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US Power Use to Reach Record Highs in 2024 and 2025, EIA Forecast Says

Nov 13 (Reuters) – U.S. power consumption will rise to record highs in 2024 and 2025, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in its Short Term Energy Outlook on Wednesday. EIA projected power demand will rise to 4,090 billion kilowatt-hours in 2024 and 4,158 billion kWh in 2025. That compares with 4,012 billion kWh in …

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US Regulators Reject Amended Interconnect Agreement for Amazon Data Center

U.S. energy regulators rejected an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data center connected directly to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, a filing showed on Friday. Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said the agreement to increase the capacity of the data center located on the site of Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear generating …

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NextEra Beats Third-Quarter Profit Estimates on Renewables Strength

Oct 23 (Reuters) – NextEra Energy’s third-quarter profit beat Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, helped by strength in its renewables unit. Growing demand from AI-backed data centers, along with homes and businesses using more electricity for heat and transportation, has brightened forecasts for utilities this year. The S&P index tracking utilities  jumped 18.4% in the third …

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Electric Vehicles Prove a Bumpy Ride for Battery Metals

(Reuters) – Electric vehicles (EVs) were supposed to supercharge demand for metals such as lithium, nickel and cobalt. Yet prices for all three EV battery inputs have fallen to such bombed-out levels that producers are curtailing output and deferring new projects. This is partly a problem of oversupply. Explosive price rallies in 2021 and 2022 …

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Cuba Power Grid: How it Collapsed and What Comes Next

(Reuters) – Cuba’s national grid collapsed on last Friday, leaving the entire population of 10 million people without electricity and underscoring the precarious state of the Communist-run country’s infrastructure and economy. Restoration of service is under way but long-term challenges will remain. WHY DID THE GRID COLLAPSE? Cuba’s electrical grid and oil-fired power plants are …

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US Grants Nearly $2 billion to Harden Power Grid Against Extreme Weather

(Reuters) – The U.S. on Friday announced nearly $2 billion in grants to protect its aging power grid against the growing threat of extreme weather fueled by climate change. BY THE NUMBERS This round of funding for the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships program is for 32 projects across 42 U.S. states. About 950 miles …

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World Set for Cheaper Energy on Shift From Oil and Gas, IEA Says

Demand for all fossil fuels to stop growing this decade World enters ‘Age of Electricity’ with EV sales set to climb The world is heading into an era of cheaper energy prices as a shift towards electricity use leaves behind surpluses of oil and gas, the International Energy Agency predicted. Global demand for all fossil fuels will …

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China’s Rapid Electrification is Catching Oil Producers Off Guard

(Reuters) – Over-estimating China’s appetite for crude has been a factor in oil markets this year, especially by OPEC, and it’s a theme that looks likely to continue in coming years. The increasing shift to electricity in transport from fossil fuels and what it termed “electric mobility” is “wrong-footing oil producers,” according to the International …

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Over 160,000 US Customers Without Power as Hurricane Milton Approaches

(Reuters) – More than 160,000 homes and businesses in Georgia, the Carolinas, Texas and California were without power on Wednesday as Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast late Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.us. The utility with the most outages was U.S. energy company Duke Energy, a major supplier in the Carolinas, …

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Cryptominer MARA Taps U.S. Shale Patch Power Generation in New Pilot Program

(Reuters) – MARA Holdings Inc., the world’s largest publicly traded bitcoin miner, has begun producing power in the U.S. shale patch as part of a pilot program to fuel 25 megawatts of its mining operations with excess natural gas, the company told Reuters on Tuesday. The move comes as intensifying competition for electricity between Big …

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