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How Central Maine Power killed a popular pro-rooftop solar bill
[…] political action committee On October 14, 2016, Patrick Woodcock, then the director of Governor LePage’s Energy Office, testified in favor of dismantling Maine’s net metering program before the Maine...
Governor Rick Scott Appoints Former Legislator That Was Critical of Solar to Public Service Commission
[…] into law in 2017. Workman delayed that outcome by two years. Workman partied with Duke Energy lobbyist after 2014 solar debate Workman’s complaints that solar industry lobbyists did not...
Who’s behind a letter asking Congress to end the wind production tax credit?
[…] asking Congress to end the wind production tax credit has ties to the Institute for Energy Research, a group that has received funding from the fossil fuel and utility...
Indestructible coal: Will Trump bail out a fire-damaged coal plant?
[…] Trump keeps talking about “indestructible” coal, months after a fire damaged a coal power plant that FirstEnergy Solutions included in its request for a bailout from the Department of Energy. ...
New Hampshire Renewable Energy Policies Attacked
[…] pieces of legislation to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), gut the state’s renewable energy standard, and allow utility companies to purchase solar installations. The bill to repeal...
Indiana Energy Association
The Indiana Energy Association (IEA) is a member-based group composed of the state’s electric and gas utility companies. Mark Maassel, president of IEA, was formerly the president at the Northern...
Louisiana State University David Dismukes
[…] who runs a private consultancy called Acadian Consulting, released an economic study attacking distributed solar energy. It claimed the state’s tax credit for installing new solar panels would cost...
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...