Progress Energy

It has been a big week for the two major utility mergers proposed in the United States.

Exelon Corporation and Constellation Energy Group have filed another round of paper work with the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) related to the companies' proposed merger.

The Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved cost recovery amounts requested by the state's two largest utilities for construction of new nuclear power plants and upgrades to existing reactors.

Earlier this month Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK) released the white paper Duke Energy: Developing the Communications Platform to Enable a More Intelligent Electric Grid [pdf].  The paper addresses the company’s vision and plan to digitize the electric grid.

Stocks were up in midday trading for both Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK) and Progress Energy Inc. (NYSE: PGN

Two separate energy mergers have taken steps towards becoming final. If they are completed, it will mean four of the United States' largest utilities will have merged to become the nation's two largest electric utilities.

Just over one month after energy giant Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) unvieled plans to build the 168 MW Ironwood Windpower Project in Kansas, the company has acquired another Kansas-based wind power project.

For a decade, increasingly strict environmental regulations surrounding coal-fired power plants, and the threat of carbon taxes still to come, have signaled the potential end of an energy paradigm that first took root in the United States in the