Researchers found that when households adopt solar and disconnect from the grid, utilities are left with the same fixed costs ...

Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s bid to prop up imperiled coal and nuclear power plants could spur an exodus of utility ratepayers in the face of rising electricity bills, some researchers say. Energy ...

Declining power sales will cause power rates to rise which in turn will encourage more to go off grid. What happens to the vital power grid highway then? If utilities inevitably raise rates to bring ...

The chances of the West Australian electricity grid becoming the first to fall victim to the so-called “death spiral” for utilities appears to have increased after it was revealed this week that the ...

Utility companies have been looking for new regulations and higher connection charges to save them from a "death spiral" spurred by a surge in rooftop solar installations. Instead, says former Energy ...