NextEra CEO says Florida shows what Dominion customers can expect. Let's look: 1. Biggest rate hike ever, $6.9B (originally asked for $9.8B). 2. Ghost candidate scheme w/ a felony conviction and an abrupt FPL CEO retirement. Virginia, he's not wrong! www.eenews.net/articles/nex...

NextEra boss points to Florida as what to expect from proposed Dominion merger

“We've faced significant growth in Florida for 20 straight years, and have been able to do it by investing in new generation while keeping bills

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Duke Energy CEO Harry Sideris told investors on today's 2Q earnings call that customers are "struggling with gas prices, rent, healthcare." Meanwhile, Duke increased its dividend, reaffirmed double-digit growth targets, and is requesting hundreds of millions more from NC ratepayers. 🧵

Louisiana's PSC may force any group that intervenes in a utility case to swear an affidavit disclosing all its out-of-state funding. Backing the rule: Cleco, Entergy Louisiana, and SWEPCO. All asked to be exempt. So let's read their own paperwork... 1/2

DOE's draft 2026 National Transmission Needs Study: connecting the Southeast to PJM and MISO would cut prices here about $10/MWh on average, up to $28/MWh in extreme weather years. DOE also notes the Southeast is the only region that hasn't already addressed at least one of its transmission needs.

A Floridian just wrote a warning to Virginia as regulators weigh NextEra's $67B takeover of Dominion. The short version: you don't want this company to set up shop in VA.

Me to TVA: I would like a copy of the agreement you talked about in a federal filing. TVA: OMG that is SOOOO hard. It's an "unusual" request and we definitely can't find that PDF within the next like 3-4 weeks. What a joke.

exercising my god given right under the constitution to live mas and get baja blasted

When your utility asks state regulators to let them raise rates, they often hire expensive consultants and outside lawyers to help them make their case. Then you, the ratepayer, foot the bill. www.wbur.org/news/2026/04... @wbur.org #energysky

When utilities ask to raise rates, customers pay the legal fees. A bill in Mass. would change that

Lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit utilities from passing on rate case expenses to their customers. Instead, the utility would foot the bill, taking the money out of its shareho...

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Pretty wild to see Tuberville advocating for BIGGER government. Especially considering we already have an energy department as part of ADECA! (Un)fun fact: the State of Alabama has starved this energy division of funding. Maybe there’s a connection… 🤔 1819news.com/news/item/tu...

Tuberville floats establishing Alabama secretary of energy as…

If elected governor, Tuberville suggested establishing a secretary of energy to represent the entire state of Alabama and oversee all things…

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Long time Alabama PSC Executive Director and Chief Administrative Law Judge is retiring. www.al.com/news/2026/02...

Alabama Power is so scared of voters that they want to take away your right to vote for utility regulators. www.wbrc.com/2026/02/05/l...

Lawmakers propose ending Public Service Commission elections, appointing state utility regulators

Legislation introduced Thursday would eliminate voters’ ability to elect the Alabama Public Service Commission (APSC), the three-person board that sets utility rates across the state. Instead, those s...

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RTO Insider ran an op-ed asking “Where are utilities best serving customers?” Spoiler: the author is an exec at Power for Tomorrow, a utility-funded group that exists to tell you monopolies are good actually. www.rtoinsider.com/123973-where...

Where are Utilities Best Serving Customers?

The governors of states in PJM’s territory met at the White House to discuss the flailing market and more.

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executions in the street.

Irreparable damage has been done to American automakers by this Administration.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7mo ago

(AP) - China says it has reached an agreement with the EU on steps toward resolving their dispute over electric vehicle imports. @apnews.com

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Power Brokers, by Nick Bowlin

What’s really behind your soaring utility bills

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More journalists should join @emilypont.bsky.social imo and keep digging here on the unsubstantiated claims that lowering ROE rates will cause equity flight! Why is this commonly believed? What's really behind the claim? What happens? Who decides?

Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm dense when it comes to finance, so the fact that I got to a point of understanding how utilities earn profit and why they should or shouldn't earn less means you can too. I stayed up till 3am trying to explain in an accessible way. Hopefully it was worth it! heatmap.news/energy/calif...

This level of "confidentiality" is BS and completely arbitrary. Shame on the utilities for hiding basic information like the estimated costs of a transmission line behind an NDA.

It was a (Not) Happy Thanksgiving for NextEra and Florida Power & Light! Their dirty deeds with Matrix are back in the news with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the company and kicking the case back down to the lower court. jaxtrib.org/2025/11/28/r...

Resurrected lawsuit puts FPL's past controversies back in the spotlight

The federal appeals court decision could re-open the company's old wounds from a series of controversies across Florida.

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“The fine print shows it’s a deferral strategy, not a reduction,” Tait said. “It’s just a broken attempt to help the utility weather a storm of criticism for its high bills and abnormally high profits.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2511202...

Alabama Power Seeks to Delay Rate Hike for New Gas Plant Amid Outcry - Inside Climate News

Alabama’s largest electric utility has proposed delaying an approved rate increase for an extra year amid a public outcry surrounding high utility bills.  Alabama Power customers will still see an inc...

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The most basic information is routinely redacted in Georgia and it is absolutely shameful. Here, we have 15 potential projects totaling 7 GW of power and the public is not allowed to know how much they will cost, even in aggregate! Dereliction of duty.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Good news from TVA today! TVA is greenlighting up to 1,500 MW of energy storage and slated to be online by the end of 2029. 🔋🔋🔋

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This Georgia Upset Is the Real Preview of 2026

Pocketbook issues took center stage in Democratic victories in Virginia, New Jersey and New York Tuesday night, as well as in a usually obscure election in Georgia. Because Georgia is far more of a sw...

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"In Georgia, Tait said the lesson is bipartisan: “Monopoly investor-owned utilities are deeply unpopular.” And regardless of political affiliation, he added, “politicians need to think twice” about aligning with utility companies." nice

Daniel Tait@taitdl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“This was a referendum on Georgia Power and high electric bills,” said Daniel Tait, research and communications director at the nonprofit utility watchdog group @energyandpolicy.org san.com/cc/high-elec...

“This was a referendum on Georgia Power and high electric bills,” said Daniel Tait, research and communications director at the nonprofit utility watchdog group @energyandpolicy.org san.com/cc/high-elec...

High electric bills proved a motivating issue for voters in Georgia, New Jersey

From Georgia to New Jersey, rising electricity bills were on millions of voters’ minds as they cast ballots on Tuesday.

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Shoutout to @tiamitchell.com for flagging this email from the now out-going, veteran Georgia utility regulator Tim Echols, who announced in an email he is leaving the Public Service Commission immediately and taking a sabbatical

My key takeaway from last night: Utilities are deeply unpopular and honestly have been for some time. Politicians in both parties should be extremely wary of taking utility money and tying their political futures to these monopolies. It is… risky, to say the least.

Southern Company: The Administration is so great. The new nuclear deal is amazing. So promising! Investor: Does the federal government's new $80 billion agreement make you more likely to build new nuclear? Southern Company: No.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.