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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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  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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  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 News2026-10-13✓ Read

  Is Trump Trying to Blow Up the Permitting Deal?

  This is Heatmap Daily, an evening news digest written by our executive editor. Subscribe here. At the end of the day, the biggest threat to the bipartisan permitting deal probably isn’t green groups, the fossil fuel industry, or monopoly utilities. It’s President Trump himself. The legislative proposal is meant to constrain the president from tampering with clean energy projects — and if it passes, then some of its provisions seem like they could do so. But in order for it to pass, Trump must adhere to the deal that he brokered with the bill’

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  How to Sue an Energy Project After the Permitting Bill

  A bipartisan group of senators proposed major reforms to the country’s environmental laws last month in an effort to speed up the federal approval process for energy projects of all kinds. If it passes, one of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act’s biggest changes would be transforming the U.S. court system’s role in federal environmental reviews.

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  TotalEnergies Buys a Bunch of U.S. Solar After Axing Offshore Wind

  Current conditions: New York City’s temperature is set to rise as high as 80 degrees Fahrenheit this week before plunging as the coldest weather so far this season blows into the Northeast • Temperatures in Denver have been above 80 degrees for the past 11 days straight • Nearly 200,000 households, mostly in Florida, are still without electricity after Hurricane Isaias.

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  The Wrong Kind of Abundance?

  This is Heatmap Daily, an evening news digest written by our executive editor. Subscribe here. Happy Monday and welcome back. It’s been a big weekend: I’m fairly certain Saturday Night Live mentioned Heatmap’s data center polling in one of its Weekend Update segments over the weekend. Watch here. There are 22 days to the midterm elections here in the United States. We’ll soon enter that pre-election wormhole where only national politics can break through.

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• HHeatmapHeatmap News2026-10-12✓ Read

  How the Godzilla El Niño Will Drench California

  California has around 3,400 miles of shoreline, ranging from the wild, foggy beaches of the North Coast to the sunbather-studded sands of Orange and San Diego counties. That’s a whole lot of border to share with the Pacific Ocean, especially when the water is as hot and tempestuous a neighbor as it is right now.

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• HHeatmapHeatmap News2026-10-12✓ Read

  A Trio of Powerful Storms Slam into North America

  Current conditions: Japan is bracing for two major storms as Typhoon Nolo and the newly formed Typhoon Koguma barrel toward the country • A brief heat wave in Chicago is driving temperatures up past 85 degrees Fahrenheit today • It’s a sunny day in San Salvador Island, where the Genoan explorer Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas exactly 534 years ago today, when the indigenous Lucayan people called the smallest inhabited part of the Bahamas “Guanahani.”

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  Jared Huffman Wants to See Some Changes to the Senate’s Permitting Bill

  The California Democrat and current ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee is suspicious of all the “now or never.”

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