Some rural healthcare centers in Kentucky and Tennessee could soon be better prepared for power outages.

The Kentucky Senate has approved legislation aimed at developing an energy plan for the Commonwealth. Proponents say it’s about electricity reliability.

A pair of legislative proposals that aim to lay the groundwork for “Kentucky’s nuclear energy ecosystem” advanced out of a state Senate committee Wednesday.

A new bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate this week would create a group to support the development of nuclear energy in the state.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that a newly completed scanning facility at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant will allow for safer handling and disposal of old processing equipment used in the site’s ceased uranium enrichment operations.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) saw a near-record peak power demand over the weekend as sub-freezing temperatures continued to impact far western Kentucky, western Tennessee and southern Illinois.

Climate plans are a part of federal grant competition to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions

Three new natural gas generating units are online at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant in Muhlenberg County. The units are designed to withstand temperature extremes while also edging the federal utility toward its goal of a carbon-neutral future.

Only .07% of Kentucky’s net utility generation comes from solar energy — one of the lowest rates of solar energy usage in the country. But in a meeting to discuss the potential of the state’s solar production, lawmakers questioned whether the state is moving too fast on solar.

The Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project is undergoing a long federal permitting process to store electricity from the grid in the form of water.