The Trump administration plans to start refilling the nation’s emergency crude reserves in just a matter of months, after releasing more than 130 million barrels of oil and causing inventories to fall to the lowest levels in decades. “It’ll start being refilled in the next few months,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Monday on Bloomberg...
The House on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at shielding Americans from increased electricity costs associated with data centers. The bill requires states to consider taking up standards that would force tech companies to shoulder the electricity cost increases associated with large data centers but doesn’t actually require them to regulate. Read more in The...
In a laboratory amid Northern Virgina’s sprawling data centers, a group of scientists is looking very far outside the box for a solution to overwhelmed power grids. They want to harness the sun’s rays and shoot a kilometer-wide laser — they prefer the term “power beam” — down from satellites in space to solar panels on Earth. The idea...
The House and Senate are back in Washington, and with the November midterms approaching, Congress has a narrow window to get legislation across the finish line. There’s still a few national priorities that are on the to-do list, and at the top should be delivering a comprehensive bipartisan permitting reform bill to the president’s desk....
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas and announced it is taking a separate but related step to prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants. The rule change, first proposed last year, represents a fundamental shift from efforts by...
Six thousand years ago, one of the primary modes of transportation was the oxcart. By the time of America’s founding, the ride to the market or church wasn’t much different. Ancient Babylonians and early Americans both lit their dark homes with oil lamps. If you were a parent in medieval England, chances are you would...
President Trump and White House AI adviser David Sacksthis weekend defended the administration’s strategy of minimal regulation after the heads of the nation’s top artificial-intelligence companies endorsed a coordinated slowdown in the technology’s development. “We can put up guardrails, and we can do this and that, but I think you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it...
A federal appeals court on Friday vacated the U.S. Department of Energy’s emergency order requiring the owners of a coal-fired power plant in Michigan to delay its planned retirement, saying the move usurped state authority over generating resources. “The federal government has, until now, issued stopgap generation orders in response only to transitory emergencies caused...
An independent energy development company and a long-time manufacturer of wood products have signed an agreement to develop geothermal projects in Washington and Oregon. Hexagon Energy and Weyerhaeuser Co. on September 10 said they have closed a deal covering that could provide an estimated 3 GW of geothermal power generation capacity in the Pacific Northwest....
Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are being built at an unprecedented pace. There are more than 12,000 active projects in the U.S. currently seeking grid interconnection representing 1,570 GW of generator capacity and 1,030 GW of energy storage. Analyst firm Omdia predicts that AI will drive more than 50% of installed power generation capacity over...
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