California’s biggest utility missed Wall Street by a penny but held its 2026 and 2027 outlook. For customers, the bigger story is a typical 500 kWh bill of $203.54 a month and wildfire costs that keep landing on ratepayers. PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG) reported third-quarter results on Thursday, Oct. 22. Non-GAAP core earnings came to […]
Continue Reading
In this episode of the Energy News Beat podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Clare Anne Ath, co-founder of Vita et Terra, a Catholic-focused organization dedicated to environmental stewardship rooted in pro-life, pro-family values. Clare shares her personal frustration with skyrocketing energy bills in Virginia—up 26% year-over-year—and reveals how progressive green policies are failing […]
Continue Reading
Virginia’s new Energy Plan promises to protect family budgets but never shows a household bill. It models 10,000 MW of import capacity, while PJM lists 5,992 MW; prices solar 41% below Dominion’s own filing; and leaves about $40.6 billion of Dominion spending outside the proposed rate freeze. Here are the six biggest holes. The full […]
Continue Reading
Bloom Energy sells on-site fuel-cell power plants to data centers, utilities, and businesses, and markets them as “clean energy.” ENB checked the company’s filings, product specs, and deals against federal data. Bloom’s sales and profits rose sharply in the first half of 2026, and as of the Oct. 21, 2026 close, its stock was up […]
Continue Reading
Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran on lowering energy costs. Her Oct. 19 merger testimony asks for a base-rate freeze and bigger bill credits, plus a zero-carbon data center subsidiary, heat pump and EV rate If you are a Dominion Energy customer, the “typical” bill for 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month was $149.92 in July 2025. On July […]
Continue Reading
Washington spent billions to put wind, solar and batteries on the grid, and the biggest wave yet is arriving right as the tax credits run out. Here is what the data says about your bill, what it does not say, and why grid stability is the question to watch. By Stuart Turley, host of the […]
Continue Reading
The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market is locked in an intensifying bidding contest between Asia and Europe, driven by severe disruptions to Qatari supplies through the Strait of Hormuz amid the US-Iran conflict that began in late February 2026. Spot prices have more than doubled—surging roughly 150% from pre-conflict levels near $10.40 per million […]
Continue Reading
On October 19, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it will use up to $42 million in Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III funding to advance the long-stalled Constitution Pipeline. The 125-mile natural gas line would move up to 650,000 dekatherms per day of Marcellus Shale gas from northeastern Pennsylvania into New York, connecting […]
Continue Reading
AI data centers, LNG tankers and the power plants that keep your lights on all want more of the same molecules. The gas is there, but the pipes, the winter weather, competitive price points, capacity/transportation availability and the rules decide who gets it, and at what price. A Special Edition on demand, supply, grid risk, […]
Continue Reading
The summer of 2026 tested the U.S. electric grid with record heat and rising demand. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (based on Form EIA-930 data), three major regional transmission organizations (RTOs) set new peak hourly load records.Eia PJM (serving roughly 65–67 million people across all or parts of 13 […]
Continue Reading