Tom DiChristopher

@POWERmagazine, it would be great if you could properly cite S&P Global Commodity Insights in your story on NiSource's hydrogen projects. The bit about repowering a turbine with a gas-hydrogen blend was a scoop from my interview with the CEO: spglobal.com/marketintellig…

During NYC Climate Week, 14 governors pledged to explore implementing six building decarbonization/electrification policies. Here's a breakdown of those policies and what they could mean for natural gas use: spglobal.com/marketintellig…

In a major upset for gas ban advocates, a Washington DC board killed a proposed all-electric construction requirement for apartments and other commercial buildings. Here's how the policy failed to pass in a progressive city: spglobal.com/marketintellig…

Here's why Berkeley, the US Department of Energy, a group of progressive states, New York's utility regulator and other supporters think the 9th Circuit should review the panel's opinion: spglobal.com/marketintellig…

... the 9th Circuit often dismisses petitions for rehearing of a panel's opinion without asking the appellant (CRA in this case) to respond. Essentially, Berkeley cleared a hurdle and some members of the 9th Circuit think this issue might be something worth revisiting.

Positive sign for Berkeley, CA & gas ban backers: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals directed the California Restaurant Association to respond to Berkeley's petition for a rehearing of a 3-judge panel's opinion that Berkeley's gas ban conflicts w/ Energy Policy & Conservation Act

As of June 2023, nearly half of US states have outlawed gas bans, #electrification mandates & other policies that block #NaturalGas use in buildings. Still, more anti-gas ban bills failed than passed this year. Full analysis here: spglobal.com/marketintellig…

@ChadPergram The Congressman is mistaken. Congress delegated this authority to DOE in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Ironically, a 9th Circuit panel recently struck down Berkeley, CA's first-in-the-nation gas ban, saying DOE's authority over appliance standards preempted the ban.

A) GOP FL Rep Donalds on Hse's gas stove hearing: I don't even know who gave the Department of Energy this authority. It certainly wasn't Congress. Who's this actually going to hurt? Mostly it's going to hurt people who, one, don't have the money to go buy another stove.

More context in our story here: spglobal.com/marketintellig…

👆That is from the DOE's Feb. 1 supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking for the new energy efficiency standards for consumer cooking equipment, which this hearing was about. That explanation can generally be found in every proposed rule.

The answer is in fact Congress. Congress gave the Department of Energy the authority. In the landmark Energy Policy and Conservation Act.

Our basket of gas utility stocks includes: $ATO $CPK $NJR $NWN $OGS $SWX $SR $UGI. We dropped $SJI this quarter after the company went private.

Check out those gas utilities outperforming the broader utilities sector in Q1 🧐 Story here: spglobal.com/marketintellig…

Calif. utility regulators decided the project was in the public interest and approved cost tracking (which could lead to cost recovery from ratepayers). Air Products said that would distort the market. I've outlined that disagreement in the story (8/8): spglobal.com/marketintellig…

Last year, Air Products opposed SoCalGas' bid to record the cost of conducting feasibility studies for a transmission pipeline that would link in-state green hydrogen production to the Los Angeles Basin. (7/8)

At CERAWeek, Air Products CEO Seifi Ghasemi said the company could ship much of the green hydrogen produced at a mega-scale export facility in Saudi Arabia to California. Here's why that idea is drawing pushback ... 1/8🧵 Story here: spglobal.com/marketintellig…