October’s Commodity Markets Outlook lifted Brent to $91 for 2026 and marked European gas up 27%. It also cut Henry Hub, the one energy forecast that fell. The stage of the gas business that Africa’s offshore fields most need is the one stage the Bank’s lending rules still bar. By Energy News Beat | Oct. […]
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On October 28, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing closed a $5.1 billion, 30-year loan package to Alliant Energy subsidiaries serving Iowa and Wisconsin. The financing supports new natural gas generation, energy storage, and upgrades that will add more than 2.6 GW of firm or upgraded capacity—enough to power the […]
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Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) is set to scrutinize NextEra Energy’s proposed roughly $67 billion all-stock acquisition of Dominion Energy in an evidentiary hearing beginning November 17, with a decision deadline in mid-January 2027. The deal, announced in May 2026, would create one of the largest regulated U.S. electric utilities, serving about 10 million customer […]
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Refining profit nearly doubled to $6.06 billion on 98% utilization and a third-quarter record 41% distillate yield. Record output is the good news. The margin is the warning. By Energy News Beat | Oct. 28, 2026 Company results from Phillips 66’s Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1, filed Oct. 28, 2026; diesel, utilization and capacity data from […]
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PJM wants up to 6.8 GW of new backstop power to cover a shortfall driven by data centers. FERC put the plan on hold over who gets the bill, and DOE says households should not. This was first run on the Energy News Beat Substack. Here is what is at stake for the 13 states […]
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Trump’s tariffs and China’s steel glut are squeezing Canadian mills from both sides. Algoma’s blast furnace is shut, Stelco lines sit idle, and LNG Canada Phase 2 is going back to a Chinese fabrication yard. By the ENB Research Desk for Stu Turley. Data as of Oct. 26, 2026 (CT). Bottom line up front The […]
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In this Energy Realities podcast roundtable, hosts Dr. Tammy Nemeth, David Blackmon, and Stu Turley examine the rapidly shifting global energy landscape and the contradictions embedded in Western climate policy. The discussion spans from Qatar Energy’s landmark 23-year LNG supply agreement with Chenier—signaling natural gas as a permanent fixture in the global energy mix—to the […]
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Henry Hub futures slid to about $2.51 as warm forecasts trimmed heating demand. Here’s what that means for your heating bill, your power bill, and EQT’s all-stock deal for Range Resources. By Energy News Beat Natural gas fell Monday morning. The front-month Henry Hub futures contract fell more than 4% to about $2.51 per million […]
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Data centers are being built where land, fiber and tax breaks are, not where the power plants are. Moving that power takes new capacity, new high-voltage lines and new substations. This report follows the money from the PJM capacity auction to the Dominion transmission rider, the MISO, SPP and ERCOT long-range plans, the FERC rules […]
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Moscow says three cargoes are on the water under the Trump-Putin diesel deal. Diesel is $6.34 a gallon, up $2.70 in a year, and Russia’s drone-battered refineries are the real bottleneck. Why Russia has so little to sell Russia has about 6.5 million barrels a day of installed refining capacity across 32 major refineries, but […]
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