Electricity

Almost three years ago, an unlikely relationship formed between the declining coal town of Kemmerer and one of the richest people in the world: Bill Gates. That’s because his nuclear company, TerraPower, promised to pump life back into the town's economy with a “first of its kind” power plant.

Legislators cite growing energy needs, rise of AI power demands for Utah’s interest in entering the coal power market.

After a sprint focused on two big, hot-button bills, week 3 at the Utah Legislature shifted gears for the supermajority's focus on energy policy.

Blackouts and grid issues in states like California and Texas are behind a Republican push for Utah’s “energy independence.”

With some of Utah’s coal-fired power plants set to close in the coming years, Republican legislators are looking at ways to give the state some breathing room.

Fervo Energy, the company partnered with Google, is using the Nevada pilot project to launch others, including one in Utah that will deliver far more carbon-free electricity to the grid.

For faith groups that choose to go solar, the benefits can be both financial and theological.

The Hooper resident has been in the Legislature since 2015 and previously served as majority leader.

NuScale and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems have called off their project to provide a new kind of nuclear power to many Utah communities.

The termination of the small modular nuclear reactor power plant is a blow to the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda following the cancelations of two major offshore wind projects.

A joint center by U.S. and Canadian universities hopes to identify ways to protect the region’s power grid from ever more extreme weather.

Getting more power from geothermal energy could help reduce fossil fuel emissions and curb climate change. Recent breakthroughs in southwest Utah are showing that this renewable energy source could have the potential to work almost anywhere.