Who Pays for Wildfire Prevention? If You’re in California, You Do — in Your Power Bill.
California now has the most expensive electricity in the continental United States. It also has expensive housing … and an increasingly broken home insurance market.
Are the three phenomena linked? They might be. Due to a peculiarity in the state’s constitution, electricity utilities are incentivi…
The AI Data Center Backlash: Robinson Meyer, Nicholas Rabb, Astra Taylor
According to a recent Gallup poll, some 70 percent of Americans oppose a data center being built in their area. Thousands are showing up to the streets, to town halls, and to the ballot box to register their dissent. More than 300 localities across the United States—red, blue, and purple—have alre…
Trump’s Clean Energy Repeal Was Even More Costly Than We Thought
Two years ago, Donald Trump made an outlandish campaign promise: He would cut Americans’ power bills in half.
It was a ridiculous, impossible pledge — but even so, the affordability problem didn’t need to get this bad. A new report, out this week from the Natural Resources Defense Council, looks a…
Shift Key Classic: What Is a Watt?
As we catch up from summer vacation, we’re bringing you a favorite from the Shift Key archive. We’ll be back in your feed with more fresh episodes starting next week.
What is the difference between energy and power? How does the power grid work? And what’s the difference between a megawatt and a m…
Starting a Giant Online Data Platform Is the Easy Part
America has some of the world’s best data about its own internal energy, industrial economy, and carbon emissions. That’s thanks to a federal agency called the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which painstakingly collects and updates the data every week.
But EIA data can be hard to access —…
What Does The Nuclear Company Do?
In the past few years, something surprising has happened in American energy policy: States and utilities have started trying to build new nuclear plants.
A new kind of company — the nuclear developer — is now trying to handle those projects. The most prominent by far is The Nuclear Company, a star…
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Trump’s Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Fossil Fuel Agenda
Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has blocked renewable energy development and attacked climate change policy, prioritized fossil fuels and encouraged nuclear energy, and started a war that led to a global oil and gas supply shock.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has be…
Al Gore on AI, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and the Biggest Surprises of the Past 20 Years
Former Vice President Al Gore needs no introduction. He is, in a way, the original climate influencer. His film An Inconvenient Truth gave rise to a new wave of climate activism in the 2000s. It was one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time upon its release, and it won an Oscar, a Gram…
Governor Mikie Sherrill on Electricity Prices, Nuclear Power, and Building in New Jersey
Governor Mikie Sherrill is a former Navy pilot, federal prosecutor, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was elected New Jersey's governor in November 2025 in a campaign dominated by the state’s surging electricity prices.
For this episode of Shift Key, Governor Sherrill joined H…
The Tesla Alum Trying to Turn GM Into an American Battery Juggernaut
There are two big trends in the American battery sector at the moment. The first is that the electric vehicle market is deteriorating. GM, for instance, sold just 25,000 EVs in the third quarter of this year. Ford sold 6,000 EVs. Even the long-awaited return of the Chevy Bolt sold just 8,000 units…
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