ENERGY

Oil just had its worst week in almost a year, and the new week is starting off just as bad amid concerns about oversupply and lack of demand by China, which now appears willing to risk a middle-class revolution – as employment tumbles and consumer confidence has never been lower – rather than stimulate the economy.

Brent tumbled ~10% last week even after OPEC+ postponed its supply hike by two months (amusingly it would have tumbled even more had OPEC+ not delayed its supply hike). (more…)

By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com,

China’s oil demand growth has been slowing down due to weaker economic performance and a shift to electric vehicles and LNG-fueled trucks, oil industry executives said at the APPEC conference in Singapore on (more…)

Authored by Todd Snitchler via RealClearEnergy,

At meetings of energy regulators, policymakers, consumer advocates, and industry this summer, the content and tone of the conversations around electric system reliability have changed dramatically. Executives from across the industry all agree that dispatchable generation is needed now and will be needed for many years to come.

Most prominently, the realization and willingness to say publicly that dispatchable resources like (more…)