NEW YORK — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge recently urged private industry to do its part to secure the Internet infrastructure that has become critical to national and economic security.

Coal isn't immune to price increases. Coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the nation's most prolific producer, has moved in price during the past five years from a low of $3.60 a ton in 2001 to a ...

A fire broke out in a 1,000-foot-tall smokestack under construction at a coal-fired power plant recently, trapping four contract workers, officials said. Three workers were plucked off the stack by a ...

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist said recently there is a "very good chance" the Senate will approve a slimmed-down energy bill in March. "I think there's a very good chance it will pass it on ...

Customers of Wisconsin Energy Corp. could see a special charge on their electric bills to help the company pay for $600 million in environmental upgrades to its aging power plants, under a proposal ...

Exelon Generation today notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the company will begin the application process for a combined construction and operating license (COL) that would allow ...

Dutch power utility Nuon will sell its 15-year electricity purchasing contract with Intergen's newly built 800-megawatt power plant to local utility Eneco Energie, the companies said recently. Nuon ...

When a transmission line fails, the power flow must be redirected onto neighboring lines. Without sufficient reserve margin on those lines, they become overloaded -- causing a cascading effect -- ...

Ontario Power Generation today formally started the federal approvals process with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) by filing an application for a Site Preparation Licence for new nuclear ...

The northwestern British Columbia community of Kitimat is vowing to thwart a smelter expansion plan that would give Alcan Ltd. the right to sell excess power from its B.C. aluminum operations back to ...

Bankrupt Enron Corp. has agreed to refund Tacoma Power $3.3 million, though the city-owned utility will likely see only a fraction of that amount, Tacoma Power announced recently. Tacoma Power filed a ...

The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said recently the agency had not ruled out requiring energy companies to report electricity and natural gas prices.= Mandatory price reporting ...