Today’s headlines: Energy costs drive up inflation, wind shows up in New England, and more

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FOSSIL FUELS

• President Donald Trump and Taiwan say the country has committed to purchasing billions of dollars worth of LNG from a proposed Alaska pipeline, even though funding for the project is still in flux. (Politico, Associated Press)

• Russia’s diesel exports have fallen dramatically amid the war in Iran, casting doubt on the viability of Trump’s plan to buy fuel from the country. (New York Times)

• While clean energy continues to dominate U.S. power sector construction, natural gas deployment is accelerating thanks to data center and other large load growth, an Environmental Defense Fund report finds. (Utility Dive)

ECONOMY

• Rising energy prices drove American inflation rates even higher in September, the Labor Department says. (Axios)

WIND

• Over the first nine months of 2026, monthly wind power generation in ISO-New England was, on average, 68% higher compared to the same period in 2025. (Energy Information Administration)

HEAT PUMPS

• A new RMI report finds there’s enough spare capacity on the grid during winter months to allow three-quarters of U.S. homes to install heat pumps and use them to stay warm. (Grist)

POLITICS

• Clean energy-minded House Democrats say the Trump administration’s move to reevaluate Revolution Wind’s permits threatens to derail the permitting bill, even though the legislation includes provisions to prevent similar permit rollbacks from happening in the future. (Punchbowl News)

GRID

• Utilizing residential virtual power plants could allow utilities to slash the average household’s bill increase in half over the next five years, a Brattle Group report finds. (Axios)

NUCLEAR

• The DOE approves cost-sharing funding to speed construction of a molten chloride nuclear reactor being built by Southern Co., Idaho National Laboratory, and CORE Power. (news release)