FirstEnergy collected $465 million under the distribution rider before the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal. Because of the way it and other riders are structured by the PUCO, there’s no way to refund them to customers if they’re later declared illegal.
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Below are summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's open meeting to be held on April 20, 2023, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on April 13,...
Columbus-based utility giant AEP wasn't at the epicenter of a historic bribery and money-laundering scandal in 2019. But it also wasn't very far away as a corrupt deal was hatched in the Ohio Capitol to use $61 million in bribes to pass a $1.3 billion bailout.
Below are summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s open meeting to be held on December 15, 2022, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on December...
Below are summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's November 17, 2022 open meeting, pursuant to the sunshine notice released on November 10, 2022. ...
More evidence emerged Friday that Ohioans for years have faced questionable utility increases that were granted out of possibly dubious motives. On June 19, 2019, FirstEnergy’s leaders were furiously pushing what would later be called one of the biggest bribery and money laundering schemes in Ohio history. The same day, the Ohio Supreme Court struck […]
Newly revealed text message from former utility regulator chair to FirstEnergy exec indicates he knew a rate increase he voted to allow was illegal, but that the Akron-based utility would be allowed to keep the $460 million it had already collected.