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PG&E asks California regulators to ‘recover’ $1.36B from ratepayers for cost of utility’s wildfires
Just days after Pacific Gas & Electric persuaded California regulators to back a calamitous plan that will tank the state’s popular rooftop solar program, the reviled utility is asking the same...
Clean energy advocates urge N.C. regulators to reject Duke’s proposed rooftop solar policy changes
North Carolina regulators must reject a Duke Energy plan to impose new fees and onerous requirements on residential solar customers, says a coalition of advocacy groups. They say the plan ignores a...
California regulators’ vote to quash rooftop solar undermines Gov. Newsom’s climate goals
Golden State regulators have released their final proposed decision, the state’s monopoly utilities which will quash its wildly successful rooftop solar program. The plan will hobble solar’s growth by...
PG&E lays off scores of fire safety workers, despite horrendous wildfire record
Pacific Gas & Electric has laid off at least 800 contract employees over the past few weeks, including many responsible for helping prevent wildfires. The layoffs come despite PG&E’s long history of...
NRC would 'violate federal law' by fast-tracking PG&E bid to extend Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, groups say
On December 6, in their second letter to the Commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) within the space of three weeks, four environmental organizations once again put the NRC on...
EWG urges California to drop half-baked attack on future of home solar program
The Environmental Working Group filed comments urging California regulators to drop a harebrained proposal to wreck the state’s popular rooftop solar policy. The program gives working- and middle...
California’s latest rooftop solar proposal favors monopoly utilities over the competition – their customers
California regulators today proposed changing the state’s popular rooftop solar program largely to benefit monopoly utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, making it more expensive for working- and...
California’s middle-income residents outpace wealthy in rooftop solar installations in 2021
Middle-income and working-class Californians represented by far the largest block of the million-plus households in the state that installed rooftop solar in 2021, according to a new Lawrence Berkeley...
PG&E asks federal regulators to extend life of aging, dangerous Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Pacific Gas & Electric is formally asking the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to extend the life of California’s only remaining nuclear power plant – the dangerous, aging and costly Diablo...
North Carolina must reject Duke’s misguided carbon plan relying on non-existent nuclear
North Carolina regulators must reject Duke Energy’s ill-conceived carbon reduction plan, a coalition of advocacy groups argued this week. The plan will fail to achieve emissions cuts, because it...
As ratepayers struggle to pay PG&E energy bills, CEO rakes in over 190 times the typical employee salary
Pacific Gas & Electric’s CEO Patricia Poppe received $51.2 million in compensation last year, more than 190 times what the utility’s average employee earns and a tone deaf windfall amid soaring energy...
Safety investigation faults PG&E’s failure to maintain aging infrastructure against wildfire risks
Pacific Gas & Electric’s aging and unmaintained infrastructure is a driving factor in the threat of California wildfires, an independent investigator found.
Duke’s ‘clean energy plan’ for North Carolina wastes billions on dangerous, dirty and non-existent power sources
Duke Energy’s “clean energy transition” plan released this week for North Carolina doubles down on the utility’s billion-dollar addiction to costly, flawed nuclear and fossil fuel power and ignores...
Are California regulators waiting to crush rooftop solar until after the election?
Fearing voter backlash, California regulators may hold off issuing their proposed decision on a utility proposal to stifle the state’s rooftop solar program until after the November election...
PG&E plot to sell roughly 50 percent of non-nuclear power generation to Wall Street investors reveals business model’s flaws
Pacific Gas & Electric executives are looking to sell to Wall Street investors about half the utility’s non-nuclear electricity generation capacity. The sale would take place via a new subsidiary in a...
Dangerous déjà vu: PG&E faces federal criminal probe for California’s largest wildfire of 2022
The U.S. Forest Service has launched a criminal investigation into whether a transmission pole and power line owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric sparked the massive Mosquito Fire, California...
Duke Energy’s carbon plan ignores climate, drought risks in push for more nuclear and gas
Duke Energy testimony last week reveals the company’s flawed carbon reduction plan for North Carolina relies too heavily on nuclear power without considering how the climate crisis undermines the...
As Californians rally to conserve power amid blackout threat, state needs to protect solar, embrace clean energy future
Californians are rising to the moment by conserving power to avoid the dire threat of blackouts facing the state’s electricity grid, and now it’s time for regulators to do their part by rejecting an...
California utilities exploit Biden climate law in push to eliminate state’s rooftop solar program
The big investor-owned utilities in California are enlisting the new federal climate law to pressure regulators to adopt their plan to quash the state’s popular rooftop solar program.
Scorching heat and historic drought threaten California’s electric grid, showing need for more rooftop solar
Temperatures are soaring in much of central California – above 100 degrees in places – and the resulting higher demand on the electricity grid could cause blackouts.
