ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed legislation that will align electric utilities in Alaska's most populated regions.

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — A contract with all three Rhode Island electric utilities to purchase power from a Connecticut solar project has received state regulatory approval.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After years of fighting their own policy battles, ethanol and electric vehicle advocates are tentatively banding together against a shared enemy: fossil fuels.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska lawmakers have moved forward with legislation to better align the electric utilities in the state's most populated regions.

A company paid $500,000 by Maine regulators to study the state's electric grid may have been ineligible to receive the contract based on conflict of interest rules.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island residents will get power from a large solar project set to be built in Connecticut.

The Office of Energy Resources announced Wednesday that all of the...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Coal production in North Dakota dropped 8% in 2019, compared to the prior year.

The state's five coal mines produced 27.2 million tons of lignite, according to a trade...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis utility that operates a large southwestern Indiana power plant environmentalists call a “super polluter” plans to retire two of the station’s four coal-fired...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Electric utilities across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are busy restoring service to tens of thousands of customers who lost power due to high winds that toppled trees...

BOSTON (AP) — High winds and rains on Halloween night knocked out power to tens of thousands of customers, brought down trees and forced some school districts across southern New England to cancel...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California utility Pacific Gas & Electric reports power lines may have caused 2 weekend fires in San Francisco Bay Area.

FAIRBANKS, Ind. (AP) — A renewable energy company is aiming to start construction later this year on a solar farm over about 1,800 acres in rural western Indiana.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Three Kentucky electric utilities are sending crews to Florida ahead of Hurricane Dorian.

The crews will help with expected power outages wherever the storm makes...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky regulators are seeking input on implementing a new law changing the way utility customers receive credit for electricity generated from solar panels and other...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's three investor-owned electric utilities have agreed to chip in a combined $10.5 billion to a new fund to cover the costs of future catastrophic wildfires...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two Pacific Gas & Electric customers want the federal judge overseeing the company's bankruptcy to strike down a new California law that Gov. Gavin Newsom has championed...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California wildfire legislation (all times local):

4:45 p.m.

A California Assembly committee has backed sweeping legislation meant to shore up...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on Arizona utility regulators move to block summertime power cutoffs (all times local):

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State regulators have enacted emergency rules barring most...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona regulators could soon vote on emergency rules barring electric utilities from disconnecting power to customers who are late on their bills from June 1 through Sept. 30, when...

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's two largest electric utilities have agreed to spend a combined $15 billion on goods and services from Michigan-based companies over the next five...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law bills requiring electric utilities to provide more information to their customers.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is headlining a new coalition advocating to "uberize" the state's electric utilities by promoting...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana regulators have rejected a proposal by one of the state's largest electric utilities to build a natural gas-fueled power plant to replace aging coal-fired power...

WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is lauding an agreement that will keep the Millstone nuclear power plant complex open for the next decade.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dominion Energy has bowed to pressure from Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and others and has agreed to spend $870 million on energy efficiency programs over the next...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — If you want internet service in the rural hamlet of Honaker, in far Southwest Virginia, Cable Plus is the only game in town. With internet speeds of 3 megabits per second,...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of Tennessee's largest public electric utilities could discontinue a customer's service more easily under a bill headed to the House floor.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Business and city leaders, energy companies, electric utilities, farmers and others are all voicing concerns about proposed legislation in New Mexico that would require...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Agency for Energy is telling utility customers that major natural gas and electric utilities won't shut off services to customers this week because of the bitterly cold weather gripping the state.

It said Wednesday that DTE Energy Co., Consumers Energy Co., and SEMCO Energy Gas Co., have temporarily suspended shutoffs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation.

The 2011 Obama administration rule, called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, led to what electric utilities say was an $18 billion clean-up of mercury and other toxins from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Nearly a month after the midterms, Georgia voters are needed back at the polls to hire a new state elections chief. A hotly contested race for the state panel that regulates electric utilities needs settling. And a primary election for a state lawmaker's seat held six months ago must be done over again after mapping mistakes tainted the original vote.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine electric utilities are continuing to restore power to customers across the state, but almost 29,000 customers are still in the dark following a storm that saw wind gusts of between 50 and 60 miles per hour blow trees and limbs onto power lines.

By Sunday morning Central Maine Power was reporting about 14,200 customers were without power while Emera Maine was reporting 14,700 in the dark.

Saturday's high winds came with the heavy rains that soaked much of Maine.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Public Service Commission has denied a bid by Kentucky's two largest electric utilities to install "smart" meters in homes across the state.

The state agency said in an order on Thursday that while it sees benefits of using the technology, the utilities failed to show that the costs were worth it. The utilities had proposed installing about 1.3 million smart meters over a three-year period at a cost of nearly $350 million.

LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana city's coal-burning power plant won't be reopening despite the Trump administration's plan to relax restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from such facilities.

Logansport Municipal Utilities shut down its plant in early 2016 after deciding it couldn't afford updates needed to meet rules established under former President Barack Obama.

JOHNSON, Vt. (AP) — Several Vermont electric utilities are urging customers to conserve energy as temperatures rise across New England.

The Vermont Electric Cooperative asked that people conserve energy both Monday and Tuesday between the hours of 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. The Burlington Electric Department also encouraged customers to cut back their energy use on Monday afternoon and evening.