Results for: Duke Progress
Utility front groups spending on disinformation advertising
[…] group with ties to some of the largest utilities in the country, including DTE Energy, Duke Energy, and Southern Company. The front group has spent more than half a...
Ohio bill would bar utilities from charging customers for politics
[…] that would finally repeal a ratepayer bailout for coal plants owned by AEP, AES, and Duke Energy included in H.B. 6, the now-infamous 2019 law that resulted from the...
Alabama Power contributed more than $176k to leaders of Alabama’s anti-LGTBQ+ bills
[…] grade. Alabama Power did not respond to a request for comment. Other utilities, such as Duke Energy in the Carolinas, have attempted to avoid discussion of LGBTQ+ issues. In...
FERC Account 426.4
[…] occasionally caught these errors, though it’s impossible to know how often utilities have escaped scrutiny. Duke Energy allocated its American Legislative Exchange Council membership dues in an account that...
Utility trade associations say utilities are disclosing climate risks to investors. Major investors disagree
[…] as linking executive pay to the operation and availability of coal plants. Many utilities, including Duke Energy, Southern Company, American Electric Power, and Dominion Energy, include various environmental metrics...
Utility CEOs received $2.7 billion in executive compensation from 2017 – 2021
[…] than $50 million during the five year period: NextEra Energy, Southern Company, PG&E, WEC Energy, Duke Energy, Sempra Energy, CenterPoint Energy, Eversource, Dominion Energy, Xcel Energy, Exelon, Berkshire Hathaway,...
Edison Electric Institute Caught Secretly Working To Influence FTC Solar Workshop
[…] captive and increase rates, sometimes for things like nuclear plants they never actually build ( Duke Energy), or “clean coal” boondoggles (Southern Company). For EEI, the letter is a...
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...
Feds reveal more secret pass-throughs for FirstEnergy money in Larry Householder racketeering case
[…] with the Ohio Chamber, and Greenspan lost his bid for re-election in 2020. AEP and Duke Energy each contributed $1 million to One Ohio United in 2011, when the...
Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits
[…] of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline through its Community Investment Program, in concert with project partners Duke Energy and Southern Company. At least four of the grants have been awarded...