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.
Subsidies could be justified for two Exelon Corp. nuclear plants that represent a third of Illinois' carbon-free power if their financial troubles jeopardize the state's climate goals, according to a study commissioned by Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration.
For the first time in a decade, the grid operator for much of the central United States has put forward a long-range transmission road map calling for tens of billions of dollars in new projects to help states and utilities across the region boost renewables and reach their climate goals.
A coalition of consumer and environmental groups says Duke Energy Corp. should disclose more information about a previously announced deal to sell a 20% stake in its Indiana utility to an investment fund controlled by the Singaporean government.
A pioneering high-voltage transmission project linking Iowa wind farms to Chicago is a model of how President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan hopes to dramatically ramp up a clean energy transformation.
Delays with a first-of-its-kind power line to move Midwest renewable energy underscore the challenges of building interregional transmission projects — the kind viewed as a necessary backbone for a zero-carbon grid.