Edison Electric Institute

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. 

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Regulators Roundtable: Documents reveal GOPAC’s secretive influence network for utility commissioners
August 20, 2026
A recent Washington Post investigation brought new attention to the Regulators Roundtable, a little-known organization that connects Republican state utility commissioners with companies and trade associations that have interests before the regulators, and raises money from those companies and groups.  The Energy and Policy Institute provided records to the Post revealing how the organization solicited...

New nationwide data reveals utility specific disconnection information
June 22, 2026
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,...
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