About 31 percent of U.S. households faced difficulties in paying energy bills or meeting their heating or air conditioning needs in 2015, a year when overall energy-related spending was the lowest in more than a decade, according to a Sept. 19 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The statistics from the agency’s most recent…
Avista Corporation’s purchased gas adjustment would lower gas bills by about 0.7 percent, according to a Sept. 18 press release from the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. The adjustment accounts for changes in costs incurred by the utility to purchase, store, and transport gas needed to serve its customers. Avista attributed the proposed rate decrease to…
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission approved a settlement allowing NorthWestern Energy to refund $3 million in savings resulting from the federal tax reform that slashed the federal income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent effective Jan. 1., according to a Sept. 18 press release. The company agreed to a rate moratorium to…
A unit of National Grid plc filed a plan to invest in renewable generation, electric vehicle infrastructure and energy storage, as well as hike rates to cover the cost of the initiatives, as the utility looks to adapt its system to emerging technologies and cut emissions of greenhouse gases. To pay for the program, National…
