Results for: first energy

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...

/ August 21, 2017

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...

/ September 28, 2017

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...

/ December 11, 2017

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. ...

/ August 22, 2018

How Eversource customers in New Hampshire unknowingly fund the Edison Electric Institute

Updated shortly after publication with additional comments from Eversource. Eversource customers in New Hampshire are on the hook for nearly $190,000 the utility paid last year to the Edison Electric...

/ September 18, 2019

Missouri Renewable Energy Policies Attacked

[…] utility, to be classified as an eligible technology under the law. This is not the first time Rep. Korman tried to water-down the RES. In 2013, he sponsored HB...

/ July 28, 2015

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...

/ July 28, 2015

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...

/ July 28, 2015

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...

/ January 21, 2016

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...

/ September 22, 2020