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Reliance on fossil fuels over cheaper renewables is a key driver of potential energy cost hikes.

Political policies and utility company decisions in Kentucky are hindering the adoption of renewable energy.

Innovations like large-scale batteries, virtual power plants and tech industry investments in renewables offer solutions to manage costs.

Your electric bill could rise as much as $800 a year in the next 10 years.

It doesn’t have to.

These increases are being blamed on the construction of new data centers that will devour massive amounts of energy for the artificial intelligence boom.

Much of the blame lies elsewhere.

The bigger culprits are the Trump administration, the Kentucky legislature and Kentucky’s big utility, LG&E/KU.

Those three are pursuing stra

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