{"id":44,"date":"2022-06-22T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/?p=44"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:35:24","slug":"the-current-state-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/2022\/06\/22\/the-current-state-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Current State of Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three major market issues have caused a full doubling of energy costs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. A political focus on Green Energy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. The Russian war in Ukraine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. The ongoing after-effects of winter storm Uri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been over a decade since we\u2019ve seen this much volatility in the energy market. Historically, what goes up must also come down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This natural gas chart reflects how quickly prices have escalated in the first 6 months of 2022. Just three years ago, West Texas natural gas prices were trading below zero \u2013 and being flared \u2013 because there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-natgas-pipelines-flaring-explainer\/explainer-why-are-u-s-natural-gas-prices-in-texas-below-zero-idUSKCN1RL2NL\">too much surplus<\/a> and nowhere to put it. Things move quickly in the energy market.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/iJune-8-HH-mage001.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/iJune-8-HH-mage001.png 744w, https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/iJune-8-HH-mage001-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>Natural gas prices have rapidly climbed this year &#8211; something no one could have predicted. <\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>How much pain can you afford in the near term and how will you mitigate risk in the current market?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are working with partners every day to help answer that question. Everyone has a unique situation. &nbsp;Let\u2019s talk about available options and potential scenarios to help mitigate your risk and uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you have an energy agreement due to expire in the next 12-18 months, let\u2019s discuss your next energy position now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Call, text, email, or if it\u2019s convenient, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookme.name\/LanceMcgee\">access an appointment calendar here<\/a> to quickly schedule a time to talk about your options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been over a decade since we\u2019ve seen this much volatility in the energy market. Historically, what goes up must also come down. How much pain can you afford in the near-term and how will you mitigate risk in the current market? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,11,9,8,12,5,6],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-bills","tag-energy-agreement","tag-energy-costs","tag-energy-inflation","tag-energy-prices","tag-smart-energy-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energy-serv.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}