Electricity prices are becoming an outsize issue in American politics because they themselves are legitimately outsize. Compared with the cost of consumer goods, which have been rising rapidly over ...

The United States gets about 40 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources, including renewables and nuclear, and researchers have a pretty good idea of how to cost-effectively get to about ...

You know the future of the power grid has arrived when your electricity provider wants to pay you to use less of the stuff they are ostensibly selling. That’s effectively the pitch to customers from ...

Last week, Michigan joined more than a dozen other states that have signed legislation committing to transition their power grids to use 100% clean or renewable energy — though most states operate on ...