David Pomerantz

Grateful to @nytopinion for sharing my essay on how utilities are using our money to slow down the clean energy transition, and how we can stop them. And thank you to my colleagues at @EnergyandPolicy for their years of digging up the dirt utilities try to keep hidden from us!

"The utility watchdog found that the nation’s most prominent investor-owned utilities have routinely tried to charge customers for expenses that have nothing to do with their core function of powering households and businesses." postandcourier.com/opinion/commen… @postandcourier

Watching the Republican Party’s most outspoken purported anti-monopolist carry the mantle of monopolies who have wanted Grain Belt dead for decades because it threatened their rent-seeking, all because “Wind Bad” is telling. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/cli…

New from @karleeweinmann: recent court filings show DTE Energy employees directed the transfer of funds from one dark money nonprofit to another tied to a Michigan official. energyandpolicy.org/dte-dark-money…

Dominion Energy gave $250K to a Democratic candidate for Virginia AG *in a primary.* (VA has unlimited corporate campaign contributions) That might be the largest single contribution from a monopoly utility to a candidate anywhere, ever? Anyone got that beat?

🚨 A new report from the Energy and Policy Institute analyzes investor-owned utility CEO compensation - which totaled over $530 million based on 2024 proxy statements provided by utility companies. energyandpolicy.org/utility-ceos-g…

New from @karleeweinmann - CenterPoint Energy is under fire for deceptive billing practices in MN that systematically increase the risk that elderly and low-income customers will see their gas service disconnected *even when they pay their monthly bills.* energyandpolicy.org/centerpoint-ho…

Ohio’s largest electric utilities are opposing new state legislation that could help rein in scandal-tainted electric bill riders that have cost their customers billions of dollars energyandpolicy.org/ohios-big-util…

NEW from @BostonGlobe: Avangrid & Eversource joined the Consumer Energy Alliance last year, but records show CEA was formed and is operated by a fossil fuel lobbying group based in Houston. Their purpose? "the promotion and defense of natural gas." bostonglobe.com/2025/03/16/sci…

🚨 🚨 We released a new report on how electric utilities are falling behind, or altogether abandoning, their emission reduction goals that were promised to customers and investors. Read the full report here: energyandpolicy.org/electric-utili…

Passes 6-3. Unbelievable. The first energy bill passed by the Senate Business & Commerce Committee is a bill to kneecap the growth of the Texas economy and ensure lots of scarcity, high prices, and energy emergencies in the near future.

"two small but significant change" says Phil King. adds a double credit for nuclear "obviously that's a few years out." yeah. "Also excluded batteries because we couldn't figure it out." If you like conservation alerts and energy emergencies, you'll love this bill!

The Senate will pass SB 388 out of committee this AM. It will exclude batteries from the definition of dispatchable generation; 50% of new generation will have to be gas but turbines aren't available until 2030. This bill would bring Texas economic growth to a screeching halt.

Before Connecticut's monopoly utilities began a two-year campaign to try to smear and assassinate the career of their top regulator, one of their CEOs allegedly "seemed to have extended to Gillett a vague offer of future career opportunities." energyandpolicy.org/as-rate-case-a…