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One Maricopa County, Arizona, landowner appears to have gamed the land-based voting rules of Salt River Project (SRP), the large Arizona electric utility, in a way that enabled him to almost single-handedly decide the outcome of an election for a seat on that utility’s board of governance in 2024.  Public records show that the landowner,...

Accountability laws deliver savings for Connecticut, Colorado, and Maryland ratepayers

The trade association representing for-profit electric utilities hosted utility regulators alongside industry lobbyists in a luxury Fenway Park suite for a Red Sox game on the sidelines of a regulators’ conference last July, according to public records obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute. The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the trade association for monopoly...

The Charlotte-based utility giant is asking state regulators for permission to boost the rates they charge customers and their profits, even as the state’s disconnection rate is rising and putting people’s lives at risk.