Britain has spent years accelerating wind and solar deployment under Clean Power 2030 and net-zero targets. The generation numbers look impressive on paper. The grid, however, was not built for them, and the mismatch is now producing record costs, regular curtailment of green power, emergency interventions, and growing questions about reliability. Felicity Bradstock’s October 25, […]
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Virginia’s new Energy Plan promises to protect family budgets but never shows a household bill. It models 10,000 MW of import capacity, while PJM lists 5,992 MW; prices solar 41% below Dominion’s own filing; and leaves about $40.6 billion of Dominion spending outside the proposed rate freeze. Here are the six biggest holes. The full […]
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the U.S. is talking about “reopening every refinery we can.” With diesel at $6.32 and U.S. plants already running hard, ENB checked which shut refineries could realistically return, and how fast. If you drive a diesel pickup, run a farm or haul freight, here is the number that matters this […]
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Washington has the authority and a $1 billion DPA fund for refinery projects, and it is talking with shut refineries about restarts. Valero’s idled Benicia plant is part of the talks, but the owner is weighing redevelopment and the state is paying for imports. If you drive in California, you pay for the state’s refinery […]
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Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran on lowering energy costs. Her Oct. 19 merger testimony asks for a base-rate freeze and bigger bill credits, plus a zero-carbon data center subsidiary, heat pump and EV rate If you are a Dominion Energy customer, the “typical” bill for 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month was $149.92 in July 2025. On July […]
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In this episode of the Energy Newsbeat podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with David Blackmon (Forbes contributor and Energy Impacts podcast host) and Mike Umbro (energy innovator and founder of California for Energy and Science) to explore a groundbreaking solution to California’s energy crisis. The conversation centers on Geologic Thermal Energy Storage (GeoTES)—a revolutionary […]
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Vice President JD Vance says the administration “has used” the Defense Production Act to expand Delek’s 74,000-barrel-a-day plant in East Texas. Diesel is $6.32 and nobody has published the dollars, the barrels or the start date. Here is what is real, what is not yet, and whether one small refinery can be the start of […]
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California’s Cap-and-Invest and Low Carbon Fuel Standard added about 47 cents a gallon in July (CEC). Washington’s carbon auction and clean-fuel rules add roughly 36–74 cents. The federal RFS is a separate 1-to-45-cent fight over gross credits versus net pump pass-through. We map the published estimates, keep taxes and refinery closures in their own buckets, […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article is from America OutLoud, by Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza. Both have been on the Energy News Beat Podcast, and we recommend reading their work. California is the 4th largest economy in the world and an “ENERGY ISLAND that is separated from the other 48 continental States by the Rocky […]
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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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