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.
Michigan's second-biggest power provider has announced it will quit burning coal by the middle of the decade, accelerating retirement of two remaining plants by as many as 15 years.
Developers of a $2.5 billion underground transmission line have filed a complaint with federal regulators arguing that the approval process required by grid operator PJM Interconnection LLC will delay the project by at least two years and expose it to unnecessary risk.
The Prairie State Energy Campus hasn't celebrated its 10th birthday. But the hulking coal plant southwest of St. Louis could face a death sentence if Illinois lawmakers vote next week to approve a wide-ranging energy proposal backed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
The regulatory approval process at the federal and state level may pose the biggest challenge to Biden's plan to decarbonize the power sector by 2035, analysts say.
The cost of meeting peak electricity demand in the nation's biggest grid market plunged by more than $4 billion for the 12-month period beginning next June, according to the results of a closely watched auction with major implications for the U.S. energy mix.