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...

/ September 23, 2022

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...

/ September 6, 2023

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...

/ April 20, 2022

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...

/ March 5, 2021

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...

/ January 11, 2022

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,...

/ January 8, 2023

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...

/ June 10, 2016

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

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...

/ January 10, 2023

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...

/ December 10, 2019