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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. -
Curtis Tate/WVPBKentucky utility regulators could approve a rate increase for Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities customers. They’ve approved new power plants to meet the electricity demands of data centers. Customers may not have known about the hidden cost they’re paying for two coal plants.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority is raising the cost of electricity this fall for the second year in a row. -
Gov. Andy Beshear has filled two seats on a new energy planning commission with utility executives who, like Beshear, opposed the commission’s creation. -
Advocates urge Kentucky Power to promote efficiency, weatherization, heat pumps instead of building a power plant -
Last year, more than 45,000 Tennessee families saved a combined $63.9 million in federal tax credits for improving their homes’ energy efficiency or installing clean energy sources like solar power. -
Tennessee is expected to be second for the lowest amount of solar installed by 2027 compared to six other Southeastern states, according to a new report by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. -
The boom in artificial intelligence is fueling a proliferation of new data centers — the computer clusters that power the internet — in “places that maybe we hadn’t thought of before,” an industry spokesman told utility regulators gathered in Louisville last month. -
Vibrating uranium with lasers could be the key to recycling depleted uranium stores across the country into fuel for nuclear power plants and enrichment facilities – and Paducah could be the home of the first commercial facility to employ the technology in the world. -
Rural Kentucky farmers are eligible for a federal program that will help fund the cost of clean energy projects. -
Executives for two Kentucky manufacturers told lawmakers Thursday they were committed to clean energy alternatives and reducing carbon emissions. One Republican warned against “blindly” following federal policy initiatives. -
Twenty-one states, including Illinois and Kentucky, joined an effort the Biden Administration launched earlier this week to strengthen the power grid across the county.
