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BARCELONA, Spain — While visiting Germany last month, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, proffered unsolicited advice to European leaders. “Spain should build a massive solar array,” he tweeted on Apr. 4. “Could power all of Europe.” Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promptly responded. “We’re already implementing most ambitious plan towards efficient & sustainable energy system,” he tweeted at Musk. “Come and see. We welcome investors in Spain.” While prompting 66,000… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Russia will cut off the gas to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday in a major escalation in the standoff between Moscow and Europe over energy supplies and the war in Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg Moscow is making good on a threat to halt gas flows to countries that refuse President Vladimir Putin’s new demand to pay for the fuel in rubles. The European Union has rejected the move in principle but now payment deadlines are starting to fall due, governments across Europe need… Source link

“Many existing zero-carbon energy plants across the world are at risk of shutting down, even if they could continue operating safely for decades longer,” the company said. “The loss of such large quantities of carbon-free electricity will increase carbon emissions and make the task of decarbonizing the electricity system more challenging.” Google pointed to the reconciliation bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, and a bipartisan 2021 bill (S 2475) from Sen. Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho…. Source link

Google’s data centers around the world use about twice as much electricity as the city of San Francisco. In total, Google used 15.5 terawatt hours of electricity in 2020 and the majority of that goes to its data centers. (It hasn’t made 2021 figures available.) The amount of energy Google uses is growing as overall internet usage and its business grows, said Michael Terrell, the Director of Energy at Google. At the same time, Google is has set out a notably aggressive goal to operate on 24-7… Source link

For decades, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett maintained a pretty conservative approach to investing, favoring retail and banking stocks while giving a wide berth to more volatile sectors such as tech and energy. However, he finally pulled the trigger on PetroChina Co. (NYSE:PTR) in 2002 and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in 2011. The Oracle’s foray into energy and tech initially paid off after he realized a tidy $3.5B profit on PetroChina, while his $158 billion… Source link

President Biden has good intentions on climate change. His plan to halve carbon emissions by 2030 is on the scale energy and climate experts say is necessary to prevent the worst damage a warming planet could cause. He favors aggression action without the massive overshoot far-left schemes such as the “Green New Deal” would entail. That fits with his desire to make big changes that have at least some bipartisan support and can survive political turnover in Washington. Yet Biden now finds… Source link

Oil at $150 a barrel is not “outside the realm” of possibilities, says one energy trader. “It’s hard to take anything off the table right now. Russia is starting to retaliate with its own response to U.S. sanctions, whether that’s demanding payments in rubles or potentially not allowing crude to flow through a very prominent pipeline through Kazakhstan,” Rebecca Babin, senior equity trader for CIBC Private Wealth, told Yahoo Finance Live. “As we’ve seen this escalate in ways that were very low… Source link

(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden is under pressure to invoke Cold War-era powers to force more domestic oil production as the war in Ukraine strains supplies, raising gasoline prices and fueling inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg Lawmakers and labor activists have urged Biden to compel deployment of drilling rigs and solar panels using the 1950 Defense Production Act, the same authority wielded by Harry Truman to make steel for the Korean War and Donald Trump to spur mask production to… Source link

(Bloomberg) — For years, the U.S. warned Germany of building up a dangerous energy dependence on Russia, the source of more than half of its fossil fuel imports. Now that the war in Ukraine has shocked Berlin into the same conclusion, the government is finding that changing course might be too late. Most Read from Bloomberg Europe’s largest economy is facing up to the prospect that the bulk of its natural gas and coal supplies could get choked off, ripping through its industrial base and… Source link

Sanctions on Russia will likely have a significant impact on the global economy, a recent ING (ING) report found. “By now, we all know that Europe gets nearly 40% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil from Russia (this differs across countries), and is likely to be walloped with spikes in heating and gas bills, which are already soaring,” ING Global Head of Macro Carsten Brzeski wrote in a report released earlier this week. “Given that Ukraine and Russia have also been labelled as the global… Source link