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15 October 2026

  • AnalysisEnergy

    Europe's winter gas bill comes due: prices at a four-year high, storage at a record low — and €7.9bn still paid for Russian gas

    Europe's benchmark gas price this week reached its highest level since December 2022, before a one-day Norwegian supply scare unwound. Underground storage is at its lowest for the time of year since records began in 2011, the EU has paid €7.88bn for Russian Arctic LNG in nine months this year, and the EU ban on the remaining long-term-contract trade arrives on 1 January. The numbers, the region's voices, and what moves next.

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    Troll A gas platform on concrete legs in the North Sea beneath a largely blue sky, seen from a vessel with a red railing and two people in the foreground.

  • AnalysisEnergy

    Australia breaks its renewable investment record with a quarter to spare — while the grid learns to swallow the sun

    Final investment decisions on large-scale renewables reached 5 GW by the end of September, past the previous best of 4.9 GW, as home battery approvals tripled and renewables out-generated fossil fuels in the national grid for the month. The same fortnight delivered record curtailment, negative midday prices and a near-cap A$23,107/MWh spike in New South Wales: abundance at noon, scarcity in the afternoon.

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    Wind turbines at Collector Wind Farm, New South Wales, Australia.

  • AnalysisEnergy

    Escondida supervisors avert copper strike with three-year deal as supply risks persist

    Supervisors at Escondida voted 64% to 35% on 14 October to accept BHP's improved offer, hours after their strike was to begin and a day before its extended deadline. The deal pulls a supply threat out of a copper market trading near records — but settles only one of the disruptions running through Chile's copper belt. The numbers, the voices and what it means for energy buyers.

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    Open-pit terraces, buildings and haul roads of the Escondida copper mine in the brown Atacama Desert of northern Chile, under a clear sky.

  • AnalysisEnergy

    October heat triggers federal emergency powers for PJM as forecast reserves tighten

    The grid serving 67 million people across 13 US states and Washington, DC was forecast to come within 900 megawatts of its reserve margin this week — roughly one large power plant — as an October heatwave collided with the maintenance season. The government's emergency order lets PJM run plants past their pollution limits and call on data centres' own backup generators. Reporting on 14 October said no rolling blackouts had been announced, and PJM said it anticipated no customer impacts; the forces behind the squeeze have not gone away.

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    Mount Road in Rockdale, Pennsylvania, with transmission lines on the right and the Lenni substation in the background.

  • AnalysisEnergy

    India's worst power squeeze in three years puts coal back at the centre of its planning

    September brought India's worst power shortages since August 2023, and on 13 October the head of its electricity planner said the coal capacity now needed could reach "105 GW or even 150 GW" against the 97 GW in last year's plan. The coal ministry says supplies are strengthening and stocks have held above 18 million tonnes; steel mills and farmers say the cuts are biting anyway. The numbers, the regional voices, and what it means for anyone exposed to India's grid.

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    Coal-fired power station with two cooling towers and chimneys releasing steam, seen from a rural road across fields at Korba, Chhattisgarh, India.

  • AnalysisEnergy

    Petrol at ₦1,409 a litre: Nigeria's 30-day discount, a labour ultimatum and the IMF's red line

    Fuel is selling above ₦1,400 in Abuja even as NNPC offers an advertised ₦66-per-litre app discount until 31 October, although station checks found smaller differences. The Nigeria Labour Congress has put the government on a two-week clock, the IMF said on 14 October not to bring the subsidy back, and the Dangote refinery — posting a $4.73 billion profit and exporting record volumes to West Africa — has extended Africa's biggest IPO. The evidence behind each claim, and what it means for anyone buying fuel, crude or naira assets.

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    A tall cylindrical crude distillation column rising above the steelwork of the Dangote refinery at Lekki near Lagos, Nigeria, under a hazy sky.

  • AnalysisEnergy

    'No one is going to want to fly if there is risk of a missile attack': can the Gulf's show season hold its visitors?

    Dubai Airports' chief said it as Houthi strikes shut Riyadh's airport. WETEX opens in Dubai on Tuesday and ADIPEC follows in Abu Dhabi on 2 November. No strike on the UAE has been reported in the past month, but 15 foreign airlines still have Dubai flights suspended and the US tells its citizens to reconsider travel. The evidence on risk, insurance and flights, and what the region's leaders are saying.

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    The Dubai World Trade Centre tower and exhibition complex with the Sheikh Zayed Road skyline behind it, photographed in morning light.

  • BriefingEnergy

    Three days on, Trump's Russia-Ukraine 'energy ceasefire' exists only on paper

    Trump announced an energy truce on 11 October. Since then Russia has hit Ukraine's grid and gas assets again and Moscow has confirmed no agreement.

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    AI-generated illustration: A stylized illustration shows power pylons and pipelines stretching across a stark landscape beneath dark, threatening clouds. AI-generated illustration

11 October 2026

  • BriefingWater

    The thirstiest part of AI's supply chain isn't the data centre, a UAE report finds: it's the power plant

    A UAE government report projects data-centre water use roughly doubling to 9.32 trillion litres by 2030, with the water attributed to AI workloads roughly quadrupling, and finds that electricity generation accounts for about half of water use across the data-centre value chain. It calls on the UN Water Conference in Abu Dhabi in December to advance a global declaration.

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    Air Selangor’s session “Balancing Digital Growth and Water Security” in Business Forum Theatre 2 at the IWA World Water Congress in Glasgow

8 October 2026