energy economics

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s ability to remain a net electricity exporter may hinge on how it balances surging demand from data centers and other large...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has heard oral arguments about an energy tax looming over utility bills in the commonwealth: the Regional Greenhouse Ga...

HARRISBURG — A skeptical high court grilled state officials this week about whether the money it wants to collect from a regional anti-pollution pact ...

HARRISBURG — A bill to ensure Pennsylvania residents have choices when it comes to fuel availability was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Local G...

Gas prices in Brookville, DuBois and Erie dropped an average of a dime apiece, while the average in Bradford and Warren — as usual — went essentially ...

Regional, state and national gasoline markets saw little movement — in either direction — during the last week, according to GasBuddy and AAA East Cen...

The three-week run in which Bradford’s local average gas prices were lower than the regional average has come to an end. According to AAA East Central...

LONDON (TNS) — The electrification of everything is the biggest shake up the global energy system has seen in decades. Unfortunately, the route to the...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) was created to help advance clean-energy infrastructure and technologies that allegedly had...

The cost of oil is at its lowest since the early days of the covid pandemic in 2021. Local oil purchasers American Refining Group Inc. and Ergon last ...

HARRISBURG – Even as a natural gas haven, Pennsylvania ranks only 32nd in energy affordability in the Energy Affordability 2025 report from the Americ...

Gas prices did a little bit of everything this week, from rising nationally and across Pennsylvania, to falling regionally and hardly moving at all lo...

Bradford’s average for a gallon of gasoline fell just 10% of the decrease seen regionally and just 7% of the decrease recorded across the state, and r...

Pennsylvania faces an unsettling prospect: California-style blackouts looming on the horizon. This is a troubling shift for a state that proudly stand...

American motorists are paying the lowest prices to fuel up during March since 2021, according to GasBuddy’s nationwide fuel price reports. The nationa...

HARRISBURG — The supply and demand imbalance across the power grid spells trouble for the future. The acceleration of fossil fuel plant retirements, c...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Frustration with orphan well-plugging efforts in Pennsylvania came out during a Department of Environmental Protection budget heari...

While gas prices in western Pennsylvania dropped a couple of cents this week, Bradford’s average managed to shed just one half of one cent. Regional a...

Nearly a year has passed since Gov. Josh Shapiro first announced a “new era” of leadership in energy with a program he claimed would create 15,000 job...

HARRISBURG —Gov. Josh Shapiro recently unveiled his asks for the coming state budget, and like many of his predecessors, some of his latest proposals ...