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The Ohio nuclear bribery scandal (2020) is a political scandal in Ohio involving allegations that electric utility company FirstEnergy paid roughly $60 million to Generation Now, a 501(c)(4) organization purportedly controlled by Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Larry Householder in exchange for passing a $1.3 billion bailout for the nuclear power operator. [1]
American Electric Power (AEP), Duke Energy, and Dayton Power & Light (DP&L) customers already subsidize these plants based on power usage. [4] However, the bill for FirstEnergy customers to subsidize Kyger Creek was a part of a public corruption scheme revealed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in July 2020.
Electricity theft is most common in developing countries where power grids deliver inadequate and unreliable power. [1] The global cost of electricity theft was estimated at $96 billion every year. [2] Some punishments for the crime include fines and incarceration. The electricity losses caused by the theft are classified as non-technical losses.
"The projections in this study indicate that the current pace of new (sources of electricity) would be insufficient to keep up with expected retirements and demand growth by 2030," the report said.
The power company on Monday asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to require data centers to make a 10-year commitment to pay for a minimum of 90% of the electricity they request, even if ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has announced that the North Central Electric Cooperative based in Attica, Ohio, was awarded a loan to begin and continue projects that will create ...
Early undergrounding had a basis in the detonation of mining explosives and in undersea telegraph cables. Electric cables were used in Russia to detonate mining explosives in 1812, and to carry telegraph signals across the English Channel in 1850. [1] With the spread of early electrical power systems, undergrounding began to increase as well.
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