Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public utility commissions are essential but largely invisible forces regulating and shaping electricity, gas, and water services ...

A renewable energy project along the Columbia River, at a Yakama Nation sacred site, secured a key federal license.

A judge has concluded the state’s utility regulator broke laws in two ratemaking cases. The judge said the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or PURA, violated procedures, public records laws and ...

Missouri Public Service Commission adviser Rich Germinder said utility affordability has become “a much bigger conversation and a more important conversation.” Rising energy prices are a growing ...

The New York Public Service Commission ordered the city’s electric utility to take steps to secure more power or other resources to address growing demand. ALBANY, New York — The state’s utility ...

Former utility commissioner Tim Echols talks climate change, the Republican party, and how the state will deal with rising ...

Bay State energy bills are too damn high and Gov. Maura Healey says that she’s asking state regulators to do something about it — now. The governor summoned the media to her offices on Tuesday, where ...

There are no nuclear power plants in the state, but some lawmakers - and now Kentucky's utility regulator- say momentum for one is building.

Arizona Public Service Co. is seeking a $579 million rate increase, which would raise an average residential customer's bill by about $20 per month. More than two dozen parties, including consumer ...