AI & editorial policy

Last updated: May 13, 2026.

Energy News is committed to transparency about how artificial intelligence is used in its newsroom.

What AI is used for

• Editorial monitoring: AI tools assist in scanning institutional sources, trade press and regulatory filings for relevant developments.
• First-draft generation: For factual briefings on routine developments, AI tools may produce a first draft based on cited primary sources.
• Translation: AI assists in adapting articles to additional languages, with human review before publication.

What AI is not used for

• Op-eds, interviews and pillar deep-dives are produced by named human authors with visible bios.
• AI is not used to fabricate quotes, sources or data points. Every cited number and quotation traces back to a named primary source.
• AI does not select sponsored content placements.

Human oversight

Every published article passes through editorial review. AI-assisted briefings carry the byline of Energy News Staff; long-form pieces carry named human authors.

Bot policy

We allow indexing by major AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, CCBot) because our content is intended to be discoverable through AI assistants. See our robots.txt for the current list.

Corrections

Errors are corrected promptly with a dated note appended to the article. See the editorial corrections page (forthcoming) for the full policy.