Internal emails reveal how ALEC,
utility industry representatives, and front groups have been working to influence the members of the Ohio Energy Mandates Study Committee.
Not exact matches
And while many startups and tech companies that depend on open access to the Internet have cheered those rules, which reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as public
utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, cable and telecommunications
industry representatives have already filed several lawsuits that challenge the regulations.
It has been working with vendors and
representatives of the
utilities industry in an ambitious quest to begin populating the world with fusion power plants by the 2030s.
«The wireless
industry has done everything it can to persuade federal regulators and state regulators not to require that backup power be put in place,» said Regina Costa, chair of the telecommunications committee of the National Association of State
Utility Advocates, which speaks for consumer
representatives.
With that level of scale - up projected in the near future,
utilities and
representatives from the EV
industry are beginning to do the math and see potential for V2G.
According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's
utility and fossil fuel
industry representatives.
The workshop was attended by
representatives from 75 organisations, covering a wide range from government,
industry,
utilities, manufacturers, downstream, consulting,
industry associations, research and academia.
Next up: presentations from
representatives of the Edison Electric Institute (
utility trade group) and the Nuclear Energy Institute (nuclear
industry lobby).
He has also been active in the
utility industry, helping Seattle City Light become the first major carbon - free electric
utility in the late 1990s, and as a Governor's
representative to the Executive Board of Energy Northwest, a regional public power consortium.
But there is a lot of pressure from
utilities, energy - intensive
industries, and their sympathetic
representatives to hand out a majority of the permits free of charge in the early years of the program.
I currently have 28 years of experience in the
utility industry, ranging from Customer Service
Representative to Call Center Supervisor.