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 […]

The April 2026 edition of our newsletter, “Is Indiana the Next IT State?” features our most recent study: The Levelized Cost of Electricity in Indiana. Our analysis goes well beyond the traditional LCOE because we calculate the total system cost for each resource in Indiana’s generating portfolio, including but not limited to firming, infrastructure, and cost impacts on […]

Indiana’s electric grid is being asked to do a lot at once. Generation grew by more than 13 percent in 2025, the fastest jump of any state in the Midwest. Coal ran harder to meet that demand even as the national coal fleet shrank. Retail electricity prices climbed 10.5 percent in a single year. Even […]