Energy News

Consumers Energy awarded $4.3 million in incentives through its Business Solutions program to fund 835 projects in the first quarter of 2013 to help Michigan businesses and schools become more energy efficient.

Christopher Smith, the Energy Department official in charge of shaping the Obama administration's policy on exporting natural gas, recalls working for Chevron on an import facility during the first part of the last decade.

Looking to move beyond the controversy of Aubrey McClendon's personal dealings in Upper Ohio Valley drilling operations, Chesapeake Energy named Robert "Doug" Lawler its new chief executive officer Monday.

A Duke Energy Carolinas electricity rate increase that took effect last year will stay in effect while state regulators review it under a state Supreme Court order.

Allegations of Native American archeological sites being destroyed by logging operations have caused a rift between members of the Maidu Summit and Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

With a major ruling in Patriot Coal Corp.'s bankruptcy due within about a week, the United Mine Workers of America are planning a rally for 10 a.m. Tuesday starting at Keiner Plaza downtown, with participants marching to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court on 10th Street.

Xcel Energy Inc. is asking Colorado regulators to approve a demonstration project that would use forest biomass to generate electricity.

The California Public Utilities Commission has reached a proposed $37 million settlement with Southern California Edison over fallen power lines blamed for starting the October 2007 Malibu Canyon Fire.

Wichita Business Journal employee Gary Nickel received this photo from his son, Justin Nickel, who was in the Moore, Okla., area Monday afternoon.

The owners of power plants that burn coal are playing high-stakes poker as they decide whether to install expensive pollution controls or shut down If one were to sketch a family tree of eastern U.S. power plants , the Gallatin Fossil Plant outside Nashville, Tenn., and the Big Sandy Power Plant in eastern Kentucky might be distant cousins.

A FirstEnergy official says the planned $1.1 billion sale of a coal-fired power plant is a reasonable price for protection against the much more expensive option of buying electricity on the spot market.

Despite serving as the "all-point-west" for many Metro-North Railroad commuters Monday morning, the scene at Westport's Saugtauck station appeared to running smoothly in the wake of the Friday train collision.

Nursing homes owner ALEXANDRIA - Services for former Louisiana Nursing Home Association president Finley C. Matthews, Jr.

Lawler, who is senior vice president of international and deep-water operations at Anadarko Petroleum, will join Chesapeake on June 17, the company said.

Peach farmers around Fredericksburg and Stonewall, Texas have been hit by the drought, freezes and hail.

A small but outspoken group of residential customers vows to continue battling Michigan's largest utility company over the freedom to opt out of having "smart" meters installed outside their homes.

With four cities down and four to go, Sonoma County officials this week enter the second half of their roadshow to convince cities to take part in the county's planned public power agency.

Enbridge Energy Co. is preparing to construct a 600-mile pipeline that will carry crude oil from Illinois to Cushing, and the project promises to bring several hundred jobs.

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The utility that owns the troubled Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant says it hopes to have the plant ready to operate by the end of June.