The nation’s electric grid is stressed out. Unprecedented energy demands for large customers, such as data centers and cryptomines, are straining power supplies, raising electric rates in some regions, and stoking consumer advocates’ concerns that residential ratepayers could get stuck with the bill. Today federal energy regulators issued sweeping orders that require the nation’s six major grid […]
Author Archives: Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News
Dan Gearino covers the business and policy of renewable energy and utilities for Inside Climate News, often with an emphasis on the Midwest. He is the main author of ICN’s Inside Clean Energy newsletter.
