If you live in one of the 13 states or D.C. served by PJM, data centers are already on your power bill. The grid’s own market monitor puts their added capacity cost at $29.4 billion over four auctions. On Friday evening, federal regulators threw out most of PJM’s plan to make new data centers bring […]
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President Donald Trump’s August 26, 2026, Executive Order 14421, “Declaring a National Emergency to Secure the United States Bulk-Power System,” aims to protect the U.S. electric grid from foreign supply-chain and cybersecurity risks. The order cites digital backdoors, malicious remote access, and supply disruptions as threats magnified by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence data […]
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A Kern County oilman briefed two Cabinet secretaries on a plan to store sunlight as heat in old California oil fields for weeks at a time. The physics is real, and a national lab study backs storage on a terawatt-hour scale. But the only funded test is a 100-kilowatt pilot, and some of the biggest […]
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Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) recently put the central contradiction of the Western Net Zero project in plain terms: the green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by the same industrial giant the West hoped to displace or outcompete. In a post that cuts to the heart of energy density, industrial policy, and geopolitical […]
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Hurricane Isaias, the first named hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, made landfall as a Category 2 storm near Destin, Florida, late Friday evening, bringing destructive winds, storm surge, and heavy rain that left hundreds of thousands of utility customers in the dark across the Gulf Coast and into the Southeast.Bloomberg If you have power, […]
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The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has formally objected to the proposed Hope Moor Wind Farm in Yorkshire and County Durham, warning that 23 turbines—each up to 200 meters tall, roughly twice the height of Big Ben—could degrade radar systems used to track Russian jets, missiles, and other low-flying threats.Dailysceptic In a letter seen by The […]
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Nine huge stories from the Energy News Beat Team – Buckle Up This was our second Live feed to Substack, and as we try to grow here, we want to hear from you: what is important, and what we can do better. I am still on a small high this week as we have been […]
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Chinese-headquartered companies have delivered more than 70 GW of inverters to America’s commercial and utility solar plants, while each U.S. grid is designed to ride through the sudden loss of roughly 2.8 to 3.9 GW. Replacing one big transformer now takes about two and a half years. What has actually been found, what Washington has […]
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Larry Schweikart stops by the Energy News Beat Podcast and the Energy Impacts Podcasts. In this wide-ranging political and energy analysis podcast, hosts David Blackmon and Stu Turley sit down with renowned political analyst and historian Larry Schweikart to discuss the critical issues shaping the 2026 midterm elections and beyond. With just 27 days until […]
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Isaac Orr, Vice President of Research at Always On Energy Research, to discuss a groundbreaking report on how alternative energy mandates are driving up electricity bills across America. The conversation reveals a stark divide between blue and red states in energy affordability and policy effectiveness, exploring how renewable energy requirements in regions with poor solar […]
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