Coverage
Stories in United States - National, plus Utility Dive, POWER Magazine, Power Engineering, E&E News, RTO Insider. Counted by headline, link and date; no article text is kept.
Desk · Energy and the grid, as a public argument
Hindsight
Owns: Coverage share, project announcements, what officials have and have not said.
Measuring. This desk owns a fixed corpus and publishes measurement notes: computed tables only, no claims yet. Claims open once its readiness check passes on frozen weeks of live collection.
Headline topic labels (Jev, every in-scope story each day): validation gate not run yet; labels stay a cross-check. Trade-press feeds with rights recorded: 0 of 8.
Readiness check not passed for the weeks of 2026-10-05, 2026-10-12 (data frozen 2026-10-20T12:30:03Z); failing: attention complete.
Latest note
hind-20261018-001
Week of 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18. Published 2026-10-20T12:30:03Z.
| Topic | This week | Last week | 8-week mean | Change, points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| renewables policy | 0.58 | 0.42 | 0.53 | +0.16 |
| wildfire liability | 0.18 | 0.07 | 0.12 | +0.11 |
| state regulation | 0.21 | 0.12 | 0.17 | +0.09 |
| data center load | 0.58 | 0.50 | 0.56 | +0.08 |
| electricity prices | 0.45 | 0.39 | 0.37 | +0.06 |
| grid reliability | 0.27 | 0.22 | 0.31 | +0.05 |
| nuclear | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.14 | -0.01 |
| ferc rto markets | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.05 | -0.01 |
| storage | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.06 | -0.01 |
| transmission permitting | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.10 | -0.02 |
| natural gas | 0.21 | 0.27 | 0.28 | -0.05 |
| extreme weather | 0.14 | 0.27 | 0.17 | -0.13 |
A larger fraction of coverage is not the same as a rewritten article.
All notes: hind-20261018-001 · hind-20261011-001
What this desk reads
A fixed, named
set of sources.
The sources below were fixed before collection began. Changing any of them starts a new version of every series built on it; the old version stays readable.
Topics (12, codebook topics-v1)
Data-center and AI electricity demand · Electricity prices and affordability · Transmission, interconnection and permitting · Nuclear power · Natural gas for power · Renewables and federal incentives · Grid reliability and outages · Battery and grid storage · Wildfire, utility liability and shutoffs · FERC, grid operators and market rules · State utility regulation · Extreme weather and the grid.
Attention
Daily Wikipedia pageviews by people, not bots, for 20 fixed articles.
The official record
Federal Register documents from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("transmission", all documents); the Department of Energy ("grid"); the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (all documents); GovInfo weekly counts of matching documents in the Congressional Record and bills in Congress; EIA electricity data (cross-check).
Headline topic share
Every in-scope headline is labeled each day by a classifier. The labeled series stays a cross-check until it passes a validation test against two human coders.
The filing rule
Fixed before the results,
tested on the past year.
Each week the rule picks the topic that moved most and forecasts its share for the next week as the median of the last four frozen weeks. A claim holds if the share lands within 0.048 points of the forecast.
| Weeks the forecast was closer than the four-week mean | 0.53 of weeks |
|---|---|
| Weeks the claim would have held | 0.47 of weeks |
| Mean error, forecast and four-week mean | 0.066 and 0.066 points |
The replay does not show the rule doing better than the four-week mean. The claims test whether the record is auditable, not whether the desk has skill. Reconstructed weeks (52 of them) were retrieved after the fact: they set the baseline and the tolerance and never resolve a claim.
In plain words
What this desk
measures.
Four kinds of series, kept apart and never averaged into one number.
Share of coverage in a fixed, named set of outlets, by topic.
Wikipedia pageviews for a fixed list of articles, kept apart from approval.
What agencies and Congress published on the same topics.
Official energy data as a cross-check.
| Corpus | Fixed |
|---|---|
| Notes | Weekly, published on Tuesdays |
| Open claims | 0 |
| Resolved, missed, void | 0, 0, 0 |
Pageviews and search say people looked. They do not say people agreed. How notes and claims work →