Public Utility Law News

BusinessWeek : The Federal Communications Commission’s plan to expand high-speed Internet service, or broadband, is due to Congress by March...

The New York Times : State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly. For d...

The Wall Street Journal (subscription): PPL Corp. (PPL) said Monday it will seek what it called a modest increase in Pennsylvania electric ...

The New York Times : A major new study by faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , scheduled for release soon, conclud...

Forbes : Standard & Poor's Rating Services on Tuesday said its ratings of Duquesne Light Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary Duquesne L...

AP via the Akron Beacon Journal : FirstEnergy Corp. said on Tuesday that earnings rose 44 percent in the fourth quarter, benefiting from ele...

CNet.com : Solar thermal water heaters, which use solar energy rather than gas or electricity as a power source, could grow in popularity ov...

USAToday : Vonage, one of the best-known brands in the Internet phone world, acknowledged last week that it doesn't have a plan for gett...

WUPW-TV Fox Toledo : DTE Energy faces a deadline for dealing with the problem of storing spent nuclear fuel. The waste is from its Fermi 2 r...

The American Spectator : But the real question about windmills is whether they are producing any useful electricity at all. A modern electri...

The Item : Several electric utilities planning new nuclear power plants in South Carolina say they want customers to start paying for those ...

AP via Contra Costa Times : DTE Energy Co. is spending more than $1 billion on its Monroe power plant as part of a five-year effort to compl...

The Zanesville Times Recorder : Lobbyists for phone companies and industries that are the largest electricity users are front-runners to ser...

The New York Times : In late spring or early summer, the United States Environmental Protection Agency will decide whether New York water is...

The Concord Monitor : Energy use in New England is increasing steadily, nowhere faster than in New Hampshire. Yet no major power plants are ...

The Washington Post : Since 1974, California has held its per capita energy consumption essentially constant, while energy use per person fo...

The New York Times : Utility rates had been capped in Illinois for 10 years, but the state agreed last year to raise them as part of an effo...

Indystar.com : The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor has signed off on a proposal to grant the city of Indianapolis its first wat...

Great Falls Tribune : The first of three bills that would scrap the state's 10-year-old deregulation laws and allow NorthWestern Energy ...