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Here’s what we know so far about when electricity and mobile phone services will come back on, and when schools, airports and workplaces will reopen

Criminals dressed as utilities repair teams dug up roads to access cables to power industrial-scale drug production

April Nymex natural gas (NGJ25 ) on Thursday closed down -0.148 (-3.33%). April nat-gas prices on Thursday retreated after weekly EIA nat-gas supplies fell less than expected. The EIA reported that nat-gas inventories for the week ended February 28 fell -80 bcf, a smaller draw than expectations of -93 bcf....

The Legislature has tried to clamp down on renewable energy resources in the past, but many lawmakers are recognizing the need to support all types of generation to meet record demand growth.

A power failure in Buenos Aires has left hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity in the Argentine capital, shutting off traffic lights, stranding subway passengers and testing the electric grid for the second time in 24 hours during a sizzling summer heat wave

April Nymex natural gas (NGJ25 ) on Wednesday closed up +0.100 (+2.30%). April nat-gas prices on Wednesday settled moderately higher but remained below Tuesday's 2-year high. Nat-gas prices are supported by the outlook for cooler temperatures in the western half of the US, which would boost heating demand for nat-gas....

President Donald Trump’s declaration of a “national energy emergency” on his first day in office – and which he reiterated during his address to Congress on March 4, 2025 – might have seemed to echo other national emergencies, like those presidents declared in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001,…

April Nymex natural gas (NGJ25 ) on Tuesday closed up +0.228 (+5.53%). April nat-gas prices Tuesday rallied sharply for a second day and posted a 2-year high. Prices were supported by the outlook for cooler temperatures in the western half of the US, which would boost heating demand for nat-gas....

The UK’s installed capacity of solar power expanded rapidly over the past decade to reach 17.2 gigawatts (GW) in 2024 – enough electricity to power roughly 4 million homes. The government aims to raise solar generation capacity to 70 GW by 2035. And by 2050, the government’s advisers estimate that…