Since 2021, the Sierra Club has been grading U.S. utilities on their commitment to a clean-energy transition. While most utilities have not earned high marks on the group’s annual scorecards, as a whole they had been showing some progress. That’s over now. The latest edition of the Sierra Club’s “The Dirty Truth” report finds that the country’s … Continue reading “Utilities are doing even worse on climate than they were five years ago”
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Indiana legislators are considering multiple bills to promote small modular nuclear reactors, including a controversial provision that would let utilities charge ratepayers for projects that may never be built. Such allowances, referred to as “cost trackers,” are widely used by utilities to recover early-stage project costs as well as variable or unexpected expenses between rate cases, such … Continue reading “Indiana utilities want ratepayers to fork out for small nuclear reactors”
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Mack Trucks and Terex Utilities have announced plans to reveal the next generation of their zero-emissions utility bucket trucks at Work Truck Week in Indiana later this month – and it looks fantastic! Co-developed by Terex Utilities and Mack Trucks on a Mack MD7 Electric Class 7 chassis, the new Terex bucket truck is a zero-emission … Continue reading “Mack Trucks, Terex Utilities partner on electric bucket truck”
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This is the second article in our four-part series on data centers and electricity demand. Read part 1. There’s no question that data centers are about to cause U.S. electricity demand to spike. What remains unclear is by how much. Right now, there are few credible answers. Just a lot of uncertainty — and “a lot of … Continue reading “Utilities are flying blind on data center demand. That’s a big problem.”
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It turns out that the crisis wasn’t so dire. Of the 360 substations that were reported down, most “were out because of damage to the transmission system that supplies them with power, not necessarily damage to all those substations,” said Brooks, the Duke Energy spokesperson. But even a handful of destroyed substations is no small matter. … Continue reading “Hurricane Helene could force local utilities to rethink grid resilience”
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The report also found that some utilities are reversing course on coal retirements. Last year, 35 percent of the coal-fired power plants tracked by the report were set to close by 2030. This year, that number fell to 30 percent. Only 20 of the utilities plan to be entirely coal-free by 2030, a key milestone on … Continue reading “Booming power demand is slowing climate progress for US utilities”