A short-lived but intense blast of unseasonal heat is colliding with the annual autumn maintenance window, tightening power supplies on grids that serve roughly one-third of the U.S. population and prompting fresh federal emergency measures. On October 13, 2026, Bloomberg reported that temperatures were expected to run more than 25°F above normal in parts of […]
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Hat tip to the Daily Caller and Simon August, Energy Reporter Data centers are powering the AI revolution—but who’s paying the bill? In this episode of Energy News Beat, host Stu Turley digs into a $29.4 billion question that’s about to hit your electricity bill. Federal regulators just rejected most of PJM’s plan to make […]
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If you live in one of the 13 states or D.C. served by PJM, data centers are already on your power bill. The grid’s own market monitor puts their added capacity cost at $29.4 billion over four auctions. On Friday evening, federal regulators threw out most of PJM’s plan to make new data centers bring […]
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Chinese refiners are set to slow the pace of inventory drawdowns this month as crude imports recover, according to Energy Aspects. More overseas crude is expected to arrive from November, allowing China to preserve its substantial stockpile buffer against further supply disruptions. Analyst Jianan Sun of Energy Aspects noted that recent purchases of Iraqi and […]
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Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, made landfall near Destin in the Florida Panhandle on the evening of October 9 as a Category 2 storm. It prompted extensive precautionary shut-ins of offshore oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of America before tracking eastward and largely sparing major refining centers. […]
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Monday, October 12–13, 2026, that it struck a third “violating” or “offending” supertanker in the Strait of Hormuz within roughly 48 hours, sparking an onboard fire. The IRGC stated the vessel had switched off its navigation systems, ignored warnings, and attempted to exit via an unauthorized […]
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Diesel costs $2.60 a gallon more than it did a year ago, and Election Day is three weeks out. The White House wants Ukraine to stop hitting Russian refineries so Russia can sell diesel again. Moscow has not confirmed the truce, a Kharkiv power plant was hit within hours, and a bipartisan group of senators […]
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) could exhaust its available funding as soon as December 2027 unless it secures financing, according to the state’s Inspector General for High-Speed Rail. A cumulative funding gap of $9.5 billion from fiscal years 2027-28 through 2031-32 threatens construction schedules, with $2.2 billion specifically required in 2027-28 alone to stay […]
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Newly released footage shows the moment a Houthi strike hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, October 10, 2026, in an attack that killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 300—the deadliest assault on Saudi soil in more than a decade. The escalation has prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to state […]
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The U.S. Department of Energy on October 10, 2026, authorized an emergency exchange of up to 4 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to address supply disruptions from hurricane activity in the Gulf of America. Source –Energy ExxonMobil and BP America each received authority for up to 2 million barrels. […]
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