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Climate and Energy

Coverage of climate policy, grid demand, energy transition, and the technologies reshaping power, transport, and industry.

Energy transition, infrastructure pressure, and climate-linked business shifts.

Each category hub surfaces a lead story, recent reporting, and a clear path to related coverage.

23 published stories in this archive.

Data center load losses are becoming the next grid reliability problem
Climate and EnergyGrid Demand
North American grid planners are no longer focused only on how fast large computing sites add demand. They are also warning that sudden load drops from those same facilities can destabilize planning and operations.
Ira MenonApr 22, 20265 min read
Energy transition, infrastructure pressure, and climate-linked business shifts.Read story

Latest in Climate and Energy

Recent reporting from this category archive, ordered from newest to oldest.

Clean power met all new global electricity demand in 2025, Ember says
Climate and EnergyGrid Demand
Ember's latest global power review says solar, wind, and batteries covered the full rise in electricity demand last year, a result that sharpens the case that the grid transition is becoming a structural shift rather than a niche trend.
Ira MenonApr 22, 20265 min read
Energy transition, infrastructure pressure, and climate-linked business shifts.Read story
Data center electricity demand is now the main U.S. power growth story, EIA says
Climate and EnergyGrid Demand
A new EIA outlook says data center electricity demand has become the main long-run driver of U.S. power growth, forcing a much bigger buildout of generation and grid capacity.
Ira MenonApr 21, 20264 min read
Energy transition, infrastructure pressure, and climate-linked business shifts.Read story
FERC puts a June clock on data-center power interconnection reform
Climate and EnergyGrid Demand
FERC's June 2026 action window on large-load interconnection could reshape how data centers, utilities, transmission providers, and states handle time-to-power bottlenecks.
Ira MenonApr 20, 202613 min read
Energy transition, infrastructure pressure, and climate-linked business shifts.Read story
Europe’s jet fuel warning is now a live summer-travel risk
Climate and EnergyEnergy transition
Europe’s aviation fuel problem has moved beyond oil-market chatter. After the IEA warned that the region may have only weeks of jet fuel left if Hormuz disruption continues, airlines and airports are treating supply security as a summer schedule risk.
Ira MenonApr 19, 20262 min read
Energy transition, infrastructure pressure, and climate-linked business shifts.Read story