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It's fascinating to identify the attitude of each energy consumer—corporate or institutional—who has hired me in my decades of consulting. I've discovered that this is the central issue in achieving ...

Wildfire is now an operational, financial, and reputational risk that compounds year over year. For electric utilities, the cost of inaction shows up in damaged assets, customer frustration, ...

California promised developers a 270-day fast track for clean energy permits. Nearly two years later, the Fountain Wind project is still waiting, tangled in local opposition and agency delays. ( ...

Nuclear startup Aalo Atomics has raised $100M to power its aggressive timeline: switching on its first reactor in the summer of 2026. (TechCrunch) Aalo’s facility will be located on the campus of the ...

North American data centers could tally $1T in new builds by 2030, but the boom is colliding head-on with utility realities: record demand, constrained capacity, and years-long interconnection queues.

Big Tech may finally be ready to turn off their data centers (at least sometimes). (E&E News) Earlier this year, a Duke study (yes, that Duke study) found data centers could add nearly 100 GW of new ...

The price is the result of the balance between energy supply and demand, of course! It's very difficult to predict future prices given the number of important variables that are always at stake. And ...

Conestoga Energy acquired SAFFiRE Renewables from Southwest Airlines’s venture arm, gaining DOE-backed technology to turn corn stover (an ag byproduct) into ethanol with a carbon intensity score less ...

By Kennedy Maize Could the failed V.C. Summer nuclear power plant project to add two 1,000-MW reactors to an existing site, with heavy federal subsidies, come back to life? The operating 966-MW Virgil ...

The Trump administration is pulling the plug on subsidies for solar panels on farmland, pitching it as a win for farmers but raising big questions for rural clean energy growth. (Penn Capital-Star) ...

More than a century ago, America’s first great energy transformation was powered by light. Edison’s electric bulbs lit New York City, backed by coal and industrial grit. It was an engineering feat ...