Last week, we told you that President Trump was monetizing access to the US consumer market. He did that again by resetting the US trade relationship with Japan. Japan has had trade barriers up for US goods for a long time, and are now potentially contesting the terms of the announced agreement. The terms may … Read more
Talen Energy ($TLN): Just a day ago, the White House announced plans to make Pittsburgh an AI hub with huge investments made in new datacenters. This morning, Talen Energy ($TLN) announced plans to purchase two gas plants for $3.5 billion. Not coincidentally, these plants are both located in the nearby Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland interconnection market. As … Read more
Good news on the tape. One reason Talen Energy ($TLN) stock price is up so much in the past year is a deal they did with Amazon to provide nuclear energy from its Susquehanna plant to Amazon’s nearby data center. This morning, the companies announced an expansion of that deal with Talen now supplying electricity … Read more
I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about nuclear power recently. There are billions of people around the world who want a higher material quality of life. That correlates almost 100% with higher energy usage. In the US, we want to electrify everything, but don’t have the energy infrastructure to support all the EVs environmentalists … Read more
