Virginia Governor Signs Dominion-Backed Bills. All Eyes on Regulators Now.

RICHMOND, Va.—Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Friday signed legislation that directs regulators to assign electricity costs to data centers and allows Dominion Energy to spend $900,000 a mile burying local distribution lines. The bills from Senate President Pro Tem Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, and Del. Destiny LeVere Bolling, D-Henrico, could have also required data centers to cover […]

Florida Electricity Shutoffs Rank Among Nation’s Highest

Florida households had their electricity shut off some 2.1 million times in 2024 because of an inability to pay, a number that was among the highest of any state. That comes from a first-of-its-kind federal report examining energy insecurity across the country. The U.S. Energy Information Administration compiled a state-by-state dataset of final notices and […]

Why Fairbanks residents pay some of the highest electric rates in Alaska

Earlier this month, Golden Valley Electric Association held a community meeting in response to growing frustration among its members. The standing-room-only crowd at the Noel Wien Library included many familiar faces involved in Fairbanks energy issues. But what stood out were the people I didn’t recognize: residents who don’t typically show up to these kinds […]

Police Blotter: False bomb reports, noncriminal hate violence, breaking and entering at a student residence

This report covers incidents from March 3 to March 23 as recorded in the Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) bulletin.

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Legislation Aims to Protect Floridians From Data Center Costs, but Will It?

Legislation awaiting Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature is aimed at ensuring hyper-scale data centers in Florida bear the full financial burden of powering their own facilities and that costs do not fall to average Floridians. The bill, approved by legislators earlier this month on the last day of their annual session, lays out the first regulations […]

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