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Northern California utility giant PG&E is preparing to file for bankruptcy by the end of this month according to an SEC filing made Monday morning. The company's CEO resigned Sunday and the bad...
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Northern California electric utility PG&E sent a letter to the state public utility commission Wednesday adding details to the company's early reports on equipment damage that may have caused the...
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Part of the reason California has become a tinderbox of trees and brush is that most of the state suffers from some level of drought. The problem is now actually worse in other states in the West,...
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In comments on a conference call with analysts and investors, the president of the California Public Utilities Commission said that the commission did not want PG&E to go bankrupt. That statement...
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While no cause has yet been determined for the explosions that have damaged at least 70 homes in the Boston area, fire investigators suspect over-pressurized gas lines.
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Can Russian hackers do what hot weather and a weak electric grid did to New York City in 1977 and 2003?
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Following its bankruptcy filing late in March, FirstEnergy subsidiary FirstEnergy Solutions is just getting started on a process that might take years to resolve.
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CEMEX SAB de C.V. (NYSE: CX) has had a rough year, with much of the ongoing trade war risks putting Mexico at risk due to NAFTA being renegotiated by the White House. There are even risks that NAFTA...
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Electric utility FirstEnergy on Sunday filed for bankruptcy protection on its merchant power business. The company is also seeking federal approval that would require the plants to remain open.
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If there is one state that comes to mind with high taxes and higher regulations that go above and beyond federal ones, it would be California. It turns out that even the golden state can sometimes...
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Duke Energy reported mixed most recent quarterly results before the markets opened on Tuesday.
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Richard Branson, head of The Virgin Group, announced the company plans to open a hyperloop in India. It will serve 26 million people and carry as many as 150 million passengers a year. Hyperloops act...
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The U.S. Department of Energy is reportedly considering a maneuver to save some coal-fired power plants threatened with closures.
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While many would say utilities are a bad bet in a rising-rate environment, the bottom line is interest rates are still at generational lows and will remain there even if the Federal Reserve lifts...
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Northern Pass Transmission, a subsidiary of New England electric utility Eversource Energy, has won a contract to build a power line to bring hydro-generated electricity from Canada to the New...
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