Energy

More power lines could move underground as part of an effort included in the infrastructure bill to update the nation’s energy system, but rural energy...

Nuclear giant Exelon will spare its power plant in Byron from slated closure Monday after the Illinois Senate passed massive energy and climate legislation that includes nearly $700 million in ratepayer subsidies to keep three of Exelon’s unprofitable nukes afloat.

Ameren Illinois held a demonstration in Galesburg to show how it's starting to use drones to resolve power outages more quickly.The devices can be flown…

Ameren Illinois’ new operating plant in Macomb will serve as a model for the energy provider’s future facilities.The $9-million facility is the first of…

Bob Sandidge has been in the coal industry for 40 years. But he's never seen it this bad. "You turn around and one company lays off people, and another…

To make or not to make a homemade pie? That is a classic holiday dilemma. Do you take the easy way out and buy a fairly decent frozen pie, or do you risk…

By some estimates, producing our food consumes about a fifth of the nation's energy supply. It takes a lot of diesel to move tractors and semis around the…

Every day, a facility on the outskirts of Grand Junction, Colorado takes in 8 million gallons of what people have flushed down their toilets and washed…

There are few places where the connection between energy and food is more obvious than at the Bright Agrotech warehouse.Most of the building in Laramie,…

An Illinois appeals court has upheld the state's rules for the high-volume oil and gas drilling technique known as fracking.The appellate court sided with…