A new University of Wyoming project highlights how DOE increasingly views coal plants as platforms for critical minerals, water savings, and carbon capture.
Illinois HB1700 expands state authority over renewable energy siting disputes, signaling a broader shift toward accelerating project development.
For years, uncertainty justified delay. Increasingly, uncertainty itself is becoming the cost organizations can no longer afford to absorb.
The projects moving forward in the second half of 2026 are increasingly defined by infrastructure readiness, permitting certainty, and execution feasibility rather than projected returns alone.
BOEM published a Request for Information June 23 on potential seabed mineral leasing off Virginia, covering 2,764 square miles near Chesapeake Bay. Comments close July 23.
The biggest risk entering H2 may not be execution. It may be relying on planning assumptions that no longer reflect operating conditions.
Grid capacity limits, water constraints, permitting delays, and capital deployment challenges are increasingly converging on the same projects.
The Williams Treaties First Nations announced a $700 million investment in Ontario's Darlington SMR project, backed by the largest Indigenous loan guarantee ever issued in Canada.
Meta will buy attributes from two planned Sabanci solar projects. The Texas deal adds 220 MWac as data center power demand grows.
SEIA's new interactive map puts solar's farmland footprint against suburban sprawl and golf courses as Congress debates solar's role in the Farm Bill.
Power, water, permits, and capital are tightening simultaneously on the same projects. Executives need a framework for operating inside converging constraints, not resolving them one at a time.
Governor Meyer is pushing Delaware's PSC to freeze rates and restructure Delmarva's profit model as the utility seeks $68M in additional revenue from 344,000 customers starting July 9.
Heat enforcement, grid constraints, supply chain exposure, and AI infrastructure demands altered corporate risk profiles in Q2. Many companies are still operating from outdated assumptions.
EHS, facilities, procurement, and sustainability each left something unresolved in Q2. Here is what each function needs to close before the second half starts.
Capital stalled, compliance maps got harder, and supply chain pressure formalized. Executives who planned for Q2 resolution need a different framework going into the second half.
Power is no longer just an operating cost. In 2026, electricity availability is shaping investment decisions, facility expansion, and corporate growth.
DOE selected TerraSpark Energy Campus in Grant County, West Virginia for up to $18.5 million to advance engineering and permitting for a 1.6 GW coal-with-carbon-capture project.
The Justice Department seeks dismissal of an NAACP Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI, raising broader questions about enforcement authority and AI infrastructure.
The BLM approved initial infrastructure for the Dewey-Burdock uranium project, advancing a long-debated in-situ recovery development in South Dakota.
Climate policy uncertainty is affecting firm-level investment, employment, and R&D as a material financial risk. Companies managing it best are treating it as a capital strategy problem.