Perhaps the story did not begin in Venezuela at all. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Perhaps it began before Donald Trump had even returned to the ...

John Deere is raking in cash by raking up dirt for data centers: The AI buildout is giving the company’s construction equipment sales a major lift. This sector of the business grew 18% over the past ...

Left in the dark: Northern Indiana Public Service Co. customers are waiting on repairs after an intense Aug. 11 storm felled trees and power lines. As of Sunday evening, over 16K customers still ...

Natural Power, a leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, has supported Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) on the sale of a significant portfolio of UK renewable energy assets to ...

The global pipeline of proposed coal mine capacity grew nearly 11% in 2025, reaching 2,521 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa), per the latest Global Coal Mine Tracker from Global Energy Monitor — and ...

There’s a new sheriff in town: Shapiro’s new executive order requires developers to comply with the “best practice” standards he unveiled this spring. These include directives to secure capacity ...

The supporters are all over the map: they include NextEra, the National Hydropower Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, and oil & gas industry orgs.

Solar power has spent a decade proving it can be cheap. Now it has to prove it can be reliable after dark. A new dataset suggests the second problem is being solved faster than most expected — and ...

Step it up to step it down: Heron Power plans to produce up to 10K of its solid-state transformers annually, which the company says marks the “largest single-year buildout in over two decades.” To ...

That stat comes from Duke’s 2026 Carolinas Resource Plan. The target includes nearly 14 GW of gas, 18 GW of solar, 13 GW of storage, and 4 GW of nuclear. Also on the agenda? Delaying coal plant ...

AAAS: "Halted dam releases threaten Colorado river ecosystems." "Last week, Lake Mead reached its lowest water level on record, and is now at only 27% of its [design] capacity." It was last full in ...

For years, America's electric power industry has studied the transmission challenge from nearly every conceivable angle. We have examined congestion, reliability, resilience, interconnection queues, ...