Energy resources

IRAN WARU.S. Is Less Prone to Oil Price Shocks Than in Past Decades
By Amy Myers Jaffe
Oil is a global market, so when prices rise in one place, they rise everywhere. The current war against Iran has already raised oil prices significantly. Now, however, the United States is a major producer and exporter of oil and refined petroleum products. In addition to being less dependent on imports, the U.S. economy is much less oil-intensive than it used to be, producing more economic value with far less oil use today than in the past.
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NUCLEAR POWERMomentum Is Building to Meet Electricity Demand in Texas with Small Nuclear Reactors
By Camila Maia
The first small modular nuclear reactor could be powering an industrial plant in Texas early in the next decade. And the state is pushing to become the leading site for testing and building the technology.
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ENERGY SECURITYWhat’s Geologic Hydrogen? What to Know About the Clean Energy Source Buried under Michigan.
By Vivian La
Research shows the state may be a hotspot for the resource, prompting a scramble to understand its potential.
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ENERGY SECURITYGeothermal Could Replace Almost Half of the EU’s Fossil Fuel Power
By Matt Simon
If you’ve ever been to a hot spring or geyser or volcano, you’ve seen the future of energy. Advances in drilling and subsurface engineering are unlocking a constant, clean power source deep within the Earth.
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ENERGY SECURITYThe US Doesn’t Need to Generate as Much New Electricity as You Think
By Tik Root
Load shifting and improving energy efficiency could reduce the need for new power plants, but utilities often profit more from building than saving power.
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KING COALTrump Is Keeping Coal on Life Support. How Long Can It Last?
By Katie Myers and Jake Bittle
Heading into President Donald Trump’s second term, coal looked like an industry nearing the end of its life. In 2025, however, regulatory rollbacks and surging power demand helped buoy an industry in trouble.
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ENERGY SECURITYTrump Is Trying to Kill Clean Energy. The Market Has Other Plans.
By Matt Simon
The administration’s moves have done real damage to the nation’s ability to fight climate change. But strong countervailing forces — including falling prices for renewables, surging demand for electricity, and aggressive campaigns by states and cities to slash emissions — continue to drive the transition to clean energy. The result is a growing tension between federal policy and market reality, but in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.
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ENERGY SECURITYTrump Has Always Hated Offshore Wind. Now He’s Moving to Kill It.
By Tik Root
The Department of Interior abruptly paused the leases for five of the nation’s largest proposed offshore wind projects last month. That effectively halts all ongoing offshore wind development in the United States.
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ENERGY SECURITYFuture of Geothermal in New Mexico
By Diana Hackenburg
New Mexico is known for bringing the heat with its famous green chiles, but a new report points to another source of heat that’s causing excitement. A new report lays out the opportunities —and challenges —to harnessing the state’s geothermal resources as a reliable, sustained domestic source of energy.
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ENERGY SECURITYData Centers’ Insatiable Demand for Electricity Will Change the Entire Energy Sector
By Sølvi Normannsen
When the first large language models were unleashed, it triggered a headache for authorities around the world as they tried to figure out how to satisfy data centers’ endless demand for electricity.
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CRITICAL MINERALSElectric Cars May Be the “Green” Choice, but They're Driving a Scramble for Critical Minerals
By Milad Haghani, Abbas Rajabifard, Thomas Wiedmann, Simon Gossmann, and David A. Hensher
Our cars are responsible for about 20 per cent of global carbon emissions. The move to electric vehicles (EVs) is central to the effort to decarbonize the world’s transport. But the clean-energy transition is also creating a new extractive frontier: the minerals that power electric car batteries. And the same forces that shaped the geopolitics of oil are re-emerging in the race to power the electric revolution.
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ENERGY SECURITYFramework Reveals a Smarter and Faster Way to Retire U.S. Coal Plants
Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than a hundred plants still have no retirement plans—a gap large enough to derail national climate goals. A new study tackles a critical question: if market forces have already driven many coal plants to close, why are so many still running?
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ENERGYNew Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires
By Aidan Hughes & Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
President Donald Trump spent the last nine months halting the growth of the American clean energy economy in its tracks. A new report found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.
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ENERGY SECURITYAs Trump Champions Fossil Fuels, the World Is Betting on Renewable Energy
By Zoya Teirstein
If you live in the U.S., seeing how the Trump administration is hobbling the development of renewable energy, you could be forgiven for thinking that renewable energy is on the outs. But the US is n outlier: Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
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CRITICAL MATERIALSU.S. Energy Supply Chains Are Unlikely to Meet Anticipated Demand
By Danielle McKenna
The U.S. fast-growing energy demands for clean energy sources faces a problem: Under current supply chain conditions, the United States is on track to fall significantly short of surging demand for three clean energy sources: wind, solar, and battery. The shortage is due to the scarcity of critical raw materials such as nickel, aluminum, and silicon.
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