Mix Of Heavy Winds and Rain Knocks Out Power to Thousands December 28, 2020 By Steve LeBlanc BOSTON (AP) — A storm packing a mix of heavy rains and winds knocked out power to thousands of homes...
Everyone Has a Home Office Now. So Who’s Paying For It? December 7, 2020 By Chris Taylor NEW YORK — In the past, home offices were often an afterthought: Ill-equipped, cramped, and a little dusty from only...
California Wildfires: Utility Lacked Basic Training Before Blackouts October 19, 2020 By Michael Liedtke and Justin Pritchard SAN FRANCISCO — When Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to large swaths of wildfire-prone Northern California last fall, few...
Slew of Outages Lingers in Tri-State Area Four Days After Storm August 10, 2020 By Jennifer Peltz NEW YORK — More than 695,000 homes and businesses in the New York tri-state area were still without electricity at...
Trump’s Grid Order Baffles Utilities Over What They Can Buy June 25, 2020 By Gerson Freitas Jr., Kartikay Mehrotra and Stephen Cunningham U.S. utilities are scrutinizing their suppliers of transformers and other power-grid equipment for ties to China as they await details...
New Rules for Nuclear Plant Workers: 12-Hour Days for Two Weeks Straight April 20, 2020 By Will Wade Nuclear power plants can now implement longer shifts for workers and delay some inspections, raising concerns that as the coronavirus...
As Climate Fight Intensifies, U.S. States Seek to Block Local Natural-Gas Bans March 6, 2020 By Nichola Groom and Richard Valdmanis March 5 — Lawmakers in at least five U.S. states have proposed bills since mid-February to prevent cities from banning...
Traditional Ways of Paying for Fires and Floods Aren’t Cutting It February 11, 2020 By Will Wade and Mark Chediak Fires and floods are sending some of the nation’s largest utilities to the bond market to cover huge, unexpected bills....
PG&E Vows to Reduce Scope of Deliberate Blackouts to Stop Fires February 10, 2020 By Mark Chediak PG&E Corp. said it aims to shrink the breadth and duration of intentional blackouts during California’s wildfire season as part...
The U.S. May Soon Have the World’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plants February 4, 2020 Bonnie Rippingille looked out at the wisps of steam curling from the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant across Biscayne Bay...