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• HHeatmap News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Aramco Suffers ‘Extensive Damage’ in Houthi Missile Strike on HQ

  Current conditions: Temperatures in Washington, D.C., are climbing up to the mid 80s Fahrenheit today before taking a double-digit plunge as cold air blows in this weekend • California’s biggest utility has warned of looming blackouts as the southern part of the state braces for a potential wildfire • Tropical Storm Trudy is strengthening in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico into what could become a major hurricane.

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• HHeatmap News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Electricity Prices Technically Dropped in September. Don’t Get Too Excited

  The national average retail price of electricity has fallen year over year from 20 cents per kilowatt-hour in September 2025 to 19.6 cents per kilowatt-hour in September of this year, or about 2%, according to the latest update to Heatmap and MIT’s Electricity Price Hub.

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• HHeatmap News2026-10-15✓ Read

  The October Surprise Is Fossil Fuels

  This is Heatmap Daily, an evening news digest written by our executive editor. Subscribe here. At this point, the real October surprise may be the lack of one — because little seems set to change in the U.S. energy economy between now and the midterm elections on November 3. Inflation certainly isn’t budging. Prices rose 3.7% over the past year, and 0.6% in September alone, according to today’s new government inflation report. That reading was hot — a tenth of a percent above what economists expected.

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• HHeatmap News2026-10-14✓ Read

  An Unexpected Beneficiary of the Permitting Bill: Mini Marine Power

  Tucked inside the Senate’s ambitious new permitting bill, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, is a major win for an energy technology that often flies under the radar: marine power. Small-scale wave, tidal, and river-current projects could help power everything from remote communities and military installations to ocean sensors and coastal desalination systems — at least in theory.

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• HHeatmap News2026-10-14✓ Read

  Trump Reopens the Fight Over Orsted’s Revolution Wind

  Current conditions: Hurricane Simon is lingering off Mexico’s coast as a new tropical depression that could form into a powerful storm begins gathering strength • Iceland has issued an orange-level warning — the notch just below the most severe — across the whole country ahead of an intense storm that could bring vicious winds and snow • The mountain areas surrounding Los Angeles are on red alert for wildfires throughout the rest of the week.

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• HHeatmap News2026-10-09✓ Read

  Hurricane Isaias Halts Two-Thirds of U.S. Gulf Oil Production

  Current conditions: Tropical Storm Simon is expected to intensify into a Category 4 storm as it tracks northeast into Mexico and Texas from the eastern Pacific • Further north in the Pacific, Tropical Storm Rachel is barreling toward Southern California and northern Mexico • Hurricane Isaias, the first major storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, is poised to make landfall as a Category 2 sometime between 8 p.m. ET and 1 a.m. and somewhere between Alabama’s Dauphin Island and Destin, Florida.

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• HHeatmap News2026-10-08✓ Read

  Big Tech’s Nuclear Hedge

  When America’s tech titans started plowing money into nuclear technology to power data centers in 2024, companies such as Google and Amazon opted to invest first in next-generation reactor startups. But electricity demand is soaring today, and those projects are still years away — at least — from generating power at reasonable commercial rates.

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• HHeatmap News2026-10-08✓ Read

  Exxon Mobil Eyes Its Next Offshore Oil Patch After Guyana: Trinidad and Tobago

  Current conditions: Singapore’s air is the worst in the world as wildfire smoke from Indonesia chokes the city state and neighboring Malaysia • Following a summer-like heat wave, temperatures in the American West are set to drop by as much as 50 degrees Fahrenheit as a cold snap moves in • In the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Isaias officially strengthened into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season this morning.

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