electricity

The goal is to spread energy use across off-peak hours, but not everyone is on board with the proposal.

Duluth headquartered Allete, Inc. has committed to a $2.5 billion high voltage transmission line that provides interconnectivity to the U.S. electric grid.

Minnesota Power announced that their proposed rate increase will take effect on January 1.

This outage is impacting an estimated 1,810 customers in these areas.

Minnesota Power's crews continue to work hard to restore power to the tens of thousands of those left in the dark after Thursday morning's storms.

News broke last week that there is a plan in the works to have residential customers of Minnesota Power shoulder a larger energy bill to "help taconite plants and paper mills survive an onslaught of global competition".

A main feeder lockout in Hermantown has left many residents in the Cloquet area without power.

Hats off to the Minnesota Department of Transportation for thinking outside of the box and looking to generate electricity from land that might otherwise get under utilized.

A man named Frank Bates, who lives just outside of Nashville,  claims he has a secret of how to beat the electric companies.  If your tired of watching your electricity bills sky rocket, he says he has the secret, a trick he say’s “could get him in serious trouble.”

When I was knocking around as a kid living in the South I was broke most of the time.. Broke and hot. I remember the yearly chore of installing the window air conditioner. After I slid that dog in the window and turned it on, I was still broke, still hot, and wondering how I was going to pay the electric bill...

The quasi-legalization of marijuana has produced quite an unintended side effect: Now one percent of all electricity used in the United States is spent on growing cannabis indoors. Analysis from Evan Mills at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory also found that in California, where marijuana can be grown legally for medicinal purposes, the state's 400,000 authorized growers consume an amazing