Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
Reporter, writer and analyst. I cover energy, climate change and geopolitics. Contact me via my website www.alexanderckaufman.com and subscribe to kaufman.nyc.
Happy Friday! Here's what's in your final Heatmap News AM for the week:
1. BYD is racing to secure at least 20 dealerships in Canada already.
2. The top U.S. electricity regulator dinged hyperscalers for not engaging enough with federal authorities on power demand.
3. The U.S. is taking a 20% stake in graphite mi...
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In today's Heatmap News AM:
1. Petrochemical prices are going vertical thanks to the war in Iran.
2. The EPA just gave the ethanol industry a win, while the Postal Service prepares to impose fuel surcharges akin to those FedEx and UPS charge.
3. India just set rather modest new clean energy targest.
4. Rio Tinto...
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We have another scoop in this morning's edition of Heatmap News AM:
1. Dominion Energy has started generating power from Virginia's largest offshore wind farm.
2. EXCLUSIVE: Applied Atomics just raised more than $8 million, increasing the startup's total haul for the year more than $12 million, per Katie Brigham's r...
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Here's what's in Tuesday's Heatmap News AM:
1. TotalEnergies takes up Trump's offer of $1 billion to kill off its offshore wind business.
2. The International Energy Agency (IEA)'s Fatih Birol warns that, even if the Iran war stopped overnight, it would take time to recover oil and gas production.
3. China just mad...
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It's Monday. Hope you're having a productive start to your week. Here's what's leading Heatmap News AM today:
1. Trump withdrew his bombastic threat to attack Iran's electrical infrastructure after saying on Saturday he would target the country's lone nuclear power station.
2. Japan is investing $40 billion in powe...
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Happy Friday! Here's what's in Heatmap News AM today:
1. Almost half of the country is suing the Trump administration to defend the endangerment finding.
2. An Interior official is working on an issue she recused herself from previously, Chris D'Angelo reports.
3. Uber bets big on Rivian, and Zenobē buys the elect...
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Here's what's in your Thursday edition of Heatmap News AM:
1. Bombs are falling near Iran's lone nuclear plant and on its gas fields.
2. Chinese automakers are set to start selling cars in Canada this year.
3. Ormat Technologies, Inc. and Fervo Energy just raised a combined $1.3 billion
4. Trump's Homeland Securi...
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I'm very proud to say this morning's edition of Heatmap News AM contains not one but *two* exclusives.
1. I got an exclusive look at a pro-geothermal bill Senators John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Steve Daines of Montana released.
2. I also got a big scoop from Oklo Inc: the company just received its first license ...
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My 11-month-old loves to eat. But never has she stuffed her face with such vigor as when I gave her Ramadan atayef for the first time this week. One of the great perks of being a Jewish-Puerto Rican girl growing up in an Arab neighborhood. Living up to expectations as a fifth-gen Brooklynite.
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Big scoop this morning: The Trump administration has held talks with Westinghouse's rivals to discuss potentially funding construction of large reactors *other than the AP1000*.
The move comes as the Energy Department grows frustrated that it hasn't reached a deal yet to fund another large reactor with a settled des...
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Here's what's in Thursday's Heatmap News AM:
1. Iran says it's going to send oil prices to $200 a barrel.
2. A super PAC backed by AI companies is the first big spender backing the Trump-endorsed Republican running for Marjorie Taylor Greene's old seat in Georgia.
3. Chile's new right-wing president heralds an ove...
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Sorry for neglecting to post the links to the last three Heatmap News AM editions. I have been busy! Here's what's in today's:
1. Westinghouse Electric Company just put out a new study by PwC showing that building 10 new AP1000s would net the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion.
2. The Energy Secretary's errant tweet...
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I was on NPR's 1A this morning talking about the Trump administration's push for more nuclear energy.
Thanks to host Jennifer White and producer Michael Falero for curating really nuanced and interesting listener viewpoints and asking such sharp questions. It was real honor to join Alan Neuhauser, whose reporting I re...
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Chile's outgoing leftist government is rushing out the country's latest hydrogen energy strategy before the new right-wing president takes power.
www.hydrogeninsight.com/policy/chile...
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