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• Winter Storm Fern Poses Nationwide Energy Test

  27-01-2026 08:54 via industrialinfo.com
  January 27, 2026--Written by Aaron Studwell for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)--Winter Storm Fern's impacts have been dominated by two things: the scale of the power disruptions and the way cold air behind the storm was slowing recovery. By Sunday afternoon, multiple media reports citing PowerOutage.us indicated roughly one million customers were left without power across a wide swath of the South and East, with Tennessee among the hardest hit states.
  
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• Coal Use by U.S. Power Plants: Winning a Battle but Still Losing the War?

  27-01-2026 08:50 via industrialinfo.com
  January 27, 2026--Written by John Egan for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) most recent Electric Power Monthly report contained good news for coal producers: During the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, coal was used to generate more electricity when compared with the Biden years.For the January-October 2025 period, the EIA said, about 616,331 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity was generated from coal by utility-scal
  
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• Petrobras Runs Higher Refining Rates, Downstream Plans Emerge

  27-01-2026 08:45 via industrialinfo.com
  January 27, 2026--Written by Amir Richani for IIR News Intelligence (Sugar Land, Texas)--Petrobras maintained a refinery utilization rate of 92% between 2023 and 2025, compared with 88% in 2022. At the same time, the company increased its fuel production 3%, with a clear focus on S-10 diesel, in line with its strategic plan.This improved refining performance is closely linked to increased efficiency, optimizations and investments to modernize downstream infrastructure.
  
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• U.S. Taking More Canadian Gas Amid Cold Snap

  27-01-2026 08:40 via industrialinfo.com
  With more than half of the United States under some form of winter weather advisory, data from IIR Energy show Canadian gas imports are near record highs and helping to address the surge in demand."Winter Storm Ferm is in full swing, driving significant volatility in the natural gas market over the weekend," Maria Sanchez, a senior natural gas analyst at IIR Energy, wrote in the NATGAS Today report for Monday. "Arctic temperatures are pressuring supply through widespread freeze-offs while sharpl
  
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• Offline U.S. Oil Production, EU's Russian Gas Ban, Russian LNG Delivery: Your Daily Energy News

  27-01-2026 08:35 via industrialinfo.com
  We have handpicked and summarized a selection of energy-related news stories that we think will interest clients of Industrial Info and IIR Energy.
  
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• Ireland Clears Way for Energy-Intensive Investment

  27-01-2026 08:11 via industrialinfo.com
  January 27, 2026--Written by Martin Lynch for Industrial Info Resources (Galway, Ireland, Texas)--The Irish government has approved a new energy plan to boost investment in energy intensive facilities including data centers, life sciences, semiconductors and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Large Energy Action Plan (LEAP) comes just a month after the lifting of an effective moratorium on new data center connections which had been in place since 2021 due to energy concerns.
  
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