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A new Maine bill, LD 1949, would place limits on the costs utilities can charge their customers for the legal and consulting fees they pay to advocate for rate increases. The bill, introduced by Senator Anne Carney, recently advanced out of the Legislature’s Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Technology and now awaits a floor vote...

Current businesses would pose conflict of interest 

Gas and electric customers in Connecticut have been spared from footing the bill for up to $10 million of their utilities’ political spending on lobbying, advocacy, and advertising activities since the state passed a law prohibiting recovery of such costs.  The legislation, which went into effect in June 2023, prohibits utilities from using money they...

While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over $647 million in 2023, an increase of 9 percent over 2022, an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute has found. The CEOs for the...