Fueling the New England energy Crisis
Recently Reuters and WSJ wrote about increased LNG exports, rising energy prices and increased carbon emissions due to switching AWAY from natural gas. At RBAC, we run energy market simulations through GPCM software to get the best information possible and here are some key points about that impact fuel use decision-making, LNG exports and prices: […]
Affordable Clean Energy Access Everywhere is One of RBAC’s Long-Term Goals
Source: Introducing RBAC Tuesday, December 7, 2021, Houston, TX – Dr. Robert Brooks Ph.D., Founder and Chairman of RBAC, Inc. responded to a statement by EQT’s CEO, Toby Rice regarding the importance of natural gas and LNG during the energy transition. “Toby Rice, CEO of EQT, has been an outspoken advocate for environmental responsibility in […]
Capturing Carbon: Modeling CO2 Emissions Vital for Energy Transition
Houston, Texas, August 16, 2021 – Modeling CO2 emissions is a vital component for developing workable strategies to achieve the goals of the energy transition. RBAC’s enhanced GPCM® CO2 market model incorporates existing CO2 markets into a model framework and empowers users to evaluate a wide range of scenarios to gain insight about the possible […]
RBAC-Refinitiv 2021 Global Gas & LNG Balance Forecast and Report
Houston, Texas, June 17, 2021. In 2020, utilizing RBAC’s G2M2® Market Simulator for Global Gas and LNG™, Refinitiv and RBAC studied the sensitivity of gas prices and LNG flows between the US, Europe, and Asia using a robust set of 20 possible weather scenarios. The resulting joint 24-month forecast and report explored the evolving inter-relationships […]
Dr. Brooks joins the 11th Gulf Intelligence Global UAE Energy Forum discussing the how the Biden Administration could reposition the US as a climate leader.
Houston, Texas, January 19, 2021. On January 13th RBAC’s Founder, Dr. Robert Brooks, was a featured panelist on a Roundtable at the 11th Gulf Intelligence Global UAE Energy Forum entitled “How can Biden reposition the US as a climate leader in his first 100 days in office?”. Other panelists included Dr. Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute for […]
What is the Role for Natural Gas in the Energy Transition?
RBAC’s G2M2® Electric Demand Model is not only capable of forecasting country-level natural gas demand in the power sector, but also provides a hint of energy mix in power generation and flexibility in fuel prices, carbon prices and energy policies. In RBAC’s “What is the Role for Natural Gas in the Energy Transition” full report, […]
Dr. Brooks Joins FERC’s Technical Conference Discussing the Impact of Covid-19 on the Energy Industry
Houston, Texas, July 8, 2020, Dr. Robert Brooks, President and founder of RBAC, Inc., will be a panel participant at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Technical Conference regarding impacts of Covid-19 on the Energy Industry, Thursday July 9, 2020 starting at 9a EDT. Negative crude oil prices, production curtailments and shut-ins, LNG exports dropping by […]
RBAC’s 2019 Summer Gas Modeling Internship Program
The entire staff at RBAC, Inc. congratulates Chong Wang on starting his Ph.D. program in Economics. Chong along with fellow graduate students Birdy Chen and Jiaxin Yang have been participating in RBAC’s 2019 Summer Gas Modeling Internship Program in the Economics department at the University of Texas at Austin. They have been working with Dr. […]
Gazprom’s Hard Choices are Europe’s Too
Houston, Texas, April 5, 2019 – In the April 1, 2019 newsletter article “Gazprom Faces Hard Choices: Naftogaz Ukrainy”, Natural Gas World’s Editor in Chief, William Powell, quoted Andrei Kobolev, CEO of the integrated Ukrainian monopoly Naftogaz, as follows: “Russian gas pipeline monopoly Gazprom will not manage to complete Nord Stream 2 by the start […]
Energy Insanity: Russian LNG Expected in Boston
Houston, Texas, January 10, 2018 – RBAC’s Founder, Dr. Robert Brooks, commented recently on the effect of archaic protectionist policies still in effect that create both unnecessary and detrimental barriers to efficient internal energy markets and shine light on the need for the Trump administration to continue its efforts to strengthen the US economy by […]
