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The Trump administration is dismantling the energy efficiency programs designed to keep data center demand in check. (E&E News) Roll the tape: DOE has shuttered its efficiency office, rolled back ...

As the energy sector races to meet soaring demand from AI, data centers, and electrification, utilities are confronting a once-in-a-generation inflection point. That urgency, along with a spirited ...

For over a century, energy has shaped geopolitics: determining who leads, who follows, and who becomes caught in the slipstream of other nations’ industrial ambitions. The West once held dominance in ...

Deep in Texas coal country, Sage Geosystems and San Miguel Electric Cooperative just delivered ERCOT’s first pressure-geothermal storage well. (POWER Mag) The system uses a sealed subsurface “lung” to ...

JD Power’s 2025 report shows a clear shift: Long outages in the U.S. are rising sharply—from 8.1 to 12.8 hours since 2022—and in Southern states, outages now average over 18 hours. Nearly half of ...

The projected increase in electricity demand is already stimulating solutions that combine traditional supply via the public grid with energy storage. The rationale is simple! Utility companies often ...

A new R Street scorecard ranks how well each state fosters electricity competition. Texas skewed the curve with an A-, while most of the rest of the class was somewhere between “meh” and “monopoly ...

Could AI’s insatiable hunger for power actually fast-track the arrival of commercial fusion by 20 to 30 years? (Axios) Follow the money: Rob Roy, CEO of data center giant Switch, argued this week that ...

That simple line from my favorite geography professor has always stuck with me. In utilities, the “what’s where” is straightforward: assets and the features that support them. The “who cares” is ...

Valar Atomics says it’s the first startup in DOE’s new fast-track reactor pilot to reach criticality, using a zero-power chain reaction to prove its core physics before moving toward a full prototype.

JD Power says the worst blackouts now average 12.8 hours—up from 8.1 in 2022—due in large part to extreme weather. The South leads in both outage time (18.2 hours) and customer satisfaction, thanks to ...