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A lot of people online (especially in @[email protected]'s mentions) seem to think building solar necessarily hurts nature. So I made a rebuttal video: youtu.be/U5RQReoF6lI #solar #energysky #greensky #publicpower
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A lot of people online (especially in @[email protected]'s mentions) seem to think building solar necessarily hurts nature. So I made a rebuttal video: youtu.be/U5RQReoF6lI #solar #energysky #greensky #publicpower
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Samuel Insull made electricity so cheap that anyone could afford it. But to protect his empire from public ownership, he struck a deal that screwed us forever. This is his story. www.greenjuice.wtf/insulls-barg... #energysky #publicpower
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CW: US Politics
Low-voltage utility elections face surge of attention as bills rise https://www.twincities.com/2026/04/06/low-voltage-utility-elections/
#USPolitics #Energy #ClimateChange #Arizona #UtilityBills #PublicPower
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CW: US Politics
Low-voltage utility elections face surge of attention as bills rise https://www.twincities.com/2026/04/06/low-voltage-utility-elections/
#USPolitics #Energy #ClimateChange #Arizona #UtilityBills #PublicPower
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In short, the Bay Guardian was right all along. #publicpower https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-san-francisco-eminent-domain-blackout/
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In short, the Bay Guardian was right all along. #publicpower https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-san-francisco-eminent-domain-blackout/
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Don't like your capitalist ripoff public utility? (I'm thinking PG&E especially--new gas explosion in Hayward CA where I grew up) Try socializing it!
#publicutilities #publicpower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/nyregion/central-hudson-utility-takeover.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U8.WvVR.h1l1Nm7o0QXa&smid=url-share -
An alternative to leaving Duke Energy and forming a traditional municipal utility might be creating a self-funding municipal sustainable energy utility like the one Ann Arbor's developing. They will do solar and batteries for households using cheap municipal financing, but alongside their existing private utility, without trying to take it over.
#EnergyMastodon #PublicPower #Climate #EnergyTransition #DukeEnergy #Florida #Municipalization
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An alternative to leaving Duke Energy and forming a traditional municipal utility might be creating a self-funding municipal sustainable energy utility like the one Ann Arbor's developing. They will do solar and batteries for households using cheap municipal financing, but alongside their existing private utility, without trying to take it over.
#EnergyMastodon #PublicPower #Climate #EnergyTransition #DukeEnergy #Florida #Municipalization
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Leaving Duke Energy and forming a municipal-run utility instead could save residents millions on their electric bills. The estimated savings would average about 7% each year for the first five years, but then residents’ bills would be about 18% lower annually in the following 25 years as benefits accumulated.
#EnergyMastodon #PublicPower #Climate #EnergyTransition #DukeEnergy #Florida #Municipalization
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Leaving Duke Energy and forming a municipal-run utility instead could save residents millions on their electric bills. The estimated savings would average about 7% each year for the first five years, but then residents’ bills would be about 18% lower annually in the following 25 years as benefits accumulated.
#EnergyMastodon #PublicPower #Climate #EnergyTransition #DukeEnergy #Florida #Municipalization
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After five years of aggressive legal maneuvering, Georgia Power has lost its battle to stop Nestlé Purina from choosing a different Georgia utility that could deliver better renewable energy options to its factory. In doing so, Georgia Power not only lost a major customer, it handed Walton EMC a victory that may open a new pathway for large companies seeking renewable energy options in Georgia.
#EnergyMastodon #GeorgiaPower #EnergyTransition #Climate #PublicPower
https://energyandpolicy.org/georgia-power-nestle-legal-battle/
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After five years of aggressive legal maneuvering, Georgia Power has lost its battle to stop Nestlé Purina from choosing a different Georgia utility that could deliver better renewable energy options to its factory. In doing so, Georgia Power not only lost a major customer, it handed Walton EMC a victory that may open a new pathway for large companies seeking renewable energy options in Georgia.
#EnergyMastodon #GeorgiaPower #EnergyTransition #Climate #PublicPower
https://energyandpolicy.org/georgia-power-nestle-legal-battle/
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Can I interest you in the concept of public ownership of utilities? @sevier.io #publicpower
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kgoaw5cdegevsczbn64bcy4z/post/3lprrz2unq22g -
"From small towns to large cities, community-owned, not-for-profit #PublicPower utilities power homes and businesses in 2,000 communities across the U.S. They safely provide reliable, low-cost electricity to more than 54 million Americans, while giving back to the communities they serve."
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"From small towns to large cities, community-owned, not-for-profit #PublicPower utilities power homes and businesses in 2,000 communities across the U.S. They safely provide reliable, low-cost electricity to more than 54 million Americans, while giving back to the communities they serve."
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#publicpower Some light reading on public ownership of power generation out of Michgan's Law School.
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Hey public / cooperative power advocates @aripeskoe is looking for examples of arguments in favor of these ownership models. Cc: @ntnsndr @chrisnelder
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Hey public / cooperative power advocates @aripeskoe is looking for examples of arguments in favor of these ownership models. Cc: @ntnsndr @chrisnelder
#cooperative #EnergyTransition #PublicPower #Utility #Electricity -
IOUs, Central Maine Power and Versant Power, spent $37.6m of ratepayer's $s to defeat legislation to create public utility.
“What we saw today is that the utilities have continued to spend money on our elections rather than our service, and that’s the story,”
#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate #PublicPower #MunicipalUtility
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IOUs, Central Maine Power and Versant Power, spent $37.6m of ratepayer's $s to defeat legislation to create public utility.
“What we saw today is that the utilities have continued to spend money on our elections rather than our service, and that’s the story,”
#EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate #PublicPower #MunicipalUtility
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Maine’s referendum is the largest effort in decades, and the first-ever push for a statewide public power company. #publicpower #energyjustice https://grist.org/politics/maine-public-power-utility-referendum/?
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Maine’s referendum is the largest effort in decades, and the first-ever push for a statewide public power company. #publicpower #energyjustice https://grist.org/politics/maine-public-power-utility-referendum/?
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Kentucky State Senator Gex Williams sees the privitization of a public utility as a "golden opportunity".
The gold would come from the pockets of Kentucky municipal utility customers and taxpayers.
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Kentucky State Senator Gex Williams sees the privitization of a public utility as a "golden opportunity".
The gold would come from the pockets of Kentucky municipal utility customers and taxpayers.
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Geotech survey of KyMEA's Ashwood solar project site indicates that only 255 acres of 1506 acre site is usable and they will need to switch from single axis tracking to fixed.
"This isn't bad news necessarily..." - KyMEA CEO
Does anyone know how they are going to get 86MW AC (112 MW DC) worth on panels on 255 acres?
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Geotech survey of KyMEA's Ashwood solar project site indicates that only 255 acres of 1506 acre site is usable and they will need to switch from single axis tracking to fixed.
"This isn't bad news necessarily..." - KyMEA CEO
Does anyone know how they are going to get 86MW AC (112 MW DC) worth on panels on 255 acres?
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Dear #AnnArbor friends
The feasibility study for #PublicPower has been completed. The assessment shows that a community-owned municipal electric utility is both economically feasible & preferable over the long term to continued #DTEEnergy ownership of the local grid.Go to https://www.a2gov.org/departments/city-council/Pages/Home.aspx to find your #A2Council member and tell them to DITCH #DTE!!!
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Dear #AnnArbor friends
The feasibility study for #PublicPower has been completed. The assessment shows that a community-owned municipal electric utility is both economically feasible & preferable over the long term to continued #DTEEnergy ownership of the local grid.Go to https://www.a2gov.org/departments/city-council/Pages/Home.aspx to find your #A2Council member and tell them to DITCH #DTE!!!
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#Maine citizens have a years-long campaign to municipalize their two big (and generally lousy, disliked) investor-owned utilities (#IOUs), #CentralMainePower #CMP and #Versant, buying them out to form new #publicpower #MuniPower company #PineTreePower
Among arguments for the Nov. ballot measure, "CMP & Versant's owners in Norway, Qatar, Calgary should not be in control of our energy future" https://pinetreepower.org/
Ballotpedia: Maine Question 3, Pine Tree Power Company
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Xcel Energy won yet another rate hike. This one to help cover the cost of closing its dirtiest coal plant early and budget overruns on another project.
This is a classic, "socialize the risks, privatize the profits" situation.
We win early closure on a coal plant that shouldn't have ever been built and Xcel turns to us to keep filling its coffers. Even when we win, we lose.
This is why we need #PublicPower not investor-owned utilities.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/17/xcel-bills-colorado-coal-plant-closure/
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Oberlin, with a population of about 8,500, wants to set an example for other small cities about how to have a discussion about climate change, make a plan and implement the plan.
A big part of Oberlin’s ability to reduce its emissions is the fact that the city government owns its electricity utility.
#EnergyMastodon #Climate #PublicPower #EnergyTransition
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072023/oberlin-ohio-clean-energy-transition/
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Oberlin, with a population of about 8,500, wants to set an example for other small cities about how to have a discussion about climate change, make a plan and implement the plan.
A big part of Oberlin’s ability to reduce its emissions is the fact that the city government owns its electricity utility.
#EnergyMastodon #Climate #PublicPower #EnergyTransition
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11072023/oberlin-ohio-clean-energy-transition/
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Three states just barred utilities from charging customers for lobbying
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Three states just barred utilities from charging customers for lobbying
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Residents in Maine are about to be bombarded with a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at saving the state’s two dominant electric utilities from being voted out of existence in November.
If Mainers vote yes, they will make history – endorsing a first-of-its-kind plan to create a state-level, public power company through a hostile takeover.
#PublicPower #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/18/maine-state-run-utility-power-companies
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Residents in Maine are about to be bombarded with a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at saving the state’s two dominant electric utilities from being voted out of existence in November.
If Mainers vote yes, they will make history – endorsing a first-of-its-kind plan to create a state-level, public power company through a hostile takeover.
#PublicPower #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Climate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/18/maine-state-run-utility-power-companies
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Scoop by @[email protected]: The Rochester City Council is poised to fund a study which will look into the possible creation of a public utility. The bill won't be introduced in the budget, but a statement of necessity, a standalone bill which almost guarantees its passage.
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Scoop by @[email protected]: The Rochester City Council is poised to fund a study which will look into the possible creation of a public utility. The bill won't be introduced in the budget, but a statement of necessity, a standalone bill which almost guarantees its passage.
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Mario Ariza & Tux Turkel:Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility: The US’s first state-run public power company could be created when Maine votes later this year – but utilities are fighting it
#Maine #publicpower #ClimateChange #lobbying
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Great coverage of the #PublicPower win in NY!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/03/new-york-renewable-energy-public-utilities
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Great coverage of the #PublicPower win in NY!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/03/new-york-renewable-energy-public-utilities
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New York takes big step toward renewable energy in ‘historic’ climate win
Measure will also help shift utilities away from private companies to make them publicly owned
[This is a measure which my wife, a member of the EcoSocialists working group of the NYC chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, has been working on for four years.]
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/03/new-york-renewable-energy-public-utilities
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Tomorrow is a #PublicPower kinda day. SRP has their monthly board meeting, plus I’m meeting with them later regarding their preferred installer program, and then a co-op meeting on interconnection. Plus the ACC has a staff meeting on Line Siting. Stay tuned! #EnergyMastodon
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Economic growth, greater transparency, and lower rates. Three reasons why leaders at the South San Joaquin Irrigation District are frustrated it's been 18 years of waiting (and counting) to take the local power grid public: https://ilsr.org/central-california-public-power-ler181/ #publicpower
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Economic growth, greater transparency, and lower rates. Three reasons why leaders at the South San Joaquin Irrigation District are frustrated it's been 18 years of waiting (and counting) to take the local power grid public: https://ilsr.org/central-california-public-power-ler181/ #publicpower
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A resolution was passed unanimously by the #Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners who reflected the frustration of last week's #icestorm. It addresses issues surrounding the extensive #poweroutages.
Yousef Rabhi, the commissioner representing the 8th District, wants to determine the feasibility of a county-run #municipalpower utility. Also, he wants to see the county lobby for passage of some bills in the state legislature.
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I was elected to the Board at my local #PublicPower district in 2018 on a platform of #CleanEnergy and #ClimateAction for my community. In the past 4 yrs we set a net zero by 2050 policy, approved a resolution affirming the scientific consensus on climate change, and are building the first utility scale solar which will double installed MW in the state of Nebraska.
Honored to be working alongside so many dedicated people in my community, and you all from around the world.