That’s exactly what NorthWestern Energy, Montana’s monopoly utility, is attempting to accomplish with its most recent rate increase request to the Public Service Commission.

Repeatedly, some lawmakers have attempted to shut down the competitive energy market and the right for consumers to choose their electricity supplier. That would force 400,000 energy consumers to ...

NorthWestern Energy customers get a $20.5 million cut of the utility’s Trump tax break, under a plan approved Tuesday by Montana regulators.

It provides us one avenue of choice while being held hostage by a monopoly utility that will never stop squeezing us for all we’ve got. Call Gov. Gianforte and urge him to sign SB 188 into law.

Some economic development leaders said this week Montana needs the new methane-fired gas plant NorthWestern Energy built and want the Public Service Commission to greenlight its rate case. “It ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte has vetoed a bill that sought to establish a legal framework for community solar projects in Montana. Senate Bill 188 sponsor Chris Pope argued before his colleagues ...

Blazer made her comments Wednesday to the Public Service Commission during a hearing on the monopoly utility’s rate case. She said some people do not realize the impact so-called “minor ...

North Carolina lawmakers have approved a bill to let Duke Energy delay planned carbon-emissions reductions and also allow the utility to charge rate-payers for new power plants before they’re built.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called the latest APS rate hike hike proposal a “blatant” grab for corporate profits.

For Star subscribers: Tucson Electric Power's request for a 14% rate increase stunned Tucsonans due to its size and its timing. The monopoly utility's moves lately are undermining the public's ...

Former Del. Jay Jones, D-Norfolk, clinched the Democratic nomination for attorney general on Tuesday, four years after losing a primary battle against then-Attorney General Mark Herring and then ...