Power

BISMARCK -- Basin Electric signed a power purchase agreement last week associated with a wind project to be developed in South Dakota, the Bismarck-based electric transmission and generation cooperative announced Monday. The project is co-owned by Fagen Inc. of Granite Falls, Minn.,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It was just another hot August afternoon for New York electricity grid chief Rick Gonzales, as he sat in the control room helping to make sure the state's 8 million homes had enough power to keep the lights on and the air conditioning running. While the temperature...

Xcel Energy is using helicopters to inspect electrical transmissions lines in Minnesota and eastern North and South Dakota over the next two to three weeks, the company said Wednesday. Trouble spots that could cause outages will be identified for future repair. The inspections began...

The always-busy McDonald's restaurant on Gateway Drive and Interstate 29 had an unusual menu scotch-taped to its door this afternoon: "power out" with an apology, as customers drove up, then drove on. Traffic lights on Gateway at I-29 were not working at all, or only blinking red...

DULUTH, Minn. -- Minnesota Power says it will stop burning coal at three of its older generators. The Duluth-based electric utility plans to convert both coal-fired generators at its Laskin Energy Center in Hoyt Lakes to burn natural gas in 2015. The project will cost $15 million. The...

WEST FARGO - A Cass County Electric Cooperative crew is working to restore an outage in West Fargo Saturday morning. According to a news release, the area affected is east of Ninth Street East and west of 45th Street South, north of 17th Avenue South. The cause of the outage is...

A part of downtown and northern East Grand Forks lost power for more than an hour over lunch time Thursday. It happened at 11:35 a.m. "We had an explosion in one of our four substations, the Park sub, which is just south of Gateway Drive and behind the American Legion," said Scott...

An electrical power line transformer blew about 9:30 p.m., Sunday just south of Grand Forks, apparently putting at least one county resident out of power for a time. According to a dispatcher for the Grand Forks County Sheriff's Department, a crew from Nodak Electric was working...

QUESTION: I accidentally backed my 2004 Buick LeSabre into a concrete curb on the passenger side. While driving home, I heard a loud "clunk-clunk-clunk" at every bump in the road. My local shop inspected the undercarriage, said the shocks were leaking and replaced them. The "clunk-clunk-clunk"...

The University of Minnesota-Crookston is on track to cut its electricity consumption by 17 percent after campus members teamed up with the Otter Tail Power Company to reduce the university's environmental impact. The results of the Campus Energy Challenge were announced Tuesday,...

The Grand Forks City Council will consider floating two bonds worth a total $9 million at its meeting at 5:30 tonight at City Hall. One of the bonds is worth $4.2 million, paying for dike improvements. It'll be repaid by special assessments, a kind of property tax. The city has issued...

FARGO - About 5,000 rural North Dakota residents remained without power this morning, but a break in the weather has finally allowed crews to reach rural areas and begin repairing lines. Some residents haven't had power since Thursday and may not have service restored for up to 3...