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.

With California's power grid strained to the breaking point and customers outraged over soaring bills, angry officials Thursday urged a "ratepayer rebellion" to challenge the industry in America's ...

Imagine getting your high-speed Internet service through an electrical outlet on your wall. Tens of thousands of Americans already have that option, and potentially millions will have it within the ...

Middletown had a flat-rate contract with energy company Metropolitan Edison dating to 1906. In the mid-1990s, Met-Ed wanted to break that agreement, and Middletown sued. The result was a $14 million ...

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.

Coal isn't immune to price increases. Coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the nation's most prolific producer, has moved in price during the past five years from a low of $3.60 a ton in 2001 to a ...

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 ...

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist said recently there is a "very good chance" the Senate will approve a slimmed-down energy bill in March. "I think there's a very good chance it will pass it on ...

Customers of Wisconsin Energy Corp. could see a special charge on their electric bills to help the company pay for $600 million in environmental upgrades to its aging power plants, under a proposal ...

Exelon Generation today notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the company will begin the application process for a combined construction and operating license (COL) that would allow ...

Dutch power utility Nuon will sell its 15-year electricity purchasing contract with Intergen's newly built 800-megawatt power plant to local utility Eneco Energie, the companies said recently. Nuon ...