The Electric Power Station

EPS Ep. 12: An on-the-ground account of coal ash pollution in Texas by Utility Dive

Utility executives consistently name cybersecurity as the most pressing issue facing their companies, which are under near constant attack from nation states and other adversaries.

How can they fend off the hacks? Former New Jersey regulator Richard Mroz and CIO Dive Senior Editor Naomi Eide break it down.

The CEO of the nation’s largest wholesale power market says a new round of reforms will better compensate power plants for reliability services they offer every day.

Assistant Secretary Dan Simmons used to work for an organization that advocated the elimination of the office he now heads. Now he says he supports DOE’s renewable energy mission.

Utility customers are subsidizing dirty coal plants at more than a billion dollars a year, the Union of Concerned Scientists analyst says, thanks to market rules that allow monopoly-owned plants to choose when they generate electricity.

The Green New Deal has captured the imaginations — and anxieties — of the U.S. power sector.

Greg Carlock, one of the movement's architects, joins EPS to explain the broad and bold environmental agenda.

A decade after the worst coal ash spill in U.S. history, Nashville Public Radio reporter Shalina Chatlani talks about its continuing impacts on residents and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Renewables are competitive, states are poised to enact ambitious energy policies and the Trump administration is still mulling a plant bailout. What will be the biggest issues in 2019? Gavin sits down with Utility Dive's Iulia Gheorghiu and Catherine Morehouse to lay them out.

Former Montana utility regulator Travis Kavulla recently moved to Washington to impose "ideological discipline" on conservatives drawn to coal bailouts and combat the "pernicious alliance" between environmental groups and regulated utilities.

Gavin speaks with Asim Haque, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, on the origins of the coal and nuclear bailout debate and how to guide a progressive utility policy in a state without robust clean energy goals.