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The end of the year is a busy time for many people. For those of us who work on Electric Light & Power magazine ...

Thanks for the insightful Commentary. I’m surprised that it hasn’t prompted more response, but I’m looking at your online version.

State-level requests for proposal (RFPs) within organized markets stems from the failure of these markets to elicit new ...

So ends another year for the U.S. electricity industry with an enduring compression of energy margins, continued uncertainty ...

Congressmen claim to have found reputed object lessons in Solyndra’s closure and Chapter 11 protection.

LED lighting is off and running! This exciting technology shows potential to change the way we look at our world.

This year editors at Electric Light & Power named an electric utility five years older than its state as the magazine’s Utility of the Year.

Last year’s power plant operating report revealed U.S. electricity generation declined in 2009, which Electric Light & Power attributed to the recession.

President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law in early 2009.

The devastating March earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the ensuing scrutiny of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident have rightly raised questions ...

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee on Oct. 7 visited Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA’s) Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant ...

During the past year, several orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding California’s proposed ...

One of the easiest ways consumers can reduce their electric bills is to replace their old plug-in gadgets and appliances with new energy-efficient ones.

An energy company’s business case for investing in a smart grid is driven by: 1) planned operational efficiencies and ...

Changing governmental policies and regulations that threaten to reduce the supply of raw materials likely will increase costs ...

Likely you are familiar with the terms Generation Y and millennials in reference to those born in the 1980s and 1990s.

We get it. You’re an electrical engineer working in utility operations. Now you’re wondering how you’ve become involved in customer service.

Utility executives continue to wrestle through legions of data for answers to the question: How do I redirect my organization ...

Across the nation, electric utilities are installing smart meters. A recent Institute for Electric Efficiency (IEE) survey found that as of ...

Much like the security challenges during the dot-com boom, the smart grid will have security and privacy issues.

Utilities are under constant pressure to improve performance.