Results for: first energy
Americans For Prosperity Leads Fossil Fuel Front Group Push for Crude Oil Exports, Anti-Renewables Lobbying
[…] America’s Future Tea Party Nation DC Yes For profit company founded by Judson Phillips, organized first Tea Party convention Frontiers of Freedom VA Yes Yes Funding from Koch Brothers...
Gulf Power Wants to Make its Customers Pay for Twice the Coal by 2025
[…] for that interest in the power plant. The behemoth Plant Scherer, located in Georgia, has ranked first in global warming emissions, third in toxic mercury emissions, and fourth in coal...
Florida Power & Light drafted sections of “Florida Distributed Solar Equipment Consumer Protection Act”
[…] actors” in the solar industry. On March 21, when his bill came up for its first hearing before the House Energy & Utilities Subcommittee, Rodrigues filed an amendment that...
Utility lobbyist praises response to Hurricane Irma power outages in the media
A lobbyist for Consumer Energy Alliance-Florida praised several utilities for their response to Hurricane Irma in a letter to the editor published by Jacksonville.com, but did not disclose that some...
Acme Equities: who is the hedge fund trying to buy a teetering New Mexico coal plant?
[…] solve the pesky problem that caused PNM to want to retire the plant in the first place: no one wants to buy the overpriced power. When asked about the...
National Grid Objected to Heat Pump Company’s Party Status in New Gas Pipeline Project
[…] for party status on the E37 docket, John Ciovacco, Board Member of the NY Geothermal Energy Organization and President of Aztech Geothermal, a company that maintains and services 450...
Financial analysts expect decarbonization will benefit utility ratepayers and shareholders
Replacing coal with renewable energy could save customers $8 billion each year
Georgia Power Set to Automatically Enroll New Residences in Demand Charge Rates
[…] be strained, such as during the hottest days of a Georgia summer. Georgia Power, which first received approval to install smart meters from the Georgia Public Service Commission in...
AEP contributed to dark money group that gave money to Generation Now
[…] charged in the federal criminal complaint that centered around a $61 million bribery scheme involving FirstEnergy. The group, called Empowering Ohio’s Economy, Inc., is a 501(c)(4) organization that paid...
NextEra Energy’s failed attempt to purchase JEA highlights web of murky spending, lobbying
[…] on charges that the group used $60 million of funds provided by the monopoly utility FirstEnergy Corp. in exchange for passing a law that bailed out that company’s nuclear...