Energy and Resource Industries

The most successful businesses thrive by keeping a close eye on controlling their own costs. Since 2008, Discount Power has offered commercial clients the opportunity to save on energy costs. Emendee Technologies, LLC is a company that offers energy...

There are two common reactions to the sticker shock of staggering utility bills: Some people want to reduce the kilowatt hours and gallons of oil to help the environment. Many want to reduce consumption to help the family budget. But where does it...

Gloucester school officials are soliciting bids on an energy audit of Petsworth Elementary School to try and save money in a couple of areas. Petsworth was selected for the energy audit because school officials are exploring all alternatives to...

Customer participation in Imperial Irrigation District’s energy management programs increased in 2012, the IID reported Monday. More than 9,000 of the district’s 145,000 customers participated in these programs, resulting in more than $9.2...

Beverly Findlay-Kaneko has used her memories of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan two years ago to start making a change in her new home of Huntington Beach. Findlay-Kaneko was in Japan when those natural disasters led to three...

Faced with the challenge of keeping a historic mansion warm for elderly residents while reining in costs, the nonprofit organization that operates the 18th-century Chase-Lloyd House in Annapolis is turning to 21st-century techniques to save the day....

Potomac Edison residential customers in Maryland have until next week to ask for energy conservation kits that include energy-saving light bulbs, surge protectors and other items. Todd Meyers, a Potomac Edison spokesman, said Tuesday that the utility...

Back in the 1980s, “divestment” was a term for a student-driven campaign to force colleges and universities to end their financial connections to companies doing business with South Africa’s brutal white apartheid regime. Today, the...

Maryland's state government desperately wants you to plug up your leaky house in order to use less electricity. To get homeowners on board, the Empower Maryland program is offering 50 percent rebates of up to $3,150 on retrofit projects that make your...

Nothing like a little autumnal chill and diminished daylight to get people thinking about their home's inadequate insulation, leaky ducts and watt-guzzling incandescent bulbs. They'll get no sympathy from The Bottom Line, though, because it probably...

The Virginia U.S. Senate race is among the most closely watched and hotly contested in the country, and the outcome could determine which party controls the Senate. WDBJ7's Hollani Davis goes one on one with Republican George Allen. Hollani:...

Many of us get a real "shock" when we open our power bill each month. And as energy rates continue to rise, no relief is in sight. So what can you do to save money? Saving energy will be the primary topic of an expo that will take place at the Roanoke...