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North Sea regulator threatens £1m fines over well backlogMore than 500 wells in UK waters have already missed their decommissioning deadlines, and the North Sea Transition Authority says 940 remain to be shut down, warning operators face fines of up to £…London pays households near pylons to stop fighting the gridHouseholds within 500 metres of new or upgraded transmission infrastructure will get up to £250 a year for a decade, a maximum £2,500, across the first 43 approved projects, with payments starting …Amazon's off-grid data centre could become America's biggest polluterRegulatory filings show the Pecos County, Texas gas plant backing Amazon's new data centre campus is permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year, which would make it the single largest source o…£150 energy discount is automatic for most, but only if your name is on the billSuppliers check records against benefit status as of 23 August for this cycle, and around six million households qualify, but anyone not named as billpayer needs to update their supplier's records …UK puts £65m into EV manufacturers despite mandate backlash£50 million goes directly to carmakers and research partners to scale production, matched by industry cash, sitting inside the wider £4 billion Drive35 programme meant to hit the 2030 petrol and di…ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance to retire, CFO takes overLance leaves after a decade running one of the largest independent US oil producers, handing the reins to his finance chief just as the sector rides a strong run on Middle East supply risk pricing.Indonesia's export plan splits the government that wrote itA commodity export overhaul is only radical if the people implementing it agree on what it is for, and Prabowo's government clearly does not. The plan aims to force more domestic processing of nick…India's protest movement is entering its harder phaseThe initial wave of demonstrations has passed its peak visibility, and the question now is whether organisers can sustain pressure without the momentum of a single triggering event to rally around.…Centrica cuts 1,300 call centre jobs and blames the customersBritish Gas's owner framed 1,300 redundancies as a response to customer preference for AI chatbots, a convenient way to describe a cost-cutting decision as consumer demand. Call centre headcount re…Dangote's $2.5bn refinery expansion is a bet on Africa never importing fuel againThe record investment scales up what is already the largest single-train refinery in the world, targeting Nigeria's decades-long dependence on imported refined fuel despite being Africa's biggest c…The US-Saudi nuclear pact quietly rewrites Gulf energy politicsA civil nuclear agreement between Washington and Riyadh gives Saudi Arabia a US-backed path to nuclear infrastructure it's wanted since normalisation talks with Israel stalled. US nuclear cooperati…Iberdrola pays $2.3 billion to own Finland's grid outrightBuying 80% of Caruna gives Iberdrola direct control of a regulated Finnish electricity distribution network at a moment when European utilities are racing to lock in grid assets ahead of an expecte…VAT cut on electricity bills lands in October, savings look smaller up closeScrapping the 5% VAT charge on domestic electricity bills sounds like meaningful relief until you run the numbers on an average household bill of roughly £1,700 a year, where the saving lands close…Nationalisation is starting to look like a habit, and creditors have noticedThames Water's lenders are lining up lawyers before Andy Burnham has even confirmed a takeover, which tells you how little faith bondholders now have in getting fair treatment from a Labour governm…New York just told AI's power problem to go elsewhereNew York becoming the first US state to formally suspend new data centre development is the clearest sign yet that grid capacity, not chip supply, is the binding constraint on AI buildout. The mora…Grid delays are now the binding constraint on Britain's AI ambitionsPolitical backing means nothing if the National Grid can't deliver the power on time, and that's exactly the wall a Starmer-backed AI data centre has hit. The project is now seeking alternative pow…UK energy price cap rises 13% today. The real number is what it does to wage demands.Ofgem's energy price cap rises 13% from today, adding roughly £160 to the average annual household bill and marking the steepest increase since the 2022 crisis peak. The direct household impact is …Airlines face a $127bn carbon credit bill. The cost lands on passengers whether they know it or not.A projected $127 billion shortfall in aviation carbon credits is not an abstract compliance problem. It is a cost that sits between airlines and their current ticket pricing, and the pressure will …China's tech energy demand is breaking every forecast model built before the AI boomElectricity demand from Chinese data centres and AI infrastructure is expanding fast enough to invalidate the models that grid planners and energy investors were using as recently as 18 months ago.…A 1,000x cut in AI power consumption is a bold claim, and it matters enormously if even 10x is achievableDatabricks' former AI chief has launched a startup targeting a 1,000-fold reduction in AI inference energy consumption, a number that sounds like marketing until you price the current trajectory. H…Microsoft and Chevron are building a gas-powered data centre in West Texas. The greenwashing risk is priced in already.Microsoft and Chevron are partnering on one of the largest gas-powered data centre projects in the United States, sited in West Texas where Chevron has direct access to Permian Basin supply. The de…A nuclear startup just achieved criticality on its own reactor. The DOE's July 4 target is within reach.Valar Atomics has become the first private nuclear startup to achieve criticality on its own reactor system, completing zero-power critical tests on its NOVA core with Los Alamos National Laborator…Standard Nuclear has filed for an IPO. It sells fuel, not reactors, and that distinction matters.Standard Nuclear's NYSE filing under ticker STDN is the most interesting nuclear IPO in the current pipeline precisely because it targets the supply-chain chokepoint rather than the headline techno…Climate attribution science faces courtroom battlesIndustry-aligned actors are working to sideline climate attribution research that quantifies how human emissions increased specific extreme events, as it becomes central evidence in billions of dol…Alberta proposes 1m barrel pipeline 'corridor' to bypass tanker banThe province will submit a general corridor concept to Ottawa's Major Projects Office by July 1 rather than a fixed route for its proposed northern BC pipeline. Indigenous Relations Minister Rajan …Cuba eyes biggest US fuel shipment since Cold War embargoA Florida trading company is in advanced talks to send Cuba a very large US fuel cargo, potentially the biggest such shipment since the Eisenhower-era embargo began in 1960. The deal comes as Cuba …Ousted BP chair clashed with company secretary over spendingAlbert Manifold's eight-month tenure as BP chair ended after clashing with company secretary Ben Mathews over private jets, limousines and board travel costs. The former CRH CEO pushed for tighter …UK energy bills set to jump £209 in July as cap rises 13%British households face their biggest quarterly bill increase since winter 2022, with the energy price cap forecast to rise from £1,641 to around £1,850 for typical users from July. The 13% jump re…Chinese firms accelerate coal plant plans despite climate pledgesChinese companies proposed a record 161 GW of new coal power in 2025, even as Beijing committed to peak emissions before 2030 and phase down coal after 2025. Global Energy Monitor data shows 291 GW…Beach Energy resets for M&A pivotBeach Energy CEO Brett Woods is positioning the company as both buyer and takeover target after Australia's domestic gas reservation push increased strategic value for gas-focused producers. Woods …Fervo Energy raises $1.89bn betting AI will pay for clean baseload powerThe largest energy IPO ever just validated geothermal as AI infrastructure. Fervo priced at $27 per share, raising $1.89 billion in an oversubscribed offering that values the company at $7.7 billio…China tells banks to freeze loans to US-sanctioned refinersBeijing's financial regulator quietly ordered state banks to halt new loans to five refineries blacklisted by Washington for Iranian oil ties, including Hengli Petrochemical, one of China's largest…Toyota accelerates EV push to counter Chinese dominanceToyota plans 15 new battery-electric models by 2027, targeting one million EV units annually as BYD and Tesla each sold 1.76 million last year while Toyota managed under 100,000. The shift abandons…Amsterdam bans meat and fossil fuel ads from MayAmsterdam becomes the first world capital to ban both meat and fossil fuel advertising in public spaces starting May 1, following a 27-18 council vote. The prohibition covers billboards and bus sto…UAE ditches OPEC after 60 years, threatens cartel grip on oilThe UAE just shattered OPEC's coordination model with 48 hours' notice. After nearly six decades of membership, the Emirates announced its exit effective May 1, citing production flexibility and na…Australia forces LNG exporters to reserve gas for domestic useAustralia is finally admitting its gas export boom was a domestic disaster. From 2027, east coast LNG producers must reserve 15 to 25 percent of output for local use, covering three Queensland plan…Miliband emerges as Labour's real power brokerEd Miliband controls the biggest spending department, the most politically sensitive policies, and increasingly the government's entire economic strategy. His energy and climate brief now touches e…