Latest Utilities News
PG&E's criminal probation to end amid ongoing safety worries
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation’s largest utility remains too dangerous to trust after years of devastation from wildfires ignited by its outdated equipment and neglectful management. ...
Mexico's energy reform strains ties with US
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s plan to favor its own state-owned electrical power plants and limit energy sales by private, foreign-built projects could affect U.S. investment in Mexico, officials said during bilateral talks this week. According to statements issued Friday, the...
Utility asks court to overturn rejection of power plant plan
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s largest electric provider is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a decision by regulators and let the utility proceed with a plan to transfer its shares in a coal-fired power plant to a Navajo energy company. A filing Friday by Public...
Planned natural gas plants would cost $900M, run 10% of time
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A southern Indiana utility wants to build two new natural gas plants, and a pipeline to get the fuel to them, outside Evansville. CenterPoint Energy, formerly known as Vectren, said this project will help the utility with its transition to renewable energy. It...
Alabama Power to pay state fine, stop coal burning at plant
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Power Co. will pay $75,000 in fines and stop burning coal in a unit that released too much hydrochloric acid at a generating plant north of Mobile under an agreement with state environmental regulators. The settlement came as the utility agreed to a...
Exchange: Rio Verde Foothills homes to lose water source
RIO VERDE, Ariz. (AP) — Flooding rains have eroded the roads here until they resemble desert washes, but they still will carry you to someone’s version of paradise. The roads curl past multi-million dollar homes, lead to sprawling ranches and take people to views once thought impossible to see...
Utilities manager in W.Va. retiring after 27 years with city
FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) — It’d be hard to find a more productive career than that of David Sago. Sago has worked for the City of Fairmont in utilities since 1994 and announced that he will be retiring this month after 27 years working for the city. After spending...
Cold North Dakota ideal for hot cryptocurrency data centers
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s bitterly cold winters make for the ideal setting desired by a new industry eyeing the state: cryptocurrency. Interest has picked up over the past year in locating data centers within North Dakota. Such facilities consist of computer servers...
Renewables helping some rural cooperatives with bottom line
BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — In a field in Ramsey north of the Twin Cities, a solar array is producing power from the sun. What’s unusual about this array are the large white boxes connected to it that are the size of shipping containers. They’re batteries that store energy when the...
Nevada geothermal power lawsuit bound for US appeals court
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal appeals court will have to decide whether protecting historical tribal lands and a rare toad warrant blocking a major geothermal plant in Nevada as the nation tries to move away from fossil fuels amid a looming climate crisis. Ormat Technologies says it...
