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Duke energy Corp. is still waiting for North Carolina regulators to rule on its Save-A-Watt energy-efficiency program. But that doesn’t mean the company’s efforts are on hold.

Duke energy Corp. is moving quickly to deal with declining power demand – and the big toll that’s taking on earnings – caused by the economic downturn.

Nearly a year after a short-term agreement was struck between Kettering Health network and CIGNA HealthCare, the two companies are at odds again, putting the future of the partnership up in the air.

Catalyst Connection wants to make manufacturers a deal and buy their power for them in bulk.

Maryland utility companies say state regulators’ proposal to increase spending with minority- and women-owned businesses to 25 percent by 2012 is unrealistic.

A Jessup-based solar installation company will double its work force by 2009 and open a new distribution center in Howard County.

TORONTO, ONTAIRO (MARKET WIRE) WWF-Canada today congratulated Minister Prentice for agreeing to convene in the next 60 days a round-table meeting to address overhunting of polar bears in the Baffin Bay region of the Arctic, straddling Canada and Greenland.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Certified Environmental Group, (PINK SHEETS: CENV) subsidiary Global Life Water Inc., has entered into negotiations with the American Nicaraguan Foundation, ANF to provide solar and/or wind powered water purification units to its housing projects in rural communities where they do not have access to the electrical grid.

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport’s carpeting project in the East Terminal is expected to be completed in time for the Thanksgiving holiday rush, airport officials said Monday.

TECO Peoples Gas has joined roughly 190 other energy organizations to create the Council for Responsible energy. (TE)