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  • Speech by President Lorie K. Logan

    Opening Remarks for 'Energy and the Economy: The New Energy Landscape' Conference

    Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan delivered this address to open the conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas and Kansas City in Houston.

  • Energy and the Economy: The New Energy Landscape

    The conference focused on geopolitics as well the outlook for global energy markets and the U.S. energy sector.

  • Permian Basin Economic Indicators

    The Permian Basin economy expanded in the third quarter but at a slower rate than the previous quarter. Both oil production and employment increased, and the unemployment rate declined.

  • Energy Indicators

    Refiners continued to boost activity as the country moved into the winter heating season amid low inventories and high margins.

  • Research Department Working Papers

    The Electric Ceiling: Limits and Costs of Full Electrification

    Electrification is a centerpiece of global decarbonization efforts. Yet there are reasons to be skeptical of the inevitability, or at least the optimal pace, of the transition. This paper discusses several under-appreciated costs of full, or even deep, electrification.

  • Diverse, resilient Houston looking at moving beyond traditional energy base

    Dallas Fed President Lorie K. Logan met with Houston business and community leaders earlier this month in the stop on her 360° in 365 Listening Tour.

  • Dallas Fed Economics

    Automakers’ bold plans for electric vehicles spur U.S. battery boom

    Meeting ambitious manufacturing goals will require batteries—lots of them—as an electric vehicle (EV) can use hundreds to thousands of individual lithium-ion batteries.

  • Surveys

    Dallas Fed Energy Survey

    Activity in the oil and gas sector expanded at a strong pace in the third quarter, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.

  • Permian Basin Economic Indicators

    Oil prices dropped sharply in early March. Oil production reached new highs in January, and the rig count edged up in February.

  • Energy Indicators

    Russia increasingly restricting natural gas supplies to Europe over the past year has pushed natural gas prices to stratospheric levels in Europe. The hunt for substitutes amid widespread heat waves is pulling many other energy prices up with it.