U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 0.9 million barrels from the previous week to 433.1 million barrels.

FERC's latest monthly "Energy Infrastructure Update" report (with data through September 30, 2021) reveals that renewable energy sources accounted for 87.61% - or 16,665 megawatts (MW) - of the 19,022 MW of new capacity added during the first nine months of the year.

Natural gas prices also had an impact on November's power prices. At the Houston Ship Channel, spot gas this November has averaged $4.788/MMBtu, down from October's $5.29/MMBtu but up from November 2020's $2.597/MMBtu.

US support for nuclear energy has grown 10 percentage points from 2018 to 2021, with 59% overall now saying they are strongly or somewhat in support.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 1.0 million barrels from the previous week to 434.0 million barrels.

U.S. Rig Count is up 6 from last week to 569, Canada Rig Count is up 4 from last week to 171.

China, India, Japan, South Korea and the UK will join the US in releasing strategic oil stocks, the White House said, without giving further details.

In September a suite of deals between Ukraine and the USA specified that five new reactors could be built "using AP1000 technology".

The FSP project is sponsored by NASA in collaboration with the Department of Energy (DOE) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to establish a durable, high-power, sun-independent power source for NASA missions on the moon by the end of the decade, as well as potential subsequent missions.

In February 2020, NuScale Power and Ukraine's State Scientific and Technical Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SSTC NRS) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to start work on the evaluation of national regulatory and design processes related to the implementation of NuScale SMR technology in Ukraine.