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.
Vistra Energy Corp., one of the Midwest's largest coal generators, agreed to shutter another of its Illinois plants as part of a settlement of a Clean Air Act lawsuit filed by environmental and public health groups.
Three years after Illinois adopted sweeping energy reforms to boost low-carbon energy production — including subsidies for two Exelon Corp. nuclear plants — there's a fight brewing over renewable funding and how to jump-start the state's energy transition.
One of the Midwest's largest owners of coal-fired power plants has announced it will close a third of its Illinois coal fleet, teeing up a debate over the state's energy future.
A 100-mile transmission line across southwest Wisconsin is either a pathway for the state's low-carbon future or a relic of the past that's increasingly under pressure from more nimble technology, depending on whom you talk to.
A review of utility plans by E&E News provides clues about what coal, natural gas, renewables and electricity demand may look like in the coming decades.