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Energy Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Wind Daily

A single wind turbine blade on the latest offshore machines sweeps an area larger than the London Eye with every rotation, and just one of these turbines can power roughly 20,000 European homes for a full year

A single blade on the newest generation of offshore wind turbines is longer than a football pitch, and its rotor sweeps a circle larger than the London Eye. One machine can power close to 20,000 European homes for a year — and the industry is already reaching for 25-megawatt giants.

Aug 28, 2026
Water World

The Three Gorges Dam holds back roughly 39 cubic kilometres of water on the Yangtze, and NASA calculated that shifting that much mass so far above sea level lengthened Earth’s day by 0.06 microseconds by nudging the planet’s moment of inertia

The Three Gorges Dam impounds roughly 39 cubic kilometres of Yangtze water at an average of 175 metres above sea level — enough mass, lifted high enough, to lengthen Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds by shifting the planet's moment of inertia.

Aug 23, 2026
Solar Science

The Parker Solar Probe now passes within 6.1 million kilometres of the Sun’s surface at roughly 692,000 kilometres per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, protected only by a 11.4-centimetre carbon composite shield that keeps its instruments at room temperature while the front face glows at 1,377 degrees Celsius

NASA's Parker Solar Probe now flies through the Sun's outer atmosphere at 692,000 km/h, protected by an 11.4-centimetre carbon shield that glows at 1,377°C while the instruments behind it sit at room temperature.

Aug 19, 2026
Energy Tech

In 1954, engineers at the Obninsk plant southwest of Moscow connected a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor to the Soviet grid and became the first station anywhere to sell nuclear electricity to paying customers, nearly three years before the West managed the same feat at Calder Hall.

On 27 June 1954, a 5-megawatt graphite-moderated reactor near Moscow became the first anywhere to sell nuclear electricity commercially — beating Britain's Calder Hall by nearly three years and starting a lineage that runs directly to today's VVER-1200 reactors being built in seven countries.

Aug 18, 2026
Oil and Gas

A pumped-hydro station in Wales moves 7.2 million cubic metres of water up a mountain at night and releases it through six turbines in the morning, delivering roughly 1,728 megawatts to the grid within 12 seconds of the operator pressing the start button

Buried inside a Welsh mountain, the Dinorwig pumped storage station uses six reversible turbines and a reservoir near the summit of Elidir Fawr to swing more than a gigawatt of electricity onto the British grid in seconds — the fastest-responding power plant in the country, and a template for the pumped hydro revival now underway from Gwynedd to New South Wales.

Aug 16, 2026
Oil and Gas

In 1901, workers at Spindletop in Texas struck oil at roughly 340 metres and could not cap the well for nine days as it spewed an estimated 100,000 barrels a day, more than every other producing well in the United States combined, and helped launch the age of cheap petroleum

On January 10, 1901, the Lucas well at Spindletop erupted with an estimated 100,000 barrels a day — more than every other producing well in the United States combined — and collapsed the price of crude by 87 percent, ending the whale-oil economy in a matter of months.

Aug 14, 2026
Oil and Gas

Nikola Tesla demonstrated alternating current at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair by lighting 200,000 incandescent bulbs from a single Westinghouse generator, undercutting Edison’s DC bid by roughly half and effectively deciding which current would carry electricity into every home on the planet for the next 130 years.

On May 1, 1893, Westinghouse and Tesla lit 200,000 bulbs across the Chicago World's Fair with a single AC generating plant, winning the bid against Edison's DC by roughly half the price and settling the standard that still powers every wall socket in the world.

Aug 9, 2026
Space Travel

In 1962, NASA’s Mariner 1 probe to Venus veered off course and had to be destroyed 293 seconds after launch, and the postmortem traced the failure to a single missing overbar in the guidance code — one hyphen-sized mark that cost roughly $18 million in 1962 dollars.

On July 22, 1962, NASA's Mariner 1 Venus probe was destroyed 293 seconds after liftoff when a missing overbar in the guidance code caused an Atlas rocket to steer itself off course. The mark that would have prevented the failure was the width of a hyphen — and its absence cost roughly $18.5 million in 1962 dollars.

Aug 6, 2026
Oil and Gas

Titan’s atmosphere is roughly four times denser than Earth’s while its gravity is only one-seventh as strong, which means a human standing on Saturn’s largest moon could strap wings to their arms and, in principle, take off under their own muscle power

Titan's air is four times denser than Earth's and its gravity is one-seventh as strong — a combination so generous to flight that NASA is sending a nuclear-powered octocopter to fly across it, and physics says a human in wings could, in principle, do the same.

Aug 5, 2026
Oil and Gas

A fossil bed in North Dakota preserves fish with Chicxulub impact glass trapped in their gills, evidence they were alive as asteroid debris fell 3,000 kilometres from the crater during the first hour or two after the strike that ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs

At the Tanis fossil bed in North Dakota, sturgeon and paddlefish have been found with glass spherules from the Chicxulub impact lodged inside their gills — evidence that the animals were breathing in ejecta from an asteroid strike 3,000 kilometres away, within roughly an hour of the moment the dinosaurs' world ended.

Aug 3, 2026
Oil and Gas

In 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling exposed a hydrated DNA fibre to X-rays for 62 hours, producing Photo 51: the pattern that helped Watson and Crick build the correct double-helix model months later

In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling exposed a single hydrated DNA fibre to an X-ray beam for 62 hours in a basement at King's College London. The resulting Photo 51 showed the helix so clearly that its geometry could be read straight off the plate — months before Watson and Crick built their model.

Jul 30, 2026