The Center for Energy Policy and Management (CEPM) at Washington & Jefferson College has released a new report, Distributed Energy in Pennsylvania: A Distributed-Generation Solution for Pennsylvania’s Energy Future , offering a comprehensive analysis of how locally produced energy, especially community solar, can help modernize the state’s energy system, lower costs, and strengthen grid reliability.   The report  details how rising capacity market prices in the PJM region, a

Western Pennsylvania’s energy resources are coming to the forefront as shifting federal priorities and rapidly increasing demand for AI and data centers converge, speakers at the Oct. 21 PA Energy Ecosystem Conference  emphasized. The conference , hosted by the Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management, brought together leaders in energy, policy, and industry for a daylong discussion of the rising need for energy and how this region’s natural gas

Electric customers in seven PJM states, including Pennsylvania, paid more than $4.3 billion in data center transmission costs in 2024, a new report found. The report from the Union of Concerned Scientists  said that the costs, for local transmission upgrades made to provide transmission service directly to data centers, have contributed to rising electric bills due to a “loophole” in the current regulatory structure. The Union of Concerned Scientists  is an advocacy group tha

Growth in data centers and cryptocurrency mining through 2030 could mean higher electric generation costs, as well as a spike in power...

More than half of the new electric generating capacity expected to added to the electric grid this year will be solar, a recent U.S....

The potential of geothermal systems to help in meeting Pennsylvania’s increasing energy needs was recently examined in a study by the...