As a result, Pacific Gas & Electric Company filed for bankruptcy while Southern California Edison teetered on the brink for several months. Consumers were forced to pay higher and higher rates …

Investors will lose confidence in the state, he added. The water agency stepped in earlier this year to buy power on behalf of the state's financially troubled utilities -- PG&E Corp.'s Pacific Gas & Electric …

That's the same percentage as Oklahoma and South Dakota. Not that all the news blowing in the wind is negative for California. The group says that PG&E is the fourth-largest investor-owned utility in terms …

SACRAMENTO - Efforts are being made across California's political landscape to derail a legislative initiative that introduced income-based utility charges for customers of Southern California Edison …

Three months after Mayor Thomas M. Menino first floated the idea of installing a windmill somewhere on the bricked-over swale abutting the city's seat of government, engineers have concluded there are …

The son of a Chicago streetcar motorman, Mr. Cullen graduated from Tilden Tech in 1930 and earned an electrical engineering degree from Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1935 …

Schisler made the offer to Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch in response to questions they sent recently to officials at BGE and its corporate parent, …

Prosecutors said they expect to call former Andersen accountants Thomas Bauer and John R. Sult to the witness stand. Bauer oversaw books for Enron North America, the energy company's profitable …

The board of directors of the stateÂ’s third-largest electric utility voted 9-1 against signing a 20-year power purchase agreement with the 39-year-old nuclear power plant that is fighting for its life in …

The group - which calls itself CORE - was founded over a year ago. It is almost entirely funded by Commonwealth Edison, which serves customers in northern Illinois. ComEd, along with Ameren …