"It's Diabolical, Man!".

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    • Subject Terms:
      ELECTRIC utilities; SCANDALS; ELECTRIC power production; INDEPENDENT system operators; FREEDOM of speech; RENEWABLE energy transition (Government policy)
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      Roberts: So, an exclusively gas utility is destined for the trash bin of history and knows it, but some electric utilities seem hostile to distributed renewables like rooftop solar and the installation of transmission lines to move power between regions. Now, there are absolutely some electric utilities that have figured out they can make money by retiring coal and gas plants and building wind farms and utility-scale solar farms instead. As part of an agreement to avoid trial, FirstEnergy paid the Justice Department $230 million and admitted to all of the following: They routed $61 million through 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups that don't have to disclose their donors, and FirstEnergy did not have to disclose giving them money. Pomerantz: Electric utilities make money when they build stuff. [Extracted from the article]
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