Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public utility commissions are essential but largely invisible forces regulating and shaping electricity, gas, and water services ...

A judge has concluded the state’s utility regulator broke laws in two ratemaking cases. The judge said the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or PURA, violated procedures, public records laws and ...

Missouri Public Service Commission adviser Rich Germinder said utility affordability has become “a much bigger conversation and a more important conversation.” Rising energy prices are a growing ...

Arizona Public Service Co. is seeking a $579 million rate increase, which would raise an average residential customer's bill by about $20 per month. More than two dozen parties, including consumer ...

There are no nuclear power plants in the state, but some lawmakers - and now Kentucky's utility regulator- say momentum for one is building.