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 […]

On Fox 5 Live Zone with Guy Lambert, Amy Cooke pushed back on the claim that AI data centers are driving up your electric bill. The affordability crisis dates back to resource and generation policies set 5 to 10 years ago, when states bet on expensive, unreliable power and still needed to maintain a second […]

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 founder and President Amy Cooke joined Zach Cantu News Talk 710 KURV’s The 956 Drive Home to make the case that the AI data center boom doesn’t have to land on residential ratepayers. The hyperscaler buildout needs what the grid is shortest on, which is always-on dispatchable generation, but consumer-regulated electricity and bring-your-own-power […]

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 […]

Evergy recently filed its Missouri Metro 2026 resource plan with the Missouri Public Service Commission. It’s 146 pages long, but a few charts demonstrate that Evergy is betting its future on natural gas. Evergy has a demand problem The Kansas City-based utility, which serves 1.7 million customers across eastern Kansas and western Missouri, is expecting retail sales […]

A few weeks ago, we wrote about how Gallup polling found 66 percent of Americans think the environment is getting worse despite the fact that air quality in the United States has improved dramatically since the 1970’s. This improvement was due in large part to the Clean Air Act and its subsequent amendments, as a reader noted. […]

Always On co-founder and Director of Research Mitch Rolling joined Fox 5 Live in Washington, D.C. to break down President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, the March 4 agreement in which Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI, and Amazon committed to building, bringing, or buying all energy needed for their data centers rather than passing those […]

Always On Energy Research Vice President Isaac Orr joined Brian Nichols on The Brian Nichols Show to dig into the real forces behind America’s surging electricity bills. While data centers and AI get most of the media attention, what’s really inflating your power bill is the cost-of-service regulatory model that governs monopoly utilities in most […]