Articles by John Funk

FirstEnergy's "Energizing the Future" spending plan to update its 24,000 miles of transmission lines and substations is paying off with higher profits.

One objective of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is to help emerging technologies become market-ready.

Officials from the departments of Energy and Defense expressed their concerns about the growing threats to the grid at a D.C. forum.

The Northeast U.S. could meet its winter peak power needs with LNG rather than relying on oil or coal plants, argues a Houston-based entrepreneur.

Fears that FERC’s pipeline regulations will stymie development of a national hydrogen pipeline system pervaded a Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing.

TAE Technologies said its research reactor had achieved and maintained control of plasma in a fusion reactor at a temperature of 135 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Powerful June storms and demand surges in central Ohio forced AEP to cut power to 150,000 customers to prevent further system damage, company executives say.

The Ohio Consumers' Counsel wants an independent audit, rather than a PUCO review, of AEP's decision last month to cut power after a wind storm.

In the race for $2 billion hydrogen hub funding, the U.S. Department of Energy will insist on $2 billion in matching funds.

EQT CEO Toby Rice said expansion of hydrogen-ready pipelines to move Appalachian shale gas to liquefaction plants for export is key to future energy security.