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Florida Power and Light quietly reduces solar commitment, shifting some proposed solar to Gulf Power in midst of merger

[…] to the PSC in early 2021. The 2020 ten-year site plan (TYSP) filings were the first integrated site plans submitted for the two utilities. Gulf Power, under the previous ownership...

/ July 13, 2020

Wisconsin Energy Corp. CEO, Gale Klappa, President of Global Warming Misinformation Campaign Earlier In His Career

[…] certainty concerning climate change was beginning to be presented to world leaders. In fact, the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientific assessment was published in 1990; and,...

/ July 8, 2015
John Oliver discusses utility scandals with title card reading "Utilities" and images of electric infrastructure

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...

/ May 16, 2022

Louisiana Net Metering Attacked

[…] tax credit law, reducing the cap on the cost of the system from a 50% credit on the first $25,000 system cost, to a 50% credit on the first $20,000 system cost....

/ July 28, 2015
Utility Corruption

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...

/ April 27, 2020

HBO’s ‘The Dark Money Game’ spotlights FirstEnergy’s corruption as Trump revives federal coal plant bailout the utility once lobbied for 

The premiere of HBO’s new documentary “The Dark Money Game” shines a spotlight on FirstEnergy’s bribes-for-bailouts scheme in Ohio just days after President Trump revived a failed push to use...

/ April 16, 2025

FirstEnergy CEO Steven Strah emailed about “under the radar” House Bill 6 provision that cost Ohio ratepayers millions of dollars

FirstEnergy CEO Steven Strah, who rose through the ranks to replace the company’s previous CEO amid the fallout from federal corruption charges related to FirstEnergy’s efforts to pass a […]

/ August 25, 2022

Georgia Power’s “Smart Usage” Rate Leads to Higher Bills for 61% of Customers, Analysis Shows

[…] customers are not happy with their experience.  One of those customers was Zoe Eisenberg.  Eisenberg first joined the Smart Usage rate in June 2022 when she signed up for...

/ December 8, 2022
Big Bend Sea Wall TECO

TECO’s Political Contributions Seem Geared to Influence Approval of New Big Bend Gas Plant with Sea Wall

[…] Contributor Amount Friends of Ashley Moody (PAC) 01/02/2019 HOLLAND & KNIGHT, LLP $10,000 Florida Consumers First (PAC) (Note: Associated with Commissioner Nikki Fried) 01/14/2019 TECO ENERGY, INC.  $25,000 Friends...

/ July 24, 2019
The Harvard Electric Policy Group paid for utility regulators from the Arizona Corporation Commission to stay at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay in March, 2015.

Utility-funded Harvard group has given tens of thousands of dollars in airfare, luxury hotels and meals to Arizona utility commissioners

[…] the adverse effects, which is why industry groups fund these policy forum junkets in the first place,” Rabago said. Ashley Brown, the man behind HEPG Ashley Brown, who runs...

/ July 23, 2018