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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Amy Cooke, President of Always On Energy Research, joined Harold Birzer on Hillsdale College’s WRFH (Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM) to discuss the devastating tornado that destroyed a $1 billion solar facility in Indiana and the questions it raises about the feasibility of powering America’s grid on wind, solar, and batteries. The untimely demise of […]

President & Founder of Always On Energy Research, Amy Cooke, joins SiriusXM Patriot’s Stacy on the Right to discuss the overnight destruction of a $1 billion solar facility in Indiana and what that tornado reveals about the cost of fragile power. Broadcast April 6, 2026. For more on this topic, read the work referenced in […]