Energy Update: Week of November 14th

Friends,

Last night was the highly anticipated season premiere of Yellowstone, which nicely plays on politics with Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton taking over the Montana Governorship. Looks to be a good season. Speaking of elections, American voters delivered a decidedly mixed message to Washington on last Tuesday, limiting expected Republican gains while seemingly handing them narrow control of the U.S. House of Representatives and a nominal check on President Biden's agenda.

The latest: Over the weekend, Sen. Cortez-Mastio locked up Nevada securing that Ds will keep the Senate Majority, while we still look to the Dec 6 Georgia runoff. Control of the House remains undetermined, but Democrats’ path to keeping their majority narrowed Sunday. Rs have won 212 seats to Ds’ 203. with 10 remaining uncalled races that are true toss-ups. Rs need to win THREE to secure the majority and leads In SEVEN of those toss-up races.

The Policy Resolution Group at Bracewell has prepared our award-winning post-election analysis materials to provide insight on some of the top issues of the day.  These materials build on our post-election webinar held on the morning after the election, November 9, 2022 and include an overview, the White House response and a brief on potential oversight.  Key issues briefs include Clean Energy, Oil & Gas, permitting reform, energy/tax, supply chain issues, consumer product safety and healthcare.

My colleague Liam Donovan topped it all off on Sunday’s Weekend Edition on NPR with our friend Ayesha Rascoe, where they discussed the election takeaways and an early handicap for the 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Get ready for a crazy week as Congress return to a lame-duck Congress that even many Democrats never expected. The House and Senate will start the lame-duck session today. Government funding is the most important unfinished priority as appropriators face a Dec 16 deadline. The defense authorization bill, Ukraine aid, same-sex marriage, Electoral College reform and maybe even a debt-limit boost will be debated over the closing weeks of the 117^th Congress. On energy, look for tax extenders that weren’t in the climate/budget bill and discussions around permitting reform led by Sen. Manchin, who still remains a powerful voice for now (and especially if Herschel Walker manages to defeat Sen. Warnock in the Dec 6 runoff.)

COP 27 also continues this week in Egypt with attempts to craft an agreement on the difficult issues dividing rich and poor nations on the docket. Most reporting suggests it is challenging slog. After a quick stop and speech in Egypt, President Biden headed to the G20 in Indonesia where he had an important meeting on the sidelines with Chinese President Xi Jinping today.  EPRI has its next event on tomorrow looking at approaches for economy-wide decarbonization with a panel featuring at EPRI Vice President of Corporate Affairs Katie Jereza, Long Duration Energy Storage Council head Julia Souder, Port of Antwerp-Bruges Chief Commercial Officer Tom Hautekiet, NEI’s Maria Korsnick and National Grid’s David Wright. See Lots of links to events in the schedule below.

The American Gas Association (AGA) rolls out a new report today that examines regulatory changes that will support infrastructure improvements necessary to support broader energy system resilience. “Enhancing and Maintaining Gas and Energy System Resiliency” concludes that the ability of the gas system to meet seasonal and peak day demands and to reliably deliver natural gas, even during high-impact events, represents an important and valuable resource that must be considered when designing future energy systems and building pathways to a low-carbon future.

If you are following offshore wind, tune in tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. when Equinor and bp, in partnership with the Sunset Park Task Force and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), will officially launch the new “Offshore Wind Ecosystem Fund” with a press conference and reception/light lunch in Brooklyn, NY. More on this tomorrow…

Finally, tomorrow at 9:00 a.m., the Center for the National Interest and Energy Innovation Reform Project holds a jointly-organized panel discussion of U.S. efforts to accelerate regional cooperation on clean energy in the Indo-Pacific region. The event focuses on a new report on energy systems and technologies rapidly expanding as a part of economic and geopolitical competition between the United States and China. Each government seeks economic and technological advantage and reevaluates supply chain dependencies. Please register HERE.

Call with any questions about elections, politics or COP27. Happy to help.

Best,

Frank Maisano

(202) 828-5864

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FRANKLY SPOKEN

      

“I can stand here as president of the United States of America and say with confidence the United States will meet our emissions target by 2030.”

President Biden at Cop27 in Egypt.

“Veterans of this process will tell you that they have been more than frustrated with many pledges that are not substantiated with finance and timeline. This time is different. We need this political leadership, because we know that we have all of the solutions, including the finance solutions, but we need the support and political leadership behind it.”

Egypt’s former investment minister and the U.N.’s high-level champion for climate action Mahmoud Mahieldin in an E&E News story.

 

ON THE PODCAST

Plugged In Talks to Solar Leader – Sol Systems CEO Yuri Horwitz joined the Plugged In podcast recently, hosted by former FERC Chair Neil Chatterjee and WashExam energy reporter Breanne Deppisch, to talk consumers interest in greener energy alternatives.  Over the last decade, the landscape has changed “dramatically,” and the renewable energy space has become cheaper and more efficient, especially for solar, Yuri Horwitz told the Washington Examiner. “Solar is now more affordable and certainly one of the more stable sources of electricity generation in the world.”

Looking at Nuclear Role in Climate Decarb – In this episode of S&P Global’s Energy Evolution, S&P Global Commodity Insights reporters Abbie Bennett, Camellia Moors and Kip Keen discuss these nuclear power developments as part of their 3-part series on nuclear power. Climate change and the global energy crisis are making nuclear power attractive again to countries and utilities that were once eager to reduce or eliminate reactors. But whether the uranium mining sector sees sufficient price signals to expand production remains to be seen. And many cost and execution issues facing new nuclear construction are not resolved. Energy Evolution co-hosts Dan Testa, Allison Good and Taylor Kuykendall are veteran journalists with broad expertise covering the utility, oil and gas and mining sectors.

 

FUN OPINIONS

Reps. Say Cal Green Plans Hurt Reliability, Costs  – In an op-ed in the Washington Examiner, Reps. Jeff Duncan and Jay Obernolte write that California’s Green New Deal experiment has made energy both more unreliable and much more expensive.

 

FROG BLOG

Conservative Members in Egypt – Members of the Conservative Climate Caucus and the Conservative Climate Foundation came together to discuss the climate crisis and energy demand at an event at the U.S. Center. Co-Chairs of the Conservative Climate Foundation Heather Reams (President of CRES Forum) and Rich Powell (CEO of ClearPath) moderated the event. They were joined by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-2), Rep. John Curtis (R-UT-3), Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA-6), and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2). The panelists touched on topics such as agricultural conservation in the context of the world food crisis and the geopolitical implications of the energy crisis. The panel emphasized exportable energy and unleashing American resources. Also highlighted were innovations in nuclear power generation and technologies like carbon capture.

 

FUN FACTS

Floating Office Wind:  Norwegian energy firm Equinor said power production from Hywind Tampen’s first wind turbine took place on Sunday afternoon:

• Total system capacity of 88 MW.
• About 140 km off the Norwegian coast.
• Water depth between 260 and 300m.
• Installed on floating concrete structures with a shared anchoring system.
• The wind turbines will be connected in a 2.5 km-long inter-array network with a capacity of 66 kV.

 

IN THE NEWS

Report: Strengthening NatGas System Supports Overall Energy Resilience – The American Gas Association (AGA) says a new report examines regulatory changes that will support investments and infrastructure improvements necessary to support broader energy system resilience. “Enhancing and Maintaining Gas and Energy System Resiliency” commissioned by the American Gas Foundation concludes that the ability of the gas system to meet seasonal and peak day demands and to reliably deliver natural gas, even during high-impact events, represents an important and valuable resource that must be considered when designing future energy systems and building pathways to a low-carbon future.  More citizens are reliant on gas-powered electricity to meet their energy needs during peak demand periods and high-impact events, placing an added burden on the nation’s natural gas pipeline network. Regulators must create a framework for natural gas utilities to make resiliency investments and upgrades. The report presents several recommendations to help policymakers achieve that goal. Legislation or other federal directives to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) could establish baseline resilience requirements for jurisdictional energy systems, according to the study. In addition, FERC can develop rules that require electric generators operating in regulated power markets to engage with fuel suppliers that adhere to resilience requirements. The study goes on to say that FERC resiliency requirements may be adopted by some states and utilities provided that supportive policies in the state and regulatory arenas recognize regional differences and state-specific requirements. The study also recommends improving the interdependencies and coordination between the electric and natural gas industries, saying that FERC and the U.S. Department of Energy should consider policy and rules that recognize the importance and interdependencies and coordination of the natural gas and electric energy systems. In parallel, state commissions can establish workshops and/or dockets that establish policy and rules that recognize the importance and interdependencies of the natural gas and electric energy systems to ensure the points raised above are recognized and implemented at the federal level. 

Report Says Indo-Pacific Clean Energy Goals Essential – In a new EIRP report, Paul J. Saunders and former EIRP Research Assistant Amelia K. Gilchrist assess opportunities for the United States to build and strengthen regional frameworks in the Indo-Pacific to accelerate clean energy deployment. The report devotes special attention to cooperation involving the United States, Australia, India, Japan, and South Korea and to the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) initiative. In brief, the report argues that the Indo-Pacific is central for U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic interests as well as for efforts to promote clean energy. Cooperating with U.S. allies and partners like Quad members (Australia, India, Japan), South Korea, and many ASEAN members on clean energy can therefore advance multiple American objectives simultaneously. The Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) initiative is a good step forward, but defines clean energy too narrowly, excluding LNG, nuclear power, carbon capture, and other essential topics from its discussions. Broadening IPEF, expanding its appeal to our regional partners, and building bipartisan domestic support could ensure that it has greater impact. Developing a Quad-Plus energy group including South Korea, or deepening U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral cooperation, is also important.

EPA Releases Methane Rule at COP 27 – Prior to the President’s Speech In Egypt at COP 27, EPA released its updated proposal to curb methane this morning at COP27. The new plan would extend that by requiring monitoring of all the country’s roughly 1 million well sites. The rule would also force methane emissions reductions from flaring equipment and create a system to detect leaks from "super-emitter" sites quickly so operators can repair them faster and local community residents are aware.

Chamber on Methane – Marty Durbin, President of the U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute, issued the following statement today regarding the supplemental proposed rule to regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.

“The Chamber supports smart, balanced regulations and voluntary actions to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, and we will work with EPA to help develop an effective final rule. Regulations should encourage innovation and the improvement of technologies to measure and reduce emissions while ensuring our energy security through continued development of our natural resources. We also support reducing methane emissions beyond our borders through the Global Methane Pledge. America’s oil and natural gas industry provides reliable and affordable energy to power our economy and to support our allies and does so with some of the lowest emissions intensity in the world. As we review the details of the proposal, we are particularly interested in how it will interact with the methane fee provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.”

API on EPA Methane Rule – The American Petroleum Institute (API) Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics and Regulatory Affairs Frank Macchiarola said:

“API looks forward to reviewing the proposed rule in its entirety and will continue to work with EPA in support of a final rule that is cost-effective, promotes innovation, and creates the regulatory certainty needed for long-term planning. Federal regulation of methane crafted to build on industry’s progress can help accelerate emissions reductions while developing reliable American energy.

“API’s member companies are continuously advancing and deploying new technology to improve methane detection and reduction, and we support a final rule that promotes this continued innovation.

“Our industry is taking action, and as a result, methane emissions relative to production fell 60% from 2011 to 2020. Industry-led initiatives like The Environmental Partnership are helping to continue that progress with the goal of further reducing methane emissions in every major U.S. basin.” The Environmental Partnership includes more 100 companies who make up more than 70% of total onshore U.S. oil and natural gas production and has implemented a series of methane emissions reducing programs in every major oil and natural gas basin across the country. A recent report from The Partnership found a 45% reduction in flare intensity and a 26% reduction in total flare volumes from participating companies over the past year, even as the number of companies participating in the flare management program grew by 40%.”

 

ON THE SCHEDULE THIS WEEK

COP 27 Continues in Egypt – The United National climate meetings (COP 27) continue in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The conference will run through Saturday. RFF holds a forum today to explore the key details of these new laws and the road ahead for US climate action. Our expert panel includes leading voices from NGOs, the US federal government, business, including ClearPath’s Rich Powell. EPRI has its next event on next Tuesday looking at approaches for economy-wide decarbonization with a panel featuring at EPRI Vice President of Corporate Affairs Katie Jereza, Long Duration Energy Storage Council head Julia Souder, Port of Antwerp-Bruges Chief Commercial Officer Tom Hautekiet, NEI’s Maria Korsnick and National Grid’s David Wright. See EPRI’s Info HERE. Here are the Columbia Climate Center events for the week. BCSE has a number of other events and Info HERE. The Chamber has a series of event HERE.

Forum Looks at Veterans EV Initiative – SAFE and the Electrification Coalition’s Veterans for EVs initiative hold a webinar today at 2:00 p.m. in honor of Veterans Day, discussing breakthroughs and barriers for utilizing the next generation of autonomous and electric vehicles to create greater mobility options for veterans with disabilities.

Forum Looks at Intelligent Transportation – Today at 4:00 p.m., the Wilson Center holds a forum on the development of intelligent transportation systems, innovation across industries and public and private partnerships in recent years. The event will bring together perspectives from the automotive and mobile communications industries on the best use cases, regulatory roadblocks, and commercialization opportunities for these technologies and look at the implications of global competitiveness and national security are impacting the development of these intelligent transportation systems.

Forum to Look at Mineral Supply Chains – Tomorrow at 8:00 a.m., CQRollCall and the National Mining Assn hold a forum on mineral demands, supply chain vulnerabilities and our broken permitting process. Representatives from the Biden-Harris administration, members of Congress, analysts, industry experts, representatives from the auto and manufacturing industries, supply chain experts, and others for an event to discuss he skyrocketing need for minerals in the US, what needs to be done in the U.S. to ensure that these essential minerals are sourced here at home, creating secure/domestic supply chains and weaning the U.S. off of its reliance on geopolitical rivals like China and Russia.

Forum to Look at Clean Energy in Indo-Pacific – The Center for the National Interest and Energy Innovation Reform Project hold a panel discussion tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. focused on US efforts to accelerate regional cooperation on clean energy in the Indo-Pacific region. Energy and energy systems and technologies have rapidly expanded as a zone of economic and geopolitical competition between the United States and China as each government seeks economic and technological advantage and reevaluates supply chain dependencies. U.S.-China competition is especially intense in the Indo-Pacific, which is a strategic region as well as an engine of global economic growth and growth in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The Biden administration has sought deeper cooperation with U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific in existing frameworks like the Quad, in trilateral U.S.-Japan-South Korea dialogue, and through new initiatives like the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF). Three speakers will discuss the regional context and evaluate U.S. policy, including former State Dept officials Paul Saunders and Doug Hengel.

Senate Ag to Look at Energy Impact of Farm Bill – The Senate Agriculture Committee holds a hearing tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. on the upcoming farm bill's impact on energy and development across rural areas, covering programs with bipartisan support. USDA’s undersecretary for rural development Xochitl Torres Small leads the panel.

Senate Enviro to Look at Transportation, Infrastructure – Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., the Senate Environment Committee holds a hearing on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act featuring testimony from several local officials from around the country. Salisbury MD Mayor Jacob Day, Philadelphia transpo official Michael Carroll, Wyoming county official Jim Willox and ND official Jason Benson testify.

Forum to Discuss Energy Poverty – Tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. in New York, the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy will host Dr. Destenie Nock, Visiting Faculty member at CGEP and Assistant Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, for a fireside chat focused on themes related to energy poverty and sustainability including methods to leverage data to reach an equitable and just energy future. In her research and her startup company Peoples Energy Analytics, Dr. Nock has pioneered energy poverty and sustainability metrics in the electricity system.

Chamber Forum Set – The Chamber of Commerce Foundation holds its 2022 Corporate Citizenship Conference & Awards tomorrow and Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The forum will feature policy discussions, interactive breakout sessions and exclusive field trip opportunities to see impact in action.

Forum Looks at 5G, Energy – On Wednesday at 9:00 a.m., PunchBowl News holds a discussion on the impact of 5G on energy.

House Foreign Relations Look at Russian Influence – The House Foreign Affairs will have a hearing on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. looking at Russia’s waning global influence with former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

NREL Solar Database Released – On Wednesday at 11:00 a.m., NREL releases the 2022 National Solar Radiation Database in a webinar. The NSRDB is the leading public source of high-resolution solar resource data that supports a large range of research activities in the solar energy industry and beyond. In this webinar, the team will discuss recent and future updates to the NSRDB and how to access the database.

Book Forum to Look at Sanctions, Success – On Wednesday at Noon, the Center on Global Energy Policy and the Center for a New American Security hold a fireside chat with Agathe Demarais moderated by Edward Fishman, CGEP Senior Research Scholar, CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow, and former member of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff. Their discussion will focus on key findings of Backfire, the latest Columbia University Press release in the Center on Global Energy Policy series.

Forum Looks at Electrification – On Wednesday at 12:30 p.m., the American Security Project holds a forum on innovating out of the climate through electrification.  Policymakers, innovators, and entrepreneurs are already working to dramatically expand production and deployment of clean energy as well as develop new technologies that can improve air and water quality, minimize the impacts of climate change, and ensure energy security. Join us for a discussion on the growing electrification sector and the technological innovations and policy remedies that are making the clean energy transformation possible.

Groups Releases Report on Cooling Centers – The Clean Energy Group holds a forum to release a report on resilient Solar+Storage for Cooling Centers as they are needed more with climate. A new report by Clean Energy Group examines the opportunity for resilient solar+storage to provide reliable backup power to cooling centers. In this webinar, report author Marriele Mango will present her findings. She will be joined by Nate Mills from American Microgrid Solutions, and Nicole Lim from the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, which is in the process of developing a resilient solar+storage installation to support cooling center operations.

Latin American Energy Conference Set – The Inter-American Dialogue will host their Sixth Annual Latin America Energy Conference focusing on energy transformation on Thursday. The conference will convene energy company executives, US and Latin American government officials, and international and nongovernmental organizations to discuss the most pressing energy policy issues in the hemisphere.

Senate to Host Chem Safety Board Noms – The Senate Environment Committee subpanel will hold a hearing Thursday to question nominees to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. Stephen Owens has been nominated to be chair Catherine Sandoval to join the panel.

House Resource Looks at Puerto Rico – The House Resources Committee hold a hearing on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. to scrutinize disaster recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, particularly local and federal initiatives to strengthen the U.S. territory's delicate electric grid.

Senate Energy Hosts Energy Nominees – The Senate Energy Resources Committee holds a hearing on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. to question three of President Joe Biden's nominees for high-level positions on clean energy and the grid. David Crane, former CEO of utility NRG Energy, is up for undersecretary of Energy for infrastructure, and Jeff Marootian, a former White House aide, is Biden's nominee to lead DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

USEA To Discuss Midterm Impacts in Utilities – The US Energy Assn holds a briefing on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. to look at the midterm elections impact on the utility industry.  NRDC’s Kevin Curtis, EEI’s Eric Grey, John Howes of the Redland Energy Group and NEI’s John Kotek speak.

ICF Looks at Climate Impacts – On Thursday at Noon, ICF holds a conversation with the Director of the National Climate Assessment about the draft Fifth National Climate Assessment and the impacts of climate change on regions across the country. This webinar will include key updates on the impacts of climate change on regions across the country and opportunities for stakeholder groups to shape the assessment.

Forum to Look at NetZero – On Thursday at noon at the National Press Club, the Embassy Row Project holds a briefing will launch the International NETZERO Incubator & Accelerator project. Our goal is to spotlight technology leaders transforming the sustainability and carbon reduction space and strengthen international partnerships with government leaders who have made sustainability and carbon reduction part of their national strategies for critical infrastructure development. The International NETZERO Incubator & Accelerator project’s goal is to spotlight technology leaders transforming the sustainability and carbon reduction space and strengthen international partnerships with government leaders who have made sustainability and carbon reduction part of their national strategies for critical infrastructure development.

CESA Looks at State Energy Storage Policies – On Thursday at 1:00 p.m., the Clean Energy States Alliance holds a forum on a new report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) addresses this gap in the literature by developing a state policy stack for BTM battery storage compared across all fifty states. This first-of-its-kind BTM storage policy stack includes 11 parent policy categories, and 31 associated policies divided across the market preparation, creation, and expansion policy components.

Forum to Look at Carbon Hubs – The Institute for Carbon Removal and Policy at American University holds a forum on Thursday at 1:00 p.m. on charting a just path to direct air capture hubs. A panel of expert will discuss how the Department of Energy chooses to roll out Direct Air Capture hubs, and which projects it chooses to fund may be more than just a question of how much or little the technology can be advanced with government funding.

Forum to Look at IEA World Energy Outlook – The British Institute of Energy Economics holds a webinar at 5:00 a.m. Friday to discuss the World Energy Outlook 2022.  WEO provides indispensable analysis and insights on the implications of this profound and ongoing shock to energy systems across the globe. IEA’s Head of Tracking Sustainable Transitions Unit, Daniel Wetzel, and the IEA’s Chief Energy Economist, Tim Gould, about their new analysis of world energy and to question them directly about specific aspects of the report.

CSIS to Hosts State Dept Energy Official – On Friday at 9:30 a.m., CSIS hosts a discussion with Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State. He will outline his objectives for how the United States can balance energy security while promoting a sustainable, affordable, and reliable energy transition for the United States and our allies and partners.

Energy Economists Look at Carbon Border Adjustment – The US Energy Economists hold their monthly luncheon on Friday at 1:00 p.m. on Carbon Border Adjustments. Mark Finley, Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute (and NCAC Council Member), and Rice University PhD student Joon Ha Kim, will present findings based on a recent paper with significant implications for analysis of the political and economic impacts of carbon border adjustments.

 

IN THE FUTURE

Reporters Discuss COP27 Takeaways – With the completion of COP 27, POLITICO and E&E news reporters will take a look back on COP27, analyze the discussions, and review what to expect moving forward next Monday at 10:00 a.m.  Reporters Ryan Heath, Karl Mathiesen, Jean Chemnick and Avery Ellfeldt all provide insights.

Forum to Focus on Energy Storage in Canada – Energy Storage Canada holds a webinar next Monday at 11:00 a.m. looking at a report on key pathways to Net Zero. This webinar will feature an in-depth review of Energy Storage Canada’s recently commissioned White Paper, Energy Storage: A Key Net Zero Pathway in Canada, with the paper’s author, Power Advisory. The report emphasizes the critical role for energy storage if Canada is to reach its 2035 net zero goals by providing the first estimate of installed capacity for energy storage in Canada, a breakdown by province, to optimally support Canada’s existing and future infrastructure. In total, the report estimates a potential for eight to twelve gigawatts of installed capacity for energy storage by 2035.

RFF Looks at Wildfire Insurance – Resources for the Future (RFF) holds an RFF Live event on Wednesday November 30^th exploring wildfire insurance, the third in the “Sparking Solutions” webinar series. In this session, experts will discuss the important role that insurance plays in sending signals about risk, how to balance that with equity and affordability, and what options exist for handling the growing problem of insuring wildfire risks.

DC Energy Conference Set – The IN-PERSON will be hold on Wednesday and Thursday December 7 & 8^th at the Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C. The main focus of this year’s Forum is the US response to the global energy crisis. The Forum is an opportunity to gain market intelligence on the latest energy infrastructure such as LNG infrastructure, gas storage, O&G pipelines, power grids and power plants, renewable energy projects, upstream production, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen production, storage and transportation. Nearly 25 members Congress and other business leaders will speak.

BOEM Plans Dec. 6 Leasing Round for CA Offshore Wind – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has confirmed it will hold a leasing round for five offshore wind tracts in California's Morro Bay and Humboldt Bay areas on Dec. 6. The sites could support 4.5 gigawatts of capacity and would support both the Biden administration and California's offshore wind targets.

EXIM Bank Conference Set – The EXIM’s 2022 Annual Conference will be held on December 13^th. The conference will bring together leaders in business, finance, government, policy and media to highlight the importance of U.S. manufacturing, supply chains, economic security through exports, critical minerals and transformational exports, clean energy technology, small businesses, doing business in Africa, and much more. The speakers include DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Houston Mayor Syl Turner, US Trade Rep Katherine Tai, our friend Yahoo Finance reporter Kevin Cirilli, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Presidential Energy Advisor Amos Hochstein and many more.