California
Deregulation: No increase was to be allowed this soon, but Edison warns it is on brink of bankruptcy. Critics decry ‘ratepayer bailout.’ L.A., some other areas unaffected.
Dec. 20, 2000
World & Nation
Coal Company Lays Off Miners: South East Coal Co. said it has laid off nearly half its 830-strong work force at four Kentucky mines to avert bankruptcy.
Oct. 15, 1990
The Blue Diamond Coal Co. said it will build a $20-million plant that will process 1,250 tons of coal an hour.
July 28, 1988
Americans paid a combined $561 million in late payment fees to electrical utilities in 2019.
March 15, 2022
Business
PowerGen, the third-biggest power generator in Britain, today will announce plans to buy LG&E; Energy, Kentucky’s biggest utility, for about $3.2 billion in cash and will assume $1.5 billion in debt to establish a foothold in the U.S., people familiar with the buyout said.
Feb. 28, 2000
Storm-battered residents of several states hunkered down in frigid homes and shelters Thursday, expecting to spend at least a week without power and waiting in long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries and bottled water.
Jan. 30, 2009
Business: Changes nationwide will reshape the way people buy power and the way companies sell it. Some fear that shareholders and the poor could suffer.
May 11, 1997
Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it was scrapping plans to build a $1.6-billion factory in Mexico and would invest $700 million to expand a Michigan plant to build electric and autonomous vehicles that will add 700 jobs there in a move Ford’s chief executive said was a “vote of confidence” in the economic policies of President-elect Donald Trump.
Jan. 3, 2017
Ford and a partner company say they plan to build three major electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant by 2025
Sept. 27, 2021
Mississippi and Alabama suffer power outages and damaged homes. A toddler dies in Kentucky flooding.
April 5, 2008