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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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DOE is under legal fire on two fronts: one from states, the other from environmental groups. 19 states and the District of Columbia sued DOE late last week over its effort to cap grant funding used ...

The Trump administration’s push to keep aging fossil-fuel plants online could cost Americans up to $6B a year with no grid reliability gains. (Canary Media) If DOE forced the continued operation of ...

ConEd is testing whether small, in-home batteries can take pressure off New York City’s grid during summer peaks. (Canary Media) In a pilot with Standard Potential, 65 household ACs are being wired to ...

ConEd’s plan to raise electric bills by 11% next year has sparked fierce public backlash, possibly threatening its $21B infrastructure push. (Bloomberg) Why it matters: ConEd says the rate hikes are ...

According to two expert assessments of China’s progress with fusion energy, China is making progress towards deploying fusion energy as a commercial offering at a significantly faster rate than the US ...

Last Energy, a US-based micro-nuclear technology developer, announced that its power plant design, the PWR20, has successfully completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR), becoming the first nuclear ...

PSE&G’s queue of potential large-load customers (mostly data centers) jumped 47% in Q2 to 9.4 GW. (Utility Dive) But? The utility expects only 10–20% will actually connect. The spike comes as PJM’s ...