David Pomerantz Tag: American Electric Power
Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills
How policymakers can protect customers from being forced to fund utilities’ political machines
Utility CEOs received $2.7 billion in executive compensation from 2017 – 2021
Investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid their CEOs $2.7 billion between 2017 and 2021, according to corporate data reviewed by the Energy and Policy Institute. CEOs for the 58 companies...
Utilities sent $2.4 million to anti-abortion state officials who sponsored and signed trigger laws
Oncor, Atmos, AEP, and CenterPoint are among biggest donors
Utility executive contributions surge in Minnesota state senate race
Out-of-state utility execs flood campaign in a district with a population of just 85,000
Utility trade associations say utilities are disclosing climate risks to investors. Major investors disagree
The trade associations for investor-owned electric and gas utilities claim that their member companies already provide investors with sufficient information about how utilities are navigating climate risks, such as reducing...
List of deceptive RNG and hydrogen projects proposed by utilities
List of deceptive RNG and hydrogen projects proposed by utilities Both gas and electric utilities are using the promise of green hydrogen and RNG as a justification to build gas...
American Electric Power-backed dark money group spent over $1.5 million in 2020
Empowering Ohio’s Economy, a group funded solely by American Electric Power, contributed more than $1.5 million to dark money groups in 2020, according to the organization’s tax filings. The source...
Do major investors support American Electric Power’s lobbying against President Biden’s clean energy plan?
Despite publicly pledging to support efforts to limit global warming emissions, asset managers are silent while utilities lobby against climate legislation
DeWine raked in campaign money from AEP after the utility revealed a subpoena from the SEC
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine received $25,500 in campaign contributions from American Electric Power’s PAC and some of the electric utility’s top executives one month after AEP revealed it received a...
Four major Ohio utilities shut off customers’ electricity 200,000 times during COVID-19 pandemic
AEP, FirstEnergy, Duke Energy, and DP&L disconnected Ohio customers who couldn't pay their bills during the Covid-19 pandemic.