PA Solar Center and Capital Good Fund announce a partnership to finance nearly 70 solar projects statewide worth up to $40 million, helping small businesses and nonprofits go solar with no money down.

Pennsylvania PUC Chairman Steve DeFrank warns of a projected $700 million annual cost increase driven by a loophole in net metering rules that allows merchant solar facilities to receive above-market compensation.

At a Pennsylvania Senate budget hearing, PUC Chair DeFrank testified that the PJM capacity market was not designed for data center demand and called for a comprehensive, diversified state energy plan.

FirstEnergy subsidiary plans $950 million in transmission and distribution upgrades across Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Twenty-eight contributors to the Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence have signed an open letter condemning the deletion of its climate science chapter as a political attack on judicial independence. The chapter was removed in February after 27 Republican state attorneys general pressured the center to retract it, leaving federal judges without a peer-reviewed resource on climate science at a time when climate litigation is rapidly expanding in U.S. courts. Subscription may be required.

The March 2026 issue of The Electrical Worker reveals the winners of the annual IBEW Photo Contest, which drew hundreds of entries from members across the United States and Canada. The contest, with a first place prize of $1,000, showcases the work, activism, and fellowship of IBEW members through photography submitted from locals across North America.

IBEW International Secretary Treasurer Paul Noble writes in The Electrical Worker about the ongoing fight against right-to-work laws and the union's strategy for protecting worker organizing rights state by state. Noble draws on his experience helping secure the Workers' Rights Amendment in Illinois to make the case for why every state should give workers the full freedom to organize and bargain collectively.