A thousand-year-old Swedish village could become a blueprint for local energy grids of the future. Simris, with a population of about 200, has shown that operating independently from the national grid is technologically possible. Villagers […]
First they struck California, then Texas. Now blackouts are threatening the entire U.S. West as nearly a dozen states head into summer with too little electricity. From New Mexico to Washington, power grids are being […]
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) We published a Summer Electricity Outlook supplement, which provides more detail about our forecasts for U.S electricity consumption, power generation, and electricity prices for the upcoming summer months of June, July, […]
In February 2021, a record-breaking cold snap hit the Lower 48 states. Extreme winter weather caused natural gas production freeze-offs and higher electricity and commodity prices, especially in the top energy-consuming state, Texas. The cold […]
Puget Sound Energy (PSE), PacifiCorp, Avista and Portland General Electric (PGE) filed a lawsuit against Northwestern Corporation and Talen Energy in the US District Court for the District of Montana on 4 May, saying SB265 violates both […]
Ever since there have been wooden poles to hold electric and telephone wires, these two major parts of modern society have been intertwined. Even today, we think nothing of calling our poles “telephone” poles although they […]
In 2020, energy production in the United States fell to just below 96 quadrillion British thermal units (quads), down more than 5% from 2019’s record high, according to our Monthly Energy Review. In absolute terms, […]
Highlights Earnings per diluted share was $4.01 for the six months ended March 31, 2021; $2.30 per diluted share for the second fiscal quarter. Consolidated net income was $514.4 million for the six months ended […]
Californians pay for some of the most expensive electricity in the United States. They also live in one of the greenest states, at least from an energy perspective. California is only going to get greener. […]
About 80% of U.S. coal plants are now more expensive to keep running than to swap out for new wind and solar capacity, according to a report from Energy Innovation, a non-partisan climate and energy think tank. While […]
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