Utilities

In the waning days of the Texas Legislature, lawmakers tweaked plans to help utilities absorb billions of charges stemming from February's winter storm.

A Utah Infrastructure Agency bond deal will bring the city of Pleasant Grove onto the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency's Utopia fiber network.

Arizona and neighboring states are preparing for the first mandatory cuts in water from the Colorado River after 20 years of drought.

UTIER uses a broad range of arguments against LUMA Energy taking over Puerto Rico's energy transmission and distribution system.

The City Council rebooted the bidding process after 101-year incumbent SDG&E was the lone bidder in last year's process.

CPS Energy will issue $367 million of bonds to retire commercial paper, after absorbing a pair of downgrades following the Texas power distribution crisis.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas and CPS Energy, the public utility of the city of San Antonio, were downgraded after the cold weather power crisis.

Brazos Electric Power Cooperative filed for bankruptcy saying it can't pay the electric bills foisted on it by the state's grid operator, ERCOT.

Texas' failure to supply the power needed to save lives in a deep freeze is seen as threat to the state's recruitment of new business investment.

The deep freeze, and Texas power market structure, left the state's public utilities with sky-high wholesale power bills and a trail of burst water pipes.