Utilities in the aggregate scored the lowest since the first year of the report, Sierra Club said, and for the first time ever the score dropped below the inaugural report’s baseline finding. “It is alarming that for the first time since 2021, utilities are regressing on their clean energy transition,” Sierra Club Chief Program Officer Holly Bender said in a statement. Utilities reviewed by Sierra Club plan to retire 29% of their coal generation (MWh) by 2030, “falling far short of what is needed. “This is more than double the amount of gas utilities planned in our first report,” Sierra Club said, and is 27% more than what was reported last year. “If these utilities had taken their commitments seriously and developed concrete strategies from the outset, they would be in a much better position today.”The utilities Sierra Club found backtracking on climate targets are: Entergy, Duke Energy, Evergy, Cleco, American Electric Power and Arizona Public Service.