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Southern Company’s updated greenhouse gas bonus still pays executives as company invests in fossil fuels
[…] but Southern is allowing Fanning to use those projects toward achieving his bonus. Southern Company first launched its greenhouse gas reduction bonus plan in 2019. The scheme allowed executives...
Wall Street and Regulators Choose Solar Over Fossil Fuels
[…] in lieu of the “existing compensation method,” known as net metering. The state became the first in the nation to adopt the federal government’s social cost of carbon figure...
Southern Company’s Kemper Power Plant: Latest Utility Boondoggle at the Expense of Customers
[…] plants that were delayed by years or were never going to be constructed in the first place. Voters in New Hampshire even voted their governor out of office in...
How Eversource customers in New Hampshire unknowingly fund the Edison Electric Institute
Updated shortly after publication with additional comments from Eversource. Eversource customers in New Hampshire are on the hook for nearly $190,000 the utility paid last year to the Edison Electric...
John Oliver explains utility scandals
[…] Public Utility Regulation Without the Public: The Alabama Public Service Commission and Alabama Power Ohio’s First Energy scandal and Sam Randazzo John Oliver discusses utility scandals next to a...
Executive Compensation
Utility Executive Compensation As the first part of a two-part series exploring how the investor-owned electric utilities pay their executives, EPI collected data showing the executive compensation for 41 utility...
Utility CEOs received over $1 billion in executive compensation from 2017 – 2019
[…] executive compensation in 2019, making him the highest paid utility CEO last year. As the first part of a two-part series exploring how the investor-owned electric utilities pay their...
More hints of who’s behind anti-clean energy group in Nevada, but still no money trail
A lobbyist with a history of setting up corporate-funded dark money groups is behind a new effort to block an upgrade to a key Nevada renewable energy law.
Final Campaign Finance Reports Filed Before Election Shows APS Spending $30 Million To Defeat Prop 127
[…] accept utility money serves as a clear sign to voters that the people’s interests come first,” its executive director Laura Dent wrote. The Pinnacle West PAC also donated $5,000...