A regional utility has backed off a proposal to build twin coal-fired power plants in Missouri and Kansas and now plans just one plant while exploring conservation and wind power, its two top ...

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently headed to Washington to lobby against a Bush administration policy he says will add to the American air pollution that accounts for half of Ontario's smog.

NEW YORK — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge recently urged private industry to do its part to secure the Internet infrastructure that has become critical to national and economic security.

The Office of Public Utility Counsel also received support from consumer advocates and even from the electric companies it regularly opposes in rate cases. John Fainter, president of the Association ...

Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a cloak of invisibility. It isn't quite ready to hide a Romulan spaceship from Capt. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter. But ...

Ontario is in talks with TransAlta Corp. aimed at getting a C$500 million ($380 million) power plant running full-out to help avoid electricity shortages in Canada's biggest market, the minister in ...

A fire broke out in a 1,000-foot-tall smokestack under construction at a coal-fired power plant recently, trapping four contract workers, officials said. Three workers were plucked off the stack by a ...

Reducing the demand for electricity using current technology is a better financial bet than building new generators in Ontario, says a preliminary version of a new study. Ontario could cut its peak ...

MONTREAL— Another Canadian hydroelectric project has fallen under the eye of U.S. environmentalist of U.S. environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is launching a campaign to block a dam on Quebec ...

Microturbines, a boon to energy-strapped businesses, will get a boost from the U.S. Department of Energy. The Energy Department will provide $30 million to companies developing microturbines, said ...

Ontario Power Generation today formally started the federal approvals process with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) by filing an application for a Site Preparation Licence for new nuclear ...

California energy officials have approved the construction of one of the largest new power plants to be built in the state since electricity deregulation. New Power Plant near Tracy, Calif., Wins ...