Driven by the growth of data centers for artificial intelligence,, and electricity prices are surging. In Pennsylvania, some consumers are seeing double-digit price hikes. At the same time, President Donald Trump has opposed the fastest growing sources of new energy – renewables.
Trump’s big tax bill last year effectively ended renewable energy tax credits, slowed renewable projects on public lands and – most recently – his Interior department cited national security in pausing federal permits on several big offshore wind projects.
The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier spoke about the intersection of these policies and the nation’s rising electric demand with Julian Spector, a reporter at Canary Media, an independent non-profit news outlet that covers renewable energy, about Spector’s recent article on the issue.
