A new transmission line between Pennsylvania and New Jersey is on the fast track and it’s the electricity consumers who will benefit. The Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line will span 145 miles and double the current line’s capacity from 230 kilovolts to 500 kilovolts. The utilities involved, Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL) and New Jersey’s Public Service [...]

The recently announced acquisition of First Choice Power and it’s 220,000 customers by Uk based Centrica for $270 million raises questions about what what this will mean for competition in Texas. Centrica already owns and may be meaning to fold the acquisition target First Choice Power into, Direct Energy, a major supplier in many deregulated [...]

Are smart meters a secret ploy to control consumer’s usage via big bad government  or are they a consumer friendly device that will enhance the benefits of electric competition by allowing customers to see the real price of electricity, save money and improve grid reliability? In Pennsylvania, grassroots groups known as the “Tea Party” are [...]

Having previously enduring stifling heat with sunny skies, Kansas City, MO was not expecting a sudden summer storm to tear through the town, cluttering roadways with debris, downing power lines and knocking out power to about 50,000 homes on Sunday. Emergency crews stayed busy, mostly responding to the dangerous downed power lines in the area [...]

As the blistering heat wave continues to linger across the country, sweltering citizens are cranking up all varieties of cooling systems. The Southwest Power Pool (SPP), an electric reliability and coordination organization in Arkansas, is reporting record numbers for electricity demand in the region. The record-breaking regional electricity demand reached a peak of 54,949 megawatts [...]