Energy

Energy

Amping Up: Harnessing Innovation and Efficiency to Modernize the US Power Grid

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The current surge in energy demand is virtually unprecedented since the mass effort to electrify America immediately following World War II.

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Big Tech Is Still Grappling With AI’s Energy Problem

Meeting energy demand without excess carbon emissions may require doing more with what we have.

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Energy

OPEC+ Wants to Pump Its Way Back to the Top

After roughly two straight years of production cuts to prop up falling prices, the oil cartel’s newest problem is a shrinking market share.

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Energy

Low Battery: ‘Heat Dome’ Exposes Cracks in America’s Decaying Power Grid

Rising temperatures and massive new data centers are providing a massive stress test for the US power grid.

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Energy

Shell Dismisses BP Takeover Talks as Mere ‘Speculation’

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A megamerger of this sort would vault Shell’s market cap closer to ExxonMobil’s $468 billion and likely beyond Chevron’s $248 billion.

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Energy

Oil Prices Spike as Israel-Iran Conflict Threatens Production, Shipping

With no immediate end in sight, analysts are weighing multiple possibilities that could affect prices down the line.

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Energy

Solar Companies Burned by Clean-Energy Cuts

The outlook for clean energy was already looking dim under Trump, who has promised to cut clean-energy while boosting oil, gas, and coal.

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Investments

Glass Lewis, ISS Grapple With Renewed Risk to Influencer Status

ISS, Glass Lewis face criticism from an oil giant engaged in a bitter proxy fight just as Congress renews scrutiny of advisory firms.

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International Economics

Canada Chooses Prime Minister Set on “Dramatically” Loosening US Trade Ties

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Canada’s Liberal Party won a majority promising to distance the country from the US, a major importer of Canadian crude.

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Energy

The Leading State for Renewable Energy Generation is… Texas?

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The Lone Star state has emerged, by a long shot, as the nation’s leader in renewable energy generation, according to new data.

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