Utilities

LIPA plans to price $485 million of electric system general revenue bonds this week.

California joined 21 other states and seven local governments to sue the federal government in an effort to overturn what they see as pro-coal rulemaking.

Thousands of voters want the constitutional amendment on the 2020 ballot while utilities and groups ask the Florida Supreme Court to strike it down.

The review of the final credit, Chicago's senior-lien water bonds, was resolved when the bonds were defeased.

The Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. sold its ownership interests in W.F. Wyman Station Unit 4, citing the need for a different power supply mix.

A new state law established the wildfire fund to provide a financial buffer for claims against utilities.

Marybel Batjer will head the Public Utilities Commission as investor-owned utilities struggle with wildfire liabilities.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill to establish the wildfire fund, to be seeded with new bonds backed by an old utility ratepayer surcharge.

Mark Bonsall will take over the troubled South Carolina-owned utility and lead its restructuring and reform team.

S&P Global Ratings cut its rating to A from A-plus, and maintained a negative outlook on the South Carolina Public Service Authority.

The Water and Power Authority's fuel supplier is demanding $20 million by Sunday.

Bond proceeds will help fund construction of a $500 million natural gas-fired combined cycle generating facility.

Lawmakers agreed to get bids for the state-owned utility, although a final decision on a sale won’t be made until 2020.

The Austin City Council voted Thursday to issue $470 million in debt to purchase an East Texas biomass power plant that has only one customer, the city itself.

The sale of a city-owned broadband provider in Burlington, Vermont, concluded a tumultuous decade-long financial crisis that underscored the challenges of local governments trying to execute municipally run enterprises that compete against the private sector.

The agreement represents the culmination of decades-long negotiations between Idaho, Oregon, and Idaho Power.

Westinghouse, the former contractor for the utility’s failed nuclear reactor project, filed a lawsuit to recover property it says the state-owned utility is withholding.

Tuesday's election demonstrated Normanites' deep reservations about funding and maintaining stormwater projects via a bond and utility fee.

City officials say their citizens' buy-in will lead them to success in a sector where other municipalities struggled in competition with corporate providers.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded one public electric utility and assigned negative outlooks to three after reviewing potential wildfire liability exposure.