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.
With just days before the Ohio Legislature adjourns for the summer, the state Senate introduced the latest revisions to a divisive bill to subsidize the state's two nuclear plants along Lake Erie and a pair of Cold War-era coal plants.
Ohio wind developers are facing the possibility of a weakened renewable standard and some of the most restrictive turbine-siting rules in the United States. The outcome could have far-reaching consequences given the potential to sway the regional electricity mix.
Most suburban Chicago McMansion owners and low-income apartment dwellers in the city's urban core pay the same rate for electricity if they take service from Illinois' largest utility, Commonwealth Edison.
After setting a June 30 deadline for passing a bill to rescue Ohio's two nuclear plants, bankrupt power utility FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. is giving state lawmakers more time.
The polar vortex and a fire at a natural gas compressor station stretched Michigan's energy system to its limits over the winter and highlighted the need for added resilience as the state transitions to cleaner energy sources and faces increasing climate threats.