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39 stories on the ENERGY beat — reported from primary sources and ordered newest first.

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[ENERGY]SEP 11

Wealthy investors crowd oil and gas assets as Iran war and AI boom collide

The underlying constraint in the market for oil and gas mineral rights is scarcity by structure.

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[ENERGY]SEP 11

Houthis close on Bab al-Mandab as MBS presses Trump for strikes

Bab al-Mandab, the narrow southern exit of the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden, is the primary throughput gate for seaborne commerce and Saudi oil exports, and Houthi forces moved closer to its edge on Thursday after seizi…

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[ENERGY]SEP 11

Venezuela's oil output projected to more than double by 2027 as Chevron commits $7 billion

Venezuela holds more than 300 billion barrels of crude reserves, roughly 20% of the world's total, yet produces around 1% of global output because of twenty-five years of political instability and deteriorating field inf…

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[ENERGY]SEP 08

Oil nears $100 as US military strikes multiple Iranian Revolutionary Guards ships

The constraint in global crude markets is throughput: military action against tanker traffic on contested supply routes lifts the risk premium embedded in barrel prices with near-mechanical speed.

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[ENERGY]SEP 08

Oil climbs to $99 as Iran reportedly strikes U.S. Navy ships a second time

Oil prices reached $99 on Tuesday after reports surfaced that Iran had carried out a second undisclosed attack on U.S.

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[ENERGY]SEP 08

Russia fires ballistic missiles at Kyiv hours after ceasefire expires, as U.S. peace push stalls

Russia launched ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv on Tuesday, hours after a three-day ceasefire expired, striking residential buildings in two city districts and setting fires across the capital that reached at least…

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[ENERGY]SEP 05

Fervo Energy's Utah geothermal project targets gigawatts for data center demand

Fervo Energy is pushing a Utah project that the company hopes will prove enhanced geothermal can supply the American power grid at the scale data centers now demand. U.S.

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[ENERGY]SEP 05

Defensive positions added to balance AI exposure as oil and Treasury yields move higher

A portfolio running concentrated AI exposure moved more defensive last week, initiating positions in defensive stocks to offset those holdings. Oil prices and Treasury yields both climbed in the period.

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[ENERGY]SEP 05

BepiColombo closes on Mercury after eight years, with orbital mechanics the mission's defining constraint

The delta-v demand for achieving Mercury orbit exceeds what it takes to send a spacecraft past Pluto.

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[ENERGY]SEP 05

Wall Street sees smaller renewable and AI-linked stocks as better buys ahead of oil major earnings

Oil majors are heading into an earnings period expected to deliver booming profits. Strong numbers are coming.

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[ENERGY]SEP 04

Gen Z Republican tells Dallas convention to fix housing or lose the midterms

The first midterm political convention in American history is scheduled at American Airlines Center in Dallas, and Gen Z Republican commentator Brilyn Hollyhand is arguing the GOP has one primetime window to make a credi…

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[ENERGY]SEP 02

Meta settlement could open AI product launches, Morgan Stanley says

The constraint on Meta's AI product releases has been legal rather than technical.

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[ENERGY]SEP 01

Tehran urges return to June deal as Iran-U.S. strikes drive oil prices higher

Iran struck two American military bases in Jordan on Monday, with Tehran framing the operation as retaliation for a prior U.S. attack on Larak Island. Oil prices rose.

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[ENERGY]SEP 01

SB Energy files for IPO with no data center revenue and a declared OpenAI dependency

The operational sequence for a data center business has a hard prerequisite: facilities have to be built, energized, and running before they generate revenue. SoftBank's SB Energy is filing for an I

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[ENERGY]SEP 01

CENTCOM plan for periodic Iran strikes awaits White House decision as missile network rebuilds

The constraint shaping U.S. military options in the Strait of Hormuz is Iran's capacity to reconstitute radar and anti-ship missile systems faster than a single degradation campaign can suppress them. U.S.

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[ENERGY]AUG 23

Penn State fraternity cocaine ring: inside the supply chain prosecutors say collapsed from the outside in

Tiered distribution networks rely on separation between layers to contain exposure when the lower rungs are compromised.

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[ENERGY]AUG 23

Iran-linked hackers force UK power facility offline as energy sector mobilizes

The control systems inside a power generation facility govern physical processes, not data flows. An attacker who reaches that layer stops electricity from being produced.

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[ENERGY]AUG 22

Jetstar to charge for overhead bin space from February 2027

Boarding time is a quantifiable bottleneck. Each carry-on bag staged in an overhead compartment rather than under a seat costs measurable seconds per passenger, and at scale those seconds are what budget airline economic…

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[ENERGY]AUG 22

Hedge funds are stacking energy bets as Iran risk, AI power demand, and California grid policy converge

Three converging pressures are pulling institutional capital toward energy equities.

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[ENERGY]AUG 22

Ohio's data center energy debate puts Husted's Senate prospects in play

Data center load growth has become the live political constraint on Ohio energy policy. These facilities run continuously and at scale, placing sustained demand on regional transmission systems in ways that in

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[ENERGY]AUG 15

Canada's new pipeline push bets on Asian demand to offset US exposure

For crude exporters, market diversification is ultimately a pipeline problem: a barrel can reach a new buyer only if the infrastructure to carry it exists. Canada has unveiled plans for a new oil pipelin

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[ENERGY]AUG 15

CME Group to launch 10-barrel crude oil contract as Iran war drives retail demand

The sizing of a futures contract is not an administrative detail. It sets the practical floor for who can participate, and crude oil futures have long sat above that floor for most retail accounts. Indiv

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[ENERGY]AUG 13

Iran oil licence revoked as US strikes escalate, crude prices climb

Iran's oil export pathway runs through a narrow administrative channel: a specific US government licence that carves exceptions into the broader sanctions architecture.

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[ENERGY]AUG 13

Oil rises as U.S. strikes Iran over Strait of Hormuz vessel attacks

The Strait of Hormuz is the single maritime passage through which Persian Gulf crude must transit to reach export markets. Threaten that corridor with military activity, and crude prices m

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[ENERGY]AUG 12

U.S. strikes on Iran push oil prices higher as Hormuz shipping attacks prompt American retaliation

The Strait of Hormuz is the single physical chokepoint through which Persian Gulf crude reaches global markets, and attacks on commercial vessels transiting it carry immediate supply-disrup

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[ENERGY]AUG 12

Oil jumps 5% as Trump declares Iran ceasefire over after Strait of Hormuz strikes

The Strait of Hormuz is the world's most consequential oil chokepoint, a narrow passage where Persian Gulf crude traffic concentrates with no practical alternative route for most exporters.

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[ENERGY]AUG 12

China's new energy vehicle penetration rises in July, Tesla Model Y holds its ranking

New energy vehicle penetration rate is the central signal in China's monthly auto data. The China Passenger Car Association published July passenger car figures on Tuesday showing that rate moving higher.

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[ENERGY]AUG 06

Cyberattacks expose the structural gap in U.S. water system defenses

The constraint in U.S. water security sits well below the firewall. The sector spans more than 144,000 public water systems, including roughly 50,000 community systems supplying year-round drinking water, each operated a…

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[ENERGY]AUG 05

Oil surges 7% after Iran fires ballistic missiles at U.S. forces

The crude oil market carries a geopolitical risk premium at all times, baked into how traders price supply exposure from any given region. That premium repriced sharply after Iran launched a ballistic missile a

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[ENERGY]AUG 03

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna stands by polarizing Luce EV launch

For any combustion-defined automaker crossing into battery electric, the central product constraint isn't range or charge speed.

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[ENERGY]AUG 02

Coal plant bidding war in West Virginia puts AI power demand in sharp focus

A bidding war over a West Virginia coal plant has set a utility and a data center developer against each other, with the utility securing the facility after what was described as an aggressive campaign to outbid its riva…

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[ENERGY]JUL 30

House Energy Committee demands records and tour of SpaceX's Memphis AI data centers

The specific constraint that makes AI data centers a federal energy matter is on-site generation: GPU-dense facilities draw power at sustained rates that push operators past what grid connections alone can supply, so com…

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[ENERGY]JUL 29

Oil prices surge on Iran missile threat as Trump warns Tehran will 'get a beating'

The Strait of Hormuz runs along Iran's southern coast, and global seaborne crude has no practical alternative route out of the Persian Gulf.

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[ENERGY]JUL 29

Brent crude clears $90 as Iran fires ballistic missiles at U.S. forces, Trump threatens to hit Iran hard

The geopolitical risk premium embedded in oil markets has one reliable accelerant: a direct military exchange between Iran and U.S. forces. Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on Ameri

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[ENERGY]JUL 29

Oil surges more than 6% as Iran strikes U.S. forces with ballistic missiles

The geopolitical risk premium in crude oil sits dormant most of the time, a residual embedded in the price for events that rarely materialize. Then Iran launched a ballistic missile attack

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[ENERGY]JUL 29

Oil jumps as Iran fires ballistic missiles at U.S. forces, ending brief pause in hostilities

The geopolitical risk premium embedded in crude prices is the market mechanism that converts a ballistic missile strike into a commodity move. It functioned as designed when Iran attacked U

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[ENERGY]JUL 28

U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve infrastructure shows stress as emergency drawdowns accelerate wear

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve carries authorized storage capacity of 714 million barrels, a figure cited by the Department of Energy, but the operational constraint drawing attention is not the storage ceiling.

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[ENERGY]JUL 28

Three forces explain why Warsh is expected to hold Fed rates this week

Rate decisions at the Federal Reserve move through a single mechanism: set the price of short-term money, tighten or loosen financial conditions, and let the transmission work through credit markets into the broader econ…

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[ENERGY]JUL 28

Kevin Warsh's Fed press conference carries more signal than the rate decision

The rate decision at a Federal Reserve meeting is rarely the most informative output. When Kevin Warsh takes the podium, how he frames energy shocks, AI-driven price pressure

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