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A Dominion Power utility truck drives down a road in Charleston, S.C. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

South Carolina Poised to Transform Former Coal-Fired Plant Into a Gas Utility as Public Service Commission Approves Conversion

By Daniel Shailer

A Minnesota Utility Is Swapping Coal for Solar. It’s Like Taking 780,000 Cars Off the Road

By Kristoffer Tigue

Employees of Sunrun, nation's largest rooftop solar installer, carry panels into position in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Some Rare, Real Talk From a Utility About Competition With Rooftop Solar

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels on Chicago's South Side.

A Proposed Gas Rate Hike in Chicago Sparks Debate Amid Shift to Renewable Energy

By Aydali Campa

Long Island Power Authority power lines along Motor Lane in Bethpage, New York on March 8, 2019. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

States Test an Unusual Idea: Tying Electric Utilities’ Profit to Performance

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A view of high voltage transmission towers on Feb. 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Utilities Seize Control of the Coming Boom in Transmission Lines

By Dan Gearino

A thermal image of SF6-containing electrical equipment at a Duke Energy substation. The image does not show any leaks. Credit: Phil McKenna

Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities

By Phil McKenna

Stacks emit steam at the Jim Bridger Power Plant Feb. 14, 2001 near Point of Rocks, Wyoming. Credit: Michael Smith/Newsmakers

In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Power lines are seen as the New York City Skyline is in the background on Feb. 1, 2018 in Staten Island, New York. Credit: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images

New York Is Facing a Pandemic-Fueled Home Energy Crisis, With No End in Sight

By Quratulain Tejani

The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California on Sept. 3, 2020, ahead of a heatwave. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Coming this Summer: Spiking Electricity Bills Plus Blackouts

By Dan Gearino

People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Gov. Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar panels on their rooftops outside the California State Capitol Museum in Sacramento, California, on Dec. 8, 2021. Credit: Aníbal Martel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Are United In California Rooftop Solar Fight, with One Notable Exception

By Dan Gearino, Anne Marshall-Chalmers

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) talks to members of the press in a hallway at the U.S. Capitol Sept. 28, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s Why Some Utilities Support, and Others Are Wary of, the Federal Clean Energy Proposal

By Dan Gearino

Power lines on utility poles in Smithtown, New York on June 29, 2021. Credit: Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources

By Dan Gearino

Trucks wait to enter the Great River Energy Blue Flint Ethanol plant in Underwood, North Dakota, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

After a Clash Over Costs and Carbon, a Minnesota Utility Wants to Step Back from Its Main Electricity Supplier

By Dan Gearino

Why the Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing ‘Energy Burdens’

By Agya K. Aning

Memphis at dusk, with a banner celebrating an anniversary of Memphis Light, Gas and Water, the municipal utility. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images

A Lawsuit Challenges the Tennessee Valley Authority’s New Program of ‘Never-Ending’ Contracts

By James Bruggers

San Francisco's Oceanside wastewater treatment plant

Water Utilities Enlist Climate Scientists

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Will the Courts Sit Out Climate Change Debate?

By Elizabeth McGowan

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