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Senate Bill 1278, sponsored by state Sen. Kelly Hancock (R-Fort Worth), would require Texas wind and solar companies to pay the costs for backup or supplemental power needed whenever they cannot deliver electricity reliably to the grid.

Evergy, Kansas’s largest utility, has filed a proposal with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), the state’s public utility regulatory agency, to charge customers with solar panels about $25 a month to pay for the cost of servicing the special needs of their homes, which both pull power from and deliver power to the electric grid.

A new proposal offered by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gives additional federal support wind and solar power developers.

Smoke from California’s multiple wildfires added to the state’s electric power woes, reducing the amount of electricity generated by solar cells across the state, demonstrating the continued criticality of fossil fuels for reliable electric power generation.

The Alabama Public Service Commission dismissed a challenge by environmental groups to an existing fee charged by Alabama Power to ratepayers with rooftop solar panels for maintaining the infrastructure needed to manage the electricity they generate and take from the electrical grid.

Despite the threat of higher energy costs for ratepayers, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission unanimously imposed a plan to replace 100 percent of the electric power generated by the San Juan Generating Station solely with electricity generated by solar panels and batteries.

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) has approved the largest solar installation in U.S. history, a 690-megawatt project to be constructed on federal land...

By Kenneth W. Costello Many, if not most, mainstream economists, both conservative and liberal, support a carbon tax. As economist Alan Blinder recently remarked, “It’s...

The Biden administration has just signed an economic suicide pact that would require the United States and six other Western democracies to shut down its coal power plants by 2035, while China, India and the rest of the world currently have more than 1,000 new coal power plants in the planning or construction phase.

The problem with the Texas grid is so simple it’s infuriating: Relying too heavily on unpredictable wind and solar, without enough reliable reserve capacity, means higher volatility and outages.