Summary: Your author has lived in Livermore, California most of his adult life. For those of you that really don’t know where this is -- Livermore in on the eastern side of the central SF Bay Area.

New York is fast‑tracking Williams’s previously rejected Northeast Supply Enhancement gas pipeline, sparking criticism that it violates the state’s climate law and could add ~$200M/year to ratepayer ...

Our increased dependence on safe, reliable and affordable electricity comes at a time when massive electrification and the needs of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are driving dynamic growth of the ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s first major action as the interim NASA administrator? A nuclear reactor on the moon. (Politico) Duffy is expected to announce expedited plans and a more ...

China Fusion Energy Co. (a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation) will focus on building a fusion plant with a budget of 15B yuan ($2.1B) from the state. Worth noting: The US is home to the ...

Google will reduce AI data center load during grid stress events under new agreements with Indiana Michigan Power and Tennessee Power Authority. (Reuters) These deals represent Google’s first formal ...

Currently, the price of gas is influenced by various factors determining its market dynamic. These factors include the midsummer changing weather conditions across the U.S. and Europe, with certain ...

At least $22B in US clean energy projects have already been canceled or scaled back this year, with $6.7B in investments disappearing last month alone. (E&E News) Large-scale solar and storage ...

PG&E—California’s largest utility—is finalizing an offtake agreement for 1.8GWh of battery storage capacity with Aypa Power. It’s one of the largest contracts of its kind in the US, designed to help ...

Southern California Edison is creating a program to compensate victims of January’s massive Eaton Fire near Los Angeles. (AP) Read the room: This Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program appears to ...

The Palisades nuclear plant is coming out of retirement, a move that marks the first time the NRC has given the go-ahead to restart a permanently-closed US nuclear power station. (Field Notes) The ...

A🧡352-word💚under 3-minute💙read Another Friday, another Planet Pulse - a curated sample of the week’s more interesting, important, or just amusing stories. This week’s stories focus on an ocean of ...