Thermal power plants more competitive than clean energy when considering reliability: Vistra CEO

Even so, in the near term Vistra President and CEO Jim Burke expects solar and batteries to do well because they can be built quickly.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 12, 2025

Entergy expects data centers to drive 13% near-term annual sales growth: CEO

With new gas-fired generation expected, Entergy faces challenges in meeting its 50% carbon reduction goal for 2030, CEO Drew Marsh said.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 12, 2025

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Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources. 

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As PJM prices rise, flexibility can’t be ignored

Rather than viewing rising capacity costs as simply a burden, energy users should understand them as incentives for more efficient and dynamic loads.

By Steve Doremus • Sept. 11, 2025

Xendee and Eaton partner to expand microgrid solutions for facility, campus managers

Eaton took a minority stake in the microgrid optimization platform as part of the deal, which Xendee said would add services and functionality for microgrid designers, developers and end users.

By Brian Martucci • Sept. 9, 2025

Alone we fail: The culture change needed to deliver the energy transition

What would it look like if electric utilities borrowed the digital best practices exemplified by the film, banking and telecom industries?

By Alex Thornton • Sept. 8, 2025

Justice Department accuses SCE of ‘negligence’ in $77M lawsuits over wildfires

Acting United States Attorney Bill Essayli said the lawsuits highlight “a troubling pattern,” and expressed hope they would catalyze “a culture change at Southern California Edison.” 

By Emma Penrod • Sept. 5, 2025

Swift Current lands $242M in financing for PJM’s largest storage project

The clean energy developer will sell the output from its Prospect Power project to Dominion Energy Virginia under a 15-year contract.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 4, 2025

Minnesota’s energy future deserves better than BlackRock’s empty promises

What happens in Minnesota will send a signal to other states about whether regulators are willing to put public interest ahead of Wall Street profit, writes Alissa Jean Schafer of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.

By Alissa Jean Schafer • Aug. 27, 2025

TXNM Energy seeks state regulators’ approval for $11.5B Blackstone acquisition

New Mexico advocates are lining up to oppose the deal. Blackstone “has a long track record of putting profits above people,” said Mariel Nanasi, executive director of New Energy Economy.

By Robert Walton • Aug. 26, 2025

Why power utilities must recalibrate strategy now

To confront the challenges facing power utilities today, executives must center strategic planning deliberately and continuously.

By Marc Miller, Gregory Van Volkenburg • Aug. 25, 2025

Black Hills, Northwestern agree to merge, with eye on serving data centers

Data center development — and their need for major power infrastructure — may drive further consolidation among utilities, according to Jefferies analysts.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 21, 2025

Surging load growth, ‘bubbling unease’ for utilities, others in Q2

Incumbents and startup companies sought to address investor concerns over changes to tax law and tariffs that could pose significant challenges to the electric industry.

By Meris Lutz • Aug. 19, 2025

Data center vacancies plummet amid power supply constraints

“Power has become the new real estate,” said Andrew Batson, head of U.S. data center research at JLL.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 19, 2025

Duke Energy proposes merging its Carolina utilities, driving $3.2B in estimated savings

Combining Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress would lead to more efficient system planning and operations, according to the company.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 15, 2025

Nuveen raises $1.3B for energy and power infrastructure fund

The fund will look to capitalize on a global growing need for power. Nuveen manages more than $35 billion in infrastructure assets, including some U.S. solar and battery storage.

By Lamar Johnson • Aug. 14, 2025

Nuclear regulatory approval drives NuScale customer interest, but no deals yet

Having the only U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission-approved small modular reactor, plus broader regulatory tailwinds for nuclear energy, could help NuScale land “hard contracts” by year’s end, company executives said.

By Brian Martucci • Aug. 11, 2025

Oncor has 200 GW of interconnection requests, company officials say

About 20% of the potential demand has signed contracts or is considered “high-confidence load,” CEO Allen Nye said.

By Emma Penrod • Aug. 11, 2025

Sunrun battery attachment rate hits 70%, up 54% from year ago

Executives with the largest U.S. home energy systems installer said Sunrun is doubling down on energy storage and grid services to offset the loss of federal tax credits for residential solar arrays.

By Brian Martucci • Aug. 8, 2025

Arizona utilities sign up for gas pipeline project, spurred by data center development

Arizona Public Service has 4.5 GW of committed large load in its interconnection queue and 20 GW of other potential large customers, Pinnacle West CEO Ted Geisler said Wednesday.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 7, 2025

Solar and storage financing is down, but dealmaking is up

Despite an early phase-out of renewable energy tax credits, knowing what the policy landscape looks like going forward should help investors identify the companies that are best positioned to pivot, said Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group.

By Emma Penrod • Aug. 6, 2025

PSE&G large load pipeline jumps 47%, to 9.4 GW, much of it speculative

Most of the demand is from data centers, but the New Jersey utility only expects about 10% to 20% of the interconnection inquiries to come to fruition, Ralph LaRossa, CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group, the utility’s parent company, said Tuesday.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 6, 2025

Dominion’s 2.6-GW offshore wind farm sees slight price hike from tariffs, CEO says

The added expenses will increase customer bills by an average of three cents a month over the entire life of the project, said Bob Blue, Dominion’s president, CEO and chairman.

By Diana DiGangi • Aug. 4, 2025

PG&E sees ‘Goldilocks’ growth and path to lower bills in 2027

The company does not plan to issue additional equity, executives said, even if California adopts several proposals around affordability and wildfires they said could raise utility costs. 

By Emma Penrod • Aug. 4, 2025

AEP expects to add 24 GW of load by 2030, mainly from data centers

More than half of the pending load is in Texas, where AEP Texas is set to interconnect 5 GW of cryptocurrency operations, per William Fehrman, AEP president and CEO.

By Ethan Howland • Aug. 1, 2025

Xcel Energy ‘prepared to go to trial’ to fight Marshall Fire liability

The company contends that it did not start the late 2021 Colorado blaze, which caused an estimated $2 billion in damages.

By Emma Penrod • Aug. 1, 2025