Hurricane-Force Winds Leave 150,000 Without Power in Colorado April 8, 2024 By Mark Chediak and Brian Eckhouse More than 150,000 Xcel Energy Inc. customers in Colorado are without electricity amid hurricane-force winds — and some may not...
Xcel Texas Wildfire Legal Reckoning to Take Years to Play Out March 12, 2024 By Mark Chediak and Rachel Graf (Xcel Energy Inc. will likely be wrangling for years with the legal fallout from the wildfires burning through the Texas...
Huge Texas Blaze Shows Power-Line Fires Are a Widespread Threat March 11, 2024 By Mark Chediak, Will Wade and David R. Baker Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to...
Huge Texas Blaze Shows Power-Line Fires Are a Widespread Threat March 8, 2024 By Mark Chediak, Will Wade and David R. Baker Massive wildfires sparked by power lines used to be a California problem, one many utility executives considered safely confined to...
Texas Fires Trigger Drop for Xcel With Law Firm Alleging Link March 1, 2024 By Mark Chediak and Josh Saul The worst-ever Texas wildfire sent shares of Xcel Energy Inc. plunging after a law firm said it might be linked...
PG&E to Pay $45M for Second-Largest California Wildfire October 12, 2023 By Mark Chediak PG&E Corp. will pay a $45 million penalty for its role in starting the second-largest wildfire in California history under...
Hawaii Electric’s Insurance is Fraction of Potential Fire Claims October 4, 2023 By Mark Chediak Nearly two months after the deadly Maui wildfires, Hawaiian Electric Co. revealed the limited scope of insurance coverage it holds...
Maui Fire Lays Bare Utility Missteps Mirrored Across the Country August 21, 2023 By Mark Chediak When flames ripped through the drought-parched town of Paradise in 2018, destroying homes and killing 85 in California’s deadliest-ever wildfire,...
Baseball-Size Hail Makes Insuring Solar and Wind Farms Pricier August 2, 2023 By Mark Chediak The Scottsbluff solar farm in western Nebraska was built to withstand most hailstones. But the icy pellets that rained down...
PG&E: Power Shutoff Protocol May Avert Dixie-Like Fires in California September 20, 2021 By Mark Chediak PG&E Corp. told a judge it has put into place new safety measures that would have resulted in power being...