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The SwitchedOn podcast highlights how rooftop solar, home batteries and electric‑vehicle charging are turning Australian households into active participants in the electricity system. A recent EA Technology survey of over 8,000 consumers across Australia, the UK and New Zealand reveals shifting usage patterns and a demand for better data integration. Network operators are pressured to adapt to bidirectional flows, while regulators grapple with outdated one‑way grid rules. Stakeholders debate whether expanding network authority will curb infrastructure costs or entrench market dominance.
Rising oil prices sparked by the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran are prompting consumers worldwide to consider electric vehicles as a cost‑effective alternative. Analysts say the price shock could accelerate EV adoption, directly benefiting Chinese automakers who recently overtook Japan as...
The US‑Israel conflict in Iran has choked the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off roughly one‑fifth of global oil flow and pushing barrel prices to about $100. The disruption has triggered severe LPG shortages in India and driven paraffin heating‑oil costs...
Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore has independently verified methane emissions on four LNG‑fueled Brittany Ferries vessels, delivering measured slip rates that sit well below the EU’s default ceiling of 3.1 %. The verification, performed with French authorities, satisfies IMO Resolution MEPC.402(83)...
Tisco Financial warns that a 10% rise in crude oil from a $72‑per‑barrel baseline could trim Thailand's GDP growth by 0.3‑0.4 percentage points and lift inflation by roughly 0.8%. The surge also strains the Oil Fuel Fund, which subsidises diesel...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California challenging the Department of Energy’s order to restart the Las Flores onshore oil pipelines. The state argues the DOE lacks authority under the Defense Production Act,...
Major U.S. and European liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters warned on Monday that the ongoing hostilities in the Middle East have created a sizable supply shortfall, threatening global energy balance. The conflict has disrupted key export routes and halted several...
President Donald Trump announced a five‑day suspension of U.S. strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, signaling a de‑escalation after weeks of threatening rhetoric. The move lifted U.S. equity markets, with the S&P 500 gaining and oil prices retreating from earlier spikes....
Oil CEOs say current forward contracts underestimate the market strain caused by the ongoing Middle East Gulf war. Physical supplies of crude and refined products remain constrained, creating a gap between futures prices and real‑world scarcity. Executives warn that as...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced that developers are close to finalizing a viable route and Pacific‑coast terminus for a new crude pipeline from the province’s oil sands. The project seeks to unlock additional capacity for Canadian crude to reach global...
Europe’s energy strategy is being reshaped by geopolitical shocks, first the Russian gas cut after Ukraine’s war and now the Iran conflict. While the United States has stepped up as a key LNG supplier, rising prices and reliability concerns have...
Tensions in the Middle East remain high as the United States and Iran stepped back from a potential escalation on Monday. ADNOC chief Sultan al‑Jaber denounced Iran’s continued control of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz as “economic terrorism” during...
Ecuador’s oil output is collapsing as landslides, aging pipelines and a wave of sabotage slash production. The country’s role as a transshipment hub for roughly 70% of the world’s cocaine has sparked a 20‑fold surge in fuel theft and violent...
Ecosuite and Ecogy Energy have been chosen by the District of Columbia Public Service Commission for a five‑year pilot that tests virtual power plant (VPP) concepts on the city’s grid. The project will install Ecosuite’s open‑source software and edge compute...
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has introduced Flex MOSAIC, a voluntary framework that classifies flexibility of large electric loads such as data centers. Developed with more than 65 utilities, system operators, regulators, hyperscalers and technology firms, the scheme defines...
TotalEnergies has signed settlement agreements with the U.S. Department of the Interior to relinquish its Carolina Long Bay and New York Bight offshore wind leases, receiving a total reimbursement of $928.3 million. The company will reinvest the full amount in U.S....
Massachusetts’ 2025 Duxbury Land Court decision extended the Dover Amendment’s Solar Energy Provision to standalone battery energy storage systems, removing a key zoning barrier. The ruling, reinforced by a new statewide BESS zoning bylaw, aligns permitting requirements for storage with...
POWERGEN has opened its Call for Content for the 2027 conference, inviting engineers, plant managers, developers and executives to submit case studies and lessons learned by May 18, 2025. The event, scheduled for Jan 18‑21, 2027 in Salt Lake City, seeks practical, non‑commercial presentations...
Venture Global Inc. announced a short‑term contract to supply Vitol Inc. with 1.5 million tonnes per year of LNG starting in 2026. The agreement ties pricing to the Henry Hub natural‑gas index, offering a market‑linked price mechanism. Venture Global said the...
University of Calgary's newly formed Centre for Far‑From‑Equilibrium Nanostructured Cleantech Materials (CeFar) received a CAD 4.25 million (≈US 3.1 million) grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The funding will expand CeFar’s ten labs across the Schulich School of Engineering and Faculty of Science,...
President Donald Trump announced a five‑day pause on planned strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure, citing "productive conversations" with Tehran. The talks, led by envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, reportedly involved Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad‑Bagher Ghalibaf, though Iran publicly denied...
Mel Olken, the inaugural executive director of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and founding editor‑in‑chief of Power & Energy Magazine, passed away at 92 after a career shaping power‑generation standards and professional development. He began as an electrical...
U.S. natural‑gas inventories withdrew 43 billion cubic feet (Bcf) in the week to March 20, trimming the year‑over‑year surplus to about 101 Bcf. The lower‑48 storage balance is projected to end March at roughly 1,846 Bcf, still 68 Bcf above the 2010‑median but narrowing the...
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced a $928 million payment to French oil major TotalEnergies to relinquish two offshore wind leases in Carolina Long Bay and New York Bight, effectively halting planned wind projects. The agreement, unveiled by Interior Secretary Doug...
Ford and SK On are winding down their $11.4 billion BlueOval SK battery joint venture, prompting a delay in the planned layoffs at the Glendale, Kentucky plant. The initial cut of roughly 1,500 workers, slated for mid‑February, has been pushed back, with...
McDermott has secured ISO 50001 energy‑management certification for three offshore vessels—DB32, DB50 and DLV2000—extending the standard previously applied to its fabrication yards. The 2025 certification required vessel‑specific baselines, real‑time fuel monitoring and a plan‑do‑check‑act framework verified by third‑party auditors. By embedding...
Industrial software firm Cognite has embedded NVIDIA’s NV‑Tesseract time‑series AI models into its data platform, creating a combined solution for offshore anomaly detection. Aker BP is the first major operator to deploy the system, extending predictive‑maintenance monitoring to wells, heat...
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has awarded over €20.5 million (approximately $22.3 million) to 34 national energy research projects and fellowships for 2025. The funding, split between 25 RD&D projects and nine Energise Fellowships, targets offshore wind, green hydrogen, carbon...
Oil prices plunged more than 5% after President Donald Trump suggested his team was discussing an end to the Iran conflict, a claim Tehran denied. The comments temporarily eased geopolitical risk premiums, prompting a sharp sell‑off in crude futures. In...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a pause on attacks against Iranian energy assets, prompting a risk‑off wave that pushed April Nymex natural‑gas futures lower. The diplomatic de‑escalation eased Middle‑East tensions, further depressing global gas prices. At the same time, weak...
The California Public Utilities Commission has conditionally approved Anaergia’s SoCal Biomethane facility as the first renewable natural gas (RNG) supplier under Senate Bill 1440. The project co‑digests organic waste and municipal wastewater, converting up to 104,000 tons of waste per year...
TotalEnergies and Holcim have commissioned a 31 MW floating solar photovoltaic plant on a rehabilitated quarry lake in Obourg, Belgium. The facility is expected to generate about 30 GWh of renewable electricity each year, which will be fully self‑consumed by Holcim’s industrial...
Tesla filed patent US 2026/0048683 A1 describing a dual‑battery architecture that pairs an 800 V primary pack with a 400 V auxiliary pack, operating in three modes—SOE balancing, OCV matching, and parallel fast‑charging. The design offers two mounting options, including a trailer‑mounted auxiliary pack...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Parliament that India is actively negotiating with global partners to guarantee safe passage for vessels carrying oil, gas, fertilizers and other essential commodities through the Strait of Hormuz. The government is expanding its strategic petroleum...
SemiQ Inc. unveiled its QSiC Dual3 family, a line of 1200 V half‑bridge SiC MOSFET modules aimed at motor drives in data‑center cooling, grid‑scale energy storage converters, and industrial drivers. The series boasts ultra‑low RDS(on) values down to 1 mΩ and a...
A Bloomberg‑tracked oil supertanker, the Omega Trader, has successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first observed movement of Iraqi crude through the waterway since it was effectively closed at the start of the war. Managed by Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines,...
Utilities are accelerating the shift from legacy AMI 2.0 to the cloud‑native NextWave AMI, a move that promises granular, real‑time visibility across the distribution network. At the same time, battery energy storage systems are evolving from short‑term add‑ons to core...
A new Brattle Group analysis for GridLab and the Utilize Coalition finds that improving grid utilization by 10% could lower customer electricity rates by about 3.4% and generate $110 billion to $170 billion in savings for U.S. utility customers over the next...
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) trimmed its 2026 global oil‑glut forecast to 1.87 million barrels per day (bpd) in the March short‑term energy outlook, down from 3.05 mbpd projected in February. Quarterly projections show a modest surplus early in the year,...
Spain’s Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (Ciuden) has finished operational testing of a 1 MW/8 MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) at its Cubillos del Sil technology centre. The €6.4 million (~$7.4 million) system, built by CYMI using H2 Inc technology, is the largest vanadium...
The HV‑MELA‑BAT consortium, led by Fraunhofer ISE, unveiled a megawatt‑scale charging system that combines a high‑efficiency DC/DC converter with a novel contact system. The isolating converter reaches a record‑breaking 99.26% efficiency and a volumetric power density of 9 kW per liter....
Electricity consumption in the Democratic Republic of the Congo jumped 18.2% in 2024, outpacing a 0.4% dip in generation caused by a technical shutdown at the Inga II hydropower plant. The surge reflects expanding industrial activity, especially in the Maluku Special...
Utility‑scale solar projects hinge on the projected annual energy yield (PVOUT), but that figure carries inherent uncertainty from irradiance variability, modeling assumptions, and site‑specific losses. Engineers, investors, and lenders each interpret this uncertainty differently—design constraints, return probability distributions, and credit...
The EU’s photovoltaic recycling capacity of about 170,000 tonnes per year is set to be dwarfed by an estimated 2.2 million tonnes of PV waste annually by 2050. Germany alone could generate roughly 681,800 tonnes, far exceeding its 99,000‑tonne processing ability....
Rising demand from LNG terminals, industrial plants, petrochemicals and power generators is tightening U.S. pipeline capacity, forcing natural‑gas end users to rethink supply strategies. The surge pushes LNG feed‑gas deliveries toward 20 billion cubic feet per day, creating price spikes during...
Portugal is close to meeting EU criteria for declaring an energy crisis as natural‑gas wholesale prices surge past €180 per megawatt hour (about $195) and are 85% above pre‑war levels. If the European Council confirms the crisis, the government could...
VinBus, Vietnam’s public‑transport arm of Vingroup, has introduced 169 electric buses into Ho Chi Minh City, sourced from its sister firm VinFast. The new fleet operates across nine routes, replacing conventional diesel units with the compact EB 6 and larger EB 8 models. Both...
eToro has launched a new product, $OIL.24‑7, that lets clients trade crude‑oil contracts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including weekends and holidays. The broker imposes a maximum leverage of ten‑times and a fixed stop‑loss set at 75 %...
China's National Development and Reform Commission trimmed a planned gasoline hike, setting the average pump price at $4.70 per gallon instead of the slated $5.10. The adjustment follows a 20% price surge since the Iran conflict began and aims to...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped down as chair of Helion, the fusion startup he backs, as the two companies negotiate a power‑purchase agreement. The tentative deal would give OpenAI access to roughly 12.5% of Helion’s output—targeting five gigawatts by 2030...
