Energy News Beat The U.S. diesel crack spread—the premium of ultra-low sulfur diesel futures over West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude—has shattered historical records, surging above $100 per barrel for the first time ever. It hit an intraday all-time high of $102.20 on Monday, August 17, 2026, before hovering around $100 on Tuesday, August 18 (settling […]
Energy News Beat As electricity demand surges from electrification, data centers, and extreme weather, utilities and regulators are turning to customer-owned resources—electric vehicles (EVs) and home battery storage—to balance the grid. This involves “load balancing” or demand flexibility: shifting or reducing consumption (or discharging stored energy) during peak times, often through virtual power plants (VPPs) […]
Energy News Beat NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) and Quadrant Nuclear Industries, Inc. (QNI) announced on August 18, 2026, that they have entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the future supply of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel. The agreement aims to support advanced reactor deployments, strengthen the U.S. nuclear […]
Energy News Beat Brent crude hovering near $91 a barrel might look manageable on a trading screen. Jeff Currie, the veteran commodities strategist now at Carlyle Group, argues that focus is dangerously misplaced. “Nobody on the planet Earth consumes crude oil,” Currie told CNBC. “Refineries do. Everyone else consumes gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and […]
Energy News Beat Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement claimed on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, that its forces targeted Saudi Aramco’s Jazan (also spelled Jizan) oil refinery on the Red Sea coast in southwest Saudi Arabia with “a number of drones.” A Houthi military source told the group’s Saba news agency the strike was “precise” and conducted […]
Energy News Beat The ambitious plan to build a major new crude oil export route from Iraq through Syria to the Mediterranean—explicitly designed to reduce dependence on the Strait of Hormuz—will require at least four years of construction and an investment of $15 billion or more, according to sources directly involved in the project speaking […]
Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This article is from America Outloud and Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan, and Steve Curtis. We highly recommend following them! Electricity policy, at its core, is economic policy. Nations that can produce abundant, reliable, and affordable electricity create the conditions for industrial growth, technological leadership, higher wages, and rising living […]
