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Central Bankers Need to Take Note of Transition to Clean Energy
The path from traditional energy sources to alternative sources with lower greenhouse gas emissions—including renewable energy, and carbon capture and storage—is long and paved with abundant uncertainty.
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Harvesting the Wind: Oklahoma’s Strong Electricity Growth Has Few Agricultural Tradeoffs
This edition of Oklahoma Economist examines where electricity is generated within the state, its effect on agricultural land, and what may lie ahead.
Texas electrical grid remains vulnerable to extreme weather events
New regulations, weatherization standards and operational changes have addressed many shortcomings, but some critical gaps persist.
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Recent Innovations in Reducing Home Energy Costs and Improving Resilience for Low- and Moderate-Income Renters and Homeowners
Community Development (CD) practitioners across the western U.S. are engaging in new efforts to reduce energy costs and improve resilience for low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities and other populations that face barriers to economic participation and household financial stability. Energy costs and resilience are factors in housing stability, which impacts economic participation. New federal and state funding sources, as well as growing involvement from philanthropy and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)-motivated investors, have prompted growth in energy cost savings and resilience (ECSR) ...
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Powering Up: The Surging Demand for Electricity
After years of stagnant growth, U.S. electricity demand recently surged. This increase was driven in part bythe commercial sector, particularly the rapid expansion of data centers and the adoption of artificialintelligence. The surge is expected to continue, signaling a shift toward a more electrified economy, withsignificant implications for economic competitiveness and energy infrastructure.
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President's perspective
Mexico's long-awaited energy reform should, if carefaully and deliberately implemented, increase oil and gas production and reverse a nine-year trend of declining output.
Automakers' Bold Plans for Electric Vehicles Spur Battery Boom
Meeting ambitious manufacturing goals will require batteries—lots of them—as an electric vehicle (EV) can use hundreds to thousands of individual lithium-ion batteries.
Rig count no longer a reliable bellwether for risk in oil and gas services lending
For decades, commercial lenders relied on a simple rule when evaluating credit risk in oil and gas support services: follow the U.S. rig count. But a portfolio classification of oil and gas support services now encompasses businesses with radically different risk profiles.
Hormuz closure offsets tariff reversal; U.S. left with upside inflation risk
A pair of important and opposing trade shocks hit the U.S. economy during the first quarter of 2026. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a portion of the tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The decision on Feb. 20 lowered average U.S. import tariffs by roughly 4.8 percentage points.
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Texas to get new type of refinery: a lithium refinery
Tesla is developing the facility near Corpus Christi to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide, a lithium chemical used in the high-performance lithium-ion batteries that companies such as Tesla prefer.