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After more than a year of lockdowns and cancellations stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, a major energy conference will have in-person attendance early this summer. The Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners (MACRUC) announced last week that its 26th annual Education Conference will take place from June 27 to 30...

By Rory D. Sweeney HERSHEY, Pa. — New Jersey Board of Public Utilities President Joe Fiordaliso is so exasperated by PJM that he’s considering pulling the state from the RTO. And New Jersey is not alone in its frustrations, regulators said at the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners annual...

By Rory D. Sweeney Blocked by regulators from moving its ailing coal-fired Pleasants Power Station into the rate base of a subsidiary, FirstEnergy announced Friday it will shut the plant down instead. The company said in a news release that the 1,300-MW plant in Willow Island, W.Va., will be sold...

 By Peter Key Although electric utilities will see their tax rate fall from 35% to 21% under the Tax Cut and Jobs Act signed by President Trump last month, few are making plans to spend their savings. State officials across the country are calling for utilities to pass the savings...

California and Massachusetts tied for first place in the 2016 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard published by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. This is the sixth consecutive year that Massachusetts led the nation. Missouri, Maine and Michigan were the most-improved states, according to the study. The study identified Louisiana,...

Riverside County Looks to Create Power Supplier Riverside County officials are advancing a plan to create an alternative retail electricity supplier that would supplant Southern California Edison in unincorporated areas of the county. The officials say that the community choice aggregator, which would purchase power directly from producers, would allow...

Electric Rates Drop to ‘Near Historic Lows’ The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority approved “near historic” low rates starting July 1 for the standard offers from the state’s two electric utilities, thanks to depressed natural gas prices. The standard rate for Eversource Energy customers will drop from the current 9.555 cents/kWh to...

NIPSCO Settles for Lower Dollar Amount in Fixed Rate Hike Agreement Northern Indiana Public Service Co. and the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor reached a settlement on a 5.4% rate increase, less than half the 11% boost that the utility sought in its initial filing. The settlement would set the monthly...