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Europe’s Industrial Death Spiral due to Net Zero Energy may not be recoverable

June 30, 2026 Clark Savage199

Europe’s once-mighty industrial engine is sputtering, and Germany—the continent’s manufacturing powerhouse—is at the epicenter of a deepening crisis. High energy costs driven by aggressive Net Zero policies, renewable intermittency, heavy regulations, and carbon pricing are accelerating deindustrialization. Major firms are slashing jobs, closing plants, and relocating production to the United States and Asia, where energy […]

Remove the crude oil, and you do not merely dim the lights. You dismantle society!

June 29, 2026 Clark Savage124

ENB Pub Note: This article is from America Outloud and Ronald Stein. We recommend signing up for notices from Ronald on the link below. Can a zero-emissions world survive without crude oil? That is the wrong question. The zero-emissions debate asks when we can stop burning crude oil. The harder question — one that remains […]

An Economic Assessment of the 765-kV Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan Brent Bennett, Ph.D. talks about An Alternative Approach to Enable Cost-Effective Growth

June 4, 2026 Clark Savage183

Texas is facing explosive electricity demand growth from the Permian Basin’s oil and gas operations, data centers, manufacturing, and electrification. In response, ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) have fast-tracked the 765-kV Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan (STEP)—including the Permian Basin Reliability Plan (PBRP)—a massive build-out of high-voltage transmission lines designed to import […]

Fundamental Changes post Iran in Trading Blocs around the world

May 26, 2026 Clark Savage159

Stu Turley here from the Energy News Beat Podcast. For years on this show, we’ve been hammering home a core truth: energy policy is destiny. Affordable, reliable, abundant energy drives manufacturing, jobs, investment, and GDP growth. Ideological Net Zero pursuits that ignore reality — spiking costs, killing baseload power, and forcing deindustrialization — deliver the […]

The Wind Turbine is an Oil Product – The Hammer and Anvil SubStack

May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 Clark Savage147

Home>Crude Oil>The Wind Turbine is an Oil Product – The Hammer and Anvil SubStack This is an outstanding article from Nathan Hammer’s Substack Hammer and Anvil. Every time you see a 400 foot wind turbine cutting through the sky, you are looking at a machine designed to harvest the wind. It feels clean. It feels weightless, […]

Are Data Centers Driving up Electricity Rates? Who is Responsible?

May 18, 2026 Clark Savage309

Electricity bills are rising across much of the United States, sparking heated debate. With AI fueling explosive data center growth, many point to hyperscale facilities as the culprit behind higher rates. But a new independent analysis from Energy + Environmental Economics (E3), released May 18, 2026, alongside corroborating work from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), […]

Honda posts first annual loss on $9 billion EV writedown

May 14, 2026May 14, 2026 Clark Savage344

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. reported its first annual net loss as a publicly listed company in nearly 70 years, driven by a massive restructuring of its electric-vehicle (EV) business that included more than $9 billion in writedowns, impairments, and related charges. The Japanese automaker posted an operating loss of ¥414.3 billion ($2.63 billion) for the […]

Energy Realities Round Table Discussion – Critical Energy Issues

May 11, 2026 Clark Savage164

One thing you can say about this energy news cycle is that there is no shortage of topics, so the Energy Realities Team of David Blackmon, Irina Slav, Dr. Tammy Nemeth, and Stu Turley is bringing the biggest news stories of the week to help get your week rolling. We had way too much fun […]

PJM Addressing Rising Demand and Constrained Supply

May 11, 2026 Clark Savage298

PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest regional transmission organization, is confronting a historic shift from electricity surplus to structural scarcity. A new special report released by PJM on May 6, 2026, titled Powering Reliability Through Market Design, details how unprecedented demand growth—fueled largely by hyperscale data centers and AI infrastructure—combined with accelerated retirements of dispatchable generation […]

California’s Self-Inflicted Energy Disaster: Steve Hilton, Chris Wright Slam Dems With The Truth

May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Clark Savage199

ENB Pubnote: This article was run on David Blackmon’s Energy Additions Substack, and we highly recommend subscribing. This morning on Mornings with Maria, Secretary Chris Wright hit it out of the park, and we will have that information out later. California is a self-imposed energy island with a crisis brewing, and Secretary Wright is spot […]

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Europe’s Industrial Death Spiral due to Net Zero Energy may not be recoverable

Remove the crude oil, and you do not merely dim the lights. You dismantle society!

An Economic Assessment of the 765-kV Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan Brent Bennett, Ph.D. talks about An Alternative Approach to Enable Cost-Effective Growth

Fundamental Changes post Iran in Trading Blocs around the world

The Wind Turbine is an Oil Product – The Hammer and Anvil SubStack

Are Data Centers Driving up Electricity Rates? Who is Responsible?

Honda posts first annual loss on $9 billion EV writedown

Energy Realities Round Table Discussion – Critical Energy Issues

PJM Addressing Rising Demand and Constrained Supply

California’s Self-Inflicted Energy Disaster: Steve Hilton, Chris Wright Slam Dems With The Truth

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