Four already-run auctions locked that figure in. December’s auction could add $5–10 billion more if forecast load stays in and clears at the cap. Politicians did not invent the number — and data centers did not invent the tight grid that produced it. If you live in the 13-state-plus-D.C. PJM region — about 67 million […]
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Iran is drafting its next national budget on the explicit premise that oil revenue could fall to zero. Senior Plan and Budget Organization official Mohammad Ghasemi instructed the government to prepare for that scenario for Iranian year 1406 (roughly March 2027–March 2028), describing it as potentially one of the hardest budgets since the oil industry’s […]
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Why Politicians, Not Data Centers, Are Destroying American Energy In this episode of the Energy Newsbeat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Drew Bond, co-founder and chairman of PowerField Energy, and Conner Brace, principal at Boundary Stone Partners and former U.S. Department of Energy advisor, to discuss the energy policy implications of the recent […]
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Jaguar Land Rover is the latest major European automaker to confront the structural pressures of high energy costs, climate mandates, Chinese competition, and expensive domestic production. On 13 November 2026, its parent Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles reported an unexpected consolidated net loss of ₹5,531 crore (approximately $587 million) for the second quarter of FY27. Analysts […]
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With roughly 50 days remaining until the European Union’s full ban on Russian LNG imports takes effect on January 1, 2027, the bloc has already spent more on Russian liquefied natural gas this year than it did in all of 2025. German campaign group Urgewald, analyzing Kpler vessel-tracking data, estimates that EU ports received 12.89 […]
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The Energy Bill Is the Part Governments Control. German automakers put China and a brutal electric-vehicle price war first, and they are right to. Energy costs show up most clearly in the chemicals plant, in Britain’s steel towns, and at the California pump. German automakers put China and a brutal electric-vehicle price war first, and […]
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Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa pledges a Day One emergency order to freeze electricity rates. Texas households already pay more per kilowatt-hour than they did in 2020, but far less per kilowatt-hour than Californians, and ERCOT’s January outlook is comfortable. California’s 2000–01 record is a warning, not a prediction: freeze retail prices while costs rise, and the […]
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ENB Pub Note: This was written by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka, on America Outloud. We highly recommend subscribing and reading their publications! Two hundred years ago, the world had about 1 billion people, roughly 7 billion fewer than today. Life expectancy at birth was under 30 years, and more than four in ten children died […]
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In this episode of the Energy News Beat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with two prominent analysts—Charlie Garcia of MarketWatch and Capital Mischief, and Doomberg, the influential energy and finance commentator—to dissect the seismic shifts reshaping American politics, energy policy, and geopolitics. The conversation kicks off with a candid analysis of the recent election […]
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Blue states and Democratic-led policies continue to drive aggressive targets for wind, solar, and battery storage as part of broader clean-energy mandates. California aims for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2045, New York for a zero-emissions grid by 2040, and similar Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) or Clean Electricity Standards (CES) in other Democratic-leaning states push high […]
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