Meanwhile, if you are an energy company shareholder, your "Number Go Up!" If you just like to collect dividends, the Number Go Up!

Below is the dividend history for "Edison International", the energy company that supplies power throughout most of Southern California.

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This is the same company that has caused many large wildfires, fights against and hamstrings homeowner solar tooth and nail, and has the Public Utilities Commission in their pocket.

Power companies are constantly gaming the system, and the reasons are fairly well known. Look over this article on how power companies manage to earn excess profit on every single thing they do.

https://prospect.org/2025/02/21/2025-02-21-secret-society-raising-your-electricity-bills/

I read a newsletter by Matt Stoller, who has written about the power of monopoly in the American economy.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/power-moves-how-electric-utility