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Nuclear energy deployment in the United States faces a range of hurdles despite a surge of interest in the technology to meet electricity demand from artificial int... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson Tuesday defended his agency’s departure from noncompete rulemaking efforts during the Biden administration in f... (more story)
Power plant operators Constellation Energy and Calpine Corp. secured conditional approval for their $26.6 billion merger from the US Department of Justice Antitrust... (more story)
Free EU Emissions Trading System allowances could increase for energy-intensive sectors relying on fallback benchmarks under a legislative proposal planned to accompany the upcoming ETS review, according to a ... (more story)
Active competition enforcers are crucial to ensuring the benefits of the clean energy transition flow to the right parts of society and the economy, according to the new head of the European Commission’s energ... (more story)
EU governments want a reform of Europe's electricity infrastructure to see grid congestion income allocated through a phase-in mechanism starting at just 10 percent and only rising gradually, according to a co... (more story)
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is to be extended to selected downstream iron-, steel- and aluminum-intensive products under a position agreed by member states. The proposal would broaden the levy'... (more story)
Binding targets for zero- and low-emission corporate vehicles proposed by the European Commission would be scrapped under amendments from two center-right lawmakers in the European Parliament's largest politic... (more story)
Free ETS allowances for industry could be extended under the European Commission's upcoming carbon-market review, while support would be tied more closely to decarbonization investments, according to a leaked ... (more story)
Elon Musk’s xAI is facing growing legal risk over the gas-powered turbines in Mississippi that power his massive artificial intelligence data centers. Mississippi residents and civil rights groups are suing th... (more story)
EU efforts to build domestic critical raw materials supply chains continue to face shortages of financing, demand and investment certainty despite a growing regulatory framework, industry representatives say. ... (more story)
Governors are increasingly abandoning state policies aimed at attracting new data centers powering the artificial intelligence industry as grassroots opposition to development builds across the US. In Texas, I... (more story)
As data centers proliferate, tech companies are being called to defend their data center development plans before worried lawmakers. Ohio is becoming a test case for what’s ahead across the country as state la... (more story)
Fifteen legal challenges brought by EU oil and gas producers against the bloc's Carbon Capture and Storage framework are set to test the legal foundations of a key pillar of the Net-Zero Industry Act. The case... (more story)
US state utility regulators are awaiting federal guidance that could standardize how energy-intensive artificial intelligence data centers hook up to the electric grid. The process, which kicked off last fall,... (more story)
European Commission plans to set aside 25 percent of income generated by bottlenecks on cross-border power lines are facing growing resistance from several member states and grid operators, which warn that the... (more story)
From space-based AI data centers to unvarnished disclosures about a wide spectrum of legal and regulatory risk around xAI's Grok chatbot, the S-1 securities filing by SpaceX in advance of its initial public st... (more story)
Australian energy ministers are set to consider changes to national energy policy in response to a rapid growth of data centers. The Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council met Friday and planned to disc... (more story)
China has activated its blocking mechanism for the first time, ordering companies not to comply with US Iran-related sanctions imposed on five Chinese refiners. The move marks the first public use of China’s 2... (more story)
Elon Musk's xAI and SpaceX are facing a proposed class action filed by Mississippi residents alleging that a power plant fueling nearby data centers is blasting “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that's harmi... (more story)
Elon Musk's xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech are being sued by the NAACP and environmental groups for unlawfully operating dozens of unpermitted methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center in South... (more story)
Energy-intensive data centers are driving US federal, state and local policy efforts, both to meet energy demand and address affordability, quality of life and national security concerns.To add details to this... (more story)