Almost exactly a year ago, researchers at Duke University published a now-widely cited study on the potential of flexible data centers landed, explaining that the U.S. grid may have more than 100 […]
Why Coal May Outlast Natural Gas in the Electricity Market
Here is the question: what happens when renewables are acknowledged as the superior technology for electric power generation? Basically, we see a process of displacement (one commodity producer, renewables, displacing another, fossil […]
PJM board approves $11.8B transmission expansion plan
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The PJM Interconnection’s board last week approved $11.8 billion in baseline transmission projects, with Dominion Energy’s Virginia utility landing roughly […]
Super Tanker Rates Soar Amid Sanctions, Supply Shifts, and Strategic Hoarding
Geopolitics, growing oil supply, longer voyages, and disruptions due to sanctions and altered shipping lanes pushed crude oil tanker rates to multi-year highs at the end of 2025. After a dip in […]
Is the gas turbine bottleneck solving itself?
Data centers’ urgent power needs put a new spotlight on gas generation in the last few years. But a turbine supply crunch, and high prices, led many in the industry to assert […]
Efficiency, demand flexibility can meet growing data center loads — and do so cheaply: ACEEE
Dive Brief: There is sufficient energy efficiency and demand flexibility in the U.S. grid to affordably offset demand from AI data centers and other growing sources of load, according to a February […]
Global Energy Transition Investment Hit Record $2.3 Trillion in 2025
Global investment in the energy transition hit a record $2.3 trillion in 2025, good for a 8% increase from 2024, driven by massive spending on electric transport, renewable energy, and grid infrastructure, […]
Pentagon’s Nuclear Microreactor Demo Signals New Era for Deployable Power
The U.S. Departments of Energy (DOE) and Defense (DoD) have transported a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah on a cargo plane in a bid to demonstrate the potential to rapidly […]
The project finance vacuum left by the Catalyst fund’s demise
Breakthrough Energy has decided to cease new investments from Catalyst, its first-of-a-kind project finance arm, marking the latest setback for climate tech start ups trying to scale up in an already difficult […]
After Years of Buybacks, Big Oil is Drilling Again
After years of prioritizing returning cash to shareholders, oil supermajors are about to do something few expected: turning to growth as a top priority. The reason: contrary to dominant expectations, oil and […]
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