05.25
The Order Book Hits the Tape
The AI power buildout has moved from forecast to order book. The richest companies in the world are prepared to spend almost without limit. They have discovered that money cannot manufacture time.
Energy security × Permitting reform
Energy security creates the political coalition that could pass permitting reform, but Post 054 shows it has been insufficient: SPEED Act stalled despite the Hormuz urgency, with the White House pledge filling the policy gap through executive action.
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9 citing both topics 04.19
SPEED Act: Window Closing, Still No Senate Draft
Senate delays on the SPEED Act have pushed the legislative window toward midterm politics, leaving permitting reform, the binding constraint for grid transformation, with roughly two weeks to advance before the political calendar closes down entirely.
04.19
Jones Act 60-Day Suspension
The Trump administration suspended the Jones Act for 60 days in March 2026, allowing foreign-flagged vessels to transport LNG between US ports. Despite this structural policy shift, energy prices continued rising, revealing physical supply constraints that shipping flexibility alone cannot resolve.
04.19
AI Moves at the Speed of Steel
The ceasefire moved in days, oil moved in hours, and hyperscaler money moved in commitments. The physical system barely moved at all. Turbines, transformers, LNG trains, and grid connections were already the binding constraint; the blockade and the $630B hyperscaler pledge simply made that constraint visible to everyone at once.
04.09
SPEED Act Senate Negotiations Reopen
Senate Democrats have reopened negotiations on the SPEED Act, hoping to add transmission infrastructure provisions to the House bill before a narrow legislative window closes in early May. Both parties face mounting political pressure from the Strait of Hormuz crisis and growing data center electricity demands.
04.09
The Workaround Becomes the Plan
A two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran briefly halted oil's upward march, but Europe's fuel shortages have already materialized. Meanwhile, Chevron's $7 billion commitment to build Microsoft a dedicated gas power plant signals that oil's future lies in feeding data centers, not traditional grids.
03.25
AI Policy and Regulation at CERAWeek 2026
Permitting reform (SPEED Act, NEPA), Texas grid-cost rebalancing, NRC environmental-impact-statement pilots for AP1000 reactors, and the December 2025 federal AI executive order set the regulatory choreography that determines whether the AI buildout actually meets its capital pace.
03.25
CERAWeek 2026: Renewables, Hydrogen, Carbon Capture, and Clean Energy
At CERAWeek 2026 the clean-energy story shifts from net-zero declarations to execution: offshore wind retreats under the TotalEnergies / Interior swap, nuclear pulls forward via AI-assisted permitting, hydrogen-blending hardware steps up to 50 percent, and capital re-prices around security and buildout speed rather than climate ambition.
03.25
CERAWeek 2026: Energy Policy and Geopolitics
The Strait of Hormuz closure, the Trump administration's Energy Dominance agenda, OPEC+ production decisions, tariff and supply-chain fragmentation, and the China-dominated critical minerals refining stack collide at CERAWeek to make security, not transition, the dominant policy frame for the year.