Average state tax rates for retail gasoline and diesel fuel flat since January 2024
This TIE was updated August 20, 2024 to correct a figure.
As of July 1, 2024, state taxes and fees on gasoline and diesel fuel averaged $0.33 per gallon (gal) of gasoline and $0.35/gal of diesel fuel, according to our federal and state motor fuel taxes table. Since January 2024, both the gasoline and diesel average taxes have remained nearly flat, increasing less than half of one cent each.
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U.S. power grid added 20.2 GW of generating capacity in the first half of 2024
According to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, developers and power plant owners added 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale electric generating capacity in the United States during the first half of 2024. This new capacity is 3.6 GW (21%) more than the capacity added during the first six months of 2023. Based on the most recently reported data, developers and owners expect to add another 42.6 GW of capacity in the second half of the year.
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Initial cargo of liquefied natural gas ships from Mexico
Note: Map current as of August 2024. LNG=liquefied natural gas; Bcf/d=billion cubic feet per day
The developer of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Mexico shipped an initial cargo this month, with the LNG sailing via the Panama Canal to Mexico’s LNG import terminal in Baja California Sur. Developer New Fortress Energy produced the LNG aboard an offshore Floating LNG (FLNG) production vessel with a capacity to liquefy up to 0.199 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas—one of two FLNG production units that are part of the Fast LNG Altamira export project on the east coast of Mexico. U.S. natural gas delivered via the Sur de Texas-Tuxpan pipeline supplies the project.
Read More ›Diesel consumption falls in China due to reduced economic activity and fuel substitution
Note: We define apparent demand as refinery production plus imports minus exports.
Our estimates of diesel consumption in China totaled 3.9 million barrels per day (b/d) in June 2024, a decline of 11% from the same month last year and the largest year-over-year decline in consumption for any month since July 2021.
Read More ›China’s natural gas consumption, production, and imports all increased in 2023
Note: Industrial consumption includes natural gas feedstock. Other includes district heating and transport.
In 2023, 7%, or 2.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), more natural gas was consumed in China than in 2022, after a decline of 1.1% in 2022 when economic growth was slower, mainly due to China’s zero-COVID policies, leading to a reduction in natural gas consumption.
Read More ›U.S. wind generation hit record in April 2024, exceeding coal-fired generation
This TIE was updated August 14, 2024 to correct the units.
Electricity generation from wind established a new record in the United States in April, and wind generation exceeded coal-fired generation in both March and April, data from our July 2024 Monthly Energy Review show.
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Public company proved oil and natural gas reserves were mostly unchanged in 2023
Global proved crude oil and natural gas reserves held by 175 publicly traded global exploration and production (E&P) companies increased by 2.0 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) in 2023, or about 1%, according to data from the companies’ annual financial reports.
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Domestic uranium market will grow between 2023 and 2024
Note: Data for 2020 withheld to avoid disclosure of individual company data. U3O8=triuranium octoxide
Uranium miners in the United States produced more than 82,000 pounds of uranium concentrate in the first quarter of 2024, more than in all of 2023. Domestic uranium mines produced 50,000 pounds of triuranium octoxide (U3O8), also called uranium concentrate, in 2023, a significant decrease from the 194,000 pounds produced in 2022.
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What is the outlook for U.S. natural gas inventories at the end of injection season?
Data values: U.S. Natural Gas Supply, Consumption, and Inventories
In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, we forecast that U.S. working natural gas inventories will be 3,954 billion cubic feet (Bcf) by the end of October, the most natural gas in U.S. storage since November 2016. We forecast less-than-average cumulative injections for the rest of the injection season (through October) because inventories were relatively well supplied in March and because we expect more U.S. consumption of natural gas than average this summer and relatively flat natural gas production.
Read More ›U.S. imports of renewable diesel increased in the early months of 2024
Updated August 6, 2024 to correct a data calculation in the third figure.
In the first five months of 2024, U.S. imports of renewable diesel averaged 30,000 barrels per day (b/d), approaching the monthly record set in May 2023. Most of the imports (94%) were destined for the U.S. West Coast, where most of the country's renewable diesel is consumed. All U.S. imports came from Neste’s plants in Singapore and Rotterdam.
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The most coal is stockpiled at U.S. power plants since 2020
Note: Data for 2023 and 2024 are preliminary.
Coal stockpiles at U.S. electric power plants totaled 138 million short tons at the end of May, the most since the first half of 2020 when the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic reduced electricity demand and coal consumption.
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Canada's crude oil has an increasingly significant role in U.S. refineries
Crude oil imports from Canada have become increasingly important to U.S. oil refineries, now making up most U.S. imports. U.S. oil refining capacity stood at 18.4 million barrels per day (b/d) as of January 1, 2024. In 2023, 60% of U.S. crude oil imports originated in Canada, up from 33% in 2013.
Read More ›Price of carbon allowances in California’s Cap-and-Trade Program fell in latest auction
Allowance prices for greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 11% in California's quarterly joint carbon auction held in May 2024, breaking the recent upward trend amid uncertainty as to how the state regulator will amend rules governing the auctions.
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U.S. refining capacity increased in 2023 with expansions at existing facilities
U.S. refining capacity increased this year for the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to our annual Refinery Capacity Report. U.S. operable atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity, the primary measure of refinery capacity, totaled 18.4 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd) at the start of 2024, a 2% increase compared with the start of 2023.
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What is the natural gas futures market?
Note: Average prices based on daily close for 1st–22nd of each month to reflect normal trading operations.
The natural gas futures market is a marketplace where standardized contracts for the future delivery of set natural gas volumes are traded. Most natural gas futures are bought and sold in the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Futures contracts allow participants to manage their exposure to market volatility by locking in a price today for a future purchase or a future sale of a physical commodity.
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