Results for: Duke Progress

Duke Energy's Sutton Gas Plant

Utility Carbon Targets Reflect Decarbonization Slowdown In Crucial Next Decade

[…] period compared to the 2005-2017 time period, including three of the country’s top carbon polluters: Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power.  The data also shows a fissure...

/ June 25, 2019

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

[…] group, Southern Company’s Thomas A. Fanning, receiving nearly $28 million in 2019. The ratio of Duke Energy CEO Lynn J. Good’s pay to that of an average employee of...

/ September 22, 2020

Coalition Sends Letter to Duke Energy CEO: Drop ALEC

[…] 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...

/ August 29, 2012

North Carolina utilities not reconnecting customers during COVID-19 pandemic

[…] data the companies filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission. The data show that together, Duke Energy, Dominion Energy, and Piedmont Natural Gas reconnected just 10 residential customers accounts...

/ May 12, 2020

What Andrew Gillum vs Ron DeSantis Means for Clean Energy

[…] from fossil fuels, which includes two cornerstones of the Florida political establishment, NextEra Energy and Duke Energy. NextEra is the parent company of Florida Power & Light. Southern Company,...

/ September 11, 2018

Four major Ohio utilities shut off customers’ electricity 200,000 times during COVID-19 pandemic

AEP, FirstEnergy, Duke Energy, and DP&L disconnected Ohio customers who couldn't pay their bills during the Covid-19 pandemic.

/ July 9, 2021
The Kemper "clean coal" power plant.

Southern Company’s Kemper Power Plant: Latest Utility Boondoggle at the Expense of Customers

Public frustrations of construction work in progress laws have not been limited to Mississippi. Utility companies throughout the country have been benefiting from this policy for years, and Kemper is...

/ July 8, 2016

FirstEnergy dark money payments included over $550,000 for ‘consumers’ group’s campaign against Cleveland Public Power

[…] sought by FirstEnergy, and a coal plant bailout benefiting other utilities like AEP, AES and Duke Energy.   The Energy and Policy Institute filed a public records request and obtained...

/ June 29, 2023
Senate District 37 Recount

Florida’s investor-owned utilities spent heavily on Republican interest groups in 2020 elections

[…] throughout his time in office, with $6,000 from NextEra, $4,500 from TECO, and $4,000 from Duke in direct candidate contributions, in addition to the funds donated to his political...

/ December 4, 2020

After Irma will the Southeast copy post-Sandy rebuild plans?

[…] of climate denial and of funding climate deniers, have been hostile toward distributed generation. FPL, Duke Energy, Southern Company’s Florida subsidiary, and Tampa Electric poured more than $20 million...

/ September 14, 2017