На графике отчетливо видна всевозрастающая роль природного газа в энергетике США. Однако, нужно учитывать, что подземные газовые хранилища в США являются слабо развитой инфраструктурой, а основные магистральные газопроводы, транспортирующие газ с промыслов до хабов, перегружены. При этом амплитуда сезонных колебаний потребления газа для производства электроэнергии достигает 50%. В условиях инфраструктурных ограничений расширение экспортных СПГ терминалов - неоправданный риск для стабильной работы электроэнергетики Штатов, включая финансовую стабильность.
На графике отчетливо видна всевозрастающая роль природного газа в энергетике США. Однако, нужно учитывать, что подземные газовые хранилища в США являются слабо развитой инфраструктурой, а основные магистральные газопроводы, транспортирующие газ с промыслов до хабов, перегружены. При этом амплитуда сезонных колебаний потребления газа для производства электроэнергии достигает 50%. В условиях инфраструктурных ограничений расширение экспортных СПГ терминалов - неоправданный риск для стабильной работы электроэнергетики Штатов, включая финансовую стабильность.
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. But Kliuchnikov, the Ukranian now in France, said he will use Signal or WhatsApp for sensitive conversations, but questions around privacy on Telegram do not give him pause when it comes to sharing information about the war. Unlike Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which run very public anti-disinformation programs, Brooking said: "Telegram is famously lax or absent in its content moderation policy." Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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