Category: Utilities
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Edison Electric Institute’s Anti-Solar, PR Spending Revealed
Over the past couple of decades, special interests from the coal, oil, utilities, and other energy industries have routinely used lobbying, public relations, and other means to impact decisions that...
Assemblymember Perea’s Energy Bill Pushed by Fossil Fuel Interests Tied to American Legislative Exchange Council
In 2014, California Assembly Bill 1763 would require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a state energy plan for 2030 and 2050. It is sponsored by Californians for Affordable...
Duke Energy’s Plans To Attack Solar In North Carolina
In a sign it will seek to maintain its monopolistic control of North Carolina’s energy generation, Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good criticized solar net metering in a meeting with local...
Dominion Thwarts Solar Net Metering Bills in Virginia
Dominion successfully lobbied for substitute language that would give the company the right to build and own community solar.
Coloradans Urge Governor Hickenlooper Not to Swear In Glen Vaad to Utility Commission
Glenn Vaad received an American Legislative Exchange Council “State Legislator of the Year” Award in 2012.
Utility Interests Threaten Future of Renewable Energy in Colorado via Public Utility Commission (PUC) Appointment of Glenn Vaad
In Colorado, alarm and concern is quickly spreading with revelations that Glenn Vaad, appointed by Governor Hickenlooper as one of three Public Utilities Commissioners, is also a former high ranking...
Coalition Sends Letter to Duke Energy CEO: Drop ALEC
A coalition of democracy advocates sent a letter to Jim Rogers, Chairman, President and CEO of Duke Energy Corporation, to drop his company’s affiliation with the American Legislative Exchange Council...