ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on the Energy News Beat Substack. The U.S. is facing an $89 billion liability in the wind industry that nobody is talking about. Scotland’s first commercial wind farm is being held up as proof that wind power can be circular. A Mott MacDonald report for ScottishPower Renewables says […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article was on Doug Sheridan’s LinkedIn post and his insights are spot on. Americans’ utility bills are delivering unpleasant surprises, with residential electricity prices rising at more than twice the rate of core inflation. California, Maine and New York have seen multi‑year rate hikes that would’ve been politically unthinkable a decade […]
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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 […]
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The three major U.S. rig tallies are telling the same structural story and three different weekly headlines. Baker Hughes held unchanged at 588 for a second straight week. WellDatabase printed 601, down 30 week over week but up 23 year over year. Enverus’s GPS-based daily count continues to run well above both weekly censuses, last […]
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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 […]
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Crude is still moving out of the U.S. Gulf Coast, but the bottleneck is no longer just barrels of oil. It is the world’s ability to turn those barrels into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel—and to deliver the finished products where they are needed. Labor Day weekend is supposed to mark the seasonal turn lower […]
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American electricity customers are facing sticker shock that goes far beyond ordinary inflation. In the nation’s largest grid region, PJM Interconnection—serving 65 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C.—capacity prices have risen from roughly $29 per MW-day in the 2024/2025 auction to $270, then $329–$333 per MW-day in subsequent auctions. That is an increase […]
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Elon Musk confirmed on August 29 that SpaceX is bringing the hardest part of the gas-turbine supply chain in-house: casting hot-section blades and vanes at a new foundry in Bastrop, Texas. He called the move “a profound game-changer” because those parts—not the rest of the machine—are what now set the pace of new natural-gas generation […]
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Energy News Beat — The question is no longer whether Winter Storm Uri was a one-off. The question is whether the United States is still pricing electricity as if kilowatt-hours were interchangeable, when what grids actually sell is energy that shows up when people need it. A widely circulated Electroverse post this weekend put the Texas […]
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to sit down Tuesday afternoon, September 1, with executives from at least 10 U.S. fuel makers and distributors. The agenda is straightforward and politically urgent: persistently high gasoline and diesel prices, what the industry can do about them, and how to expand domestic refining capacity. We hope he looks for […]
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