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PETER BEHR


Peter Behr
Peter Behr

Peter is a senior energy reporter for Energywire covering power grid reliability, climate policy and cybersecurity. He also has covered shale gas development and nuclear power issues for E&E. Before joining E&E in 2009, he was principal energy reporter for The Washington Post. During his 23 years at The Post, he was also assistant managing editor for business and financial news and a business columnist and reporter. A graduate of Colgate University, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 05:  Steam rises from the Consolodated Edison power plant on January 5, 2018 in New York City. Under frigid temperatures, New York City dug out from the "Bomb Cyclone."  Energywire
Severe storms already batter the grid. What happens in 2032?

By Peter Behr | 02/13/2023 06:44 AM EST

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Utility workers repairing damaged power lines. Energywire
Bomb cyclone sparks fierce debate over grid readiness

By Peter Behr | 01/03/2023 06:47 AM EST

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Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announces a major scientific breakthrough in fusion research that was made at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Energywire
After ‘breakthrough,’ DOE eyes fusion power plant

By Peter Behr | 12/14/2022 06:50 AM EST

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This artist's rendering shows a prospective NuScale Power small modular nuclear reactor site.
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Rising costs imperil nation’s leading small reactor project

By Peter Behr | 12/14/2022 06:48 AM EST

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A color-enhanced image of the inside of a preamplifier support structure at the National Ignition Facility. Energywire
What to know about DOE’s fusion ‘breakthrough’

By Peter Behr | 12/13/2022 06:48 AM EST

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