Infrastructure

What’s in the Price of a Gallon of Gas?

With April's average gasoline price the highest monthly average in the past year, we break down what drives the cost for consumers. In short, it's four things: the cost of crude oil, refining, distribution and marketing, and taxes.

May 01, 2026

About Bad Bunny And Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid

During the Super Bowl LX halftime show, Bad Bunny included a segment dramatizing Puerto Rico’s struggle to generate and transmit electrical power.

Feb 12, 2026

China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Breaks Nuclear Fusion Limit Thought to Be Impossible

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have made a fusion energy breakthrough with its experimental “artificial Sun” nuclear reactor, achieving a plasma density previously thought impossible.

Jan 12, 2026

Space-Based US Solar Firm Breaks World Record for Beaming Wireless Electricity

A US company named Star Catcher announced it has wirelessly beamed 1.1 kilowatts of electricity from space to NASA Kennedy Space Center. The previous record was 800 watts. The nascent technology could one day provide solar energy to Earth and make space-based solar power possible.

Nov 25, 2025

Rising Demand Means We Need More Natural Gas Storage

AI data centers are boosting electricity demand, which is creating a need to rapidly expand America’s generation and transmission network. One aspect of that infrastructure buildout that shouldn’t be overlooked: natural gas storage. Speaking at the LDC NatGas to Power Forum, NRG Energy’s Robert Gaudette said that over the next five years, the U.S. needs to add new natural gas storage equivalent to the storage capacity built over the past 150 years.

Nov 20, 2025