Utility CEO pay surges amid higher profits, customer struggles
April 21, 2026
Utilities saw poor customer outcomes, lowered standards as they gave CEOs raises
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Entergy is an electric and gas utility serving approximately 3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Entergy is a member of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) market that covers much of the American heartland and southern Canada.
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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...
Utility Industry PACs Benefit GOP This Election Cycle
November 2, 2024
Some Support At-Risk Senate Democrats
As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year
July 18, 2024
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...
Reports
Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations
March 28, 2025
Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets
March 17, 2025
Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills
January 26, 2023
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