Rebecca Smith

NextEra wants to buy the biggest utility in Texas for $18.7 billion, and it’s hoping to avoid the state opposition that sunk its plan to buy the largest utility in Hawaii earlier this year.

Top administration officials are devising new penalties to hit back more forcefully at state-sponsored hackers of critical infrastructure to deter attacks such as the successful penetration of U.S. utilities by Russian agents last year.

Now that PG&E has filed for protection from its creditors because of California wildfire liabilities, all eyes are on the bankruptcy court.

Duke Energy faces a record $10 million fine from federal authorities for serious and pervasive violations of rules designed to keep the nation’s electric system safe from physical and cyber attacks, according to a filing.

The giant utility is struggling to provide power in fire-prone California. Here are suggestions from industry executive, regulators and experts for ways it can safely keep the lights on.

With cruise ship passengers gone and Covid-19 lurking, crew members remained stuck on vessels waiting to get home. “We were in danger and were told nothing,” said one employee.

Wall Street Journal reporter Rebecca Smith unwittingly became part of a global whodunit when packets of seeds showed up on her doorstep.

The vulnerability of the more than 50,000 community systems that supply most Americans with water was highlighted by a cyber intrusion at a treatment plant in Florida this month.

Texas needs to revamp the procurement of “black start” resources—the power generation that would be needed to jump-start the grid in the event of a collapse—five former members of the Public Utility Commission of Texas said.

Enron CEO Ken Lay was practically the company’s founding father. But when federal authorities began investigating Enron after its collapse, prosecutors had a hard time connecting Lay to anything illegal - and Lay himself insisted that he was innocent. Until: prosecutor John Hueston joined the team,…