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• Storms left thousands without electrical power in central Oklahoma
  Monday afternoon thunderstorms that brought heavy rainfall to some areas of the state resulted...
  Monday afternoon thunderstorms that brought heavy rainfall to some areas of the state resulted in at least 9,000 customers of Oklahoma Gas and Electric being without power late in the day.
  
  OG&E reported late Monday that prior to the arrival of the downpours of rain and heavy lightning, the utility had about 500 customers still without power due to Sunday night’s severe weather.  
  
  The 9,000 customers were mostly those living in the Oklahoma City metro area. ~Story from OK Energy Today
  
   
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• Russia Oil Output Exceeds Expectation, But Pressure Looms, IEA Chief Says
  Russia’s oil output has exceeded expectations in the wake of the war in Ukraine but Moscow will find...
  Russia’s oil output has exceeded expectations in the wake of the war in Ukraine but Moscow will find it increasingly difficult to uphold production as Western sanctions begin to bite, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Aug. 29.
  
  “In the absence of [western] companies, in the absence of the technology providers, in the absence of service companies, it will be much harder for Russia to maintain the production,” IEA chief Fatih Birol told Reuters.
  
  Russian domestic demand has so far remained robust, and the country also offers large discounts to non-European buyers, Birol said on the sidelines of a conference in Stavanger in southern Norway.
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• ☕️What Else is Brewing This Tuesday Morning
  Serena Williams won her opening match at the US Open with literally every celebrity in the world in attendance.
  
  Elon Musk’s lawyers subpoenaed Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former security boss. They’re hoping he can help Musk wriggle out of buying Twitter.
  
  Honda and LG Energy Solution are investing $4.4 billion in an EV battery plant in the US.
  
  The US government will no longer offer free Covid tests as of Friday, blaming Congress for failing to provide sufficient funding.
  
  
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• NASA will have to try again
  NASA ...
  NASA called off the launch of its moon-bound Space Launch System rocket after discovering that one of the four engines on the rocket wasn’t cooling down to the right temperature. We had similar problems at work yesterday, too. The next launch window is slated for this Friday at 12:48pm ET in Cape Canaveral, but there’s still a lot of work to be done to fix the problem.
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• Nuclear is back
  France and Belgium have both moved to keep nuclear reactors open past their operating licenses, and...
  France and Belgium have both moved to keep nuclear reactors open past their operating licenses, and in a major U-turn, Japan is considering building new reactors and restarting ones that had been shuttered following the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The UK, the Czech Republic, and Poland all have plans to build new reactors in the coming years. France has proposed building 14.
  
  So, what’s behind the return to nuclear energy? A lot of it comes back to the war in Ukraine. Western countries trying to cut themselves off from Russian oil and gas have sent energy prices soaring to crisis levels, causing them to take a second look at nuclear. The efficiency of nuclear power is also enticing for countries looking to meet UN emissions targets.
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