Energy
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Greens Push Windfall Tax on Oil Companies as German Fuel Prices Bite
Green parliamentary leader Katharina Dröge wants excess oil profits taxed and refunded through lower electricity costs, ...
Bipartisan Bill Would Fix RFS Woody Biomass Definition to Create Market for Forest Thinning
A bipartisan proposal would let low-value wood qualify as advanced biofuel feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard, ...
AI Data Centres' Power Swings Are Wearing Out Critical Equipment
Millisecond-scale GPU power spikes are cracking turbines, killing batteries and threatening uptime — and the wider grid ...
Sevastopol Fuel Sales Set for Mixed QR-Code and Open Rationing on Thursday
Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev announced that TES and Atan stations will sell non-premium gasoline by QR code while freeing...
Georgia Watchdogs Ask Regulators to Reject OpenAI-Georgia Power Contract Over Ratepayer Risk
NRDC, Sierra Club and SACE want Georgia’s Public Service Commission to reject OpenAI’s 3.2 GW power deal unless Georgia ...
Utility Programs, Not Washington, Now Foot the Bill for Industrial Fleet Electrification
A new incentive map shows utilities and state voucher programs have become the primary funding sources for electric fork...
Midwest Utilities Restore Power After 99 MPH Storms; 239,000 NIPSCO Customers Still Dark
NIPSCO's largest-ever outage, plus multi-day repairs at Duke, AEP and ComEd, show how extreme weather is stressing Midwe...
S&C Electric's Matamoros: Future grid resilience needs simple edge automation and pragmatic AI
At DTECH Reliability & Resiliency, S&C Electric's chief product development officer makes the case for layered distribut...
DOE Ends Review of Last Three National Interest Transmission Corridors
Energy Secretary Chris Wright ends the NIETC review process for the Lake Erie–Canada, Southwestern Grid Connector and Tr...
Demand-Side Tools Could Cut Summer Grid Costs, Industry Podcast Says
With PJM near its record and ERCOT repeatedly setting demand peaks, a new Policycast argues smart EV charging, flexible ...
BHE Montana Becomes Eighth Utility to Join CAISO's Day-Ahead Market
The Montana utility has committed to enter the Extended Day-Ahead Market in 2028 after reporting more than $2 million in...
RINA and Hawthorne Map 300 MW Solar-Plus-Storage Plan for Washington Data Demand
RINA's early-stage engineering for Hawthorne Renewable Energy's Appledale Energy Center includes 300 MW solar, 4-hour st...
Optimal Transit Pitches Kraaken: One Vessel for 40MW of Power, Water and 60MW of AI Compute
The Blue Economy VITAL 100MW Kraaken concept promises disaster-zone electricity, 30 million litres of fresh water daily ...
MTA Tests Whether Manhattan Bedrock Can Cool Subway Platforms
A geothermal loop under Chambers Street would pull summer heat from the platform into bedrock and return it in winter. T...
Abbott's Data-Center Audits Delay Texas Grid Approvals by Months
ERCOT cannot meet deadlines for its latest interconnection batch after Texas ordered data-center audits, stalling a pipe...
France Extends C3IV Green Industry Tax Credit to End-2028
Eligible battery, wind, solar and heat-pump supply-chain investments can receive up to 35% tax relief, with approval req...
France's C3IV Green Industry Tax Credit Extension Enters Force
The three-year extension of France's C3IV green industry tax credit is now in force, targeting €8bn in additional indust...
Jellyfish and a Solar Eclipse Test France's Power Grid
Jellyfish halted or curtailed five EDF reactors at Gravelines, while a solar eclipse threatened to shave 1.8 GW from sol...
Huawei Launches Bangladesh's First Grid-Forming Inverter and Battery Storage System
The utility-scale Solar+Storage package targets evening peak demand, grid stability and lower solar project costs in Ban...
NSW Regulator Demands Goodman Prove Renewables for $5.5bn Project Atlas AI Campus
NSW energy officials want Goodman to show how the 500MW Western Sydney campus will secure firmed green power, warning th...
US Court Allows Seizure of Spanish Assets Over €101m Renewables Award
A District of Columbia judge rejected Spain's request to halt enforcement of a €101m ICSID award, opening the door to as...
Venezuela’s Oil Recovery Is Real, but U.S.-Controlled Revenue Keeps It Opaque
Output has roughly doubled since 2020 and six international majors are back, yet analysts say billions in oil revenue re...
Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Leverage Is Draining Away
An Atlantic Council analysis argues Iran’s oil-chokepoint leverage is weakening as non-OPEC supply, bypass pipelines and...
Biomass Moves Up the Green Energy Agenda, but the Thematic Screen Adds a Greenwashing Warning
A thematic list highlights waste-to-energy biomass processors, while cautioning that green labels can hide polluting inc...
Sanctioned Russian Tanker Runs Aground Off Oman; 800,000 Barrels Threaten Coast
The Caroline Bezengi has already spread a slick over more than 2,000 km² that reached Oman's shore, and experts warn a f...
Slovenia Extends Energy-Supply Measure as Krško Nuclear Plant Runs at 80%
The government extended its reduced energy-supply risk declaration for another week, citing heat, low river flows and re...
Strait of Hormuz stays tense as Trump claims US control while Iran sets reopening terms
Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains reduced amid Iranian harassment and mine risk, while Washington...
Brent Tops $90 as Reduced Hormuz Traffic and US-Iran War Drive Oil Higher
Brent crude has risen more than $5 a barrel this week to exceed $90 as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains red...
Egypt Opens 2026 Oil and Gas Exploration Round Across 14 New Concession Areas
Egypt has opened a 2026 international bid round for oil and gas exploration in 14 new areas, with EGAS blocks closing 14...
Robotics Industry Could Consume 363 TWh of Power by 2035, Matching France's Nuclear Output
Wood Mackenzie sees industrial and humanoid robots becoming a second major strain on global power grids after AI data ce...