DTE Energy is focused on plans to double its renewable energy capacity by the early 2020s and build a new, controversial $1-billion gas-fired plant recently approved by regulator.

South Carolina legislators continue to maneuver as if there is some room to negotiate the terms of a deal to sell SCANA to Dominion, but Dominion CEO Thomas Farrell emphatically rejected that presumption on a conference call to discuss the company’s Q1 2018 earnings.

FirstEnergy announced mixed Q1 2018 earnings along with a potential path to exit the bankruptcy of its merchant subsidiaries.

The cut in federal corporate income taxes figured prominently in fourth quarter earnings reports by OGE Energy, CenterPoint Energy and Entergy.

PSEG CEO Ralph Izzo expressed confidence that the company’s five nuclear power plants will receive subsidies through New Jersey legislation.

Utility giant CMS Energy pledged it would phase out all coal generation by 2040, days after releasing its 2017 earnings report.

Eversource Energy said it has the levers to keep earnings growing — with or without its troubled Northern Pass transmission project in New Hampshire.

FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones said the company’s floundering FES merchant generating arm is now under a death watch.

Consolidated Edison fourth-quarter net income increased 144% to $505 million ($1.63/share) from $207 million ($0.68/share) in 2016.

Exelon executives expressed confidence during a fourth-quarter earnings call that other states will adopt zero-emission credit (ZEC) programs this year.