MOORE COUNTY, South Carolina, June 17 -- Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-South Carolina, issued the following opening remarks on June 16, 2023: * * * Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC) delivered opening remarks today at the Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Field Hearing in Moore County, NC, titled "Enhancing America's Grid Security and Resilience." * * * Subcommittee Chair Duncan's remarks as prepared for deliv  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-South Carolina, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security, issued the following news release on June 16, 2023: Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC) delivered opening remarks today at the Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Field Hearing in Moore County, NC, titled "Enhancing America's Grid Security and Resilience." S  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 16, 2023: In case you missed it, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) published an op-ed in The Messenger today highlighting their bipartisan Countering Economic Coercion Act that would help the U.S. support partners and allies facing economic bullying by foreign adversaries. The bill would equip the president with new tools to reduce the impact of economic coercion by stre  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 17 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: * * * State-owned South Korean utility will continue to be vulnerable to fossil fuel price uncertainties while nuclear power generation has its limits * * * Over the last decade, the earnings of South Korea's public electricity provider Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) have deteriorated as fossil fuels dominate its generation mix. In 2022, KEPCO reported a  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 17 -- SolarPower Europe issued the following news release: SolarPower Europe has issued the following statement on the widely reported REV6 of the compromise draft on the EU Electricity Market Revision. The text proposes an exception to the CO2 threshold of capacity renumeration mechanisms (CRMs) for existing energy generation capacities started before 2019. This means CRMs - which ultimately come from consumers - could now be used to finance coal. Naomi Chevillard, He  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following news release on June 16, 2023: Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman today responded to concerns raised by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) about subjects discussed at the Spring 2023 meeting of the STB's Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee (RETAC). Chairman Oberman rejected AAR's assertions that RETAC's discussions impermissibly involved matte  more

HOBART, Australia, June 17 -- The Wilderness Society-Australia posted the following news release from on June 10, 2023: Documents obtained via FOI have revealed the Federal Government significantly downplayed the impact of Australia's deforestation activities at a crucial global agriculture minister's conference in Berlin earlier this year. Just one month before the meeting took place, the European Union agreed on a new law that will prevent the import of commodities linked to deforestation int  more