Leonard Hyman

Policymakers can only optimize two of three goals—affordability, energy security, and sustainability—forcing compromises across all energy choices.

AI companies avoiding grid connections face higher costs and potential inefficiencies, but their absence may reduce electricity prices for regular consumers.

Policy uncertainty, global conflicts, and overreliance on just-in-time planning leave the power sector vulnerable to disruptions and potential future crises.

Rising nuclear costs, cheaper AI, and breakthrough solar tech are reshaping the energy landscape—quietly challenging existing power markets and pricing models.

Nuclear fusion may be closer to commercialization than previously thought, with private firms targeting operational reactors in the early 2030s.

Fusion firms are turning to SPACs for funding, using faster, less restrictive public-market routes to raise the massive capital needed for commercialization.

Analysts warn the industry is underestimating technological disruption, with utilities spending very little on R&D.

Greg Abel has replaced Warren Buffett as the head of Berkshire Hathaway. The company's annual meeting last week was the first one helmed by him.

Britain's light-touch utility regulation enabled companies like Thames Water to load up on debt, extract cash, and fail operationally while regulators failed to intervene effectively.

Today's massive gas plant buildout could eventually create stranded assets as renewables continue gaining market share and becoming the lowest-cost power source.