Costs are already rising. Giving Evergy and other utilities total control over electric transmission would hit you in the ...

A corporate merger that would form the largest electric utility in the United States is underway. It’s just one of many recent utility mergers and acquisitions as electric utilities enter a period of ...

Re: "PUC denies NV Energy bid to triple service charge in Northern Nevada," Sept. 19: For-profit monopoly businesses are a rarity in our capitalist economy. Sometimes they happen by default when one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Consumers can’t shop for better rates, stuck in a system where one company controls it all. We need competition. (Getty Images) ...

The massive financial resources and cost-of-capital advantages of AI-focused tech giants enable them to build and operate power plants independently. Utilities face significant challenges as tech ...

Rising AI data center electricity demand has structurally improved the long-term outlook for regulated utilities with entrenched regional monopolies. A recent pullback of roughly 10% in utility stocks ...

Evergy reported $878 million in profits for 2024 and is seeking a $196 million rate increase in Kansas. The proposed rate increase would impact Evergy Kansas Central customers, raising the average ...

In a recent op-ed in The Baltimore Sun, former chairman of the Maryland Public Service Commission H. Russell Frisby sympathizes with Maryland ratepayers for the skyrocketing costs of their electricity ...

Milwaukee officials are exploring whether the city could create a publicly owned electric utility by acquiring We Energies ...

This year’s presidential election, like many before it, has seen a big focus on the rising cost of energy and the reasons behind the growing bills eating into families’ wallets. What both candidates ...