On Sunday, Virginia-based utility Dominion Energy Inc announced plans to sell almost all of its natural gas pipeline and storage assets to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc for $4 billion. At the same time, the Virginia-based utility said that it’s killing the Atlantic Coast gas pipeline…

For nearly seven decades, oil major BP has published an annual statistical review of world energy. It includes a wealth of data on what energy the world produces, along with how and where society consumes that energy. The long history of the dataset highlights key inflection points, like the growth…

The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority has begun its latest stress test for general and life insurers. This biennial exercise tests the insurance industry’s market resilience to physical events of the sort that have garnered a lot of media coverage in recent years: hurricanes,…

More than 1.3 million people died in road-traffic accidents in 2016, an all-time high, according to the World Health Organization. A world with more people and more cars means more death on the world’s roads. Those deaths, though, are not evenly distributed. “Road traffic injuries are now the…

The grid operator that delivers power to most of Texas set an all-time peak electricity demand record this week for the month of May. Hot weather, a healthy economy and a growing population have all given Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc. reason to expect record-breaking summer usage. …

Among the revelations in OPEC's just published World Oil Outlook -- including, as Gadfly’s Liam Denning has explained, long-term demand for oil and shale production -- is a notable change in the cartel's assumptions about passenger cars. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries expects 137…