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25Feb

Americans Embrace the Coal Fleet

Electricity affordability is a top-tier issue and one that is shaping elections. While the impact of AI and data centers is the elephant in the room, voters are increasingly aware of the energy policy decisions that have led to the rise in power prices – up 40 percent since 2020 – and the current efforts to […]
18Feb

Coal Answers the Natural Gas Bottleneck

American manufacturers are facing an energy crisis. Despite the U.S. being the world’s largest natural gas producer, manufacturers are increasingly being cutoff from natural gas supplies during periods of peak winter and summer demand. The critical challenge is a lack of pipeline capacity to meet the competing needs of power generation, heating and manufacturing. And […]
11Feb

Coal Power Saved Americans $30-40 Billion in 2025

Coal has been the nation’s grid reliability MVP this winter. It was also consumers’ affordability MVP in 2025. A new report by Energy Ventures Analysis (EVA) finds that last year coal generation served as an important buffer against energy inflation delivering $30 to $40 billion in total savings, lowering Americans’ power bills an average of $100 to $150 […]
04Feb

Reinforcing Winter Grid Reliability

The weather predicting skills of a certain groundhog remain up for debate, but Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this week and, sure enough, the brutal cold is sticking around.   Eastern states are likely to face frigid temperatures for much of February as the polar vortex pushes arctic air south. The forecasters at AccuWeather say to […]
29Jan

NERC Confirms the Crisis

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) latest long-term reliability assessment should be frontpage news. The nation’s supply of power isn’t just in crisis—it’s a rapidly accelerating crisis. The assessment is an urgent plea for emergency action to reinforce the nation’s grid reliability. NERC found that 13 of 23 assessment areas face resource adequacy challenges over […]
26Jan

Thank Heaven for Coal and Sound Energy Policy

The Wall Street Journal hit the nail on the head this weekend in an editorial titled “Thank Heaven for Coal Power in the Cold.” Winter storm Fern has wreaked havoc across a 2,000-mile stretch of the country leaving hundreds of thousands without power. If not for coal generation, it would be millions more. Electricity grids […]
21Jan

The Affordability Crisis Is a Reliability Crisis

Soaring electricity prices have become a top-tier political issue and will remain so through midterms and likely far longer.  That was underscored last week when the Trump administration hosted several state governors from PJM Interconnection territory, the nation’s largest electricity market, to urge the grid operator to hold an emergency capacity auction for data center […]
14Jan

An AI Power Tipping Point

The AI and data center boom is now driving the electricity and affordability crisis. Just this week, President Trump took to Truth Social to show he’s focused on the challenge, writing, “I never want Americans to pay higher electricity bills because of data centers.” He added that his team is now working with technology companies […]
08Jan

A New Record

Despite years of forecasts of imminent decline, coal demand keeps growing. While the final numbers aren’t in, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently found global coal demand was on track to rise by 0.5% in 2025, reaching a record 8.85 billion tonnes. With energy affordability and security globally paramount, the irreplaceability of coal shouldn’t be that surprising. […]