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.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the incoming chairman of the Midwestern Governors Association, plans to focus the group on helping local communities rebound from coal plant closures and to expand the region's power grid.
A North Dakota official said two potential buyers have expressed interest in purchasing the state's largest coal-fired power plant, Great River Energy's Coal Creek Station, which is set to close in two years.
Net metering remains in effect for an Illinois utility — for now — after regulators ordered an audit to decide whether it can change how it compensates customers for excess solar generation under a 2016 energy law.
A seemingly innocuous provision in H.B. 6, an Ohio energy law dogged by claims of bribery, could bring hundreds of millions of dollars to one of the state's largest utility companies. Is it a "smoking gun"?
Ameren Missouri has joined more than two dozen U.S. utilities to pledge net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a plan to spend $8 billion on expanding renewable energy capacity over the next two decades and accelerating the retirement of two coal plants.