{"title":"When the Regulatory Tail Wags the Industry Dog, Again, in International Energy Regulation","authors":"Jeff D. Makholm","doi":"10.1002/gas.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ongoing 2026 international energy crisis, following the Iran War that began on February 28, 2026, and the subsequent closing of the Strait of Hormuz, highlights the robustness of the North American natural gas industry. This industry remains insulated from the effects of foreign wars and ocean shipping disruptions, which have caused crude oil prices to soar. Year-over-year crude oil prices per barrel jumped from $60 to over $100 in May. Henry Hub US natural gas prices, however, remained lower—$2.63/MMBtu in May 2026 compared to $3.08/MMBtu in May 2025. But European natural gas prices swung wildly in March, almost doubling over 2025 prices before settling in early May 2026 at a level 20 percent above 2025 levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 12","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rapid Expansion in Southeast Natural Gas Demand and the Efforts to Serve It","authors":"Richard G. Smead","doi":"10.1002/gas.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Natural gas demand, particularly for power generation, has grown rapidly in the Southeast US. To meet this growth reliably, the utilities serving Southeast consumers need two things: (1) a great deal more pipeline connectivity to supply; and (2) an ability to compete with massive demands along the Gulf Coast. The result is upward price pressure such that Southeast natural gas prices will be consistently above the core natural gas industry pricing benchmark at Henry Hub.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 12","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overcoming Energy Infrastructure Siting Challenges","authors":"Andrew Chabot, Stanley Ko","doi":"10.1002/gas.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Utilities are entering a period of sustained load growth, with electricity demand projected to increase after decades of relative stability. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates an average annual electricity growth rate of 1.7 percent between 2020 and 2026. Yet, the ability to bring new energy infrastructure and power generation resources online is not keeping pace. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and regional planning entities are warning of capacity shortfalls within the next year or so, depending on severity of weather conditions, even where resources are expected to be adequate under normal peak-load conditions. Power producers will struggle to meet this demand through their usual methods of identifying and securing land to site new power generation. For electric utilities, the bottleneck is not just about meeting capacity needs, but also the ability to site transmission and distribution infrastructure to deliver power efficiently.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 12","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Chennai Water Crisis: A Case Study in Urban Water Stress, Governance Failure, and Sustainable Transformation","authors":"Amirdha Vasani Sankarkumar, Hemantha Yoga, Aarthy Manisekaran, Baranidharan Subburayan","doi":"10.1002/gas.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chennai, the sixth-largest city in India with over 10 million people, became the first major city in the world to essentially run out of water in June 2019. The local media called it “Day Zero” after the city's four main reservoirs—Poondi, Cholavaram, Red Hills, and Chembarambakkam—dropped to just 0.2 percent of their total capacity. This crisis stemmed not only from drought but also from decades of unsustainable urban growth, weak governance, and climate vulnerability, which together created a modern urban water crisis. Chennai's experience shows how these factors, along with deep-seated social inequalities, contribute to water insecurity in rapidly developing Asian-Pacific cities. This article explores this crisis through empirical hydrology, remote sensing, governance analysis, and community studies, and evaluates sustainable management responses. Chennai's recovery, including innovative blue-green infrastructure and revitalized water harvesting systems, offers practical models for global water resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 12","pages":"12-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"The Agentic Grid: The Next Evolution of Energy Infrastructure","authors":"Sandy K. Simon, Betsy Soehren Jones","doi":"10.1002/gas.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For over twenty years, the electric utility industry has pursued modernization under evolving banners: “Utility of the Future,” “Smart Grid,” “Grid Modernization,” and the “Energy Transition.” Each phase has advanced forms of digitization, automation, and data visibility across generation, transmission, and distribution systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 10","pages":"20-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148012096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Infrastructure Beneath Intelligence: Power, Policy, and Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Daxton Gilliam, Zach Mendelson, Casey Kubow","doi":"10.1002/gas.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/gas.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Late 2022 marked a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence (AI), as the public release of ChatGPT accelerated its transition from a research tool to a mainstream commercial application. Supporting this transition, a critical infrastructure—data centers—expanded rapidly. Built to train and deploy AI models, data centers are reshaping electricity demand. By 2023, they consumed more than 4 percent of US electricity, and their share is expected to grow significantly by 2028 as AI workloads increase.</p>","PeriodicalId":100259,"journal":{"name":"Climate and Energy","volume":"42 10","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148012094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}