U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said his department is working with utilities around the country to keep more coal plants slated for retirement open to help meet rising demand from data centers and other new large loads.

Democrats introduced a FERC-heavy bill to control electricity costs, House Energy & Commerce Committee Republicans tout bills passed out of committee, DOE returns $13 billion and some details from the Dallas Fed survey.

FERC focused on large loads and clearing out older proceedings during its September meeting, with two of three current members saying they hoped to move a pending proceeding on co-located loads in the near future.

DOE Secretary Chris Wright announced Units 3 and 4 of the Eddystone Generating Station in Pennsylvania must remain operational under an emergency order to "secure grid reliability" in the mid-Atlantic.

EPA is proposing to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding, which qualifies greenhouse gases as pollutants and has been used by Democratic presidential administrations to regulate emissions from power plants and other sources.

The Trump administration released an artificial intelligence action plan and announced the availability of four federal sites to build new data centers and generation to serve them as part of an effort to "win the AI race."

Invenergy is standing by the value of its $11 billion, 800-mile Grain Belt Express transmission project with a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who is said to have pledged to block the line.

Senators asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about project spending his department has put under review or already cut when he testified about the Trump administration’s 2026 budget request.