Near the middle of a dusty construction site here stands a patch of land, about the size of two football fields, notable because it is empty. ...more

March 22, 2009

Imagine being able to track your electric bill during the month with the touch of a button, adjusting your usage if the bill is getting too high. You would have more control over your energy costs, and the surprise of your monthly electric bill would be gone. ...more

March 22, 2009

Imagine being able to track your electric bill during the month with the touch of a button, adjusting your usage if the bill is getting too high. It would give you more control over your energy costs and take the surprise out of your monthly electric bill. That's one of several energy-saving technologies that will be placed in up to 5,000 homes and businesses in west St. Petersburg and St. Pete Beach in a grand experiment with what has been dubbed "smart grid" technology. ...more

March 19, 2009

About 1.7 million customers served by a group of rural electric cooperatives face the specter of higher electricity bills because the fee to transport coal by rail will be doubled by CSX Transportation in 2009. ...more

December 24, 2008

About 1.7 million customers served by a group of rural electricity cooperatives face the specter of higher electricity bills because the fee to transport coal by rail will be doubled by CSX Transportation in 2009. The increased rate to move coal could lead to higher bills for 400,000 customers in Pasco, Polk, Hernando, Sumter, Citrus, Manatee, Hardee and Hillsborough counties. ...more

December 23, 2008

Months before the drought had seized the public's full attention, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division granted permits for a new coal-fired power plant in Early County, a rural community in a severely depressed corner of southwest Georgia. But for a variety of reasons - including mounting concerns about long-lasting water shortages and worsening air pollution - state regulators ought to reconsider, or even reverse, the decision. ...more

November 7, 2007

With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area. ...more

October 21, 2007