A recent Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office report gave an early Christmas gift to counties and municipalities across the state, forecasting that impact fees paid by unconventional natural gas well drillers will rise by 46% in 2025. The IFO recently released its 2025 impact fee estimate , which projects that $240 million will be collected, up substantially from last year’s total  of $164.4 million. The 2025 figure is expected to end two years of decline due to low prices

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania continued to show strong 2025 results, as a recent Independent Fiscal Office report  showed an increase in both the amount produced and new wells drilled. Production volume during the third quarter showed a 5.1% increase from the previous year, and overall production for the year so far is up 5.7% from 2024. “This would be the strongest increase in annual production since calendar year 2021 (6.9%) if it holds up,” the report  states. The

The independent market monitor for PJM has filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asking it to require the regional grid operator to add large data centers only when they can reliably be served. Monitoring Analytics  claims in the complaint “that PJM is currently proposing to allow the interconnection of large new data loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require load curtailments (black outs) of the data centers or of other customers a

While all areas of the U.S. are expected to have adequate power supplies this winter under normal conditions, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) warned that several regions could face shortfall risks and blackouts during more extreme weather events. NERC, which oversees the security and reliability of the nation’s electric grid, recently released its annual winter reliability assessment . The report said that two trends affecting the electric supply are risi

A wave of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity will result in major changes to global gas markets, a new analysis indicates. The Gas 2025 analysis  by the International Energy Agency finds that about 300 billion cubic meters of new export capacity will be added across the world by 2030, with most of the expansion occurring in the U.S. and Qatar. “This wave of new LNG production capacity is set to profoundly transform global gas market dynamics,” the report stat

Just one in three Americans are confident they can explain how data centers impact the nation’s energy demand, a recent survey conducted by the Center for Energy Policy and Management at Washington & Jefferson College found. The results are detailed in a new report available at wjenergy.org/resources . The national energy literacy survey was distributed randomly to 1,263 people across the country, and its results have a 3% margin of error. Overall, about four in 10 Americans