As global energy demand surges—driven by AI-hungry data centers, advanced manufacturing, and electrified ...

The rapid rollout of power-hungry AI data centers could be straining the US energy grid and causing utility bills to spike – and prices could get worse in the coming months, according to economists.

Electricity and gas prices have been rising fast, and they’re headed even higher. Those are the conclusions of two recent reports about spiraling utility bills, one looking at the past, the other ...

NPR's series Cost of Living: The Price We Pay is examining what's driving price increases and how people are coping after years of stubborn inflation. How are higher prices changing the way you live?

When it comes to monthly costs, not many utilities vary as much as an electric bill. No matter the provider or location, rates can spike for more reasons than increased usage. So when utility ...

Li Cohen is a senior social media producer at CBS News. She previously wrote for amNewYork and The Seminole Tribune. She mainly covers climate, environmental and weather news. Senior Coordinating ...

Ari Peskoe is the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP). EELP receives funding from philanthropic foundations that support ...

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) released its annual Financial Review, which shows that America’s investor-owned electric companies are outpacing all other capital-intensive industries as they work ...