State regulators are setting utility profit rates too high, allowing utilities to overcharge customers by billions in order to overpay their investors.
Oregon tries to tie utility profits to climate, cost, and reliability targets through performance-based regulation.
Learn how this state developed a community microgrid law to enhance community resilience against power shutoffs and grid failure.
BlackRock just bought Minnesota Power. But these consumer advocates haven’t stopped fighting for utility accountability.
The PJM power market is embroiled in a crisis where ratepayers are being gouged to line the pockets of generation owners.
There’s still a chance to breathe new life into California’s rooftop solar ambitions.
Minnesota Power's sale would saddle captive utility customers with higher rates, but bring millions to shareholders.
Utility overspending, not rooftop solar, is driving California’s rising rates – Richard McCann debunks the “cost shift” myth.
Instead of prioritizing more useful regional transmission infrastructure, utilities are pushing through smaller, local transmission projects to minimize oversight and maximize profit.
In this rebroadcast from Volts, Chairman Marissa Gillett of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority talks about the challenges of reforming utility regulation given investor-owned utilities’...
The City of Sherwood is cultivating a digital vineyard across Oregon’s “Gateway to Wine Country” with its municipally-owned and operated fiber network.
Mark Ellis spent years as a chief economist and chief of corporate strategy for investor-owned utilities. He now testifies in support of intervenors. Here are...
In a dynamic Stephen Fischmann refers to as a “continual shakedown,” utilities in New Mexico often refuse to act unless they’re generously compensated. They get...
A University of Michigan research team set out to envision a future without the status quo of investor-owned utilities. Here are four alternatives.
Imperial, Lassen, and Plumas Counties are among the first recipients of California’s $2 billion Last Mile Federal Funding Account Grant Program (FFA).