Chevron is installing solar panels — to produce oil more cheaply | Renewables | JWN Energy: Since April, solar panels have been powering oil pumps at Chevron’s Lost Hills 7,981 barrel-a-day oil field, according to the company. The 29-megawatt site, owned and operated by San Jose-based SunPower Corp., is designed to provide the field with 80 per cent of its electricity, equal to taking more than 4,000 cars off the road. In exchange, Chevron will earn so-called low-carbon fuel standard credits worth about $4 million a year at current prices.

“Electricity is one of Lost Hills field’s largest operating expenses, so having solar will be an important factor to help keep those costs down and maintain the planned oil field life,” Veronica Flores-Paniagua, a Chevron spokeswoman, said in an email.

Chevron is installing solar panels — to produce oil more cheaply | Renewables | JWN Energy: Since April, solar panels have been powering oil pumps at Chevron’s Lost Hills 7,981 barrel-a-day oil field, according to the company. The 29-megawatt site, owned and operated by San Jose-based SunPower Corp., is designed to provide the field with 80 per cent of its electricity, equal to taking more than 4,000 cars off the road. In exchange, Chevron will earn so-called low-carbon fuel standard credits worth about $4 million a year at current prices.“Electricity is one of Lost Hills field’s largest operating expenses, so having solar will be an important factor to help keep those costs down and maintain the planned oil field life,” Veronica Flores-Paniagua, a Chevron spokeswoman, said in an email.Read More

Canada, U.S. Pursue ‘Joint Interest’ in Getting Pipelines Built – The Energy Mix: “The Canadian federal government is advocating for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to continue,” Bloomberg writes, citing the Globe. “It’s also pushing for movement on the Line 3 replacement pipeline project between the two countries, which is awaiting final approval for the construction to start on the U.S. side.”

But it may take more than a friendly chat between two cabinet ministers, one of whom may well be out of office in another 174 days, to deliver on that agenda. Brouillette’s boss, Donald Trump, has spent much of the last four years trying to get new fossil infrastructure built. That effort culminated three weeks ago with a whirlwind of court or business decisions against the Keystone XL, Dakota Access, and Atlantic Coast pipelines, prompting U.S. campaigners to declare “a turning point in their war against the Trump administration’s effort to cement a fossil-fueled future for the United States,” InsideClimate News wrote at the time.

Canada, U.S. Pursue ‘Joint Interest’ in Getting Pipelines Built – The Energy Mix: “The Canadian federal government is advocating for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to continue,” Bloomberg writes, citing the Globe. “It’s also pushing for movement on the Line 3 replacement pipeline project between the two countries, which is awaiting final approval for the construction to start on the U.S. side.”But it may take more than a friendly chat between two cabinet ministers, one of whom may well be out of office in another 174 days, to deliver on that agenda. Brouillette’s boss, Donald Trump, has spent much of the last four years trying to get new fossil infrastructure built. That effort culminated three weeks ago with a whirlwind of court or business decisions against the Keystone XL, Dakota Access, and Atlantic Coast pipelines, prompting U.S. campaigners to declare “a turning point in their war against the Trump administration’s effort to cement a fossil-fueled future for the United States,” InsideClimate News wrote at the time.Read More