Windpower companies, owners of plants for making synthetic fuel from coal, and companies that use lease financing for their projects breathed more easily after reading the fine print in the huge n...

Congress is expected to make significant changes in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act — called “PURPA”— this fall...

Buyers and sellers of power plants would do well to focus on a few strategies that work.The market for power plants in the United States is both turbulent and evolving...

Most merchant power companies in the United States have been under pressure from the rating agencies and the banks, since Enron collapsed, to sell assets in an effort to pay down debt...

Many merchant power companies are in talks this year to restructure their debts.

As more borrowers slip from full performance to covenant default, and then from covenant default to payment default, lenders are reviewing security packages and planning whether and how to exercis...

The Federal Communications Commission launched an investigation in late April into the use of electric distribution lines to provide telephone and Internet access services, called “power line communications,”

Senate confirmation hearings on a new person to head the US Environmental Protection Agency are expected to be contentious and will provide a forum for Congress to complain about the Bush administ...