Read my three-part series about my 5,000-mile sabbatical road trip in an EV from my home in the southern Appalachians to the island of Newfoundland, and my reflections on what it means to be citizens ...

On July 9, the NCUC filed an order scheduling oral arguments for August 3, 2026. Those arguments were held as scheduled, and the case is now delayed to October 5, 2026 while the parties await the NCUC ...

TVA joins the ranks of utilities telling its customers: “Data centers are paying their fair share, just trust us!” The utilities are hoping nobody is interested or able to look under the hood to ...

The ask: An 18-month pause, not a ban, to proactively define rules on transparency, pollution, cost, and risk before the concrete is poured. Now the wave is pushing into the rest of the Southeast, and ...

This article is part of a series highlighting the experiences of the Arts Based School with their electric bus. Read the first article here. The Arts Based School brought their electric school bus to ...

Nuclear energy uses far more water than gas: 536 gallons per MWh of electricity. A hypothetical 100 MW data center supplied by nuclear energy would thus use 422 million gallons of water for power ...

Other states fund agrivoltaics with tax breaks, grants, and pilot programs. See why the Southeast lags behind — and what's needed to close the incentive gap. Agrivoltaics, the practice of co-locating ...

This piece is part of a series of articles examining where 2026 Southeastern candidates for state and federal offices stand on key energy and climate issues, such as data centers, energy costs, and ...

Clean Energy Generation member Dave Sillman is no stranger to saving money with clean energy, but his new home’s underground geothermal heating and cooling system is taking the savings to new heights ...

OpenAI’s announcement that it is building a massive data center campus near Savannah has put a familiar question back in the spotlight: do data centers pay their own way, or does their growth end up ...

The Public Staff finds that delaying gas plant construction would save ratepayers more than $1 billion over the next 10 years. Duke Energy’s proposed 15-year resource plan, called the Carbon Plan ...

Ian Baillie presents a mobile “power bee” trailer at the WNC Environmental Summit in Clyde, NC. When Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina in September 2024, it knocked out power, ...