The helicopter that severed a power line over Folsom Lake on Monday was a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft on a patrol flight, officials said Wednesday.
CHICAGO (AP) - Nearly 22,000 Illinois customers of the utility company Ameren remain without power. The outages are the result of last week's storm that dumped snow in some parts of the state and icy accumulation elsewhere.
Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, filed a bill Monday that would force power companies to sell off power plants as part of a plan to re-regulate the state's electric market.
A second vehicle crash in two days damaged electricity connections in a Bellview neighborhood, residents and Gulf Power Co. officials said Wednesday.
Continental Europe's dominant power companies face a UK-style breakup under an ambitious new EU energy strategy put forward by the European commission yesterday to promote a low-carbon economy and cut prices for consumers.
PALMDALE - A bulldozer clipped a support anchor Wednesday morning in east Palmdale and downed a power pole, knocking out electricity for about 2,800 Southern California Edison customers.
In fact, the Southern Power district says the cost to fix it's system could reach $80,000,000.00. District leaders say they've already spent more than $19,000,000.00 for supplies.
Bangalore, Jan 10: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today told leaders protesting against the proposed coal-based Nagarjuna power project in Udupi district that stopping work on the project would send a "wrong signal" to investors.
Former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega celebrated his return to power in Nicaragua with two of Washington's biggest critics Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales who welcomed him as an ally in their campaign to curb U.S. influence in Latin America.
