utility
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The update will also shift some allowances from gas to electric utilities, and increase funding for the California Climate Credit, a rebate that appears automatically on people’s utility bills.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
Barron’s picked Idacorp stock on May 22, 2025, believing the utility serving some 650,000 retail customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon would benefit from population inflow and power-hungry artificial-intelligence data centers.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Ms. Hochul warned the mandate could increase upstate utility bills by about $4,000 a year and gasoline prices by $2.23 a gallon.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied roughly 75% of Liberty Utilities’ electricity for the Tahoe region for decades, announced that it will end the arrangement after May 2027.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Few people would quarrel with the validity or utility of the weak anthropic principle.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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