So many opinions are out there on why prices are going up, why this or why that. But let me tell you a story about a small earthquake in the Netherlands in 2012.1 One of the world’s largest gas fields in the Netherlands, called Groningen, was a high-producing field...
As your energy broker, we wanted to relay some information to you from the energy supplier, NRG. If you are a Direct Energy customer you will soon be contacted by NRG, to let you know that they have acquired Direct Energy and will be integrating DE under their brand....
Natural gas prices are rising. In fact, European and Asian natural gas rates very recently surged from a pandemic low in May 2020 by 1,000 percent! In the U.S. specifically, natural gas rates for the month of August are at the highest level in a decade. Surging...
As we drive around town we can’t help but notice the rapidly changing price of gasoline. For many of us across the nation it has already broken the $3.00 per gallon barrier. This overall increase in the price of gas at the pumps is a close-to-home reminder of what’s...
“Inflation” refers to a general increase in the prices of goods and services in the economy over time that corresponds with a decrease in the value of money. When a unit of currency depreciates in value, so does its purchasing power. It takes more currency units to...
Basics of energy production have to be understood before one can make any sense of what happened in Texas in February when a brutal cold snap lead to blackouts in over four million homes and businesses. For years the Texas grid operator, ERCOT (Electric Reliability...