Southern Connecticut Gas

Federal regulators on Wednesday issued a key approval for a $93 million expansion of pipeline infrastructure that will bring more natural gas to Connecticut.

When Connecticut launched its ambitious $7 billion, 10-year effort in 2014 to convert approximately 280,000 utility customers to natural gas, the plan's success hinged on federal government projections that oil prices would climb for the next decade or more.

Avangrid said it netted $212 million during its first full quarter as both a public company and as the parent company of New Haven's UIL Holdings, which it bought late last year for $3 billion.

Kinder Morgan has won a key federal approval of its proposed 13-mile natural gas pipeline expansion, part of which will touch Hartford County.

However you feel about the impact of industry consolidation on consumers, March will be a decidedly good month for hundreds of thousands of Connecticut ratepayers.

The parent company of United Illuminating and Southern Connecticut Gas, which late last year completed a $3 billion merger with Iberdrola USA, reported $267 million in profits for 2015.

UIL Holdings has received approval from the Mass. Department of Public Utilities to merge with Iberdola USA. That follows on the heels of Connecticut's approval last week.

The state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority gave final approval Wednesday to the $3 billion merger of UIL Holdings Corp. and a U.S. subsidiary of Spanish utility giant Iberdrola.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority has given preliminary approval allowing the UIL to become a subsidary of Spain-based Iberdrola.

The UIL Holdings Corp.'s 2015 Employee Giving Campaign raised $397,117, a record tally that will help hundreds...