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Under utility pressure, new Chair Kumar Barve’s Commission put off action ending line extension allowances - subsidies that shift the cost of new gas hookups onto existing customers.

Newly released federal data offers the clearest look yet at which electric and gas utilities disconnect the most residential customers for falling behind on their electric bills. The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest dataset follows an April report that showed that utilities disconnected customers’ residential electric service 13.5 million times for unpaid bills in 2024,...

In 2023, a reorganized North Carolina Utilities Commission allowed a higher profit rate for Duke Energy Carolinas than for Duke Energy Progress, despite similar facts. A high court where some members have conflicts of interest upheld the decision.

David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and nuclear power with the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a group funded by the donor network of petrochemical billionaires Charles and Chase Koch.   The...