Utilities (and their dividends) have been busy this week, making moves to maximize profit potential. From biomass buys to LNG exports, here's what you need to know to stay on top of your dividend stocks...... (read more)

A thorough understanding of climate change generally spurs long-term investors to make serious adjustments to their risk assumptions for particular companies and industries. This is absolutely appropriate...... (read more)

Uranium prices are in for 2012, and costs continue to head higher. The magic molecule's price tag is up over 400% in the past decade and could continue to cut into your dividend stocks' profits in the...... (read more)

Utilities are the classic “widow-and-orphan” stocks—meaning they are slow and steady providers of dependable income. Lately, these stocks have been anything but slow and steady. Many stocks in the...... (read more)

A recent story about Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) indicates just how much of a factor random chance can play in investing. Sure, that's true for all investing, but for utilities investing it's more obvious...... (read more)

The Southern Company (NYSE:SO) operates in the United States with a power generating capacity of nearly 46,000 megawatts to 4.4 million customers. The company, with its subsidiaries, operates hydroelectric...... (read more)

Utility companies are known for providing stable dividends, and are some of the best dividend payers in the market. Some of these companies have been paying regular dividends for decades. Exelon Corporation...... (read more)

In this developed, civilized, picture-perfect world that we live in, it's easy enough to forget that creating electricity is, at its core, a dangerous job. From Three Mile Island to Fukushima, disaster...... (read more)

The energy industry has always had a precarious relationship with politics. From the days of land grants to the timber industry in the 1800s to government-backed loans for the energy industry today, the...... (read more)