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United Power and La Plata Electric ask Colorado Public Utilities Commission to determine Tri-State exit fee
The electric cooperatives’ filings emphasize a critical flaw in Tri-State’s governance system
Loopholes Set to Provide Millions in Benefits to Entergy in New Orleans Rate Case
The New Orleans City Council is set to vote on a resolution tomorrow which would give hundreds of millions of dollars in extra profits to Entergy New Orleans. The resolution,...
Colorado Rural Electric Association spent electric cooperatives’ money supporting Republican politicians
The statewide association for electric cooperatives in Colorado describes its political spending as bipartisan and funded by voluntary donations, but a review of filings with the Colorado Secretary of State...
Coal lobby group drafted state utility commissioners’ letters to FERC
Emails show that the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity provided utility commissioners with a template letter to FERC - which some commissioners copied word-for-word
Dominion buys pipeline support at Supreme Court through GOP Attorneys General
With a key Atlantic Coast Pipeline appeal before the Supreme Court, US Attorney General Barr and Republican state Attorneys General have intervened in Dominion's favor - while sharing close financial...
Nikki Fried calls for end to utilities’ energy efficiency programs while endorsing their proposed goals of zero
Nikki Fried, the top statewide Democrat in Florida, endorsed utilities’ plans for eliminating their energy efficiency goals and called for an end to utility energy efficiency programs in a brief...
DTE Energy sets net-zero emissions goal by 2050 for electric subsidiary, but gas investments raise doubts about seriousness
“If you don’t have a good pathway to get there you either fail at the goal or do stupid things along the way,” a DTE executive said about utilities' net-zero...
Southern Company and American Electric Power pledge to reduce emissions, but still support coal lobby group
Investors are calling on major companies to align their climate lobbying efforts with the Paris Agreement
TVA attempts to chain local power companies to longer contracts in effort to prevent defection risk
New TVA contract could prevent municipal utilities, co-ops from pursuing local renewable energy, storage
Duke Energy’s zero-carbon goal undermined by massive gas rush
Duke's proposed gas plants, pipeline call climate goal integrity into question