How Wall Street is shifting electric utilities toward consolidation and profit

A corporate merger that would form the largest electric utility in the United States is underway. It’s just one of many ...
seattlepi.com

How deregulation made electricity more expensive, not cheaper

(THE CONVERSATION) American families are feeling the pinch of rising electricity prices. In the past five years alone, the generation portion of the standard service residential electric bill in ...
Santa Monica Daily Press

Gavin Newsom could have made electricity more affordable and climate-friendly. Here’s how

Governor Gavin Newsom stood before global leaders in Brazil recently at COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference, and introduced himself to the world as the new face of U.S. climate ...
The Conversation

How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, large technology companies such as Google and Meta are trying to secure massive amounts of electricity to power new data centers. Electric utilities see ...
The Telegraph

How deregulation made electricity more expensive, not cheaper

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Noah Dormady, The Ohio State University (THE CONVERSATION) American families are ...