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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana environmentalists are criticizing the easing of toxic coal ash regulations by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Environmental leaders say the new rule changes for coal-fired power plants put Indiana residents particularly at risk because the state has the ...

JOHNSON, Vt. (AP) — Some Vermont electric utilities are asking customers to save power during the high temperatures that are forecast for the state.

The Vermont Electric Cooperative and Burlington Electric say demand for power is expected to spike during the high temperatures forecast this ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Eversource is currently trying to buy its second water company in the past year.

The region’s biggest electric utility hopes to provide water service to hundreds of thousands of customers across four New England states.

It would still be a small swath of the ...

May 29

The San Diego Union-Tribune on California solar panel mandate maybe being a big mistake:

California is among the world’s leaders in its commitment to using cleaner energy. A 2015 law requires the state to get half its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. But the state’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government proposed an energy plan Wednesday that sets ambitious targets for nuclear energy use in the coming decade despite challenges after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

The draft, presented to a government-commissioned panel, said that by fiscal 2030 nuclear energy ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State utility regulators in Ohio have rejected legal arguments by the state’s four big electric utilities seeking to avoid returning proceeds from the federal tax cut to customers through rate reductions.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s unanimous decision ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on an Arizona law responding to a proposed renewable energy ballot initiative (all times local):

4:45 p.m.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a new law allowing electric utilities to sidestep proposed requirements that they get more electricity from ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s four big electric utilities joined forces this month to challenge a request by state regulators to return proceeds from the federal tax cut to customers by reducing rates.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in January instructed American Electric Power, ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — One of Indiana’s largest electric utilities plans to shut down three coal-fired power plants in the next five years as it adds a new natural gas plant and solar farm to its energy-generation mix.

Vectren’s estimated $900 million natural gas plant in Posey County ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina city says approximately 19,000 customers are without electricity following a power outage.

A map of the outage on the city of High Point Electric Utilities Department website shows customers without power from the N.C. 68 corridor north on Monday ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation that state regulators say could leave Virginians paying double for large-scale upgrades to the electric grid is advancing in the General Assembly.

A state House panel on Tuesday approved a bill sponsored by Del. Terry Kilgore to overhaul how electric rates ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the winter storm in North Carolina (all times local):

6:10 p.m.

North Carolina troopers, transportation workers and electric utilities have been busy responding to a winter storm that dropped more snow than anticipated in some parts of the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A southern Arizona utility company is planning a wind energy project that could power up to 31,000 homes annually.

Tucson Electric Power says a request for design and construction proposals will go out this week. The projects have to be capable of producing at least ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Senate panel has rejected a bill that would allow state regulators to order refunds to customers of the state’s two largest electric utilities.

The Senate Commerce and Labor Committee voted Monday to kill a bill by Democratic Sen. Chap Petersen that would ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State regulators say they want to make sure Virginia’s utility customers benefit from a corporate tax cut signed into law last month.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The state’s two largest electric utilities are planning to install 1.3 million upgraded meters in homes across the state.

A release from Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities says the two utilities would invest about $350 million in the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s two privately owned electric utilities are asking regulators to make customers pay more next year.

Entergy Mississippi’s request would boost rates for a yardstick residential customer from $104 a month to $114 a month, beginning in February, to pay for ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A prominent Democratic candidate for New Mexico governor, Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham, spelled out her economic plan Tuesday with calls for an increase in the statewide minimum wage, lifting the cap on film-industry subsidies and ramping up renewable energy ...

ALBUQUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico regulatory panel on Wednesday narrowly cleared the way for more discussion on a proposed clean energy standard that supporters say would protect utility customers and shareholders from the costs and risks associated with future environmental ...

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — One of Mississippi’s city-owned electric utilities will close its power plant in May.

Greenwood Utilities says the Henderson Station plant, more than 50 years old, is no longer economically viable.

CEO Tony Sinclair tells the

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Appalachian Power says it’s sending hundreds of employees and contract workers to Florida and Georgia to help areas affected by Hurricane Irma.

The utility says more than 120 employees are departing Tuesday for Georgia, and more than 260 employees and contract ...