Category: Utilities
AEP gave campaign cash to HB 6 repeal committee members
American Electric Power (AEP) made campaign contributions to seven Ohio state representatives after they joined a new select committee tasked with repealing and replacing House Bill 6, the energy law...
Duke Energy spends big on Republicans, “soft money” groups in 2020 election
In the states and federally, utility maintains focus on GOP – amid potential shifts in North Carolina, US Senate control – coupled with hard-to-trace campaign finance entities
Lawsuit: FirstEnergy’s new CEO signed checks to indicted dark money group
Updated on November 2, 2020 based on comments made today during FirstEnergy’s earnings call. A lawsuit alleges that FirstEnergy’s new acting CEO Steven Strah signed checks to Generation Now, the...
Utility CEOs contribute personal money to help Republicans; Utility PACs also favor GOP
Analysis of federal campaign dollars in the 2020 election cycle
1.25 million Floridians face electric disconnection by utilities
Investor-owned utilities have begun to resume the disconnection process, are opposed to shutoff moratorium petition before the PSC next week
Virginia budget amendments may allow Dominion Energy to pass COVID debt forgiveness costs on to ratepayers later
Advanced by House and Senate appropriators who have accepted over $2 million from the utility, amendments quash proposal to use $320 million in Dominion over-earnings to forgive ratepayers’ arrears during...
Entergy to Rely on Gas while Claiming Net-Zero Emissions in 2050
Entergy joined other large utilities last week in announcing its intent to achieve “net-zero emissions” by 2050, but like its regional peers of Duke and Southern, the company is charting...
Southern Company Net-Zero Implementation Plan Filled with Loopholes for Continued Use of Fossil Fuels
Southern Company released more information this week on how it plans to reach “net zero emissions,” and while the plan remains scant on key details, the company has made one...
Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities
Download full report Xcel Energy Xcel Energy is an electric and gas utility company with customers in Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Mexico, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Texas. Xcel...
Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities
Download full report WEC Energy WEC Energy is a Milwaukee-based utility holding company with electric and natural gas subsidiaries, including the Wisconsin electric and gas utility We Energies, and Peoples...