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U.S. Fuel Crisis Status, Next Steps and Impact to Consumers
The United States is not short of crude oil. It is short of spare refining capacity, spare distillate inventory, and spare time. Diesel is the pressure point. National retail diesel is printing all-time highs near $6.40 a gallon. California is above $8.30. Midwest pump prices are breaking state records after ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery in Illinois […]
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Ukraine Escalates by Hitting a Russian Nuclear Power Plant
Energy News Beat — September 18, 2026 A drone struck a cooling tower at Russia’s Kursk Nuclear Power Plant early Thursday, September 17, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, in the most serious confirmed hit on an operating Russian nuclear unit since the war began. The incident landed three days after President Donald Trump […]
Colorado oil and gas wells lag even with high oil prices.
West Texas Intermediate is trading near $101 a barrel. National gasoline is $4.44 a gallon. Those are the conditions that usually refill rig lines and permit queues. In Colorado, they have not. As of September 17, 2026, Colorado operators had filed only 335 drilling permits over the trailing 24 months. In the last 90 days, […]
AI / Data Center
Loudoun County, the heart of Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley, advanced a 12-month pause on new legislative data center and substation applications on September 16, 2026.
The 7-1-1 Board of Supervisors vote directs staff to draft a resolution for a later October vote, with a proposed retroactive effective date of September 15. Officials emphasized it is not a legal moratorium under Virginia’s Dillon Rule, but a temporary pause on board-level reviews while Phase 2 data-center standards are completed. Board Chair Phyllis […]
South Korea’s Hyosung Heavy Industries has locked in ₩386.5 billion (about $277–$287 million) in ultra-high-voltage transformer contracts with two unnamed U.S. Big Tech companies for new AI data centers—one in the South and one in the North.
The award is smaller than some of Hyosung’s earlier 2026 utility mega-deals, but it is strategically important: hyperscalers are now buying grid hardware directly, and Hyosung is one of the few firms that can deliver 765 kV equipment from a U.S. factory. The split is ₩220 billion of 765 kV transformers for the southern site […]
Behind the Meter (BTM): Why Oil & Gas Companies Are Also Becoming Power Companies
Energy News Beat Channel — September 11, 2026 Hector Acevedo put the industry’s new map on the table this week: AI did not just raise electricity demand. It collapsed the old division of labor. Utilities no longer have a monopoly on electrons. Oil and gas companies no longer stop at molecules. Hyperscalers no longer wait […]
Edgeworks Revolution: Bringing AI Compute to Where Power Lives
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 […]
The backlash is real, bipartisan, and already killing projects
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 […]
