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Six Governments Just Admitted You Can’t Substitute Crude for Diesel
Europe’s refinery rethink is real, smaller than the headlines, and exactly the argument California needs to hear. The state cut 21.5% of its refining capacity in seven years, 64% of the entire national decline, and now buys a fifth of its gasoline across a three-week ocean voyage with no pipeline to fall back on. By […]
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Ukraine Strikes Bashneft Refineries as Russia Attacks Power Grid
On the night of October 30–31, 2026, Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Bashneft refining complex in Ufa, in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan, roughly 1,400–1,600 kilometers from the front lines. The attack came as Russian forces simultaneously hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure, leaving hundreds of thousands of households without power as winter approaches.BloombergKyivpost Bloomberg reported that Ukraine […]
DOE Closes $5.1 Billion Loan for Alliant Energy: Adding Firm Power, Cutting Costs, and Strengthening the Grid in Iowa and Wisconsin
On October 28, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing closed a $5.1 billion, 30-year loan package to Alliant Energy subsidiaries serving Iowa and Wisconsin. The financing supports new natural gas generation, energy storage, and upgrades that will add more than 2.6 GW of firm or upgraded capacity—enough to power the […]
AI / Data Center
Who Pays for the Data Center’s Power Plant? PJM Owes FERC an Answer Thursday
PJM wants up to 6.8 GW of new backstop power to cover a shortfall driven by data centers. FERC put the plan on hold over who gets the bill, and DOE says households should not. This was first run on the Energy News Beat Substack. Here is what is at stake for the 13 states […]
Who Pays for the Wires? Data Centers, Distant Power and the Transmission Bill on Your Meter
Data centers are being built where land, fiber and tax breaks are, not where the power plants are. Moving that power takes new capacity, new high-voltage lines and new substations. This report follows the money from the PJM capacity auction to the Dominion transmission rider, the MISO, SPP and ERCOT long-range plans, the FERC rules […]
The Five Most Promising Russian-US Economic Opportunities
ENB Pub Note: An interesting article from Andrew Korybko’s Substack newsletter. With Russia and Ukraine potentially interested in finally ending the war, this could be a bright spot. Doing business with Ukraine and Russia rather than bombing each other. Although Putin might agree to some trade-offs in Ukraine as the quid pro quo for these […]
Neil Winward, AI and the potential bubbles impact on Consumers and Investors
This was a fun podcast, and we covered a lot, including Bloom Energy and Neil’s Substack, The AI Grid Report. We highly recommend subscribing. In this episode of the Energy Newsbeat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Neil Winward, founder of Dakota Ridge Capital and author of the AI Grid Report Substack, to explore […]
Bloom Energy: Fuel Cells, Natural Gas and the AI Power Rush
Bloom Energy sells on-site fuel-cell power plants to data centers, utilities, and businesses, and markets them as “clean energy.” ENB checked the company’s filings, product specs, and deals against federal data. Bloom’s sales and profits rose sharply in the first half of 2026, and as of the Oct. 21, 2026 close, its stock was up […]
