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Wyoming’s Largest Utility Joins a New Western Day Ahead Market for Electricity

Access to more power producers over a wider range of the West could lower rates, but Wyoming regulators will monitor the market to see if it penalizes the state’s coal, oil and gas over the next five years.

By Jake Bolster

A substation at the coal-fired Naughton power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images
An aerial view of the Sabey Data Center in Round Rock, Texas. Credit: Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas to Study ‘Batch Zero’ of Data Centers by Late Summer

By Arcelia Martin

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

Construction of an offshore wind turbine is seen off the coast of New York in 2023. Credit: Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images

New Jersey Has A New Map For Its Energy Future. The Ground Under It Is Already Shifting.

By Rambo Talabong

Power lines and a wind turbine rise above the rural landscape of Dwight, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois General Assembly Passes Energy Reform Act Aiming to Reduce Rates and Reach Clean Energy Goals

By Sarah Mattalian

An employee works on the floor of the Metal Technologies plant in Ravenna, Mich. The company participates in a demand response program in which its industrial facilities agree to power down at times of high demand on the grid. Credit: Metal Technologies

When the Power Grid Needs Relief from High Demand, Here’s Who You Call

By Dan Gearino

How Alabama Power Kept Bills Up and Opposition Out to Become One of the Most Powerful Utilities in the Country

By Dennis Pillion, Lee Hedgepeth

Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on July 15 in Pittsburgh. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Four Governors Whose States Rely on PJM Want Data Centers to Guarantee Their Own Power

By Rambo Talabong

An electric substation is seen at a power plant in Houston. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

‘Rapid Explosion’ of Data Centers Causes Planning Struggles in Texas

By Arcelia Martin

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

A Central Maine Power lineworker repairs a transmission line in Portland, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Central Maine Power Faces Backlash Over Proposed Rate Hikes and Shareholder Profits

By Ryan Krugman

Transmission lines dot the rural landscape of Dwight, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Renewable Energy Act Before Illinois Legislature Would Decrease Stress on Ratepayers, Advocates Say

By Sarah Mattalian

EV batteries connected to chargers are a potentially vast resource that could be utilized by the grid. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster?

By Dan Gearino

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks in front of the Keystone Trade Center during a press conference on Aug. 7 in Falls Township, Pa.

Citing the Need for ‘Significant Reform,’ Pennsylvania’s Governor Threatens to Pull the State Out of the Region’s Power Grid

By Kiley Bense, Aman Azhar, Charles Paullin, Dan Gearino, Rambo Talabong

Transmission lines lead to an oil refinery in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

Senate Democrats Blame Trump’s Assault on Clean Energy for High Electricity Prices

By Marianne Lavelle

An aerial view shows a natural gas processing plant under construction in Pennsylvania’s Washington County on Oct. 26, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

Cologix’s COL4 data center and its adjacent substation is seen on July 24 in Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Eli Hiller/The Washington Post via Getty Images

To Handle Data Centers, the Electricity System May Need New Rules. Here Is a Proposal

By Dan Gearino

The Kearny Generating Station, owned and operated by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, is seen in Kearny, N.J. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

Utilities Want to Regain the Ability to Build Power Plants in PJM. Consumer Advocates Say That’s Probably a Bad Idea

By Dan Gearino

A crew with the Public Service Electric and Gas Company work on power lines in Ridgefield, N.J. Credit: EMAZ/VIEWpress

New Jersey Orders Probe, Demands Transparency From PJM

By Rambo Talabong

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