Results for: first energy
FOIA Documents Reveal Tennessee Valley Authority’s Role in the Utility Air Regulatory Group
[…] EPI with regards to the Nonattainment Committee show the same scheme for 2015 through the first half of 2018. Nonattainment Committee legal fees and expenses Nonattainment Committee technical fees...
Despite Spiraling Costs and Its Own Bungling, Southern Company Wants to Complete Vogtle Plant
[…] ever-rising costs. Given Toshiba’s recent series of financial scandals, default cannot be ruled out. The first payment of $300 million is due in October. In fact, customers of Georgia Power,...
Edison Electric Institute Caught Secretly Working To Influence FTC Solar Workshop
[…] going solar. All of this presents an existential threat to the utility industry, something EEI first recognized at private meetings in 2012 when it warned that the booming distributed solar economy...
Pollution Payday: Analysis of executive compensation and incentives of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities
[…] fossil fuel assets, and to discourage them from investing capital in those projects in the first place. AEP does not have incentives that directly reward its executives for decreased...
Falmouth Wind Farm Case: The Outlier
[…] of Vestas V82 1.65 MW wind turbines on their waste water treatment plant. After the first wind turbine became operational, nearby residents started complaining about noise. There are a...
Attacks on Clean Energy in Montana
[…] Senator Debby Barrett, would have included all existing hydropower in the state’s RES. Senator Barrett first introduced the bill in December 2012. Sen. Barrett received a $1584.31 scholarship from...
Gabe Elsner
[…] Prior to founding the Energy and Policy Institute, Elsner was the California Student Sustainability Coalition’s first statewide campaign director, helping to defeat Prop 23, an attempt to overturn California’s...
Gas industry dark money group’s influence seen in Ohio budget bill
[…] was the only bill that TEA lobbyist J. Robert Blazer reported lobbying on during the first four months of this year. Last week, Cleveland.com’s Jake Zuckerman reported on “little-noticed...
Who’s who in former PUCO chairman Samuel Randazzo’s indictment?
[…] indicted former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chairman Samuel Randazzo on bribery and fraud charges. FirstEnergy is not named in the indictment, which was unsealed today, but the utility...
Entergy Paid Actor Scandal Widens, Nonprofits Used to Support Gas Plant
[…] the gas plant. Entergy investigation still leaves big gaps of information Entergy claims it was first alerted to the potential that actors were paid when a “blog writer” contacted...