Electric and natural gas utility Scana Corp. said Wednesday it has priced a public offering of 2.5 million shares at $35.50 each.

First Energy Corp. said on Wednesday that it requested more time from its district court to decide whether to install emission reduction equipment on its two coal-fired units at its R.E. Burger plant in Shadyside, Ohio, or to shut them down for 2 years.

Xcel Energy Inc.'s North Dakota electric customers will see a 7.4 percent rate increase in March. Regulators say it is less than what customers already are paying.

Energy provider Reliant Energy on Wednesday said it completed its previously announced sale of Northeastern electricity marketing assets of its retail subsidiaries to oil and gas company Hess Corp.

Utilities operate coal ash retention ponds at nine locations in Alabama and all have passed inspection since a retention pond in east Tennessee spilled more than a billion gallons of gray ash.

State regulators have approved the pending sale of Puget Sound Energy for $7.4 billion to a group of investors from Canada and Australia.

Power-plant operator FPL Group Inc. said Tuesday that a subsidiary sold $50 million worth of seven-year notes to repay some of the company's debt linked to investments in renewable-energy projects.

Allegheny Energy Inc. said Tuesday that its West Virginia customers will soon pay 15 percent more for electricity.

A small number of Allegheny Power's residential customers in Maryland face an electricity rate increase of nearly 50 percent, starting Thursday.

Xcel Energy's plan for providing energy through 2015 includes an aggressive energy efficiency program that could save the equivalent of a coal-fired plant.

Portland General Electric on Monday named one of its board members, Maria M. Pope, as chief financial officer.

Merrill Lynch is suing energy provider Reliant Energy for terminating a $300 million credit agreement, a move that could lead the investment bank to foreclose on some of the company's assets.

Wisconsin emergency officials want to spend $800,000 to bolster training for nuclear accidents after responders made at least a half-dozen mistakes during an exercise at the Kewaunee nuclear power plant.

Utilities in Michigan scrambled Monday to restore power knocked out by a gusty weekend storm as rain and melting snow caused flooding there and in other parts of the Midwest.

UGI Corp., a utility and energy holding company, on Monday named Davinder Athwal vice president of accounting and financial control, chief accounting officer and chief risk officer, effective Dec. 29.