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Sean O'Leary

@seanholeary.bsky.social
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Senior researcher at the Ohio River Valley Institute, where I focus on economic development and energy transition. Also a playwright, and native of Wheeling, West Virginia

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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...
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Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Another ARCH2 hydrogen hub project going down in flames. Joins at least five others. The result of absurdly undercapitalized companies trying to develop a product for which there is no market. www.wastedive.com/news/empire-...
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Planned West Virginia pyrolysis plant misses payments on $44M in bonds
The plant, commissioned by a subsidiary of Empire Diversified Energy, was set to convert waste plastic to electricity. Its future is unclear.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A month from hell. Northern Appalachia's economic development strategic triad of natural gas, petrochemicals, and hydrogen is failing. Natgas doesn't generate job growth and petrochemicals and hydrogen can't get off the ground. Time for a new strategy. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/a-month-from...
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A Month from Hell – Ohio River Valley Institute
The Ohio River Valley Institute is a think tank focused on lasting job growth, clean energy, and more inclusive civic structures for northern Appalachia.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
From my ORVI colleague, Ted Boettner, as an underequipped and historically deficient state agency prepares to assume regulatory responsibility for carbon sequestration. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/abandoned-we...
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Abandoned Wells Could Wreak Havoc for Carbon Storage in West Virginia – Ohio River Valley Institute
The Ohio River Valley Institute is a think tank focused on lasting job growth, clean energy, and more inclusive civic structures for northern Appalachia.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The tragedy is that many state leaders think growing reliance on natural gas is economically beneficial when in fact it contributes to job loss, population loss, and rising electric bills. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
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Homepage - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Boom in AI data centres threatens surge in gas use - Gas Outlook
Major tech companies are investing billions of dollars in new data centres to power AI, which could result in rising demand for gas.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
PJM, utilities, and the natural gas industry are using predictions of rapidly rising electricity demand to frog-march the region into greater dependence on gas-fired electricity - a decision that could result in electric rates going up by a third or more. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/load-growth-...
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Load Growth Fever, LNG, and the Risk of Higher Electric Rates – Ohio River Valley Institute
The Ohio River Valley Institute is a think tank focused on lasting job growth, clean energy, and more inclusive civic structures for northern Appalachia.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
PJM, utilities, and the natural gas industry are using predictions of rapidly rising electricity demand to frog-march the region into greater dependence on gas-fired electricity - a decision that could result in electric rates going up by a third or more. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/load-growth-...
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Load Growth Fever, LNG, and the Risk of Higher Electric Rates – Ohio River Valley Institute
The Ohio River Valley Institute is a think tank focused on lasting job growth, clean energy, and more inclusive civic structures for northern Appalachia.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 17/12/2024
Meanwhile, across the Pond, Germany will shutter a key LNG import terminal in the first quarter of 2025, as EU energy crisis eases. oilprice.com/Latest-Energ... 🛢️🔥 🔌💡
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Germany To Shut Down Key LNG Terminal In 2025 | OilPrice.com
Germany will shut down its Wilhelmshaven LNG terminal in the first quarter of 2025, with government-owned operator Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) announcing there will be no regasification activi...
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Opinion | The Surprising Allure of Ignorance
We want to know, but we also want not to know, sometimes fiercely so.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Appalachian Regional Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) is losing developers and support principally because the underlying technology, blue hydrogen, is fundamentally uneconomic for most of its imagined applications. www.eenews.net/articles/blu...
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‘Blue’ hydrogen hub struggles to win over Appalachia
Dozens of environmental and community groups say the hub has provided little public information on its plans to turn natural gas into a low-carbon fuel.
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📢Taylor Kuykendall @taykuy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Update this morning on Peabody Energy, a US coal-producing giant, venturing into solar and storage business www.spglobal.com/marketintell... Here's a previous story about coal producers' ventures into the world of greener energy: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Anyone who ever took ECON 101 should have understood that Trump's claim that increased natural gas exports would drive down prices in this country was absurd. Zibel quantifies the absurdity.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Developers drop out of Appalachian hydrogen hub over strict carbon emission caps
Several of the initial development partners balk at the terms of a federal tax credit that places restrictions on the amount of carbon in the hydrogen production process.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Opinion | The Democrats Are in Trouble. This Man Can Save Them.
The theories of the 20th-century philosopher John Rawls can inspire a new way for Democrats to find relevance.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
CCS has, for the most part, been "decarbonization theater".
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Data centers alone will drive new natural gas consumption “equivalent to roughly 10-30 percent of current U.S. demand for gas-fired power generation,” according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 21/11/2024
No. Just: no. We do not want or need hydrogen for home heating.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The ARCH2 hydrogen hub is struggling badly as projects and developers drop out. Things may get even worse under the Trump administration. ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/wp-content/u...
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is of particular concern in the Ohio River Valley and northern Appalachia where the economy is already sagging due in large part to an over-reliance on natural gas.
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Sean O'Leary @seanholeary.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The situation in Fairmont is frighteningly similar to the case of Austin Master Services which dumped radioactive waste along the Ohio River in Martins Ferry, Ohio. In that case, Ohio's attorney general took action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4tX...
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You Won't Believe What We Found Hidden In This Small Ohio Town
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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