Welcome back to the Energy News Beat podcast. Today we’re diving into one of the most critical conversations happening in American politics—energy security, economic policy, and leadership. Our guest is Eric Flores, a former federal prosecutor, Captain in the Texas Army National Guard, and congressional candidate running in South Texas’s District 34 with President Trump’s […]
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The question in Washington is whether President Trump will treat that extra Russian oil as a problem to sanction—or as barrels he can use to keep gasoline and diesel from becoming a midterm disaster. That is the market story of September 15, 2026. It is also a political story. Prices jumped because Saudi’s safety valve […]
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Late last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled Canadian negotiators from the table and walked away from what the White House called the most preferential market access any country had received. The United States had proposed deep cuts on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, and more. Carney rejected it. On September 8, Canada’s dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs […]
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Volkswagen’s board has approved the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history: about 100,000 jobs gone by 2030, a slashed model lineup, and four German plants—Emden, Zwickau, Hanover, and Audi’s Neckarsulm—facing a phased wind-down between 2031 and 2034. That is not a cyclical downturn. It is what happens when energy policy prices a manufacturing nation […]
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Australia’s official grid planner has rewritten the script. The Australian Energy Market Operator’s 2026 Integrated System Plan still describes renewables, storage, transmission and gas backup as the “least-cost” path to 2050. The same documents show coal staying until 2049, wind delivery falling well short of earlier ambition, transmission scaled back after cost blowouts of up […]
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European attendees openly scorned the presence of Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who attended at the invitation of the Trump administration—the first in-person Russian participation since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil called the signal “quite troubling” and insisted “you cannot simply return to normality.” European officials refused […]
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American electricity customers are facing sticker shock that goes far beyond ordinary inflation. In the nation’s largest grid region, PJM Interconnection—serving 65 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C.—capacity prices have risen from roughly $29 per MW-day in the 2024/2025 auction to $270, then $329–$333 per MW-day in subsequent auctions. That is an increase […]
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That is not a talking point. It is the arithmetic of an integrated energy market that Ottawa cannot wish away, and Washington already understands. Smith’s warning, circulating widely after her CBC Power & Politics appearance and a clip posted by Stephen Taylor, is blunt: Alberta businesses will be hurt more by Canada’s own counter-tariffs than […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article ran on The Energy News Beat Substack – to comment, head over there. Blue States and Rinos Should Be a Warning For Consumers and Voters Stu Turley (Me) has been saying it on the Energy News Beat channel for years: energy security starts at home, and energy dominance is displayed […]
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President Trump signs Executive Order 14420, targeting foreign-made grid equipment, software, and remote-access gear as electricity demand from AI, manufacturing, and defense rises. President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14420 on August 26, 2026, declaring a national emergency to secure the United States bulk-power system. The order invokes the International Emergency Economic Powers Act […]
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