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DAILY ENERGY NEWS  | 10/16/2025
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Talk about letting the fox into the henhouse.


The Telegraph (10/15/25) reports: "A senior US Republican has urged Sir Keir Starmer to block a £1.5bn Chinese wind turbine factory in Scotland over national security fears. The Prime Minister has been warned that allowing Ming Yang to become a major supplier to offshore wind farms in Britain would 'defy common sense' and give China “even more leverage” over the UK. It comes amid a row over the collapse of a Chinese spying trial. Labour has been accused of sabotaging the case by refusing to label China an enemy state, amid significant investment into Britain. Ming Yang last week announced plans for a factory that will make turbine nacelles and blades from 2028 and will be the largest of its kind in the UK, pending approval from the Government. The investment would be a significant boost for Ed Miliband as he races to decarbonise Britain’s power system by 2030. However, US Representative John Moolenaar, chairman of the House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party and an ally of Donald Trump, said the Prime Minister must block the deal."

"For us to move beyond [coal] and move to a cleaner, innovative technology, I think is very exciting." 

 

– Jason Rondu, Los Angeles Department of Power and Water

This wouldn't happen in California...and that's not a compliment to California.


Wall Street Journal (10/15/25) reports: "An Nvidia backed AI startup is planning to build a massive data-center complex with CoreWeave that is capable of generating its own power on a site that is two-thirds the size of Central Park. The scarcity of computing resources is emerging as a central bottleneck in the multitrillion-dollar AI arms race, with OpenAI and other companies announcing a dizzying array of data-center deals as they seek to maintain an edge. While many operators moved quickly to secure continued access to the chips needed to build and operate AI models, America doesn’t have enough data centers to accommodate the high demand for space. It is also far from certain whether many data centers will have sufficient power and water to operate without becoming a significant strain on local resources. 'It is not about your headline numbers of gigawatts. It’s about your ability to deliver data centers,' Eiso Kant, a co-founder of Poolside, said in an interview. The ability to build data centers quickly is 'the real physical bottleneck in our industry,' he said."

Sorry kids, unleashing American energy is the right thing to do.


KTVH (10/15/25) reports: "A federal judge in Missoula has dismissed a lawsuit from a group of young plaintiffs, challenging the Trump administration’s energy policies. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ruled Wednesday that the 22 plaintiffs in Lighthiser v. Trump had legitimate concerns about the impacts of those policies, but that he didn’t believe the court had the jurisdiction to grant what they were asking for. It comes a month after plaintiffs laid out their case in a two-day hearing in federal court. Plaintiffs' attorneys have already announced they plan to appeal Christensen's decision."

Time to show the United Nations what 1776 was all about.


E&E News (10/16/25) reports: "Countries are on the verge of approving global rules to curb shipping pollution — but the Trump administration hasn’t given up on throwing a wrench in the process. The International Maritime Organization is meeting this week and expected to sign off on a proposal that nations endorsed in April. The U.N. agency sets binding regulations for the global maritime industry, and the measure would ultimately put a tax on shipping emissions. Several Trump officials have called the proposal a “European-led neocolonial export of global climate regulations” and have sought to strong-arm nations into rejecting it by threatening tariffs and other trade barriers. 'We are actively engaging with countries on the extremely flawed proposal, as well as exploring and preparing to act on remedies including tariffs, visa restrictions, and/or port levies,' a State Department spokesperson said in an email to POLITICO’s E&E News ahead of the meeting. 'We will also be engaging our like-minded partners and allies to propose they take similar measures.' It’s the latest move by President Donald Trump to not just abandon U.S. efforts to combat rising temperatures but to try and coerce other countries to follow suit."

Energy Markets

 
WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $58.28
Natural Gas: ↑ $3.04
Gasoline: ↓ $3.05
Diesel: ↓ $3.64
Heating Oil: ↓ $219.15
Brent Crude Oil: ↓ $61.87
US Rig Count: ↑ 571

 
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