Energy News Beat That is not a talking point. It is the arithmetic of an integrated energy market that Ottawa cannot wish away, and Washington already understands. Smith’s warning, circulating widely after her CBC Power & Politics appearance and a clip posted by Stephen Taylor, is blunt: Alberta businesses will be hurt more by Canada’s […]
Energy News Beat The United States has pulled ahead of China in building natural gas plants to feed AI data centers. That is a real, measurable shift. It is also not the whole race. Global Energy Monitor’s mid-2026 update, reported by the Washington Examiner, shows U.S. gas projects under construction at 52 GW after a […]
Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This article ran on The Energy News Beat Substack – to comment, head over there. Blue States and Rinos Should Be a Warning For Consumers and Voters Stu Turley (Me) has been saying it on the Energy News Beat channel for years: energy security starts at home, and energy dominance is […]
Energy News Beat President Trump’s administration is in advanced talks with Venezuela’s interim government for what officials describe as a “massive” energy deal: a U.S. ownership stake or long-term lease covering 17 of the country’s most promising oil and gas fields holding about 90 billion barrels of proven reserves. That is nearly a third of […]
Energy News Beat Commercial production is targeted for the first quarter of 2029 if Tesla picks the Texas site, wins incentives, and clears permits. Tesla has not disclosed annual gigawatt output, so any panel-count figure is an estimate, not an official number. The internal name is Project Crystal Sun. The public paper trail is a […]
Energy News Beat Energy News Beat | August 27, 2026 The U.S. diesel market is doing what tight commodity markets always do: it is advertising the shortage in the only language that matters — price. For the week ending August 21, EIA distillate stocks fell 2.2 million barrels, or 2.1%, to 103.4 million barrels. That […]
Energy News Beat President Trump signs Executive Order 14420, targeting foreign-made grid equipment, software, and remote-access gear as electricity demand from AI, manufacturing, and defense rises. President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14420 on August 26, 2026, declaring a national emergency to secure the United States bulk-power system. The order invokes the International Emergency […]
Energy News Beat Energy News Beat | Analysis ExxonMobil is scaling robotic drilling in the Permian Basin after proving that machines can do the most dangerous job on a land rig: moving and connecting thousands of pounds of steel pipe on the drill floor. The company now has two automated rigs in a Permian fleet […]
Energy News Beat Jeff Currie, founder and CEO of Real Macro and a veteran commodities strategist formerly of Goldman Sachs and Carlyle, appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on August 26, 2026, and cut through the usual noise. The segment title said it plainly: “The Strait of Hormuz is just one of many choke points being […]
Energy News Beat In Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm delivers one of cinema’s most memorable lines: “Life finds a way.” Nature adapts, persists, and routes around obstacles no matter how carefully the fences are built. In the summer of 2026, crude oil is doing the same thing. Blockades and attacks have choked the Strait of […]
