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Utility profits

? · Kristi E. Swartz

What’s known as ‘gold plating’ — utilities making incremental or questionable upgrades to the power grid to line their pockets has hung over the industry for decades. Now, utilities are leveraging the financial risk of the clean energy transition as a reason to boost their profits to average in the double digits, saying Wall Street is demanding it.

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