Results for: first energy
Michigan’s new PSC members will decide whether DTE electric customers should pay for some NEXUS gas pipeline costs
[…] the lights on. Since NEXUS entered service in November 2018, this PSCR reconciliation is the first in which DTE has requested to recover the costs incurred under the NEXUS...
Hawthorn Group, PR firm behind paid actors scandal in New Orleans, has long record of being paid by utilities to lie to the public
[…] the gas plant. Actors were paid $60 to appear, and $200 for “speaking roles,” as first reported by The Lens, a local newspaper. Entergy denied any prior knowledge of...
A growing trend: West Virginia candidates sign pledge to refuse utility contributions
[…] or gifts from monopoly utilities, their Political Action Committees, lobbyists, or executives.” In West Virginia, FirstEnergy and American Electric Power – the state’s two largest monopoly utilities – have...
Dominion Energy rewards Virginia political allies with bipartisan, off-year campaign contributions in 2020
[…] in 2020 – one in January and one in July. Dominion’s PAC reports making the first of these in December 2019. Source: Virginia Department of Elections and Virginia Public...
Dominion Energy spent record-breaking sum in Virginia election to bolster embattled Republicans and legislative allies
[…] Senate and House of Delegates, which secured Democratic party control of both chambers for the first time in more than 20 years. The Democratic Party of Virginia announced in...
Florida Power & Light $1.53 billion rate hike settlement includes new fossil gas investments
[…] utilities to defeat clean energy policies in recent years. The association gave an award to FirstEnergy for its lobbying to pass House Bill 6, the Ohio law now at...
Florida’s investor-owned utilities spent heavily on Republican interest groups in 2020 elections
[…] neither Our Florida or The Truth PC committees have filed campaign finance reports since the first week of October, despite receiving letters warning of financial penalties for not reporting. ...
Georgia Power Set to Automatically Enroll New Residences in Demand Charge Rates
[…] be strained, such as during the hottest days of a Georgia summer. Georgia Power, which first received approval to install smart meters from the Georgia Public Service Commission in...
Mississippi Power Doubles Down on Uneconomic Coal Despite Southern Company’s “Low to No Carbon” Claim
[…] new federal coal ash regulation, commonly known as the coal combustion residual (CCR) rule, was first proposed by the Obama Administration in April 2015. The CCR rule as originally...
Project Tundra coal carbon project faces delays, higher costs, and departing contractor
[…] extension, extending it until December 31, 2021. This was Minnkota’s second extension. DOE granted the first six-month extension in December 2020. Neither Minnkota nor DOE appears to have informed...