Utility CEO pay surges amid higher profits, customer struggles
April 21, 2026
Utilities saw poor customer outcomes, lowered standards as they gave CEOs raises
Dominion Energy
Dominion Energy is a Virginia-based corporate holding company for electric and gas utility companies. Virginia Power is the company’s largest subsidiary. The utility delivers electricity to approximately 2.6 million customers in the state. Dominion North Carolina Power serves over 120,000 electric customers in North Carolina. In 2019, Dominion completed its acquisition of SCANA Corporation (South Carolina Electric & Gas) and now provides electricity to approximately 758,000 customers across South Carolina.
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Utility lobbyists host private gathering in Red Sox suite for regulators ahead of NARUC meeting
January 8, 2026
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...
Dominion Energy spending in Virginia elections nears all-time high
October 31, 2025
With no limits on corporate contributions, Dominion has already poured nearly $8.3 million into 2025 statewide and House races, money that helps shape who writes utility law and who oversees the monopoly’s rates.
Utility-funded Republican and Democratic groups try to leverage rising utility bills in New Jersey’s race for governor
October 20, 2025
Updated on October 30, 2025, with additional utility funding for the Democratic Governors Association Investor-owned utilities and utility industry groups have made over $2.6 million in cash and in-kind contributions this year to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association, amid an election cycle where both groups have tried to make political hay out...
Reports
Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations
March 28, 2025
Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets
March 17, 2025
Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses
December 11, 2024
Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills
January 26, 2023
Utility front groups spending on disinformation advertising
September 23, 2022
Petition for FTC Investigation of Electric Utility Abuses
May 18, 2022
Many U.S. electric utilities plan slow decarbonization over next decade, out of sync with Biden plan
December 1, 2020
Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities
September 23, 2020
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
December 10, 2019
Utility Carbon Targets Reflect Decarbonization Slowdown In Crucial Next Decade
June 26, 2019
Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities’ Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change From 1968-2017
July 25, 2017
Paying for Utility Politics: How ratepayers are forced to fund the Edison Electric Institute and other political organizations
May 9, 2017