Southwestern Electric Power Co. has won regulatory approval for two rate hikes for its Arkansas customers.

Power generator American Electric Power on Tuesday received $75 million in federal stimulus money for its demonstration project in Ohio designed to boost reliability and improve the electricity grid.

A subsidiary of power generator American Electric Power plans to buy a Louisiana electric cooperative for $94 million in a deal expected to save the cooperative's members 20 percent a year on their electricity bills.

Appalachian Power says it's working with the nonprofit Dollar Energy Fund to help low-income residents pay electricity bills.

The West Virginia Public Service Commission has denied a staff recommendation to dismiss an application for a multistate power line, saying Tuesday it will instead delay a final decision on the three-state project until Feb. 2011.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a draft report detailing previously reported problems with two waste impoundments at an American Electric Power coal-burning plant in West Virginia.

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that states trying to combat global warming can sue six electric utilities to force them to cut the greenhouse gases emitted by their power plants in 20 states.