Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The increase was a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity.
President Trump and power-hungry AI data centers are giving the country’s waning coal industry a boost.
Dozens of data centers abruptly dropped off the power grid in two recent instances in Virginia, forcing operators to take emergency action.
U.S. natural gas futures settled lower as the market looked beyond the wind and snow hitting the Northeast to warmer-than-normal weather forecasts moving into March.
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