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Puerto Rico's Energy Bureau approved a record residential power rate of 33.86 cents per kWh, about 1.85 times the US mainland average. It runs to at least December 31, so island staff pay more for power through year-end on a grid where outages persist.
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Investors have put more than $6 billion into nuclear fission and fusion startups in 2026, a record by Crunchbase's count. The IPO market those investors would one day sell into has marked most recent nuclear listings far below their peaks.
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Brent traded at $102.56 a barrel on Sept. 30, up $2.37 in a day and $35.87 above a year earlier, a rise of about 54%. Any plan that counts on oil staying above $100 depends on a $2.56 margin, and a drop the size of the latest gain would nearly wipe it out.
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Brent fell $2.56 to $100.19 a barrel on Sept. 29, still $32.86 above a year earlier, according to Fortune. Anyone buying fuel is still paying about 49% more per barrel than last autumn, and the day's drop narrows that gap only slightly.
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Diesel at $6.53 a gallon is a political problem for Trump. The remedy under discussion would hold a record 1.6 million barrels a day at home, in a market where the world price still sets the US price.
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Brent crude sold for $104.46 a barrel on Sept. 28, up $37.13 over the past year, according to Fortune. Fuel budgets built on last year's barrel need resetting, even though the data confirms only two sessions above $100.
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US diesel's record $6.59 a gallon, up 74% in a year per the EIA, implies trucking operating costs about 15% higher on an industry rule of thumb. Truckers run on margins too thin to absorb that, so the increase moves into the price of whatever they haul.
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Fortune's morning check puts Brent at $99.27, about $32.60 above last September and $2.34 below yesterday. Crude is more than half the cost of a gallon, so that annual move implies over 24% on retail fuel.
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Fortune priced Brent at $101.61 a barrel on Sept. 21, about $34.68 above a year earlier, for an implied base of $66.93. Crude is typically more than half the price of a gallon, and that is where the rise gets paid.
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Brent averaged about $69 a barrel last year and trades near $100 now, roughly 45% higher, six months into the war on Iran. Bank of America's base case for the second half is $83, with a $150 tail if energy infrastructure is hit.
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Sapphire Technologies and Anax Power say a modular data center parked at a pipeline regulating station can take both electricity and cold fluid from the pressure drop, and the size of both depends on numbers the operator does not set.
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Fluxnium has come out of stealth with $7 million and a Department of Energy licence to grow uranium-catching fibre in the ocean. What a pound costs is still the open question for anyone who buys reactor fuel.
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Fred Ehrsam's Primavera holds a production-sharing contract with PDVSA in the Orinoco Belt, where Rystad Energy expects significant new output only around 2035 and calls execution, not geology, the binding constraint.
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The lives averted are measurable and concentrated in the Sun Belt, but they sit in a different ledger from the 4.5 billion tons of cooling emissions the UN expects to reach 7.2 billion within 25 years.
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Mat Santamouris says coatings, shading, ventilation and better ceiling fans could cut average urban temperatures by several degrees. That number is an estimate, not a measured result.
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The world added 600 terawatt-hours of solar generation last year, which the IEA calls the largest single-year jump for any electricity technology. The cost curve behind it is 47 years old.
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Operators added 8.3GW in the first half of 2026 on a 43.6GW base. The build is driven by solar co-location economics, so industrial buyers need to model a different evening peak.
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The EIA's first-half list is a solar-and-storage list. The giant wind farms at the top are decade-old projects finally closing out, not a signal about what you can interconnect next.
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