There's a wide variety of entities operating our electrical infrastructure. Here's why the difference matters, even if you don't have much of a choice. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011 ...

NextEra Energy Resources' assets help support the operations of other utilities. For example, its pipelines transport gas ...

In many parts of the country, gas and electric are operated by different companies. But in Baltimore, one utility covers both ...

A utility function measures a consumer’s preference and satisfaction with different goods or services. As part of rational choice theory, it helps economists analyze how consumers make decisions to ...

The Mac Evaluation Utility is an Apple tool most people never experience, but it is very useful for IT teams, making it a lot easier to see what they must do with their existing deployments to bring ...

Marginal utility helps set product pricing; high initial satisfaction decreases with more units. Some stores use bulk pricing when consumers value additional items less. Progressive taxes assume each ...

Akron-based utility says it is drawing up its plan and will soon share details about PUCO-ordered customer refunds that ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburghers' gas and electric bills are likely showing some spikes after last month's winter blast. It may have some people wondering how they're going to afford to pay their ...