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Map showing the number of utility disconnections by state shows that CA and NC are the outliers.

Duke Energy seeks higher rates, profits in NC despite soaring disconnections

December 18, 2025

The Charlotte-based utility giant is asking state regulators for permission to boost the rates they charge customers and their profits, even as the state’s disconnection rate is rising and putting people’s lives at risk.

Documents reveal American Gas Association staffer joined interview process for open Maryland Public Service Commission seats

December 8, 2025

A staff member of the American Gas Association (AGA) joined key interviews for Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s latest appointments to the Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates Maryland utilities, according to documents obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute. AGA is the trade association for investor-owned monopoly gas distribution utilities, including several member companies regulated...

After Gillett’s departure, Connecticut regulators changed rate case decisions to increase utility profits, customers’ bills

November 26, 2025

Revenue requirements and ROE increased with just two commissioners

New Mexico Gas Company latest utility facing private equity takeover

November 13, 2025

A private equity firm whose limited experience owning utilities is checkered with compliance problems and cost overruns is attempting to buy the New Mexico Gas Company (NMGC), raising concerns from regulators, environmental advocates and customers in that state about the company, Bernhard Capital Partners (BCP). The proposed bid by BCP to purchase the gas utility...

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Paying for Utility Politics: How ratepayers are forced to fund the Edison Electric Institute and other political organizations

May 9, 2017

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Featured Articles

Duke Energy seeks higher rates, profits in NC despite soaring disconnections

Documents reveal American Gas Association staffer joined interview process for open Maryland Public Service Commission seats

After Gillett’s departure, Connecticut regulators changed rate case decisions to increase utility profits, customers’ bills

New Mexico Gas Company latest utility facing private equity takeover

Reports

Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations

Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets

Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses

Duke Energy Knew

Fueling the Opposition: How fossil fuel interests are fighting to kill wind and solar farms before they are built

Powerless in the United States: the third installment in the Powerless in the Pandemic series

Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills

Utility front groups spending on disinformation advertising

Southern Company Knew

Petition for FTC Investigation of Electric Utility Abuses

Front groups and trade associations funded by gas utilities fight electrification policies

AGA uses millions of dollars from utility customers to promote a fossil fuel agenda

List of deceptive RNG and hydrogen projects proposed by utilities

Internal documents detail how gas utilities greenwash RNG and hydrogen

Gas utilities push RNG and hydrogen to expand fossil fuel infrastructure

Many U.S. electric utilities plan slow decarbonization over next decade, out of sync with Biden plan

Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities

Coal and water conflicts in the American West

ExxonMobil attacks wind power, carbon tax in Texas

Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits

Utility Carbon Targets Reflect Decarbonization Slowdown In Crucial Next Decade

Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities’ Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change From 1968-2017

Paying for Utility Politics: How ratepayers are forced to fund the Edison Electric Institute and other political organizations

The Utility Industry’s Influence at Universities

Attacks on Renewable Energy Policies in 2015

Utilities’ Anti-Solar Campaign and Misinformation Debunked

Attacks on Renewable Energy Policy by Fossil Fuel Interests 2013-2014

Press

Tribune Chronicle: FirstEnergy continues duplicitous behavior

Bloomberg: How a Nuclear-Fossil Fuel Alliance Is Winning the Fight for Energy Dominance

Healey’s energy affordability push faces test in one of Massachusetts’s poorest communities

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Featured Articles

Duke Energy seeks higher rates, profits in NC despite soaring disconnections

Documents reveal American Gas Association staffer joined interview process for open Maryland Public Service Commission seats

After Gillett’s departure, Connecticut regulators changed rate case decisions to increase utility profits, customers’ bills

New Mexico Gas Company latest utility facing private equity takeover

Reports

Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations

Electric utilities falling behind on emission reduction targets

Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses

Duke Energy Knew

Fueling the Opposition: How fossil fuel interests are fighting to kill wind and solar farms before they are built

Powerless in the United States: the third installment in the Powerless in the Pandemic series

Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills

Utility front groups spending on disinformation advertising

Southern Company Knew

Petition for FTC Investigation of Electric Utility Abuses

Front groups and trade associations funded by gas utilities fight electrification policies

AGA uses millions of dollars from utility customers to promote a fossil fuel agenda

List of deceptive RNG and hydrogen projects proposed by utilities

Internal documents detail how gas utilities greenwash RNG and hydrogen

Gas utilities push RNG and hydrogen to expand fossil fuel infrastructure

Many U.S. electric utilities plan slow decarbonization over next decade, out of sync with Biden plan

Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities

Coal and water conflicts in the American West

ExxonMobil attacks wind power, carbon tax in Texas

Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits

Utility Carbon Targets Reflect Decarbonization Slowdown In Crucial Next Decade

Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities’ Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change From 1968-2017

Paying for Utility Politics: How ratepayers are forced to fund the Edison Electric Institute and other political organizations

The Utility Industry’s Influence at Universities

Attacks on Renewable Energy Policies in 2015

Utilities’ Anti-Solar Campaign and Misinformation Debunked

Attacks on Renewable Energy Policy by Fossil Fuel Interests 2013-2014

Press

Tribune Chronicle: FirstEnergy continues duplicitous behavior

Bloomberg: How a Nuclear-Fossil Fuel Alliance Is Winning the Fight for Energy Dominance

Healey’s energy affordability push faces test in one of Massachusetts’s poorest communities

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