** Connecticut’s top utility regulator announces her resignation after months of dealing with accusations from Republican legislators and utilities that she was too controlling and responsible for rising power prices in the state.
** North Dakota’s attorney general considers legal options the state might have against South Dakota for banning the use of eminent domain for carbon pipelines, which he calls a “hostile act” that impedes interstate commerce.
** Ikea launches a pilot to convert food waste into renewable natural gas and low-carbon fertilizer, including at a Connecticut and a Massachusetts location.
** Spanish energy company Repsol SA begins commercial operations at a 629 MW solar farm in Texas.
** Louisiana regulators consider eight pending applications for carbon storage test wells, with 22 already issued and 33 applications under review for injection and long-term storage wells.
** Illinois lawmakers may revisit an energy package this fall that includes a proposal to add a battery storage surcharge on utility bills that would give developers financial guarantees they can leverage for private investment.
World
** As the United States is pressuring Europe to cut off energy revenues for Russia, the European Union took a step to bring forward a ban on imports of Russian LNG a year earlier than planned. The European Commission proposed its 19th sanctions package against Russia over its war in Ukraine.
** Investors punished German sports car brand Porsche on this week after the firm, caught between its iconic gas guzzlers and a shift to electric vehicles, warned that its profits this year would be hurt by delays in its EV roll-out.
** Saudi Aramco has announced the completion of a $3 billion international Sukuk issuance. The transaction, which was priced on September 10, 2025, consists of two tranches and was listed on the London Stock Exchange. The issuance was divided into two equal tranches of $1.5 billion each.
** Oil production capacity in Kuwait has hit a more than decade high of 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd), Tareq Al-Roumi, the Oil Minister of one of OPEC’s top producers, told local newspaper Al Qabas.