Electricity Production and Distribution

A $4.5 billion bid Wednesday by France's state-controlled power company for reactors in Maryland and New York could lead to the only foreign ownership stake in U.S. nuclear plants. The late bid for half of Constellation Energy's nuclear business also...

When the freight elevator in the 13-story Farcroft apartment building broke down Nov. 18, LuAnne Origer and her fellow residents began using the older elevator in the lobby. Five days later, that elevator stopped running too. For almost two weeks,...

France's state-controlled power company challenged a proposed takeover by Warren Buffett of Constellation Energy today, putting up almost as much money for half its nuclear business as the legendary investor had offered for the entire company....

Southern California Edison on Monday unveiled its newest power plant: 33,700 solar panels atop a warehouse in Fontana that will feed green energy directly into the grid. It's the first piece of what the utility says could become the largest rooftop solar...

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) _ Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the...

Warren Buffett has agreed to pay $4.7 billion for Baltimore's Constellation Energy Group. He'll have to put up much more if he really wants it. To Constellation shareholders? Sure, that's possible. But also to customers of Baltimore Gas & Electric,...

The worst time Most all companies' profits are down. Many are hitting bottom, and others are going bankrupt, so why should power companies get a rate hike, plus collect money for future energy to keep their same margin of profit in this day and time?...

The owners of a Palmer Township apartment building gutted in a fire a year ago are suing Metropolitan Edison Co. alleging the electric utility caused the blaze while restoring power to a tenant. The suit, filed in Northampton County Court, said the...

Q: We often have electric power outages. I checked into installing a backup generator, but the cost is too high. Is there anything I can use to keep a lamp, my computer and a few other things running? — Julia L. A: As modern families rely more...

As New York residential electric rates in July topped the list of those in the continental United States, the Long Island Power Authority, no small contributor to the milestone, said it's eyeing a new billing system that would more closely reflect month-...

Richard Kessel was back in his element Thursday, dispensing free weatherization kits to customers of two Long Island municipal power companies as part of a statewide energy efficiency "blitz." Kessel, chief of the New York Power Authority, frequently...

Florida Power & Light customers can expect a slight drop in their monthly electric bills next year thanks to lower fuel costs. FPL raised prices by 8 percent in August and had projected another 7 percent increase in January. But a dramatic drop in oil...