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Utility CEOs received over $1 billion in executive compensation from 2017 – 2019
[…] executive compensation in 2019, making him the highest paid utility CEO last year. As the first part of a two-part series exploring how the investor-owned electric utilities pay their...
Duke Energy says it supports solar, despite backing Amendment 1. We fact-check.
Duke Energy says it both supports solar energy, and the deceptive anti-solar Amendment 1 in Florida. But the facts show that Duke has no plans to significantly grow its own...
Subpoenaed records detail FirstEnergy’s secret political spending to influence then-President Donald Trump
[…] Lewandowski’s consulting firms, while Lewandowski maintains that he “never lobbied for or was paid by First Energy.” “In April 2017, FirstEnergy engaged Avenue Strategies LLC to lobby for federal...
Michigan Releases Report on Renewable Energy Benefits Amidst Front Group Attacks
The Michigan Public Service Commission released a report detailing how renewable energy is saving consumers money and leading to robust business investment.
Duke Energy refuses to consider climate-related risk in North Carolina rate case
[…] during the lifetime of its GIP-related investments within the scope of current rate case. Moody’s first assessment of climate-related risks for electric utilities from January 2020 shows the utility...
Major investors find electric utilities are not on track to meet decarbonization goals
[…] are several large U.S. electric utilities: AES, American Electric Power, Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Exelon, FirstEnergy, NextEra, NRG, PPL, Southern Company, Vistra Energy, WEC Energy, and Xcel Energy. The...
American Legislative Exchange CouncilEdison Electric InstituteNational Black Chamber of CommerceSolar
Edison Electric Institute’s Anti-Solar, PR Spending Revealed
Over the past couple of decades, special interests from the coal, oil, utilities, and other energy industries have routinely used lobbying, public relations, and other means to impact decisions that...
Seneca Anti-Wind Union has ties to a lawyer for Big Coal
[…] the Trump administration’s rollback of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which sought to establish the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act....
Bill Seitz’s FirstEnergy bailout bill is one target of a subpoena
Records show Rep. Bill Seitz, the third-ranking Republican in the Ohio House, worked with FirstEnergy to draft a nuclear power plant bailout bill that’s now the subject of a federal...
Executive Summary: Why and How Fossil Fuel Interests are Attacking Clean Energy?
[…] an industry that’s operated largely in the same way since Thomas Edison turned on the first investor-owned power station in 1882. Due to the realities of the electricity market,...