Fitch Ratings has affirmed Avista Corporation's (NYSE: AVA) ratings as follows: Avista Corporation -- Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) 'BB+'; -- Senior Secured Debt 'BBB'; -- Secured Bank Facility 'BBB'; -- Senior Unsecured Debt 'BBB-'; -- Trust Preferred 'BB+'; -- Short-term IDR 'B'.

GreenVolts (www.greenvolts.com), a leader in high concentrating photovoltaic technology and wholesale distributed energy, today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series A funding.

HOUSTON, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Shell subsidiary, Coral Energy Holding, L.P. and certain of its subsidiaries (Coral Energy), today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all operating assets of Avista Energy, Inc.