WEEK OF JUNE 26, 2026

Some of the generating units have operated during tight grid conditions and may have contributed to reliability. Keeping them running costs about $550 million a year, the Sierra Club says.

In 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy began issuing a series of “emergency” orders to keep generating units at seven power plants from retiring as planned.

Coal and gas generation saw a respective 39.8 TWh and 19.1 TWh increase in unavailable energy in 2025, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said.

The availability of conventional generation fell in 2025, “largely driven” by declining performance of coal and gas generation, which saw a 39.8 TWh and 19.1 TWh increase in unavailable energy, respectively, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said in its 2026 State of Reliability report.

The new Western day-ahead market is starting to show where resource mixes, operating constraints and carbon policies create fundamentally different economic outcomes.

One month into California Independent System Operator’s Extended Day-Ahead Market, the most striking result is that PacifiCorp’s eastern and western systems are already behaving like two different power markets.

However, there isn’t yet evidence that interconnection requests are being processed more quickly, according to Advanced Energy United.

In the last two years, grid operators have made “significant progress” on their generator interconnection queues, partly by implementing reforms mandated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to a report released Tuesday.

Dominion Energy, DTE Energy, WEC Energy Group, Public Service Enterprise Group and Entergy Corp. are among the utilities positioned to benefit, according to Capstone.

The U.S. Department of Energy will make loans totaling up to $17.5 billion to utilities and other energy companies to support development of 10 nuclear reactors at five sites, officials announced Tuesday.

Phillips 66 CEO Mark Lashier said at the Reuters Global Energy Forum in New York that refining and petrochemical earnings face greater volatility due to uncertainty from disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.

In a concerted effort to drive operational efficiency, the company has successfully carved out approximately $1 per barrel in costs from its refining business.

Energy Transfer LP announced an expansion of the Nederland NGL Export Terminal to meet additional customer demand.

The project will increase ethane export capacity at Nederland by 240,000 barrels per day (bpd), along with 55,000 bpd of additional LPG capacity.

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says it has received all federal permits to allow for the dredging of Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, making room for larger oil tankers loading up from the Trans Mountain pipeline.

The agency says the dredging along northern and southern edges of the navigation channel underneath Vancouver’s Second Narrows bridge will start in September, but it could not say how long the work will take.

Saudi Arabia's biggest oil export terminal is finally stirring back to life, and that's a much bigger deal than another headline about the Strait of Hormuz reopening.

After sitting largely idle since early March, Saudi Aramco is preparing to resume crude loadings at Ras Tanura, with multiple very large crude carriers owned by Bahri moving toward the Ju'aymah offshore loading area on Thursday, according to Bloomberg vessel-tracking data.

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