Porter also said he is frustrated by the lack of
progress on energy infrastructure — particularly on the Energy East project, a pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corp. (TSX: TRP) that would ship 1.1 million barrels of Alberta oil per day to refineries in Eastern Canada.
Alerian's indexes track energy master limited partnerships (MLPs) and provide financial
data on energy infrastructure projects in the United States.
Pay now, and benefits come later It said spending $ 5 trillion over the next
decade on energy infrastructure and fuel efficiency would save $ 4 trillion in fuel alone, resulting in a net cost of $ 1 trillion.
[T] he Department of Energy has had a particular focus over the last couple of
years on energy infrastructure and, regrettably, there's a broader theme than Aliso Canyon.
Since returns are spread over a long period and are stable, with limited upside (10x
returns on energy infrastructure don't exist) investors and lenders require a quantifiable and manageable amount of risk.
On the heels of the recent announcement, the veteran solar developer and founder of SunEdison wrote a post on LinkedIn where he made the case that in order to deploy this cleantech infrastructure, we need to divert only 25 percent of the $ 10 trillion that would be spent
on energy infrastructure anyway.
Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent
progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»
Model is tailored for exascale computers and designed to forecast impacts on energy infrastructure