Jan 22, 2026
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9 min read
Prices are rising, timelines are shrinking, and governors are running out of room to hide from grid math.
Jan 20, 2026
8 min read
Emergency auctions, court reversals, and governors colliding with AI-driven load growth.
Jan 15, 2026
10 min read
FERC gets messier, New York goes bigger on nuclear, and Microsoft volunteers for a political narrative that won’t stay “voluntary.”
Jan 13, 2026
Big Tech builds its own power, Illinois buys flexibility, and the first real wave of data-center backlash starts to crest.
Jan 8, 2026
Data centers push capacity markets to the limit, DOE steps in on reliability, and state power prices keep diverging.
Jan 6, 2026
ISO-NE rethinks capacity markets, offshore wind hits a hard pause, and nuclear money finally shows up.
Jan 5, 2026
With Maduro removed, Washington now inherits Venezuela’s broken grid. Oil can wait. First we find out whether the lights can stay on.
Dec 29, 2025
The year electricity stopped humoring our assumptions.
Dec 23, 2025
A year-end reality check on supply, transmission, and why the grid didn’t get what it asked for in 2025.
Dec 18, 2025
Fusion intrigue, data-center scapegoating, portable reactors, and why misunderstanding AI load is how countries lose industrial leadership.
Dec 16, 2025
Permitting delays, AI-driven demand, and why the grid’s biggest constraint is no longer technology.
Dec 11, 2025
7 min read
Washington talks resilience, states build nuclear, and AI load moves faster than the interconnection queue can keep up.
Dec 9, 2025
Washington steps into the data-center energy fight, Exxon joins the hyperscaler arms race, and INL greenlights the next wave of advanced reactor experiments.
Dec 5, 2025
Washington bankrolls SMRs, AI devours the grid, and Duke gets tagged as a monopolist by Trump’s own solicitor general.
Nov 25, 2025
6 min read
America’s demand curve is rising, but the planning curve is stumbling.
Nov 21, 2025
Washington wants more control over nuclear, less control over appliances, and one very expensive do-over at a long-dead reactor.
Nov 18, 2025
When disasters become normal and regulators face a constitutional shakeup, the grid isn’t just stressed... it’s being rewritten in real time.
Nov 14, 2025
5 min read
Today’s grid story is simple: who gets to build what, where, and who actually bends when the system gets tight.
Nov 12, 2025
Grid-scale batteries are sprouting up across the U.S., quietly reshaping how the grid handles demand, disasters, and decarbonization—whether the market wants them or not.
Nov 11, 2025
4 min read
The week’s plot twist: the people who could build our nukes are wiring AI barns, states are finally telling hyperscalers to pay their own way, and politicians keep promising cheaper power like it’s a coupon code.
Nov 6, 2025
Power is policy now—and everyone’s rewriting the rules: Beijing cuts data-center bills, U.S. utilities pivot from gear to skills, and SPP tries to fix the queue at the root.
Nov 4, 2025
America’s power story is colliding timelines: utilities plan in decades; AI scales in quarters.
Oct 31, 2025
AI’s power binge just met three powerful counter-moves: a federal-backed nuke buildout, regulators drawing new lines, and a U.S. solar supply chain finally stitched end-to-end.
Oct 28, 2025
Peak demand surges 50%, Big Tech revives nukes, and DOE wants more power over power.
Oct 21, 2025
Planning rules, private nuclear, and a public-private fusion roadmap—all against a backdrop of surging storage and AI-driven load.
