How Utilities Actually Think
How do utilities decide what they want — and need — to build? It’s one of the most important problems driving the data center and clean energy conversations right now. But it’s hard to get a sense of ...
7 Apr 1h 2min
A New Look at Why Electricity Prices Have Gone Up in Your ZIP Code
Electricity prices rose faster than overall inflation last year. Yet at the local level, it’s been difficult to know why. Is it data centers? Renewables? Aging infrastructure? Or something else more m...
1 Apr 46min
There’s a New Playbook for Cutting Power Prices
Since Democrats swept to statewide victories in Georgia and New Jersey last year by campaigning against high power prices, “electricity affordability” has been the watchword for climate-concerned poli...
31 Mar 43min
The Oil Industry Will Never Be the Same
We are now nearly a month into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The conflict has lasted much longer than some energy experts initially expected — and it has built up an unprecedented crisis that is set t...
27 Mar 38min
The Big Reveal in China’s New Five-Year Plan
The new draft of China’s five year plan is here, and the news isn’t all good for climate advocates. Although China vows to expand its gigantic “clean energy bases” in the plan, it has actually walked ...
20 Mar 48min
The Rivian R2 Couldn’t Have Come at a Better Time
Last week saw what is likely the biggest U.S. electric vehicle launch of the year: the Rivian R2, which will go on sale this spring. It’s absurdly well-timed, given surging gasoline prices. But can it...
18 Mar 34min
A New Theory About Why Biden’s Big Climate Law Failed
When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in 2022, Democrats imagined he was setting a new policy feedback loop in motion. Voters would see how the law was changing their co...
11 Mar 51min
A Tale of Two Energy Shocks
We’re watching a new global energy crisis unfold in the wake of America and Israel’s campaign in Iran — and it could rapidly spiral into other industries and commodities. At the same time, there’s bee...
6 Mar 42min
