A letter from the Vice President is the most senior American outreach to Tehran in months, and crude drifted lower on the news. The same reporting says Washington and Israel are still preparing a week of strikes after the Nov. 3 election. Both things are true, and the gap between them is what you are […]
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Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) is set to scrutinize NextEra Energy’s proposed roughly $67 billion all-stock acquisition of Dominion Energy in an evidentiary hearing beginning November 17, with a decision deadline in mid-January 2027. The deal, announced in May 2026, would create one of the largest regulated U.S. electric utilities, serving about 10 million customer […]
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Britain’s operator says it will hold a 5.9 GW cushion this winter. An analyst working from its own workbook gets 0.5 GW. Prepared by ENB Research Desk for Stu Turley. Data as of Oct. 28, 2026 (CT). ENB opinons are labeled as Stu’s Take 1. Bottom line Verdict in brief Verdict: both grids remain inside […]
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EPA wants to scrap the “super emitter” leak program and ease the rules for marginal wells that make about 6% of America’s oil and gas. The savings are real, they are lumpy, and most of the money lands on wells that belong to the biggest operators. By Energy News Beat | Oct. 28, 2026 If […]
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Dominion’s 2026 filing puts 39.2 GW of new generation and storage on the Virginia grid at a $183.4 billion portfolio cost, a present value in 2026 dollars. In nominal dollars its own table takes a typical 1,000 kWh bill from $180.31 to $283.65 by 2046; deflated at the filing’s 2% escalator, that is about $191 […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on America Outloud By Yoshihiro Muronaka, and Ronald Stein. We highly recommend subscribing and reading everything from them! When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz at the end of February, the world relearned a lesson it keeps forgetting: crude oil, by itself, moves nothing. Trucks, tractors, aircraft and […]
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CenterPoint just raised its 10-year spending plan to $70.7 billion to wire up data centers and other big loads. Here is how that money finds its way onto the delivery charges in Houston power bills. By Energy News Beat. Data as of Oct. 27, 2026. If you live in the Houston area, part of every […]
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We checked all six claims against EIA, DOE, EPA and IEA records. Three are moving real barrels today, but only one at scale. The rest are small, slow, disputed or not about gasoline at all. By Energy News Beat If you filled up this weekend, you paid about $4.29 a gallon for regular and $6.35 […]
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The county still counts Bellflower’s 1,768 acres, a project it revoked on Oct. 7. Here’s what that means for neighbors, for your power bill, and for anyone watching Southside Virginia energy. By Stuart Turley, Energy News Beat A reader asked us a simple question: how much more solar can Brunswick County, Virginia, actually take? The […]
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Data centers are being built where land, fiber and tax breaks are, not where the power plants are. Moving that power takes new capacity, new high-voltage lines and new substations. This report follows the money from the PJM capacity auction to the Dominion transmission rider, the MISO, SPP and ERCOT long-range plans, the FERC rules […]
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