New Year, New Record U.S. LNG Output. December and 2025 see record levels of US LNG exports and feedgas demand, but those records are unlikely to last the month. More LNG capacity, […]
Mexico’s Crude Exports Slide as Refining Finally Reawakens
Mexico’s crude oil exports are shrinking fast – and this time the decline is not just a symptom of upstream exhaustion. Average crude exports have fallen from about 1.1 million b/d in […]
Why Venezuela’s Oil Won’t Matter and Why Heavy Crude Is First Off the Market
The idea that Venezuela’s oil matters to the United States, to global oil prices, or to the trajectory of decarbonization keeps resurfacing whenever geopolitics intrude into energy discourse. It is usually framed […]
Are exports to blame for surging US gas and electricity prices?
Trump’s promises to ‘drill, baby, drill’ have not eased problems over energy affordability via Financial Times – Energy https://ift.tt/oSlLtPu
Sunrun & HASI Form New $500 Million Joint Venture to Accelerate Distributed Power Development
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (“HASI”) (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in sustainable infrastructure assets, and Sunrun Inc. (Nasdaq: RUN), America’s largest provider of home battery storage, solar, and home-to-grid power plants, […]
China connects world’s largest vanadium flow battery project
The GWh-scale long-duration energy storage project is expected to reduce curtailment in Xinjiang, a region of China with high solar and wind generation, and transmission bottlenecks. The flow battery installation is co-located […]
The Renewable Energy That Trump Has Not Targeted
Geothermal is one of the few renewable energy sectors that President Donald Trump has not tried to quash in favour of fossil fuels in the United States. There is significant promise for […]
SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, and the Race to Scale
Nuclear power is currently having its "Silicon Valley" moment. After decades of being treated as a dinosaur technology—too slow, too expensive, and too politically toxic—the industry has pivoted toward something it calls […]
Battery technology outlook for 2026 sharpens beyond lithium-ion
Longer-duration storage, safety-driven procurement and Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) compliance in the United States are accelerating interest in alternative battery chemistries, even as lithium-ion remains dominant amid rising data center demand […]
Despite Federal Support, Economic Forces Are Driving the Future of Coal
The Trump administration during both its terms has prioritized its efforts on reviving the coal industry by introducing a series of policy changes and executive actions intended to boost coal leasing and […]
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