The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday that it would repeal the Biden administration’s carbon emission rule on coal- and gas-fired power plants. Had the rule remained, it would have forced reliable coal plants off the grid and hobbled their natural-gas replacements, as American electricity demand soars after 15 years of little growth. The Biden Administration’s rule, […]

Always On Energy Research co-founder and President Amy Cooke joined the Scott Sloan Show to dismantle the argument that data centers are driving up electricity prices. Load growth from AI, advanced manufacturing, and reshoring exposed a shortfall of reliable, dispatchable generation that 20 years of bad policy created. Cooke makes the case for new natural […]

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. […]

by Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling We are currently working on an exciting new project called the Social Cost of Blackouts. In this upcoming report, we argue that regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and utility regulators should be required to determine whether proposed power plant regulations or integrated resource plans (IRPs) will result […]