Energy and Policy Institute

Six Ohio utilities contributed $2 million to DGA and RGA as Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy campaigned on lowering energy bills

Six of Ohio’s largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities contributed more than $2 million to the Republican Governors ...
Energy and Policy Institute

Utility-linked donors back candidates for Louisiana’s utility seats

Candidates Hilferty, Young, and Atkins received support from PSC-regulated entities or organizations, PACs or businesses with ...
energyandpolicy

Becerra took over $150K from CA utilities as a candidate for Congress, AG

California’s three investor-owned utility monopolies have a lot riding on the outcome of the state’s first open race for governor since 2018, with their soaring electric bills taking center-stage in ...
energyandpolicy

Utility CEO pay surges amid higher profits, customer struggles

Investor-owned electric and gas utilities paid their CEOs $626 million in 2025, an Energy and Policy Institute analysis of annual corporate filings found. From 2017 to 2025, utilities paid their CEOs ...
energyandpolicy

FERC rejects reform, leaves customers paying for utility trade associations

Federal energy regulators voted yesterday to keep in place accounting rules that allow monopoly utilities to charge customers for trade association activities, including political advocacy. The ...
energyandpolicy

Paying for Their Profits: How Ratepayers Foot the Bill for Soaring Utility Profits

Households and businesses served by investor-owned utilities pay billions of dollars in profits to utility investors each year. Until now, no one has put a precise number on how much of an electric ...
energyandpolicy

SRP landowner games 2024 race to elect preferred candidate

One Maricopa County, Arizona, landowner appears to have gamed the land-based voting rules of Salt River Project (SRP), the large Arizona electric utility, in a way that enabled him to almost ...
energyandpolicy

Duke Energy seeks higher rates, profits in NC despite soaring disconnections

Map showing the number of utility disconnections by state is from the Energy Justice Lab’s Utilities Disconnection Dashboard, compiled by Sanya Carley and David Konisky. Duke seeks to raise investor ...
energyandpolicy

Utilities and fossil fuel industry support proposed Trump administration air pollution rollbacks

Utilities, fossil fuel companies, and aligned groups filed public comments last month supporting a pair of Trump administration proposals to repeal EPA limits on harmful emissions of air pollution and ...
energyandpolicy

Key decisions loom in Florida Power and Light’s historic bid to raise rates by $10 billion

Nearly 12 million Floridians face higher electricity bills as state regulators weigh competing proposals in Florida Power and Light’s bid for what is likely the largest rate hike in United States ...
energyandpolicy

‘Financial support’ from Minnesota Power may have influenced backers of utility acquisition, judge says

A bulk of the comments submitted in favor of a proposed private equity takeover of Minnesota Power parent company Allete came from utility employees or others with financial ties to the company, ...