Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE and Kuwait have lowered their collective oil output by 6.7 million barrels a day, equivalent to 6% of global supply.
Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE and Kuwait have lowered their collective oil output by 6.7 million barrels a day, equivalent to 6% of global supply.
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βThe decision-makers may say a 30-decibel sound limit sounds like a great thing, but thatβs quieter than the wind itself, so youβre effectively placing a ban on this form of energy without having to set a ban,β said [me] www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Alabama moves to end Public Service Commission elections after Democrats win in Georgia www.al.com/politics/202...
"In the past month, SEEM traded zero megawatt hours of power in 26 separate hourly occasions across all hours in the month....That pattern is not an anomaly. It is a recurring feature noted by SEEMβs own market auditor year after year." southernrenewable.org/news-updates...
MISO States Dispute βHigh Riskβ Designation from NERC www.rtoinsider.com/125208-miso-...
A family that turned down $15 million to sell their 200 acre farm to a data center. Good for them, it's their land to do with as they please. Assuredly a story for generations.
It's generating so much social media buzz, the company now reportedly needs to build two data centers.
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Trump pollster finds MAGA voters like solar energy www.axios.com/2026/02/04/t...
ERAS lets utilities cut the interconnection lineβfast-tracking billions in gas projects after years of poor planning. βTemporaryβ fixes have a way of becoming permanent (and expensive) precedents. Why regulators should slow down and protect ratepayers: www.rtoinsider.com/124815-eras-...
Yup!
Come to find out, all power plants are weather dependent!
SPP outages. If I happen to say gas and coal fail the most out of any generation resource, I'm gonna get a lot of angry people that don't like math, so I won't mention it.
SPP: Exported up to 3,500 MW during winter storm Fern. Exported some amount almost entire time. Wind turbine icing didn't happen as extensively as forecasted, so wind power over performed accreditation and forecast amount. 15GW generator outages.
Donβt panic over NERCβs reliability maps β theyβre a static snapshot built on outdated assumptions and data that can mislead. Read the fine print: planning, forecasts, storage, and grid solutions matter more than doom-and-gloom colors. southernrenewable.org/news-updates...
"While the Public Service Commission approved the power plant, the regulators also agreed with SREA and ordered that future proposals for power generation include a more competitive, and transparent process." arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
βοΈ WINTER STORM FERN: Heavy snow and ice is expected to impact much of the Southeast this weekend. Our friend Simon Mahan of the Southern Renewable Energy Association breaks down how this storm could impact your power ππ‘
Georgia's been growing hot. Meta's in Louisiana. Google's in Arkansas. xAI is in Tennessee. Amazon's in Mississippi.
Based on this ICF map, I suspect Tampa, Tulsa, Albany, Midland, Amarillo, Wichita, Cincinnati to be high on data center target lists. www.icf.com/-/media/file...
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Very cool job alert: Executive Director, National Governors Association, $400-$450k in DC nga.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...
I could not find any reason 1/11 is Arkansas day. It's not statehood, constitutional, or in any way notable.
The facility will be known as βMACROHARDRRβ and will help xAI approach two gigawatts in capacity when combined with the other Colossus sites. www.supertalk.fm/elon-musks-x...
Do you miss the "old" Energy Gang with Jigar Shah, Katherine Hamilton and Stephen Lacey? Open Circuit is another pod featuring them; but Katherine is retiring. You should give this episode a listen, and may we all become a bit more like Katherine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Cool job alert: LPSC Policy Director / Senior Advisor Alliance for Affordable Energy $70,000 - $95,000 www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...
This will be good and folks should attend! "Regional Transmission Planning for State Regulators" maxxwww.naruc.org/forms/meetin...
"It allows some of BYD's newest electric vehicles to go from a low battery to more than 50% in under five minutes, at speeds of up to 1,000 kilowatts, or one megawatt. That's double what even America's fastest DC chargers will do." insideevs.com/features/782...
"A tech giant paid about $275,000 per acre for an industrial site in rural Lamar County that assessors had valued for a fraction of that price just two years earlier." www.ajc.com/business/202...