Demand and Disruption: Energy Industry Insights 2026 Main Report

DNV’s Energy Industry Insights report, now in its 16th year, explores the confidence, sentiment, and priorities for the energy industry in the year ahead.

The report draws on our annual survey of more than 1,000 senior professionals and a programme of in-depth interviews with leaders and experts from the energy industry. It is developed and created
by teams from DNV and FT Longitude (a Financial Times company). Research for the report was conducted during January – March 2026. Survey respondents were drawn from across the energy industry, including publicly listed companies and privately held firms, and spanned electrical power, renewables, …

OurEnergyPolicy Event Summary- Advanced Nuclear: Separating Fact from Fiction

The following event summary supplies latest discussion on the evolutions of advanced nuclear technology and further developments in this space both nationally and internationally.…

Monthly Oil & Gas Data Review (April 2026)

Summary findings from the latest JODI oil & gas databases update for April 2026.…

Bridging the Gap: Powering Economic Growth Through Clean Energy

As U.S. electricity demand rises at its fastest pace in decades, the implications for financing, M&A, and capital allocation are profound. CG/ CRC-IB examines how market participants are adapting capital structures to address these evolving dynamics as data centers and industrial electrification drive record load growth.…

The Federal Authority to License Small Modular Reactors

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As interest in advanced nuclear technologies grows, understanding the legal regime underpinning the deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs) is critical. This report describes the legal and factual background behind the regulation of SMRs and explores a recent challenge to the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to license these reactors. At the heart of the litigation is whether SMRs qualify as “utilization facilities” under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 — a question that determines whether the NRC has the authority to license them at all.

The report explains that the NRC acted reasonably in labeling …

A Community Guide to Regulatory Barriers Affecting Microgrids (Reports 1-3)

In response to growing risks of power outages from extreme weather and aging infrastructure, communities are increasingly exploring the potential of microgrids to provide reliable energy access. Microgrids offer promising solutions to meet this challenge but face a complex landscape of non-technical barriers, particularly regulations concerning the provision and distribution of energy. Most existing legal and regulatory frameworks were designed for a centralized, one-way power system, and are often poorly suited to handle systems that independently balance distributed energy resources with local load.…

The Kenzi Apartments: Resilient Solar+Storage for Low-Income Seniors in Boston

Power outages can be life-threatening for people whose access to electricity is a medical necessity. Elevators, refrigeration for food and medication, lighting, outlets for charging cell phones or medical equipment, heating and cooling systems—all of these services are essential for medically vulnerable people.

Seniors can be particularly at risk during power outages due to increased medical and mobility needs. If there is no backup power in an electricity-dependent senior resident’s home, they may have to relocate to another facility for their medical and mobility needs, which is even more difficult when facing limited mobility or inclement weather.

This case study …

Characterizing Electrical Panel Capacity, Breaker Space, and Loads in U.S. Single-Family Homes

In this paper published the the Journal of Building Engineering, we provide foundational estimates of the electric infrastructure of single-family homes in the U.S. We provide nation-wide estimates of electricity panel capacity, available breaker space, and the headroom available in the panels. These estimates are important for determining the costs and grid impacts of adding new loads to single-family homes, and for grid planning and operations to ensure an affordable, safe, and reliable grid.

We estimate existing panel capacity and breaker space by applying predictive models trained on field data to a representative database of homes (ResStock). We estimate that …

A Dual-Cathode Zinc-Ethylene Glycol/Air Battery for Concurrent Electricity Generation and Plastic Waste Upcycling

Conventional rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) face two critical challenges: (1) slow kinetics of the oxygen reduction (ORR) and oxygen evolution (OER) reactions; and (2) the thermodynamic incompatibility of OER and ORR occurring concurrently on a single air cathode. To address these limitations, we propose in this study a dual-cathode zinc-ethylene glycol/air battery (D-ZEAB) that spatially decouples ORR and the ethylene glycol oxidation reaction (EGOR) onto separate cathodes, enabling concurrent electricity generation and electroreforming of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic waste into high-value C2 chemicals. Furthermore, we develop a bifunctional catalyst composed of defect-rich subnanometer-thick PdCuCo trimetallenes to enhance both EGOR and …

Recycling Fossil Infrastructure for Cleaner Energy Transitions

The climate crisis mandates building renewable energy infrastructure faster, increasing the demand for primary materials with large environmental footprints. Sourcing these materials from urban mines can mitigate such impacts, but the potential of recycling depends on waste availability. Here, we use life cycle assessment and monetization of impacts to explore the environmental implications of recycling fossil infrastructure that may become obsolete during the transition. We find that among many materials in fossil infrastructure, recycling steel and copper is particularly appealing, as their stocks (1.34 gigatons and 10.03 megatons) align with the projected energy transition demands (145% and 32% of median …