"Day-to-day operating and maintenance costs are passed through to customers without a profit."

When utilities want to raise rates or recoup costs, they have to go before the Florida Public Service Commission for approval.

See which investor-owned utilities fund and help lead the trade associations and think tanks influencing Congress and federal agencies.

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An effort to lower an Xcel Energy rate increase and save customers millions may fall short as Minnesota utility regulators weigh whether to revisit a decision facing broad public opposition.

The SEC is taking comments on a classification change for bonds utilities issue to fund storm and wildfire recovery. Critics say the status quo is costing customers billions, but the trade association...

NextEra is fighting to keep a memo secret that allegedly ties its executives to ghost candidates, dark money, and bribery. Here's what court filings say is inside.

We can do it, and lower people’s rates, but utilities are going to oppose any reforms that threaten their profits

Two of Texas’ biggest transmission and distribution utilities reported sharply higher profits in the second quarter of 2026. Dallas-based Oncor Electric Delivery Company and CenterPoint Energy’s Texas...

"Summer disconnections are truly unbearable."

Homestead shut off power to over 1,300 households this summer — during the hottest August day on record.

We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service seek rate hikes to bolster profits and burden customers with costs unrelated to providing service

Hot temperatures, grid upgrades and higher returns are some of the factors behind energy costs.

During Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi’s first stop on state-wide tour to hear from Virginians about a proposed merger between Dominion Energy and NextEra, Loudoun residents raised concerns about the impacts

Michigan's next attorney general will decide whether to continue Dana Nessel's work challenging utilities over rate hikes and environmental issues.

Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin

The filings were the utilities' first required effort to map heat islands in their service territories under a March order.

GOPAC's Regulators Roundtable connects state utility regulators to industry donors, funding travel, shaping policy, and financing campaigns.

Two utility ratepayer advocates urged state regulators to reconsider a June order allowing Xcel Energy to raise its Minnesota electric customers’ rates by about $210 million over the next two

SRP ratepayers are paying at least $500,000 annually to support the administration of SRP’s political action committee.

GOPAC's Regulators Roundtable connects state utility regulators to industry donors, funding travel, shaping policy, and financing campaigns.

Metadata suggest Central Hudson authored other utilities’ filings

For years, NextEra Energy boasted it was a “leading clean energy company.” Now, as renewable energy faces political opposition, it’s stopped emphasizing that.

North Carolina regulators are weighing Duke Energy's rate-hike requests that could raise power bills for customers across the state.

While consumers object to high energy costs and data center development, utility and tech companies are sponsoring events for friendly regulators.

Larry Hand, Entergy’s VP of regulatory and public affairs, wrote or suggested changes to PSC commissioners on two occasions, according to data obtained by the Gulf States Newsroom.

Our I-Team obtained public records showing a state regulator was talking and texting with a utility company executive, while deciding on a requested increase in electric bills.

The Edison Electric Institute, the trade association representing U...

South Carolina utility regulators are considering whether a $67 billion merger between Dominion and NextEra is in the public interest.

Fossil fuel front group Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is advertising one of its funders, Arizona Public Service’s (APS), proposal to convert Cholla Power Plant from coal to methane gas.

While Entergy struggles with everyday power outages, city officials are skeptical of the utility’s ability to keep the lights on during hurricane season [...]Read More... from ‘We aren’t prepared’: Ne...

Consumers Energy’s parent company and a dark money group tied to DTE Energy each gave $50,000 to the opposition campaign, new disclosures show.

This story was originally published by Canary Media. More and more Ohioans are struggling to pay their utility bills. That’s one clear takeaway from the latest utility reports showing how many custome...

As states target utilities’ return on equity, Pepco’s rate case in Maryland, where the consumer advocate is arguing for an ROE cut, is being closely watched.

The proposal could alter how cash flows in Michigan politics, banning monopoly utilities and large government contractors from giving to political campaigns and requiring new disclosures for "dark mon...

The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.

Under utility pressure, Chair Kumar Barve’s Commission put off action ending line extension allowances - subsidies that shift the cost of new gas hookups onto existing customers.

Under utility pressure, Chair Kumar Barve’s Commission put off action ending line extension allowances - subsidies that shift the cost of new gas hookups onto existing customers.

The NC Supreme Court upheld a Duke Energy rate even as ethics questions swirled around two justices who voted for it.

David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ...

Our I-Team obtained public records showing a state regulator was talking and texting with a utility company executive, while deciding on a requested increase in electric bills.

New report finds utility companies have made billions of dollars in profit since 2021 and utility profit margins are climbing higher.

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