Virginia’s new Energy Plan promises to protect family budgets but never shows a household bill. It models 10,000 MW of import capacity, while PJM lists 5,992 MW; prices solar 41% below Dominion’s own filing; and leaves about $40.6 billion of Dominion spending outside the proposed rate freeze. Here are the six biggest holes. The full […]
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Brent closed Friday at $109.86 and the futures market prices $100 oil into spring. Gas costs about nine times more in Europe and Asia than at Henry Hub, the U.S. benchmark, coal demand is headed for a record, and five of the world’s eight oil chokepoints have trouble. Here is what it means for your […]
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Washington spent billions to put wind, solar and batteries on the grid, and the biggest wave yet is arriving right as the tax credits run out. Here is what the data says about your bill, what it does not say, and why grid stability is the question to watch. By Stuart Turley, host of the […]
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The summer of 2026 tested the U.S. electric grid with record heat and rising demand. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (based on Form EIA-930 data), three major regional transmission organizations (RTOs) set new peak hourly load records.Eia PJM (serving roughly 65–67 million people across all or parts of 13 […]
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Europe’s remaining coal plants are generating unexpected profits while Asia burns more coal to fill an LNG gap created by Middle East disruptions. Global demand is heading for a record high in 2026. The rebound is real but uneven, largely temporary in the West, and more structural in Asia—until nuclear and cleaner alternatives scale meaningfully. […]
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has highlighted a core contradiction in Europe’s energy policy amid ongoing debates over Russian diesel supplies. In comments tied to a Trump administration arrangement for Russian diesel releases (initially 300,000 tonnes, with more to follow) to ease prices amid broader supply pressures, Bessent stated that Europe has transferred more money […]
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Europe spent a decade congratulating itself for pushing coal to the edge of the power system. Then it priced itself back onto the fuel it spent political capital destroying. Benchmark Dutch TTF gas prices spiked above €80 per megawatt-hour this month, the highest in three years, after the Iran conflict choked LNG shipments through the […]
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The National Energy System Operator’s figures put transmission investment at about £64 billion through 2030 and another £89 billion after that—more than £150 billion in all. The Guardian’s mapping of official recommendations points to well over 4,000 miles of new power lines by 2041, plus subsea cables and converter stations to move Scottish and offshore […]
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How a policy sold as climate leadership transferred industrial power, energy security, and emissions to Beijing. David Blackmon put it as bluntly as anyone in energy journalism has: every facet of the West’s net-zero obsession and taxpayer-subsidized “energy transition” is designed, in practice, to benefit one country. That country is China. On September 20, 2026, […]
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to formally rescind the Biden-era carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants, completing a multi-year rollback of greenhouse-gas rules that the administration argues threatened grid reliability and raised costs. Reports indicate the announcement is timed for a G20 energy ministers meeting in Houston […]
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