The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is a trade association that represents monopoly investor-owned utilities. At $96 million in 2023, the D.C.-based trade group is largely funded through payments that utilities recover from their customers’ monthly bills. EEI is an inherently political trade group that advocates and lobbies on behalf of its utility members. EEI was involved in a campaign to aggressively work to sow doubt about climate science. Former President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette was briefly the President and CEO of EEI until he resigned from the role in October 2024, less than a year after he took the position.
