China To Accelerate The Construction Of Coal-Fired Power Plants

What Season Is It? March temperatures across the Mid-Atlantic region were all over the place, swinging from the low 70s to cold and snowy the next day; the same pattern appears to be carrying into early April. Temperatures across the Washington, DC-Baltimore metro area were in the low 80s on Saturday, while New York City was in the high 60s. More of March's schizophrenic weather looks set to return Monday night into Tuesday, with meteorologist Ben Noll forecasting a late-season round of snow showers across parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast...

The Actual Problem With America's Energy Security Is Starting To Reveal Itself... Constellation Energy’s high-profile effort to revive one of the Three Mile Island reactor plants, now renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center, has run into a four-year-tall roadblock: the grid itself. The company had targeted a restart in the second half of 2027 to deliver roughly 835 megawatts of nuclear power to Microsoft data centers under a long-term agreement. Yet PJM Interconnection, the regional grid operator, reports full deliverability could take until 2031. The holdup stems from needed transmission upgrades. The $1 billion...

IMF Warns US Treasury Market Prone To "Sudden Repricing" Due To Soaring Debt, Overreliance On Bills The International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday that the relentless US debt issuance is undermining the premium Treasuries have commanded from investors, with implications for government securities across the globe. “The increase in the US Treasury security supply is compressing the safety premium that US Treasuries have traditionally commanded — an erosion that pushes up borrowing costs globally,” the Washington-based IMF said in its latest Fiscal Monitor report. The US has been selling large volumes of debt...