National Grid is proposing a new rate plan for next year that would raise the price of electricity and natural gas by about 15 percent. The plan, which was filed Friday with the New York Public ...

Syracuse, NY -- National Grid customers in Upstate New York are paying a heavy price — $4.8 billion over 10 years — to cover losses incurred a decade ago by Grid's predecessor, Niagara Mohawk Power ...

National Grid will make a formal request Tuesday to increase delivery rates next year by 6.92 percent, hiking average residential bills by $6.53 a month, the company said. The move, if approved, would ...

A new report from the Department of Energy claims that wind turbines could generate 300 gigawatts by 2030, which would power about 20 percent of the US electrical grid. The forecasting scenario would ...

Solar-power-plant company Ausra has released a paper claiming that solar-thermal electric technology can provide 90 percent of U.S. grid electricity, with enough left over to power a fleet of plug-in ...

You've probably heard the argument: wind and solar power are well and good, but what about when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine? But it's always windy and sunny somewhere. Given a ...

When asked to identify growth opportunities for their business going forward, a majority of respondents in geographies where pursuing such opportunities would be allowed by regulation cited owning ...

Stanford researcher Mark Jacobson likes to take current thinking about renewable energy and supersize it. Rather than aiming for 50 percent renewables, like California is, he has analyzed what it ...

A stretch of sunny, windy days, combined with brimming reservoirs at hydroelectric plants across the state, helped California reach a renewable energy milestone last weekend. Early Saturday afternoon, ...