Jeffrey is a St. Louis-based reporter covering the Midwest power sector for Energywire. Focus areas include the shift by coal-dependent states to cleaner energy sources and the evolution of the utility business model in response to new technologies. Before joining E&E News, Jeffrey was the energy and environment reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he won a SABEW award for a story on the Iowa ethanol boom. He also covered energy for Bloomberg News. A native of Houston, he is a Tulane University graduate with a double major in English and economics.
MADISON, Wis. — As Democratic Gov. Tony Evers emerged from behind a curtain at Renew Wisconsin's annual summit, his presence in the convention hall ballroom was more meaningful than the substance of his keynote speech.
An Illinois court blocked the final release of a report summarizing a 1.5-year-long grid study overseen by the Illinois Commerce Commission pending a lawsuit by groups claiming utility regulators violated the Open Meetings Act.
A trial to decide the fate of what would be Ohio's largest solar development began yesterday in Columbus, with the state's largest utility joining clean energy advocates to prove the project is needed.
In a state that prides itself on being the home of the U.S. auto industry, state officials, auto executives and other parties have been working for more than two years to map out a future powered by electrons instead of oil molecules.
Consumer and environmental groups yesterday pleaded with Ohio's high court to end $600 million in subsidies approved by utility regulators more than two years ago to bolster FirstEnergy Corp.'s finances.