What's New
Recent updates to The Daily Mine
February 4, 2026 (Evening)
Three Major New Tools NEW
- Live Electricity Prices (retired) — Real-time wholesale electricity prices across all 7 US RTOs with price spike alerts
- Interactive Outage Map (retired) — Live US map showing power outages by state with DOE/ODIN data, updated every 15 minutes
- Energy Trends & Charts — Historical data visualization: demand trends, generation mix, renewable growth, data center load projections
- Tools Hub expanded — Added 4 new featured tools to the Tools page, updated stats and coming soon section
- ERCOT Dashboard (retired) — Deep-dive Texas grid page with live data, generation mix, demand charts, and news
- PJM Dashboard (retired) — America's largest grid dashboard with data center growth tracking
- RTO Hub (retired) — Former index page for RTO deep-dive dashboards
- Newsletter Archive — Browse past editions of The Daily Mine
February 4, 2026
New Content & Accuracy Fixes NEW
- About the Data page — New transparency page explaining data sources, update frequencies, and curation methodology
- New tagline — "Energy news with the No spin" replaces old tagline across 58 pages
- Nuclear page accuracy fixes — Updated Amazon/Susquehanna deal (1,920 MW front-of-meter PPA), TMI capacity (835 MW), reactor timeline clarification
- Data center page updates — Softened NoVA traffic claim, added dates to queue statistics
- DOE Loans page — Added Greg Beard as new LPO director (announced Feb 3)
- Improved crosslinks — Added outages/dashboard links to grid reliability, DOE loans link to nuclear page
- Bug fixes — Fixed 6 broken story links, meta tag formatting on 20 pages, founding date correction
February 3, 2026
New Features NEW
- Homepage auto-refresh — Pulls fresh stories every 6 hours automatically
- 7 category RSS feeds — Nuclear, power, datacenters, mining, renewables, grid, and policy
- Service worker — Full offline support with cached pages
- Link prefetching — Instant navigation on hub pages
- Breadcrumb navigation — Added across 131 pages for better wayfinding
- Internal cross-linking — "See Also" sections on 107 pages
- Custom analytics events — Plausible tracking for key user interactions
February 3, 2026
Infrastructure IMPROVED
- Health monitoring — Automated checks every 30 minutes
- Data resilience — Stale data warnings, fallback data, and retry logic
- Security hardening — HSTS, Content Security Policy, Permissions-Policy headers
- Caddy access logging — Full request logging for debugging and analytics
- Automated backups — Scheduled backup script for site data
- Smart caching — Cache rules tuned by file type for optimal performance
- Deploy scripts — Full, quick, and data-only deployment modes
February 3, 2026
Design & UX IMPROVED
- Mobile responsive — Layout fixes across all pages
- Print stylesheet — Clean printable versions of every page
- Custom 500 error page — Friendly error page with auto-retry
- 8 OG social preview images — Custom images for major sections
- Complete favicon set — Favicon, touch icons, manifest, and browserconfig
- Extensionless URLs — Clean URLs without .html extensions
February 3, 2026
Accessibility IMPROVED
- WCAG AA contrast — All text meets contrast compliance standards
- ARIA labels & live regions — Screen reader support throughout
- Skip navigation — Jump-to-content links on every page
- Keyboard focus styles — Visible focus indicators for keyboard users
- Reduced motion — Respects prefers-reduced-motion setting
February 3, 2026
SEO DATA
- Schema.org JSON-LD — Structured data on 54 pages
- Twitter Cards — Rich previews on 198 pages
- Canonical URLs — Set on all 200 pages
- Complete OG tags — Open Graph metadata site-wide
- Sitemap expanded — Grew from 89 to 155 URLs
- Google Search Console — Verified and submission-ready
February 3, 2026
Content DATA
- 23 fresh stories — Added across categories
- Newsletter workflow — Template and generation pipeline via SendGrid
- Social content drafts — LinkedIn and Twitter promotion copy
February 2, 2026
Major Feature Update NEW
- Keyboard shortcuts — Press K or / to open command palette
- Reading list — Save stories for later with button
- ↗ Share buttons — Share stories to Twitter, LinkedIn, or copy link
- Email alerts — Subscribe to topic and state-specific alerts
- Data exports — Download energy data as CSV or JSON
February 2, 2026
Performance & Visuals IMPROVED
- Dashboard charts — Interactive generation mix and RTO demand charts
- State map — Color by stories, electricity price, or generation
- Faster loading — Added caching, compression, preconnect hints
February 2, 2026
50-State Archive Complete DATA
- 781 stories across all 50 states
- EIA energy profiles — Electricity prices, generation, emissions for every state
- Grid operator coverage — ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, SPP
February 1, 2026
Energy Dashboard NEW
- Real-time grid demand from 7 major RTOs
- State electricity price rankings
- Fuel price tracking (gas, coal, oil, uranium)
January 2026
Site Launch NEW
- The Daily Mine launches
- Energy news from Tier 1/2 sources
- Full-text search across archives
- Company tracking (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, utilities)
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