2024
November 13, 2024
Electricity Price Inflation Surges 22 Percent in October – 73 Percent Higher than Consumer Price Index
October 10, 2024
Electricity Price Inflation Soars +3.7 Percent vs. CPI at 0.2 Percent
September 19, 2024
FERC Ignores Consumer Complaint Filed Over Two Years Ago – Putting $8 Billion in MISO Transmission Cost Savings at Risk
September 19, 2024
IECA Files FERC Supplemental Comments – MISO ROFR Law Complaint (view press release)
September 11, 2024
CPI Report: Electricity Price Inflation 56% Higher than the Consumer Price Index and 86% Higher than Food Inflation
September 10, 2024
IECA Comments for the Record: Transmission Costs Are Escalating U.S. Electricity Prices (view press release)
September 10, 2024
ETCC Comments for the Record: Consumers Face Electricity Price Inflation Because of Escalating Transmission Costs
August 14, 2024
Electricity Price Inflation Over 4X Grocery Bill Increases
August 9, 2024
NPR Exposes Incumbent Monopoly Utility Efforts to Block Electricity Transmission Competition and Increase Consumer Costs
July 11, 2024
Electricity Price Inflation Exceeds the Consumer Price Index by 47%
July 9, 2024
IECA Urges FERC to Make Electric Transmission Rates Transparent (view press release)
June 12, 2024
95 Electricity Consumer Organizations from Across the Country File for Rehearing Over Anti-Consumer FERC Order 1920
June 12, 2024
Electricity Price Inflation Increase Almost Double the CPI
June 6, 2024
IECA Urges Senate To Swiftly Confirm FERC Commissioners (view press release)
June 3, 2024
93 Member Consumer Group Urges Senate to Confirm FERC Nominees
May 31, 2024
IECA Files “Reply Brief” to U.S. District Court of Appeals: ITC $594 Million Transmission Project Cost Recovery
May 15, 2024
Electricity Price Inflation Outpaces CPI by 50%
April 24, 2024
Manufacturers Support H.R. 7624, the “Advancing GETs Act of 2024”
April 24, 2024
Manufacturers Support S. 3918, the “Advancing GETs Act of 2024”
April 22, 2024
Defeat of Iowa ROFR Bill Huge Victory for Consumers
April 10, 2024
ETCC: Electricity Inflation 30% Higher Than CPI Over Last 12 Months
March 20, 2024
Nominee Qs: Electricity Costs Increase by 25% in Three Years: Why? Flat Demand
March 12, 2024
Electricity Price Inflation Continues to Outpaces CPI by 12.4% as FERC Decision on Transmission Competition Nears
March 4, 2024
ETCC: WIRES Letter to FERC Incorrectly Pits Collaboration Against Transmission Competition
February 13, 2024
Electricity Inflation Tops Monthly CPI by 400% Driven by Spiraling Transmission Rate Increases
February 9, 2024
IECA FERC Complaint: FERC ROFR Law Exception in Tariff Attachment FF is Unjust and ROFR Laws Interfere with the FERC’s Exclusive Jurisdiction
February 1, 2024
Utility Report Fails to Debunk Transmission Competition Benefits
January 22, 2024
IECA States that Transmission ITC Not Needed
January 11, 2024
December Electricity Price Inflation Jumps 1.3%, Outpacing CPI at Just .3% – FERC Must Act
January 10, 2024
IECA Supports Senator Cortez Masto’s Legislation to Expedite Generator & Storage Interconnection
2023
December 12, 2023
Monthly Electricity Price Inflation Increases 1.4% vs .1% for CPI Due to Accelerating Transmission Costs – FERC Must Act
December 7, 2023
IECA Petitions the Court for Judicial Review of ITC Midwest Incentive
November 17, 2023
IECA Files in Support of the Ohio Consumer Council Complaint at FERC on Supplemental Transmission Projects
October 3, 2023
IECA Opposes BIG WIRES Act as Written
September 7, 2023
IECA Requests Rehearing of FERC Decision on ITC Midwest Transmission Project
August 8, 2023
FERC Commissioner Christie Agrees with IECA on ITC Midwest Rate Recovery Protest
August 4, 2023
ETCC Files FERC Motion to Intervene in DCR Transmission Case – In Opposition to Cost Recovery Above Winning Bid Amount
July 14, 2023
IECA Urges FERC to Hold Technical Conference on EPA Clean Power Plan 2.0
June 14, 2023
Electricity Price Inflation Outpaces CPI by 47% – FERC Must Act
June 9, 2023
IECA and Other Organizations Urge FERC to Address NOPR Generator Interconnection Shortcomings
May 8, 2023
IECA Supports S. 1410, the “Energy Consumer Protection Act”
May 3, 2023
IECA Submits Comments for the Record Concerning Hearing on the Oversight of FERC
April 28, 2023
IECA Urges Chairman Manchin and Barrasso to Support Transmission Competition: FERC Transmission NOPR
April 12, 2023
IECA: Electricity Price Inflation Soars to 10.2%, Outpacing CPI Again – FERC Must Act
March 24, 2023
Iowa Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-competitive Right of Fight Refusal Bill
March 23, 2023
IECA Comments on FERC’s Transmission Cost Containment
February 10, 2023
IECA FERC Complaint: Action by Electric Utilities to Establish State ROFRs in MO, MS, KS, IN are Blatant Interference with FERC’s Jurisdiction
January 3, 2023
Cicio Op-Ed: “FERC Nears One of the Costliest Energy Decisions in History”
2022
November 14, 2022
IECA and 85 Organizations Urge President Biden to Back Electricity Transmission Competition, Consistent with FTC and DOJ Support
October 31, 2022
IECA and 85 Organizations Urges Chairman Manchin to Include Transmission Competition in Permitting Reform Bill
October 11, 2022
IECA Comments to NAESB Gas Electric Harmonization Forum October 21, 2022 Meeting
September 30, 2022
Senator Heinrich (D-NM) and Senator Lee (R-UT) Letter to FERC on Bipartisan Support for Transmission Competition
September 19, 2022
ETCC Submits Reply Comments on the FERC’s “Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection”
September 19, 2022
IECA Submits Reply Comments on the FERC’s “Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection”
August 17, 2022
U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Urges FERC to Support Robust Transmission Competition in NOPR
August 17, 2022
ETCC – 83 Consumer Organizations: FERC Cannot Provide Just and Reasonable Rates Without Robust Transmission Competition
July 22, 2022
IECA Files Complaint Challenging MISO’s Open Access Transmission Plan (view press release)
May 16, 2022
IECA Urges FERC to Release Demand Response Rule (MISO) (view press release)
May 15, 2022
Energy Policy Abandons Electricity Consumers and Increases Inflation
May 9, 2022
Consumers Urge Congress to Support Electricity Transmission Competition to Combat Inflation and Reduce Consumer Costs by $525 Billion by 2050 (view House letter)
January 14, 2022
IECA Comments on FERC’s “Performance-Based Ratemaking for Grid-Enhancing Technologies” and Urges a Better Way than Establishing Incentives