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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 82.77 | -0.13 | -0.16% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 84.01 | -0.44 | -0.52% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 83.60 | -0.14 | -0.17% | ||
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Mars US • 187 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.542 | -0.002 | -0.07% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 84.01 | -0.44 | -0.52% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 84.95 | -0.49 | -0.57% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 83.60 | -0.14 | -0.17% |
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Peace Sour • 15 hours | 71.58 | -0.10 | -0.14% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 15 hours | 74.63 | -0.10 | -0.13% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 15 hours | 81.58 | -0.10 | -0.12% | ||
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Central Alberta • 15 hours | 71.98 | -0.10 | -0.14% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 74.86 | -0.10 | -0.13% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 75.00 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Kansas Common • 8 days | 69.25 | -3.00 | -4.15% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 83.20 | +0.37 | +0.45% |
Leonard Hyman & William Tilles
Leonard S. Hyman is an economist and financial analyst specializing in the energy sector. He headed utility equity research at a major brokerage house and has provided advice on industry organization, regulation, privatization, risk management and finance to investment bankers, governments and private firms, including one effort to place nuclear fusion reactors on the moon. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and author, co-author or editor of six books including America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future and Energy Risk Management: A Primer for the Utility Industry.
You can find Leonard Hyman's lastest book Electricity Acts on Amazon
William I. Tilles is a senior industry advisor and speaker on energy and finance. After starting his career at a bond rating agency, he turned to equities and headed utility equity research at two major brokerage houses and then became a portfolio manager investing in long/short global utility equities. For a time he ran the largest long/short utilities equity book in the world. Before going into finance, Mr. Tilles taught political science .
Latest articles from Leonard Hyman & William Tilles
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CFTC Report: Financial Markets Under Threat From Climate Change
When an advisory panel chartered by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), one of the Trump administration’s regulatory agencies, warns, unanimously, that climate change threatens…
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Are U.S. Utilities About To Become Politicized?
The is some big spending ahead for electric utilities. More than the politicians and policymakers expect. Electric utilities have to decarbonize and modernize. Even if…
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The Secret To Successfully Closing Down Coal Plants
Close down coal-fired power stations. Do not replace them with gas-fired electricity. That would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the USA by 15 percent. That’s…
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Biden Can’t Save U.S. Coal, But He Can Help The Miners
Margaret Thatcher hated the UK’s coal miners and especially their union. A series of brutal strikes divided the nation during her regime. But when the…
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British Regulator Threatens To Slash Profitability Of Utilities
Ofgem, the UK’s energy regulator, characterized in the past as “feeble” and “toothless”, now has threatened in a recent proposal to halve the profitability of…
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Why Power Companies Can’t Ditch Coal Just Yet
We’ve always had difficulty understanding why US electric companies have not simply closed down old, smaller and least efficient coal-fired power plants quickly. From a…
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How Viable Are Net Zero Strategies For Energy Companies?
This sounds like the old motto of the 1859 Colorado gold rush, “Pike’s Peak or Bust!” But regardless of potential riches, “Net Zero by 2050”…
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Why The $17.5 Billion Write-Down Is Just The Beginning For BP
BP, the British oil company, announced this week it would reduce the value of its oil and gas assets by $17.5 billion. Even though this…
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Is Shell’s Dividend Cut Permanent?
Investors were more than annoyed when Royal Dutch Shell slashed its dividend by two thirds. Just last year, the giant oil company announced its plan…
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Breaking Down Biden's Energy Policy
The Trump administration’s energy policy, as we consider the two candidates for our nation’s highest office, has been very clear. It rests on three conceptual…
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3 Reasons Big Finance Is Bailing On Fossil Fuels
When two of the biggest beneficiaries of fossil fuels abandon the cause is that an omen? Start with Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the biggest in…
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Why COVID-19 Won't Crush Renewables
Some very wrong but intuitively appealing ideas about energy keep recurring. These are the ideological equivalents of vampires in old movies, waking hungry and rising…
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How Feasible Is BP’s Zero-Emissions Goal?
When Lord Browne ran BP (formerly British Petroleum) from 1995 to 2007, those initials also stood, aspirational, for “Beyond Petroleum”. The company made renewable energy…
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Does Nuclear Power Have A Future?
The discussion today about nuclear energy is nothing short of tribal, two warring camps shouting slogans at each other. This so-called debate reminds us of…
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Is This The Most Innovative Power Company In The World?
We came to the conclusion that the future is a separate line of business when perusing the graphically flashy 2019 annual report issued by Enel…
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The Future Of Fuels In Power Generation
Presently, one-sixth of our electric bill goes to pay for fossil fuels to generate electricity. When fuel prices were higher the percentage was even bigger.…
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Decarbonizing U.S. Electricity For $25 A Year
In our fractious domestic politics, squabbles over infrastructure spending are as old the republic. But here we propose an infrastructure project of considerable scope that…
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This Trend Will Reshape Power Generation In The Coming Decades
The decarbonization of electricity production around the world today may be seen as part of a technological shift. Everyone wants electricity or its immediate benefits…
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Lockdown Strikes Utilities As Electricity Demand Plunges
Electric utilities around the world, like other industries, are not immune to the unpleasant financial effects stemming from the covid19 pandemic. While electricity customers “shelter…
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The Single Biggest Threat And Opportunity For U.S. Utilities
This is the question that a venerable publication catering to utilities and regulators, Public Utilities Fortnightly, asked: “When will climate change represent a tangible threat…
