Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Energy

Pennsylvania’s Ambitious Hydrogen Energy Plans

Pennsylvania is positioning itself as a leader in the clean energy revolution with its ambitious hydrogen energy plans. The state has secured two regional...

AI Boom Is Driving a Surprise Resurgence of US Gas-Fired Power [Bloomberg]

"From Florida to Oregon, utilities are racing to meet a surge in demand from power-hungry AI data centers, manufacturing facilities and electric vehicles. The...

Nuclear Energy Renaissance

In the early 2000s, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 provided significant incentives for nuclear power, including loan guarantees and cost-overrun support. But momentum...

How would Micron’s electricity-hogging plant here live with NY’s war on fossil fuels? [Syracuse.com]

Micron Technology's planned semiconductor plant in Clay, New York, will consume more electricity than the entire state of Vermont, using 640 million kilowatt-hours per...

Analysis: How Hospitals in North Carolina and Tennessee Managed Power Outages During Hurricane Helene

Hurricane Helene recently swept through the southeastern United States, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Among the hardest-hit areas were North Carolina...

Op-Ed Submission: Wholesale Energy Rates Rise 800%

Recently PJM, the power market and transmission operator for 65 million people in a 13 state region including New Jersey, announced that as a...

New England’s Energy Struggles – A Teachable Moment in Energy Policy

New England has some of the highest energy rates in the country. Residential electricity rates in New England are about 80% higher per kilowatt-hour...

New Jersey’s Energy Challenges and the Energy Master Plan – A Critical Examination

New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the union, has diverse energy needs and faces a complex web of challenges in its pursuit...

The Hidden Danger of PFAS in Electric Vehicle Batteries and the Implications for New Jersey

The transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs) has been hailed as a key solution to the climate crisis. However, a recent study...

Flashback-When Superstorm Sandy Knocked out New Jersey’s Largest Sewage Treatment Plant

As we head into the 2024 hurricane season, it's important to remember the impact of Superstorm Sandy and how the region has tried to...

The 2021 Wind Drought: Impact on Power Output, Energy Sources, and Consumer Prices

In 2021, Europe experienced an unprecedented “wind drought,” a period of unusually low wind speeds that significantly impacted wind energy production. This phenomenon had...

Three Mile Island was the site of the country’s worst nuclear disaster. Now AI energy demands might turn it back on [Fast Company]

Here are the key points from this Fast Company article: Constellation Energy is considering restarting the Unit 1 reactor at Three Mile Island, which has...

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era [Wired]

RIGHT NOW, GENERATIVE artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary may randomly appear at the top of the results whenever you...

The “Energy Transition” Won’t Happen [City Journal]

The laptop class has rediscovered a basic truth: foundational innovation, once adoption proceeds at scale, is followed by an epic increase in energy consumption....

Wind targets remain out of reach without massive grid expansion [Wind Power Monthly]

Extensive electricity grid and transmission buildout, along with upgrades, are underway around the world, but nowhere near fast enough to keep up with plans...

NJ’s Energy Master Plan is about to get reassessed [NJ Spotlight]

New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan is getting an update, a much-anticipated task given its role as the road map for how the state is...