the pandemic itself but because of factors that have been at play long before the coronavirus made the jump from bats to humans. “Demand for oil falls over the next 30 years,” the company said in the report. “The scale and pace of this…
Read MoreRenewable Energy Continues To Eat Away At Fossil Fuel Dominance
Renewables are set to be the fastest-growing source of energy in the coming decades, giving fossil fuels such as coal and oil a run for their money in many parts of the world. Sure, the world will continue to need oil, coal, and natural gas in the future, because energy systems cannot and will not switch to 100-percent low-carbon energy sources any time soon. Recent data and analyses suggest, however, that renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power and increased penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly competitive…
Read MoreOPEC’s Third-Largest Producer Fails To Comply With Output Cuts
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), currently OPEC’s third-largest producer, is estimated to have exported a lot more crude oil in August as it produced more than its quota under the OPEC+ deal, undermining the oil market’s faith in the group’s unity in the cuts. According to tanker tracking data Bloomberg has compiled from several oil flow tracking firms, the UAE shipped more oil in August than it produced, and its production itself breached the limit set in the OPEC+ deal. The UAE, which has so far followed Saudi Arabia’s lead to ‘lead…
Read MoreIran To Link Its Power Grid To Russia, Azerbaijan
Iran’s electricity grid will be connected with Russia and Azerbaijan in a few months, once grid compatibility studies are completed, Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said on Friday. Iran’s power grid could be linked and synchronized to connect with other grids either via Azerbaijan or via Armenia and Georgia, Ardakanian said, as reported by Iranian Fars news agency. “Iran welcomes either of the two routes which gets ready first,” Fars quoted minister Ardakanian as saying. Iran, Azerbaijan, and Russia have agreed to set up a company which has already started working…
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