Energy industry

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposed a statewide sales tax as part of his plan to deal with a budget deficit brought on by declining oil revenues.

With the latest injunction in favor of Revolution Wind, the Trump administration's war on alternative energy is seeming more and more quixotic.

State tax policy is playing a role in the location of data centers which have turned into a lightning rod attracting debt financing, local opposition, and federal involvement.

U.S. electricity consumption has shifted from limited to rising growth due to the proliferation of data centers, which poses challenges for public power.

In a move cheered by public power companies, the House passed a bill that would give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authority to keep power plants open if their closure threatens reliability.

Stargate data centers in Michigan and Wisconsin illustrate the risks to municipalities of such projects and the growing backlash to data centers.

Omaha Public Power District will go to market the week of Jan. 5 with about $164 million of Series 2026A separate electric system revenue refunding bonds.

The Project Tundra carbon capture project – a public-private partnership involving a 2,500-mile pipeline through parts of the Midwest – suffered a setback.

The transaction, which supports the Navajo community in Ganado, Arizona, represents a major landmark in furthering Native American health care infrastructure, overcoming hurdles tribal governments typically face in issuing municipal debt to open a replicable path to market other indigenous health systems can follow.

The New York Power Authority created a new in-state conduit issuer to maximize savings and benefits for New Yorkers on a prepaid electricity deal.

Ten winners across five regions and five additional categories will be celebrated Dec. 2 in New York City, where one will be crowned the overall Deal of the Year.

A lawsuit filed in federal court by 17 states against the Trump administration targets a presidential memorandum ending federal approvals for wind energy.

The nearly-complete offshore wind power generation project can resume construction while it fights a stop-work order from the Trump administration.

Lawmakers passed California Gov. Gavin Newsom's expansive energy package, including a bill to extend the state's cap-and-invest program.

From leases for floating wind farms to projects nearly finished with construction, no offshore generation project is safe from the Trump administration.

The Illinois Municipal Electric Agency agreed with 29 of its 32 members on new contracts that last until 2055, but the holdouts include two large customers.

A two-year process and a new financing vehicle were needed for the New York Power Authority to price the first prepay energy deal in the state. 

With big state incentives and tariff protection, a United Arab Emirates-based aluminum producer has pledged to build the first new U.S. smelter in decades.

The deal is the second large bond issued from the Public Energy Authority of Kentucky this year.

The tribal movement toward energy independence through renewable-powered microgrid projects has been slowed, if not stalled, by shifting political winds.