The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) announced that former employees recorded court proceedings without judicial permission. An investigation covering the past 15 years found three individuals who admitted to the practice, claiming it was to accurately record court exchanges. No current employees were found to have engaged in similar conduct.
As communities push for publicly owned electricity, private utilities may be deploying dark money and local front groups to stop themThe utility industry is quietly dispatching a network of front groups to thwart the growing push for public power across the US – a push that comes amid mounting frustration over sky-high utility bills, electric outages, a slow transition to clean energy and private utilities’ soaring profits.Communities from Ann Arbor, Michigan to San Diego, California and St Petersburg, Florida are exploring municipalizing their grids to join the country’s approximately 2,000 public power companies. Continue reading...
