Wonder why your electric bill is so high? It may be funding massages and golf for utility execs
Briefly

"Our analysis, which focused on many of the nation's largest utilities, found that it was quite routine for utilities to attempt to charge customers for these kinds of inappropriate expenses... It was common that they succeeded as well."
"Dominion South Carolina attempted to pass almost $1 million in exclusive golf and country club memberships for its employees onto customers..."
"Utilities also use ratepayer money to finance self-serving marketing campaigns. Over the past decade, utilities spent more than $1.1 billion on goodwill and institutional advertising under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) accounting categories."
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