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| Aug 20, 2026 | NEW: “Michael Whatley Accepted Thousands From Duke Energy As It Seeks To Raise Rates” | New reporting reveals DC insider and former Duke Energy lobbyist Michael Whatley has accepted thousands of dollars in campaign cash from Duke Energy. Meanwhile, North Carolina families are facing sky high energy bills and speaking out again... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | While NC Families Face Sky High Duke Energy Bills & Another Rate Hike, Whatley is Silent | As North Carolina families pay sky high energy bills and speak out against proposed rate increases, Duke Energy Lobbyist and investor Michael Whatley is dodging every question on Duke Energy’s rate hikes, which would spike his stock and ben... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | 5 Times DC Insider & Big Oil Lobbyist Michael Whatley Pushed Policies That Boost His Stocks at NC Families’ Expense | As new reporting exposes DC insider Michael Whatley for pushing harmful FEMA recommendations that could spike the up to $190,000 of stock he holds while raising costs on disaster victims, here’s a reminder that Whatley has a long pattern of... |
| Apr 19, 2026 | Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas show why (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Renee Obringer and Dave White
When a drought turns into an urban water crisis, a city’s first step is often to limit lawn watering and launch a campaign to encourage everyone to conserve. It mig... |
| Apr 14, 2025 | The Rising Tide of Opposition to Renewable Energy in America | The winds of change are blowing, but not all are welcoming the gusts. Across the United States, a growing wave of opposition to renewable energy is crashing against the shores of progress. The landscape is shifting, and the battle lines are... |
| Apr 13, 2025 | Wind and solar power opponents make headway in state legislatures | The shift is rooted in a number of a factors, including the second Trump administration’s antipathy toward renewables and an aggressive recommitment to fossil fuels in Texas energy policy. There is lingering concern over the reliability of ... |
| Apr 18, 2024 | New data centers require billions of dollars in utility system upgrades. You may end up paying for it. | Premium Real Estate New data centers require billions of dollars in utility system upgrades. You may end up paying for it.
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| Jul 10, 2023 | A new public utility for Maine would speed clean energy, say advocates | Maine voters will decide in a referendum on November 7 whether to create a new nonprofit, the Pine Tree Power Company, that could purchase the transmission and distribution assets of one or both of the state’s two investor-owned utilities, ... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Con Edison Says It Is Cut Out To Lead The Carbon-Free Transition | A rooftop is covered with solar panels at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in New ... [+] York. The Manhattan skyline is at top. ConEdison Solutions installed 3,152 solar panels on the roof of Building 293 in 2016. The new pa... |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Sunrise brief: Following Covid-19, energy consumption will take years to recover, EIA says | The United States will likely “take years” to return to 2019 levels of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions following the impact of Covid-19 on the U.S. economy and global energy sector. That’s according to projections in the U.S... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | 2021 Energy Predictions: U.S. Clean Energy Standard, Tripling Energy Storage, State Shift From Gas, Electricity Transition, Billions In Climate Investment | 2020 was among the most unexpected years in American history but despite a global pandemic, a renewed civil rights movement, and the most tumultuous election in memory one trend held steady: clean energy’s unstoppable rise. |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Morning Brief: Revenue streams of CAISO batteries, Entergy still on the gas, New Hampshire NEM | Entergy to rely on gas while claiming Net-Zero Emissions in 2050: Entergy joined other large utilities last week in announcing its intent to achieve “net-zero emissions” by 2050, but like its regional peers of Duke and Southern, the company... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Morning Brief: Utilities across the US battle equitable net metering and value-of-solar | SMUD, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, commissioned a study that found the net energy metering (NEM) credit should be reduced to 3 to 7 cents/kWh. CalSSA finds that the study was flawed and designed to discredit the value of custo... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Morning Brief: Net metering still under attack by utilities and institutional corruption | On Oct. 5, Utah’s Public Service Commission will begin hearings to determine exactly how much electricity generated from rooftop solar is worth, and you might be surprised at how far apart the opposing sides are on that question. Under a 20... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | To Rid The Grid Of Coal, The Southeast U.S. Needs A Competitive Wholesale Electricity Market | Marshall Steam Station, a coal-fired power plant owned by utility Duke Energy. (Photo by Rolf ... [+] Schulten/ullstein bild via Getty Images)ullstein bild via Getty Images |
| Jul 13, 2020 | Morning Brief: The long, sad story of Stion has ended, RMI launches climate-aligned finance group | Mississippi’s case against the vestiges of defunct solar panel firm, Stion, has been settled for $2.5 million: A case against Stion Solar that at one point had been valued at $93 million was settled for $2.5 million. Stion Solar was no long... |
| May 4, 2020 | Investor-owned utilities pay top executives millions — are they worth it? | Corporate America pays its CEOs well — especially those making money for shareholders — and the country’s investor-owned utilities (IOUs) are no exception.
So, as Southern Company’s stock soared in 2019, the compensation of CEO Thomas Fanni... |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Coronavirus Economy: As April 1 Looms, Here’s What To Do If You Can’t Pay Your Bills | Rent is the first major expense that many American households won’t be able to meet.Getty |
| Nov 29, 2019 | Shutting down the scammers: Petition filed over North Carolina utilities’ ‘unlawful’ use of ratepayer funds | In the same week as Utility Scamming Awareness Week – a campaign designed by utilities “to expose the tactics scammers use to steal money from customers and provide advice on how they can protect themselves” – the U.S. Center for Biological... |
| Nov 18, 2019 | More claims of greenwashing at major US electric utilities | On November 5, scientists emphatically called for an immediate rewriting of the global status quo in the face of the faster than expected acceleration of the climate crisis, which is on course to cause “untold damage”. This came almost exac... |
| Sep 30, 2019 | DTE’s zero-carbon pledge: ambition or greenwashing? | Utilities are feeling the heat. With concerns about the climate crisis increasing in the public consciousness, as manifested most recently by children around the world walking out of school en masse to demand action, utilities are among the... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | The necessary evil that is net metering | The system is structured so that the Legislative Branch creates the laws, the Executive Branch executes the laws, and the Judicial Branch oversees the application of the laws to determine if they are justly applied. This structure is in pla... |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Florida Municipal Power Agency is trying to coordinate a $50 fixed fee to curb residential solar | Yea, about that ….
According to the Energy and Policy Institute, the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) — a wholesale power agency owned by Florida’s municipal electric utilities — is trying to coordinate a $50 fixed monthly fee in a fai... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Tom Fanning defends Southern Company’s low- to no-carbon goal in misleading interview | By Daniel Tait
Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning defended his company’s carbon reduction goals in an interview filled with evasive, misleading, and inaccurate statements about the company’s “low- to no-carbon” emissions goal and its construc... |
| Mar 4, 2019 | Fossils going hard after solar in Spotsylvania | Solar power is a direct attack on the incumbent power sources that have created trillions of dollars of wealth, and that there are plenty of those who have built their fortunes upon this resource that will go to all ends to defend this weal... |
| Feb 18, 2019 | Milwaukee pushes back against We Energies’ monopoly | Like many utilities these days, We Energies does not seem to mind large-scale renewable energy, which allows it to continue to invest in transmission and distribution infrastructure. But when we get to distributed solar – particularly behin... |
| Nov 21, 2018 | Video shows FERC nominee Bernard McNamee’s bias against renewables | By Dave Anderson, Energy and Policy Institute
A newly resurfaced video further confirms Bernard McNamee is biased against renewable energy and favors fossil fuels, as the Senate considers his nomination by President Trump to serve on the Fe... |
| Oct 19, 2018 | AZ Commissioner Justin Olson answered questions about energy policy by copying parts of an APS memo | By David Pomerantz, Energy and Policy Institute
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Justin Olson based his responses to wide-ranging questions about Arizona’s energy policy on a private memo provided to him by Arizona Public Service, the state... |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Utility front group sues to stop Arizona renewable energy referendum | In yet another effort to derail Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona’s 50% by 2030 RPS initiative, Arizonans for Affordable Energy, a group funded by Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest electric utility, has filed a lawsuit claiming t... |
| Jul 23, 2018 | Utility-funded Harvard group has given tens of thousands in airfare, luxury hotels and meals to Arizona commissioners | By David Pomerantz, Executive Director, Energy and Policy Institute
A utility-funded group operating under the banner of Harvard University has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in free flights, expensive hotel rooms and swanky dinners... |
| Jun 19, 2018 | Why a utility front organization is wrong about solar incentives | Sometimes you have to start really simple with people. Broader society decided to allow a small group of people to make guaranteed money – electric utilities – via approved monopolies. However, the electric utilities decided to violate the ... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Lobbying blitz by FirstEnergy as Trump mulled bailouts for coal and nuke plants | By Dave Anderson, The Energy and Policy Institute
A new filing in the bankruptcy case for FirstEnergy Solutions details how lobbyists at Akin Gump, Washington, DC’s top-earning lobbying firm, spent hundreds of hours in April working on a re... |
| May 31, 2018 | Michigan integrated resource plans pivotal to hold utilities accountable after clean energy compromise | By Matt Kasper, Energy and Policy Institute
Over the past several months, customers of DTE Energy and Consumers Energy have heard their investor-owned utilities make big promises to close coal plants and invest in more renewable energy. DTE... |
| Mar 26, 2018 | Indiana lawmaker with history of receiving gifts from utilities, sponsoring utility-friendly legislation, now to join commission that regulates them | by Matt Kasper
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced last week that he selected State Representative Dave Ober (R-Albion), chair of the House Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications and frequent recipient of utility contribu... |
| Jul 26, 2017 | Does Trump know government isn’t a feeding trough? | Well, the destruction of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) essential functions continues apace as Donald J. Trump seems confused about whether he’s the President of the United States or the CEO of a company (newsflash: In theory, it’s the fo... |
| Jul 17, 2017 | Trump appoints uncontroversial energy lawyer to head FERC | If there are two things that can be said of President Trump’s appointees, it is that that they are often ill-qualified for the positions that they are given, and that they attract opposition due to extreme and obvious political views.
Kevin... |
| Apr 6, 2017 | Did Florida Power & Light write anti-rooftop solar legislation? | You might think Florida Power & Light (FPL) would have at least learned how to leave no fingerprints when they try to mess with the rooftop-solar industry in the state.
You would be wrong. Oh, SO wrong.
Reporting in this morning’s Tampa... |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Trump’s manufacturing council includes Elon Musk, Michael Dell and Mark Fields | Donald Trump’s White House administration has revealed the full membership of its manufacturing council (via Steve Kopack), which he assigned Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris to lead in December. The council includes Elon Musk, making this t... |
| Oct 25, 2016 | Dominion constructs another solar plant outside of Virginia | Dominion, the Virginia-based energy conglomerate with a broad portfolio of energy interests including solar, will develop a 60-MW solar farm in North Carolina — its 10th outside of its home state.
The plant, located near Moycock, N.C., will... |
| Public utilities fall short on wildfire mitigation, putting residents and shareholders at risk | Five years and 2,500 miles apart, fires devastated thriving communities — and major U.S. utility companies stood at the center of the infernos.
It’s a story increasingly familiar in the energy industry: Some utility companies don’t properly... |
| Fierce local battles over power lines are a bottleneck for clean energy | The existing system of transmission lines is insufficient for the large-scale deployment of clean energy — like wind, solar, hydroelectric — that the country needs to meet its decarbonization goals.
The most productive geographical regions ... |
| Electric utility in Florida lobbies against solar for regular people, but uses it for its own portfolio | A recent press release by FPL (formerly Florida Power and Light) talks highly of on-going solar construction. FPL exclaims that they’ve built 300MW of solar power across eight power plants. They also communicate that FPL is the largest hold... |
| Sense CEO predicts six 2021 home energy trends | Michael Phillips, the CEO of Sense, a technology company that makes a home energy monitor (pictured above) to track efficiency, cost, and reliability, told us about his predictions for six 2021 home energy trends.
Michael Phillips, CEO, Sen... |
| EGEB: Solar on MARS!; Tallahassee hydro for solar; Electric utilities lie – people die; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities’ Early Knowledge and Ongoing Deception on Climate Change From 1968-2017 –... |
| Leaked report: Grid is safer than ever, renewables not dangerous but politicians are | A draft copy of the highly anticipated study analyzing ‘examining electricity markets and stability‘, has been leaked to Bloomberg.
“The power system is more reliable today due to better planning, market discipline, and better operating rul... |
| Carrier, the century-old inventor of the air conditioner, is moving on to the home heat pump | To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo
Carrier Global, the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning, is being transformed by the growing market for heat pumps an... |
| EGEB: Scummy politicians caught conspiring (again), solar *family* car, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Hot mic records troubling conversation about solar regulations – First – States are required to set a price and contract... |
| EGEB: Wind and solar more dangerous than terrorists, Trillions in ‘clean’ investment money, more | Travis Fisher: Author of Rick Perry’s grid study called clean energy policies a greater threat than terrorism – The single greatest threat to reliable electricity in the U.S. does not come from natural disturbances or human attacks. Rather,... |
| EGEB: North Korean solar; California survived eclipse; utility business models evolve; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Dutch Utility Bets Its Future on an Unusual Strategy: Selling Less Power – When Eneco tested a promising energy monitor ... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Florida politicians sticking it to voters (again), “Clean Coal” plant = economic failure, more | After Florida voters approve solar law by 73%, utilities attempt to add on solar limiting rules – In the last election in Florida, voters decided to support tax breaks for commercial companies going solar. Florida politicians decided that t... |
| EGEB: A million in LA County ditching utility, lobbyists, theoretical solar efficiency limit approached, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news
A million people in LA County might ditch their utility and investors are scared – They’re not going off grid, but instea... |
