Policy and Advocacy

Alabama Electric Cooperatives Rank Last in New Regional Scorecard

Blog, Concerned Citizen, Education, News + Media, Policy and Advocacy / By / January 24, 2023

If you haven’t heard, Energy Alabama has released an updated scorecard evaluating the performance of Alabama’s rural electric cooperatives in areas such as democratic governance, member services, and access to clean energy, to name a few. Energy Alabama represents one of seven southeastern states that are a part of Energy Democracy Y’all, an ongoing collaboration …

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Alabama Municipal Electric Authority Deploys Solar, Alabama Power Fights It

Blog, Consumer, Policy and Advocacy / By / October 25, 2022

The new Black Bear Solar Project in Montgomery County is almost operational and will provide massive cost savings to the 350,000 Alabamians who get electricity through one of the eleven municipal utilities participating in the project. We’re talking savings to the tune of $12 million in LESS THAN ONE year! And an estimated $40 million …

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Responding to Joe Wheeler EMC’s Misinformation

Leave a Comment / Blog, Concerned Citizen, Policy and Advocacy / By / August 10, 2022

Dear member of Joe Wheeler EMC, You may have recently been the recipient of a letter from your utility’s CEO, George Kitchens. That letter contained so much misinformation we felt the need to respond and set the record straight. Misinformation stings all the worse when you know the person has the facts and chooses to …

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Clean Up TVA Coalition Launch

News + Media, Policy and Advocacy / By / July 11, 2022

Groups and community members unite to propel TVA into a just, equitable, and fossil-fuel-free energy future by 2030   TENNESSEE — Dozens of organizations in the Tennessee Valley came together today to launch the Clean Up TVA Coalition, demanding immediate action from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to cut carbon emissions and transition to a fossil-fuel-free …

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Congress is asking TVA some hard questions

News + Media, Policy and Advocacy / By / July 11, 2022

Congress is finally asking TVA some hard questions… many of the same questions we’ve been asking for years. Questions like what’s up with all these fixed fees and grid access charges? Why are TVA customers paying more for energy than the average customer across the country? Why does TVA make it so difficult to go …

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New Survey Results: Alabama Voters Want Energy Freedom in a BIG Way

Blog, News + Media, Policy and Advocacy / By / November 3, 2021

In Alabama, we are all about freedom and market choices, and that’s as true of our energy use as anything else. Alabama Wants Renewable Energy Choices Recent results from a survey of 600 likely Alabama voters show that Alabamians want freedom of choice, a competitive marketplace, and the right and opportunity to choose where their …

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Alabama Rural Electric Cooperative Scorecard

Blog, Policy and Advocacy / By / August 30, 2021

Rural electric cooperatives (RECs) were established in the 1930s to provide power rural areas not seen as profitable to large investor-owned utilities. In Alabama there are 22 rural electric cooperatives (RECs) providing power to over a quarter of Alabama residents (and over 70% of Alabama’s land mass). Rural electric cooperatives are member-owned (ie. customer owned), …

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Alabama PSC Should Release Analysis on Alabama Power’s Excessive Profit Formula

Blog, Concerned Citizen, Policy and Advocacy / By / November 30, 2020

Today, Energy Alabama sent a letter to the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) asking it to commit fully to transparency and fairness by allowing regular Alabamians to review and submit questions about an overdue report examining Alabama Power’s Rate Stabilization and Equalization (RSE), a key factor in how the utility’s excessive profits are determined. Read …

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Groups Ask PSC to Reconsider Alabama Power’s Unprecedented Gas Expansion

Blog, Concerned Citizen, Policy and Advocacy / By / September 29, 2020

Gasp and Energy Alabama have formally asked the Alabama Public Service Commission to reconsider its June decision to approve the single largest capacity increase ever proposed by Alabama Power, including including almost 1,900 MW of gas generation. We requested a rehearing to consider updated testimony in light of economic forecasts showing lessened electric demand due …

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