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Duke Energy funded climate science-denying John Locke Foundation. Duke Energy contributed $25,000 to the John Locke Foundation (JLF), a leading voice of climate science denial and renewable energy rejectionism in North Carolina. The contribution, which occurred in 2021... Sue Sturgis / October 15, 2024. FirstEnergy.
Reports - Energy and Policy Institute
Reports from the Energy and Policy Institute. Fueling the Opposition: How fossil fuel Interests are fighting to kill wind and solar farms before they are built, July 2024. Utility Industry Contributions to Section 527 Political Organizations, July 2024. Powerless in the U.S. – Utilities Shut Off Power 5.7 Million Times Since 2020, January 2023. Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills, January 2023
Powerless in the United States | Energy and Policy Institute
From 2019 through 2021, the dozen Hall of Shame utilities spent $2.8 billion paying roughly 70 top executives — about $5.9 million per executive per year. The scale of the shutoffs problem is masked by a lack of transparency, with state regulators in 20 states failing to require any disclosures. Florida utilities, which topped the charts of ...
Tracking State Legislation to Get Politics Out of Utility Bills
Last Updated: Apr. 15, 2024. Eleven states* have filed legislative proposals this session to prohibit investor-owned utilities from using customer funds to support political activities. Three states enacted the provisions last year. This accountability effort comes after a season of high utility bills and customer debt, and utility scandals ...
About - Energy and Policy Institute
The Energy and Policy Institute is a watchdog organization that exposes attacks on renewable energy and counters misinformation by fossil fuel and utility interests. We need to power the economy with clean technology to address the climate crisis. Clean, renewable energy is now affordable and cost-competitive with traditional fossil fuels.
As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year
Jul 18, 2024 · Atlanta-based utility Southern Compan y paid Tom Fanning, who retired as CEO in May last year, $33 million in total compensation, making him the top earner in 2023. Sempra Energy paid CEO Jeffrey Martin the second-highest compensation, with $27 million, followed by FirstEnergy CEO Brian Tierney, who took home $26 million.
Utilities executive compensation analysis - Energy and Policy Institute
CEO compensation for 19 major investor-owned utilities totaled over $764 million from 2017 to 2019. Total CEO compensation for each utility ranged from approximately $20 million to $62 million over the three years. Annual total CEO compensation for individual utilities ranged from $6.5 million to $27.8 million.
Fueling the Opposition - Energy and Policy Institute
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The Energy and Policy Institute (EPI) has been working for more than ten years to research and document how fossil fuel interests are fighting to block new wind and solar farms by spreading disinformation about clean energy to try to undermine the strong, bipartisan support for renewable energy that exists among the public.
Our Mission - Energy and Policy Institute
The Energy and Policy Institute is a watchdog organization working to expose attacks on renewable energy and counter misinformation by fossil fuel and utility interests. We need to power the economy with clean energy to address the climate crisis, and we have the tools to do that right now: renewable energy sources like wind and solar power are ...
New report examines utilities executive compensation
The five utility executives were compensated a total of $184 million between 2017-2019. (Top left to right: Ben Fowke, Xcel Energy; Warner Baxter, Ameren; Gerard Anderson, DTE Energy . Bottom left to right: Chris Crane, Exelon; Pedro Pizarro, Edison International ). Source: EEI Twitter, September 10, 2020.