News

  • The city signed a 22-month contract Wednesday with Homefield Energy, locking in an electricity rate of $0.04539 per kilowatt hour for Ameren customers who remain in a new electric aggregation program.
  • The Montana Supreme Court has upheld the ruling that former Public Service Commissioner Brad Molnar violated state ethics laws and should pay $20,700 in fines and costs -- some five years after the case began.
  • The 2013-14 annual budget for Owensboro Municipal Utilities, including an increase in the environmental control cost adjustment (ECCA) that will add $6 a month to the average residential electric bill starting next month, was approved Thursday by the City Utility Commission.
  • U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday told the U.S. Department of Energy's top official that the Obama administration's "ill-conceived, reckless" proposal in the president's budget to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority damaged the value of the utility's bonds and failed to account for the impact to ratepayers, taxpayers and nuclear facilities.
  • ComEd announced the four winners of its Smart Home Showcase, a contest awarding four customers with free, energy efficiency home makeovers valued at $45,000 each.
  • The battle against what Gov. Jerry Brown called "the pre-eminent threat to all humanity" continued Friday on a residential rooftop in North Long Beach. Brown was in town to celebrate a solar power installation at the home of Maribel and Jose Mendoza and their four boys.
  • With a Public Service Commission hearing now less than two weeks away, critics are flooding the commission with arguments against Ohio-based-FirstEnergy's proposal to transfer its Harrison Power Station to a West Virginia subsidiary.
  • We Energies customers won't have to foot the bill for pollution controls that will be installed at a Marquette, Mich., coal-fired power plant, under a plan approved Thursday.
  • Globeleq, the emerging markets power company, has inaugurated its 44 MW Eolo de Nicaragua S.A. (Eolo) wind farm in Nicaragua, strengthening its position as the leading renewable energy company in the Central American region.
  • Blue Earth, Inc. (OTCQB: BBLU) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Xnergy Inc., finalized the construction of two renewable energy projects utilizing solar PV (photovoltaic) technology.