In a significant escalation of regional conflict, a drone strike targeted the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the UAE’s Al Dhafra region on May 17, 2026. The incident, which sparked a fire in an external electrical generator outside the plant’s inner perimeter, has raised immediate concerns about nuclear safety and energy infrastructure vulnerability in the […]
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Alina Voss from NX Atomics stops by the Energy News Beat Podcast The title “The Math Ain’t Mathing: Why America Needs Nuclear Now” was derived from a comment Alina made on the podcast. I was very impressed, and as we talked, she made some great points. I am going to follow up with her company […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article was run on RealClear Energy by Dan Doyal, who was a guest on the Energy News Beat podcast. This is a great update on New York. We highly recommend Dan and RealClear Energy. Finally, there’s been a counterpunch in New York’s climate politics. A father and son with mineral rights […]
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Power prices on the largest electric grid in the United States — PJM Interconnection, which serves 13 states and the District of Columbia — jumped a staggering 76% in the first quarter of 2026. Wholesale power averaged $136.53 per megawatt-hour (MWh), up from $77.78/MWh in the same period of 2025, according to the grid’s independent […]
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PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest regional transmission organization, is confronting a historic shift from electricity surplus to structural scarcity. A new special report released by PJM on May 6, 2026, titled Powering Reliability Through Market Design, details how unprecedented demand growth—fueled largely by hyperscale data centers and AI infrastructure—combined with accelerated retirements of dispatchable generation […]
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Hungary’s newly elected government is already testing Brussels’ resolve on energy policy. In a move that could signal growing fractures within the EU, Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s administration has signaled it will continue purchasing Russian energy if it remains the cheapest and most reliable option—directly challenging the bloc’s binding phase-out rules under the REPowerEU framework. […]
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The U.S. nuclear fleet has seen dozens of reactors permanently shut down over the decades, driven by economics, aging infrastructure, regulatory decisions, and events like the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. As of 2026, the country operates around 94 commercial reactors with roughly 97 GW of net capacity. However, more than 40 commercial power reactors […]
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In a landmark move signaling a nuclear renaissance driven by surging artificial intelligence and data center energy needs, Constellation Energy is preparing to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1—now rebranded as the Crane Clean Energy Center—in Pennsylvania. The plant, which has been offline since 2019 for economic reasons, will once again deliver reliable, carbon-free baseload […]
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The AI boom is rewriting the rules of U.S. electricity demand, and the numbers don’t lie. BloombergNEF’s latest analysis, highlighted in a widely shared post by energy analyst David Blackmon (@EnergyAbsurdity), projects that data centers will drive massive incremental power needs through 2035. The stacked bar chart from BNEF is crystal clear: combined-cycle gas turbines […]
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The standard Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) has dominated energy policy discussions for years. Policymakers, media, and even some industry reports cite it to claim that wind and solar are now the “cheapest” forms of new electricity generation. But as Germany’s Energiewende and certain U.S. states demonstrate, this metric is dangerously incomplete. It ignores the […]
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