Dominion East Ohio News

This past week GuruFocus recognized four different companies as dividend growers.

Less than 24 hours ago, the Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin became the first nuclear power plant in this country to be shut down since the late 1990s.

's stock had its "sector perform" rating reiterated by equities research analysts at RBC Capital in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday, StocKRatingsNetwork.com reports.

An administrative error, falling gas prices, an acquisition and a splash of opportunism came together in the summer of 2008 and snowballed over the past five years into a $4.3 million judgment against Dominion Resources.

State officials joined Dominion Resources and Danbury-based FuelCell Energy in celebrating the start of construction of a new power generation plant in Bridgeport on Friday.

Utility stocks paying respectable dividends are generally considered defensive investments with low volatility of returns relative to those of the overall market.

In the first article of this series, I discussed about the rising demand for LNG and why some specific companies making business with natural gas are set to benefit for this great opportunity.

's stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by investment analysts at TheStreet in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, Analyst Ratings.Net reports.

They currently have a $57.00 price target on the stock, up from their previous price target of $54.00. Other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock.

The monthly fixed fees that Dominion East Ohio and Columbia Gas of Ohio charge customers are going to increase, mostly because of on-going projects to replace aging pipelines.

Dominion Resources issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The company reported $0.83 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.90 by $0.07, Stock Ratings Network reports.

Dominion Resources Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter profit was nearly unchanged as it spent more on storm-related costs and electric sales were lower than expected.

We hate it when the lights go out, but electric utilities aren't big fans of outages either.

An Abingdon organization is among the first recipients of environmental project grants being distributed by the Dominion Foundation, a charitable arm of Dominion Resources and parent company of Dominion Virginia Power.

The Obama administration may be just weeks from announcing decisions on whether some of more than a dozen companies will be allowed to export U.S. natural gas, the chief executive of one of the applicant firms said on Tuesday.

After the Kewaunee Power Station shuts down, owner Dominion Resources will have 60 years to clean up the location and turn it into what is called a "greenfield site." All buildings will be torn down and low-level radioactive waste shipped out of state.