Affordability and rising electricity demand for data centers are top of mind for the energy industry. As prices have risen, prominent members of the wind and solar advocacy camp, like Jigar Shah, Tyler Norris, and others, claim that prices are rising not because of the massive national malinvestment in wind and solar resources, but because we […]

Always On Energy Research’s Vice President of Research, Isaac Orr, joined Kerby Anderson on Point of View Radio to break down Alaska and Florida energy policy in the 2026 primaries. Orr walked through Alaska’s Republican field competing over the Alaska LNG pipeline, the Jones Act suspension, why Florida’s winter demand peak exposes the limits of […]

There is a massive pushback against data center growth in the United States. Our friend Robert Bryce’s data center rejection database now tracks over 300 bans worldwide as of this writing. Furthermore, these bans now transcend local and county bans to affect data center development across entire states, including New York and Texas. Personally, appreciate AI because it has enabled us […]

Democratic lawmakers are reportedly upset about utility companies earning record-breaking profits—but did their policies contribute to them? We believe the answer is yes. Big Profits for Big Power Companies There is no question that utility profits are indeed soaring across the country. Our analysis, which examined the top 50 U.S. utilities using S&P Global Market Intelligence data and […]

On July 20th, 2026, Southwest Power Pool West (SPPW), the newest regional transmission organization (RTO) area in America, declared an Energy Emergency Alert 3, narrowly avoiding rolling blackouts. According to GridStatus, SPPW’s close call was caused by high demand, exceedingly low wind generation, a forced outage at a 250 MW coal unit, and reduced solar output. In all likelihood, SPPW […]

As if to welcome the nation’s utility regulators to Minneapolis for the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) summer meeting next week, MISO declared an Energy Emergency Alert Level 2 on Wednesday, July 15th, citing forced generation outages, above-normal temperatures, and higher-than-forecasted load. Interestingly, MISO did not mention that its wind resources, which constitute 33,687 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity and […]

Big Tech companies continue to hit new high scores with respect to their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Despite the climate pledge Microsoft made in 2020 to be carbon-neutral by 2030, the company’s latest sustainability report shows that the company’s GHG emissions exceeded 21 million metric tons in fiscal year 2025, up 27 percent from the year before. […]

Isaac Orr, Vice President of Research at Always On Energy Research, joined Fox 5’s Good Day D.C. to discuss whether the electric grid can keep up with AI-driven data center growth. Orr said data centers are currently winning the race against new power plant construction, and that the fastest fix is to stop retiring coal […]

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. […]

Always On Vice President of Research Isaac Orr joined Good Morning Liberty to explain why grid reliability went from a 2030s worry to a near-term one. AI data centers and electric vehicle mandates are piling new demand onto a system that keeps retiring coal and nuclear capacity, and Orr points to NERC warning of high […]