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.
Environmental groups seeking to block Vectren Corp. from building a new $900 million natural-gas-fired power plant in Indiana and a related pipeline are flanked by an unlikely ally in the fight: the Hoosier State's powerful coal industry.
A Missouri court disagreed with a 2017 decision by the Public Service Commission that it lacks regulatory authority over utility-owned vehicle charging stations because the equipment doesn't meet the statutory definition of "electric plant."
MidAmerican Energy Co., a major producer of U.S. wind power, faces a backlash from environmental groups pushing the Midwest energy giant to ditch coal and expand into solar.
Minnesota is falling short of its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by midcentury. And if the state is to reach the target, the electricity sector must do more than its share of the lifting.
FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., the bankrupt generator that asked the Trump administration to subsidize coal and nuclear plants, won court approval yesterday to exit a money-losing contract related to a pair of Cold War-era coal plants along the Ohio River.