Energy

Cleco planning $900M carbon capture project at central Louisiana electric plant 

Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC today announced a new, $900 million carbon capture project at its Brame Energy Center northwest of Alexandria. 

Louisiana left out of MISO’s plans for new transmission projects

Louisiana is not included in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s new portfolio of $10.4...

Why gasoline prices remain high as crude costs fall 

When the cost of crude oil soared to new highs in early March with...

Is inflation finally biting into corporate profits?

Since inflation began bursting higher last year, large U.S. companies have found a simple way to keep making record profits: Pass all those price increases along to customers.

House committee passes Capitol Lake duck hunt resolution meant as joke 

A Louisiana House resolution that included a clause to allow the House speaker and...

Venture Global will buy gas from NextEra for Plaquemines LNG export plant

Venture Global LNG has agreed to buy natural gas for its Plaquemines LNG export...
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Power outages from severe weather becoming more frequent 

Power outages from severe weather across the U.S. have doubled over the past two decades, as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data.

Entergy plan calls for customers to pay backup generator costs for businesses

Entergy has proposed a new project to give backup generators to grocery stores and other commercial customers across the state to form microgrids that can be used during outages and peak demand times, but Entergy wants the rest of its customers to pay for them.

Occidental, Weyerhaeuser considering Louisiana for carbon capture hub

Occidental Petroleum’s Oxy Low Carbon Ventures subsidiary and Weyerhaeuser are evaluating a potential carbon...

Hurricane Ida’s winds reached 150 mph, tying Laura’s ferocity

The National Hurricane Center today released its final report on Hurricane Ida, which struck Louisiana on Aug. 29 of last year, finding that the storm’s 150 mph winds tied Ida with Laura from 2020 and the Last Island Hurricane of 1856, WAFB-TV reports.