http://utility.saulnews.com A Law Blog hosted by Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:58:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WTAJ (Altoona, PA): The slowing national economy will pay off for consumers in this one way. Natural Gas heating bills may be lower than expected. A number of natural gas suppliers are cutting their rates.... These gas prices are falling because the cost of natural gas generally follows the price of ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/835 Reuters: Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon... "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/834 Allentown Morning Call: Between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31, PPL cut electricity to 28,561 customers, according to figures released last week by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. That's a boost of 111 percent over the number of PPL customers whose power was shut off during the same period in 2007. The number ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/833 HomeTownAnnapolis.com: After watching Constellation Energy's stock tumble 60 percent since Monday, famed investor Warren Buffet stepped in this morning to buy the Baltimore-based utility for $4.7 billion. The transaction announced shortly after 9 a.m. has Mr. Buffet's MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. engaging in a cash-and-stock deal to buy Constellation — the ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/832 Dow Jones via Lloyd's: Power went out for as many as 350,000 Entergy Corp. (ETR) customers in and around New Orleans, La., the regional electricity company reported Monday, as Hurricane Gustav lashed areas of coastal Louisiana with rains that witnesses described as horizontal. Gustav whipped up shrieking winds, fearsome rain and ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/831 Palm Beach Post: Florida Power & Light officials told state regulators today that nuclear power should join solar and wind as a renewable energy source in Florida... The definition of renewable energy in Florida statutes includes energy from ethanol, biodiesel, biomass, biogas, hydrogen fuel cells, ocean energy, hydrogen, solar, hydro, wind ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/830 The New York Times: Expansive dreams about renewable energy, like Al Gore’s hope of replacing all fossil fuels in a decade, are bumping up against the reality of a power grid that cannot handle the new demands. The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/829 CNBC: The huge numbers of fish sucked to their death by the cooling system at the Indian Point nuclear plant prove that the system harms the Hudson River environment, a New York state official has ruled. The finding by J. Jared Snyder, assistant commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, is ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/828 The New York Times: American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline. The new drilling boom uses advanced technology to release gas trapped in huge shale ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/827 The New York Times: Lured by state subsidies and buoyed by high oil prices, the wind industry has arrived in force in upstate New York, promising to bring jobs, tax revenue and cutting-edge energy to the long-struggling region. But in town after town, some residents say, the companies have delivered ... http://utility.saulnews.com/archives/826