Energy Policy · Grid Operations · Upstream Markets · Federal Regulation
Chronicle publishes the energy analysis that utility boards read before they vote, that traders read before they size, and that policy teams read before they testify.
The energy beat is not underserved. It is mis-served. There is a difference — and that difference costs readers money, costs policy teams credibility, and costs the grid resilience it cannot afford to lose.
"The story is always in the docket, the interconnection queue, or the ISO settlement data. Not in the press release."
— Chronicle Editorial Standards, 2021Report FERC dockets 48 hours after the trading window closes. By the time Reuters files, the spread has already moved.
Ad-dependent on the same utilities they're supposed to investigate. The critical infrastructure piece never runs. The sponsored content does.
Covers energy as a commodity play, not as physical infrastructure. Misses the engineering constraints that determine whether a trade makes sense.
Rigorous but six months late, written for other academics, and missing the operational context that practitioners need to act on.
Every Chronicle reporter has stood on a drilling platform, sat through a rate case, or modeled a capacity market. We don't explain what FERC did. We explain what it means for the dispatch stack on a 95°F July afternoon.
FOIA Requests Filed
FERC Proceedings Covered Live
Investigative Series Published
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Chronicle's editorial team comes from the field, not the press pool. Before they filed copy, they filed permits, modeled interconnection queues, and sat in depositions. The reporting reflects that.
Former NERC reliability coordinator. Covered the 2021 Texas freeze from inside the ERCOT control room before the state knew what was happening.
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ISO/RTO Operations · Transmission Planning · Reliability Standards
Stories That Moved the Market
Covered FERC for seven years from inside the building. Has read more Order 1000 compliance filings than any human should.
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FERC · DOE · Congressional Energy Committees
Stories That Moved the Market
Petroleum engineer turned journalist. Reads well logs for fun. Broke the Permian flaring story that triggered an EPA inquiry.
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Oil & Gas · LNG Markets · Midstream Infrastructure
Stories That Moved the Market
The reporting process at Chronicle is not a workflow. It's a discipline. Each step exists because a previous story taught us what happens when you skip it.
Every story begins with a regulatory signal: a docket filing, an interconnection study, a tariff revision. Chronicle monitors 14 ISO/RTO public dockets and three federal agency feeds in real time.
ISO/RTO dockets · FERC eFiling · EIA data releases · State PUC filings
Before a reporter writes a sentence, they've requested the underlying data. Chronicle has 340+ active FOIA requests across DOE, EPA, and five federal agencies. When the documents arrive, they're read by someone who understands what they mean.
DOE · EPA · FERC · PHMSA · Army Corps of Engineers
The numbers get stress-tested by practitioners. Chronicle's editorial board includes a former NERC reliability coordinator, a capacity market economist, and two petroleum engineers. If the analysis doesn't survive their review, it doesn't publish.
Engineering review · Economic modeling · Legal verification
Every investigative piece goes through a red-team review: a reporter assigned to find the holes. This is how we caught the error in the ERCOT reserve margin calculation before we published it — not after.
Internal red-team · External expert challenge · Legal review
Publication is not the end of the story. Chronicle tracks how regulators, utilities, and legislators respond to reported findings. Three of our investigative series have been cited in formal FERC proceedings.
Regulatory tracking · Legislative monitoring · Reader advisory updates
"Three Chronicle investigative series have been cited in formal FERC proceedings. One triggered a DOE data disclosure request. The process is why."
— Chronicle Impact Report, Q4 2025Five questions. Each one demonstrates that Chronicle understands your world before asking for your email address.
Your beat determines which signals matter most.
