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Kentucky Legislative Research CommissionThe nuclear industry in the Bluegrass State took big strides in 2025, and the lawmaker who's helped lead the charge for nuclear power in Kentucky says he expects that momentum carry into 2026. -
Liam Niemeyer/Kentucky LanternA new study says Kentucky ratepayers could save billions of dollars through 2050 if electric utilities invested more in renewable energy and energy storage, retired “uneconomic” and aging coal-fired power plants, and avoided overbuilding natural gas-fired power.
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The Kentucky Public Service Commission set rates and terms for future data center customers of East Kentucky Power Cooperative, which serves 89 counties. -
State regulators are allowing Kentucky’s largest power companies to spend $3 billion on two new gas power plants, which LG&E/KU say are needed for future data centers. -
The proposed settlement between the Kentucky attorney general and the state’s largest electric utility company would cut proposed electricity rate increases in half. -
Hype is increasing around the future of nuclear — and the Tennessee Valley Authority is leaning into it. The utility now has three projects underway to bring nuclear plants online in Tennessee and potentially beyond by the 2030s. -
As more renewable energy sources come onto the grid, Kentucky is trying to find its role in this emerging economy. -
Nuclear energy is usually the Tennessee Valley Authority’s largest source of electricity, but use plummeted this past year as outages plagued all seven reactors owned by the utility. -
A federally funded program that would have provided $156 million to low-income Tennessee families for solar panel installation has been terminated after several months on hold, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation announced Friday.
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Public anger is growing over rising electricity prices nationwide. In West Virginia, Appalachian Power customers have been paying hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden costs. -
A lease to build the first U.S.-owned, privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the country was signed in western Kentucky on Tuesday against a backdrop of containers holding depleted tails of uranium hexafluoride – some covered in rust. -
The electric utilities’ proposal would spend billions of dollars on new power plants to supply future data centers, but is now amended to extend the life of another coal plant.
