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 […]

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 […]

Heading into the summer means that reliability assessments are dropping! And on that note, last week, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) released its Summer 2026 Capacity Assessment. It’s 15 slides long, and every one of them should alarm Albany, which is currently struggling over what to do with its Climate Leadership and Community Protection […]

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 […]

Sarah Montalbano In 2018, Xcel Energy, an investor-owned utility serving millions of customers across eight states, was the first U.S. utility to pledge to deliver 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050. Eight years later, Xcel is pleading with Colorado regulators to let it continue running its coal plants until 2030. What happened to “steel for fuel,” […]