... other business, the council voted to approve: • An ordinance regarding the new federal standards pertaining to electric utilities (PURPA) of 1978 as amended by the energy independence and security act of 2007, but making no changes to the city ...

... emission allowances to ease the cost of the reduction. Initially free emission allowances would be provided to electric utilities and other energy-intensive industries facing unfair competition from abroad. Waxman and Markey have argued that ...

... instrumental in Conway establishing a water improvement district in 1909 and 20 years later in the formation of the city's electric utility, Conway Corp., which he served as its first board chairman. The Log Cabin, founded in 1879, remained in the ...

... water rights from the private sector. Over the last year, Arizona Public Service Company, the state's largest electric utility, has partnered with solar power companies to build two large-scale CSP projects on private land. The land, more ...

... school sales tax holiday, died in the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee. Rep. Kathy Webb's bill to require electric utilities to buy at least 2 percent of their annual electricity supplies from a renewable energy facility was voted down by ...

... s incremental." A House panel had rejected one proposal backed by the commission, which would have required electric utilities to buy at least 2 percent of their annual electricity supplies from a renewable energy facility. The backer of ...

... the process won't be pretty ... fraught with uncertainty." The group, which represents investor-owned electric utilities, prefers action by Congress rather than federal regulators. The Bush administration strongly opposed using the ...

... Democrats were quick to embrace the compromise, the energy bill may face problems over requirements for nonpublic electric utilities to produce 15 percent of their power from renewable energy sources such as wind or power. - Advertisement - Sen ...

... on the Senate's energy and natural resources committee, has supported those efforts. The bill also requires electric utilities to produce 15 percent of their power from renewable energy, adds tax incentives for hybrid cars and mandates an ...

- Advertisement - HOT SPRINGS (AP) Thieves stealing copper from an electric utility station knocked out power to about 2,000 Entergy Arkansas customers, including a mall, a Wal-Mart and a hospital. The outage ...