Top earners Atlanta-based Southern Company – the parent corporation of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power – paid CEO Christopher Womack $23,885,173 in 2024, making him the industry’s ...

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on his first major energy package earlier this month, a suite of policies likely to increase Missourians’ utility bills and corporate utilities’ profits, ...

A newly-formed 501 (c)4 nonprofit is behind efforts to pass a bill that would enact draconian siting requirements for new solar and wind generation, impose additional permit requirements for ...

Ohio’s largest utilities are opposing state legislation that could help rein in scandal-tainted electric bill riders that have cost their customers billions of dollars. Executives from AEP, AES, Duke ...

New filings in Mississippi and Georgia show Southern Company’s utility subsidiaries in those states are seeking to extend the life of three coal-fired power plants, jeopardizing the company’s ability ...

Xcel Energy’s multi-year legal fight to charge Minnesota customers more for its executives’ pay is threatening to undermine state regulators’ efforts to remove such costs from utility bills and ...

Monopoly electric and gas utilities across the country routinely seek to charge their customers for lobbying, corporate brand advertising, perks for executives and employees, and engagement with Wall ...

As state lawmakers prepare to convene for their 2025 legislative sessions, they have a clear opportunity to rein in a common practice by monopoly utilities to charge their customers for inappropriate ...

The utility companies that comprise today’s Duke Energy Corporation were privy to early warnings about climate change in the 1970s, well before the phenomenon emerged as a major public issue in 1988, ...

Caesar Rodney Institute: State Policy Network attacks on offshore wind power The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is a Delaware-based affiliate of the State Policy Network (SPN), a 50-state network of ...

Decarbonizing the economy will require a significant expansion of interstate and interregional transmission, but investor-owned utilities in the South, such as Southern Company and Entergy, have spent ...

A new group formed by anti-wind and solar activists in Michigan has teamed up with a Republican political consulting firm that also represents an oil and gas pipeline company to fight legislation that ...