Ohio legislators, watchdog want requirement for utility refunds
By Mark Gillispie - Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) Two bills in Ohio’s legislature are furthering the push by the state’s consumer watchdog to require the utilities commission to refund millions to customers who paid for charges later deemed improper by the state Supreme Court.
Electric customers, since 2009, have paid $1.5 billion in such charges that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio failed to make subject to refunds, Ohio Consumers’ Counsel Bruce Weston said.
In a statement, Weston said it’s a “travesty of justice for consumers.”
“It would be understandable if Ohioans think the system is rigged against them in favor of utilities with their undue influence,” he said.
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Mark Gillispie May 27, 2021 - 3:22 PM
CLEVELAND (AP) â A FirstEnergy senior vice president was fired Thursday for her âinactionâ regarding a 2015 amendment to a âpurportedâ consulting contract with someone who was later appointed as Ohio s top utility regulator, the company announced in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Eileen Mikkelsen s dismissal makes her the sixth high-ranking FirstEnergy executive fired since the U.S. Department of Justice alleged last July that the company had secretly funded a $60 million bribery scheme aimed at winning legislative approval of a bailout of two nuclear power plants operated at the time by a wholly-owned FirstEnergy subsidiary.
FirstEnergy fires another executive over consulting contract
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press
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CLEVELAND (AP) A FirstEnergy senior vice president was fired Thursday for her “inaction” regarding a 2015 amendment to a “purported” consulting contract with someone who was later appointed as Ohio s top utility regulator, the company announced in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Eileen Mikkelsen s dismissal makes her the sixth high-ranking FirstEnergy executive fired since the U.S. Department of Justice alleged last July that the company had secretly funded a $60 million bribery scheme aimed at winning legislative approval of a bailout of two nuclear power plants operated at the time by a wholly-owned FirstEnergy subsidiary.