A North Carolina bill barring utilities from charging customers for activities tangential to delivering energy has failed to ...

Electric utilities that operate coal plants in the American West face growing water supply risks, as climate change fuels hotter and drier conditions. Burning coal to generate electricity consumes ...

The Petra Nova carbon capture project has stopped operating because low oil prices have made it uneconomic to sell carbon dioxide to boost oil drilling operations. As the only coal carbon capture ...

Entergy has fiercely opposed action to combat climate change, including threatening to sue the City of New Orleans for what advocates termed a “resilient renewable portfolio standard”, or R-RPS. The R ...

A state utility regulator in Ohio acted “at the request or for the benefit” of FirstEnergy “as a consequence of receiving” a $4.3 million payment from the utility company shortly before their ...

Download our entire report (.pdf) here. Click to jump to the utility case studies. In the fall of 2017, a parade of paid actors, pretending to be concerned residents, lined up to offer public comments ...

The rapid emergence of solar energy has caused investor-owned utility companies and their trade association, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), to create a strategic campaign to disrupt the growth ...

Corporate utilities are largely staying silent and uncritical of the Trump Administration even as mass federal layoffs threaten the continued existence of the Low-Income Home Energy Association ...

Many of the nation’s largest electric utilities are not on track to achieve their interim emission reduction goals or the “net-zero” targets they have communicated to customers and investors, ...

TVA has approved a new rate structure which allows the 153 local power companies that buy power from the federal agency to charge new fees to solar customers, according to records obtained by the ...

Michigan lawmakers facing mounting pressure to rein in DTE Energy lambasted the utility for days-long power outages in August and urged regulators to strike down its 8.8% electric rate increase ...