Discover the concept of utility in microeconomics, exploring its origins, types, and applications to analyze consumer ...

This article has been updated with additional comment from the Public Utility Commission of Texas. NBC 5 Responds to a consumer fighting a more than $500 electric bill, he says, doesn’t belong to him.

A utility function measures a consumer’s preference and satisfaction with different goods or services. As part of rational choice theory, it helps economists analyze how consumers make decisions to ...

The PUC giveth and the PUC can taketh away. Following a hefty, and welcome, rate reduction last December that cut natural gas prices for residential customers of UGI Utilities Inc. by 20%, the utility ...

Electricity shut offs soared 80% in Maryland last year, according to a utility watchdog group that says terminations of consumers’ electric and gas service for nonpayment has turned into a national ...

For Western Pennsylvania consumers worried about the costs of heating their homes this winter, there are options. Customers ...

AARP pushes for utility consumer advocate office at State Capitol. Utility rates remain a top concern for New Yorkers — and those concerns took center stage at the State Capitol on Wednesday, where ...

LANSING, MI – Consumers Energy wants to raise electric rates by $436 million, its largest ask in at least 20 years. The for-profit utility, Michigan’s second-largest power provider, kicked off the ...