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Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission stops short of fulfilling the Trump administration’s wishes but puts regional grid operators on a “short leash.”

By Lisa Sorg, Charles Paullin

 Lowell, MA - May 12: The view down a street in Lowell, Mass., where a data center looms behind residential housing on May 12. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
A view of the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Mich. Credit: Consumers Energy

What Is an Energy Emergency? The Trump Administration Says It Alone Decides.

By Marianne Lavelle
An LNG tanker from the United States unloads at a terminal near Athens, Greece, on Dec. 27, 2025. Credit: Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Trump Pushes ‘Peace Pipelines’ to Boost Exports of Climate-Busting LNG to Europe

By Dennis Pillion
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said President Trump “took a wrecking ball to solar and wind energy projects.” Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Clean Energy

Cuts to Renewable Energy Research in Energy Department’s Budget Irk Senate Democrats

By Gabriel Matias Castilho
A look inside Google’s New Albany data center in Central Ohio. Credit: Google

Two Wildly Different Data Centers Reveal a ‘Fork in the Road’ on How to Meet Electricity Demand

By Dan Gearino
Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks to the attendees at S&P Global’s CERAWeek in Houston on Monday. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

White House’s ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Wartime Mandate Meets Volatile Market Reality

By Katie Surma
Employees walk into the U.S. Department of Energy building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Administration Dropped Controversial Climate Report From Its Decision to Rescind EPA Endangerment Finding

By Dennis Pillion
Cars pass a data center under construction in Ashburn, Va., on Nov, 12, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Clean Energy Advocates Criticize ‘Glaring’ Omission in White House Plan to Fuel Data Centers in PJM Region

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense
President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, meets with U.S. oil company executives in the at the White House on Friday. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Oil Executives Non-Committal to Trump’s Venezuela Pitch at the White House

By Dennis Pillion
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who spoke at AFPI’s inaugural Global Energy Summit last month, helped establish the organization in the wake of Trump’s 2020 election defeat. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

One Year After Trump’s Election, This Group Is Celebrating Their Sway Over U.S. Energy Policy

By Aidan Hughes
A view of the coal-fired Coal Creek Station power plant near Underwood, N.D. Credit: Dan Koeck/The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Burning Money’: Dept. of Energy Directs $100 Million to Modernize Declining Coal Plants

By Anika Jane Beamer
Transmission lines feed into a substation near a data center construction site on July 24 in Lewis Center, Ohio. Credit: Eli Hiller/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Seeks to Speed Data Center Grid Connections and Expand Federal Control of Power System

By Dan Gearino
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference at her Manhattan office on Feb. 20 in New York City. Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Federal Actions Make New York’s Energy Future More Uncertain

By Lauren Dalban
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright walks outside of the White House on Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe

By Bob Berwyn
Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks at the ribbon cutting ceremony for Ramaco Resources’ Brook Mine in Wyoming on July 11. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy

Republican Excitement for Wyoming Rare Earth Mining Contradicts the Party’s Disdain for Renewables

By Jake Bolster
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright leaves the East Room after attending an event with President Donald Trump to urge the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” at the White House on June 26 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Latest GOP Provisions in Budget Bill Seek to Crush Renewable Energy

By Bob Berwyn
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks at a press conference during the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage. Dunleavy is joined by (from left) Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Credit: Kate Furby/Inside Climate News

Trump Officials Visit Alaska as Interior Department Pushes Proposal Rescinding Biden-era Arctic Protections

By Kate Furby
A view of the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Mich. Credit: Consumers Energy

Trump Hastens ‘Drumbeat’ of Deferred Coal Plant Retirements

By Marianne Lavelle, Carrie Klein
Chris Wright testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of Energy on Jan. 15 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Ting Shen/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s New Energy Secretary Called Germany’s Energy Transition ‘Unreliable.’ But He Missed All the Nuance

By Dan Gearino

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