Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about green energy tech that will change your life. Electricity prices are rising again, and this time it does not look ...

Most people assume different power plants generate electricity in completely different ways, but in reality many of them rely on the same underlying principle of electromagnetism, whether the turbine ...

NPR's series Cost of Living: The Price We Pay is examining what's driving price increases and how people are coping after years of stubborn inflation. How are higher prices changing the way you live?

How AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape. One of the dominant storylines I’ve been following through 2025 is electricity—where and how demand is going up, how much it costs, and how ...

American families are feeling the pinch of rising electricity prices. In the past five years alone, the supply portion of the standard service residential electric bill in Philadelphia has increased ...

As Illinois lawmakers finished their work for 2025, they began backing away from their four-year-old pledge that the state would produce electricity only from carbon-free sources by 2045. They did so ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

Is solar power going to take over the world? The past few years have seen a frankly astounding acceleration in the rate of its deployment, with total generation capacity doubling between 2022 and 2024 ...

Electric vehicles (EVs) could do more for our environment than simply replace gasoline. Published in Joule, a new assessment ...

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...

Hoosiers are facing what some groups are calling an "affordability crisis" when it comes to electricity bills. Price increases are coming from state laws and economic forces. Elected Indiana officials ...

Noah Dormady receives funding from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and the US Department of Energy (DOE ...