Wisconsin voters picked their nominees for governor on August 11, and energy policy was on the ballot in everything but name. Sarah Montalbano, Energy Policy Analyst at Always On Energy Research, joined Right Side Broadcasting Network to explain what the results mean for electricity prices, AI data center development, and grid reliability in the Badger […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                   Your State’s Policies Influence Your Electricity Rates. Now You Can See How. Interactive index from Always On Energy Research and the Institute for Energy Research maps the policies behind electricity prices in every state and grid region. DENVER — August 12, 2026 — As Americans continue to grapple with unrelenting […]

Sarah Montalbano joined The Michael Dukes Show on August 3 to discuss Always On Energy Research’s Blue States, High Rates’ profile covering Alaska, along with the future of Alaska LNG. The hour-long conversation gets into what actually drives Alaska’s electricity rates, the status of the AK LNG project amid a special session, and more. Listen […]

Pennsylvania legislators have prioritized electricity affordability this year. First, they exited the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the multistate carbon-tax compact. Then, with the newly passed state budget, they defeated Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Lightning Plan, which would have layered an additional in-state carbon tax and expanded Pennsylvania’s clean-energy mandate.  But Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) remains on the books, unexamined for 20 years. […]

The June 2026 edition of our newsletter marks America’s 250th birthday by remembering that “net zero” isn’t anything new. It’s what energy looked like in 1776. Colonial Americans heated with wood, cooked over open fires, lit their homes with candles and whale oil, and ran mills with water wheels, windmills, and draft animals. Coal, oil, […]

The May 2026 edition of our monthly newsletter features our latest research, Introducing the Social Cost of Blackouts. Federal and state regulators already attach a dollar value to carbon emissions through the Social Cost of Carbon and rely on it to justify burdensome regulations and subsidies. Nothing equivalent prices the outages those same rules produce. […]

The AI hype machine is running at full steam, and the expectation of massive growth in data center load is causing a storm in the energy industry. As the narrative is currently told, data centers are going to devour gigawatts of power, leading to a massive increase in electricity usage and peak demand—with the costs […]

Always On energy policy analyst Sarah Montalbano joined the Steve Gruber Show to talk about why electricity bills keep climbing in Michigan and around the country. Montalbano explains that regulated utility monopolies recover costs through guaranteed rate increases, which is why wind and solar mandates and the infrastructure buildout they require add so much to […]

Isaac Orr, vice president of research, and Sarah Montalbano, energy policy analyst at Always On Energy Research, were published in The Wall Street Journal on May 27, 2026. The Solar Energy Industries Association announced on May 11 that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will serve as its next CEO. He’s the latest recruit in an industry push to buy credibility as […]

Always On’s Director of Research and Co-Founder Mitch Rolling joined KURV’s The 956 Drive Home to explain why the Texas’ electric grid has not been prepared for new AI demand. With data centers pulling load forecasts upward at a pace utilities haven’t seen in a generation, Mitch laid out why data centers aren’t the culprit […]