Energy and Policy Institute
WEBEnergy and Policy Institute is a nonprofit watchdog group that exposes the abuses and excesses of the utility industry. Read the latest stories on utility CEO pay, rate hikes, influence spending, and clean energy policies.
Reports - Energy and Policy Institute
WEBReports 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
Tracking State Legislation to Get Politics Out of Utility Bills
WEBLast 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
WEBThe Energy and Policy Institute is a nonprofit organization that exposes attacks on renewable energy and counters misinformation by fossil fuel and utility interests. It conducts investigative research and analysis and disseminates its information to media, allies, and decision makers to accelerate the transition to a clean economy.
Powerless in the United States | Energy and Policy Institute
WEBFrom 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 ...
Our Mission - Energy and Policy Institute
WEBEPI exposes attacks on renewable energy and counters misinformation by fossil fuel and utility interests. It provides communities with information to hold corporations and policymakers accountable for cleaner and fairer energy systems.
Fueling the Opposition - Energy and Policy Institute
WEBEXECUTIVE 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.
Emissions goals show utilities continue to move slow | Energy and ...
WEBDec 1, 2020 · David Pomerantz • Matt Kasper • December 1, 2020. The country’s top emitting utilities are on decarbonization pathways that are too slow to meet the climate goals set forth by President-Elect Joseph Biden. Biden has promised to achieve a zero-carbon power sector by 2035 en route to reaching an economy-wide target of net-zero emissions by ...
Utilities Knew: Documenting Electric Utilities’ Early Knowledge and ...
WEBUtilities, through the largely customer funded Edison Electric Institute and Electric Power Research Institute, sponsored cutting edge climate research during the 1970s and 1980s.During the 1980s, EPRI funded research by influential scientist Charles Keeling and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that documented “virtually all that we knew at the time from measurements of atmospheric ...
Getting Politics Out of Utility Bills - Energy and Policy Institute
WEBDavid Pomerantz • January 26, 2023. America’s monopoly electric and gas utilities are using the money that they collect from customers’ monthly bills to fund political machines that push legislation, curry favor with regulators, and alter the outcomes of elections, sometimes even breaking laws in the process. A combination of vague and ...