⚡Energy

an easing but still loaded evening peak, a distribution network under a holiday rain shield, and a river that constrains fuel movement

Load is coming down and the risk is moving from generation to distribution. The South-Central evening peak still runs under an index near 108 °F even as the advisory footprint contracts to about 4, so the planning question shifts from scarcity to when to stand down a heat posture without standing it down early. In eastern Japan, the Monday rain window is a distribution and access problem — poles, substations and the crew routes to reach them on saturated slopes — rather than a wind-loading one. In southern Brazil gusts to 100 km/h with hail are a straightforward outage-and-restoration day. And the Rhine at Kaub at 21.0 cm keeps a barge-draft constraint on fuel and coal movement that no single weather event will lift.

carried on 43 of the last 66 editions — since Jul 5, the 10 most recent shown.