Panels, Chinese-linked inverters, rush interconnections, and what Iran-linked water cyberattacks teach ratepayers, utilities, and data-center investors This is the introduction for the Energy News Beat Research Desk on The Energy News Beat Substack. We are providing deeper dives for paid subscribers on Energy Topics, and this was requested by a paid subscriber. Bottom line up […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran on lowering energy costs. Her Oct. 19 merger testimony asks for a base-rate freeze and bigger bill credits, plus a zero-carbon data center subsidiary, heat pump and EV rate If you are a Dominion Energy customer, the “typical” bill for 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month was $149.92 in July 2025. On July […]
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The Energy Realities Team, with a special guest, rolls in on a great Monday. In this episode of the Energy Realities podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with energy experts Charlie Garcia (MarketWatch columnist and author of Capital Mischief), Dr. Tammy Nemeth (The Nemeth Report), and David Blackmon (Forbes and Daily Caller contributor) to tackle […]
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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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California’s Cap-and-Invest and Low Carbon Fuel Standard added about 47 cents a gallon in July (CEC). Washington’s carbon auction and clean-fuel rules add roughly 36–74 cents. The federal RFS is a separate 1-to-45-cent fight over gross credits versus net pump pass-through. We map the published estimates, keep taxes and refinery closures in their own buckets, […]
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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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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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ENB Pub Note: This article is from Peter Clack’s great X account. @PeterDClack. We highly recommend following him, as he has a wealth of great insights, and we are trying to get him on the podcast. When you add in intentional migration and population and cultural replacement, you can see the total intentional destruction of […]
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