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IRENA’s 2026 “24/7 Renewables” report documents real hardware cost declines for solar, wind and four-hour batteries and introduces a useful project-level Firm LCOE metric.

September 7, 2026 Clark Savage98

However, it only captures part of the story. It does not fully capture system-level costs, weather extremes in places like Germany, consumer price outcomes in the West, or end-of-life realities. Those gaps matter when the claim is that firm renewables are already cheaper than new fossil generation and insulated from fuel shocks. Renewable Wind, Solar, […]

Edgeworks Revolution: Bringing AI Compute to Where Power Lives

September 5, 2026 Clark Savage82

Following our article yesterday, here is a discussion on “Data Center Solutions Done Right,” as we say in Texas. In this episode of the Energy News Beat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Jon Brewton, CEO and Founder of Data2, and Kyle Koss, President of ATCO Ventures, to explore a critical challenge facing the […]

Labor Day Pain at the Pump across the U.S. The Top 10 Most Expensive Gas States vs. the Top 10 Most Affordable Gas States.

September 5, 2026 Clark Savage87

The Crude Truth about the Pain at the Pump ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on The Crude Truth Substack, and we recommend subscribing! Americans heading out for Labor Day weekend are paying the highest holiday-weekend gasoline prices on record. AAA’s national regular average closed Friday at $4.1474 a gallon — the first Labor Day […]

Bessent Sees Oil as Low as $40 Post Iran War, Lower Yields

September 5, 2026 Clark Savage130

Energy News Beat analysis — September 4, 2026 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Steve Bannon’s War Room that once the Iran conflict is behind the market, crude can fall to $50 or even $40 because the world will be “very much oversupplied.” He tied that drop directly to bond yields, arguing the oil–rates correlation is […]

Weekly Rig Report: Baker Hughes Flat at 588, WellDatabase at 601 After a North Dakota Reclass, Enverus Still Running Higher

September 4, 2026 Clark Savage105

The three major U.S. rig tallies are telling the same structural story and three different weekly headlines. Baker Hughes held unchanged at 588 for a second straight week. WellDatabase printed 601, down 30 week over week but up 23 year over year. Enverus’s GPS-based daily count continues to run well above both weekly censuses, last […]

The backlash is real, bipartisan, and already killing projects

September 4, 2026 Clark Savage85

Data Centers Done Right are a good thing – Done Wrong and we get problems. This is not a fringe NIMBY story. Polling flipped with unusual speed. A March 2026 Gallup survey found 71 percent of Americans opposed a data center in their area, including 48 percent who were strongly opposed — higher than opposition […]

Pain at the pump may linger due to global refining capacity.

September 4, 2026September 4, 2026 Clark Savage120

Crude is still moving out of the U.S. Gulf Coast, but the bottleneck is no longer just barrels of oil. It is the world’s ability to turn those barrels into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel—and to deliver the finished products where they are needed. Labor Day weekend is supposed to mark the seasonal turn lower […]

Beyond Coal? India, Indonesia, and Vietnam Didn’t Get the Memo. Should Someone Tell Michael Bloomberg That Coal Is Not Quite Dead Yet?

September 4, 2026 Clark Savage64

Michael Bloomberg has poured more than $1 billion into campaigns to retire coal plants in the United States and globally. In 2019, his philanthropies committed $500 million to the Beyond Carbon effort. In 2021, he launched a drive to close a quarter of the world’s remaining coal plants and cancel all proposed ones by 2025. […]

The Jones Act – Its Impact on Downstream with Colin Grabow, Cato Institute

September 3, 2026 Clark Savage92

This is a Joint Podcast with David Blackmon, and Stu Turley on both podcast platforms. The Jones Act: America’s Self-Inflicted Economic Wound In this episode of the Energy Newsbeat Podcast, hosts Stu Turley and David Blackmon sit down with Colin Grabow, Associate Director of the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, […]

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is no longer a deep cushion

September 3, 2026 Clark Savage115

After coordinated IEA releases during the Iran war and earlier drawdowns that were never fully replaced, SPR crude sits at 286.6 million barrels as of the EIA week ending August 28, 2026 — about 40% of authorized 714-million-barrel capacity and the lowest level since the early 1980s. That level already sits inside the band most […]

Category: US Energy News

IRENA’s 2026 “24/7 Renewables” report documents real hardware cost declines for solar, wind and four-hour batteries and introduces a useful project-level Firm LCOE metric.

Edgeworks Revolution: Bringing AI Compute to Where Power Lives

Labor Day Pain at the Pump across the U.S. The Top 10 Most Expensive Gas States vs. the Top 10 Most Affordable Gas States.

Bessent Sees Oil as Low as $40 Post Iran War, Lower Yields

Weekly Rig Report: Baker Hughes Flat at 588, WellDatabase at 601 After a North Dakota Reclass, Enverus Still Running Higher

The backlash is real, bipartisan, and already killing projects

Pain at the pump may linger due to global refining capacity.

Beyond Coal? India, Indonesia, and Vietnam Didn’t Get the Memo. Should Someone Tell Michael Bloomberg That Coal Is Not Quite Dead Yet?

The Jones Act – Its Impact on Downstream with Colin Grabow, Cato Institute

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is no longer a deep cushion

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