Before you start carving pumpkins and putting on your Halloween costume, check this month’s electricity bill: There may be an extra $58.23 waiting for you. This month, most energy users in the state ...

The latest Consumer Price Index shows that the average electric bill went up more than 5% from September 2024 to September 2025. That's faster than the inflation rate for the same period. Conventional ...

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AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

Calvin Butler, the chief executive of Exelon, one of the nation’s largest utility companies, is trying to keep the lights on. By Jordyn Holman Jordyn Holman, who has been using A.I. a lot more lately, ...

Utilities across the country are investing in upgrades, and the cost is often passed on to consumers. In some places, utilities are increasing capacity for data centers, but elsewhere they're ...

As Illinois lawmakers finished their work for 2025, they began backing away from their four-year-old pledge that the state would produce electricity only from carbon-free sources by 2045. They did so ...

For three days last December, when Kenya Brown’s youngest four kids weren’t in school, they spent their time at her oldest son’s apartment. They did their homework, charged their phones, showered and ...