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  1. 1918 Public Utility Innovation: Era-Defining Ad Art

    This ingenious external meter box eliminated the need for home entry, saving time and hassle for both the meter reader and the 'busy housewife'. A true marvel of early 20th-century convenience! 🏠

    #blastfromtheads #1918 #1910s #externalmeter #meterreading #utilityinnovation #homeconvenience #vintageadvertising #historicaltech #edwardianlife #homehistory #timesaver #oldnewspaper #retroinnovation #early20thcentury #publicutility

  2. »#Mastodon is no longer just a destination. It’s a #foundation: a #publicutility for self-governed, interest-driven #communities across the world. Some might be tiny and personal; others might grow large and influential.« werd.io/2025/if-i-ran-mastodon #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

  3. Power companies win challenge over Texas transmission line law

    Companies outside of Texas that don't have transmission lines in Texas can now do business in Texas, per a federal judge's ruling.

    According to the suit, "NextEra alleged that SB 1938 was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause because it discriminates against interstate commerce on its face, in effect, and in purpose."

    @Chron

    chron.com/news/houston-texas/a

    #Texas #Power #PublicUtility #Electricity #InterstateCommerce

  4. #California's notoriously docile #PublicUtilitiesCommission voted 4-0 to allow a new fixed #fee on bills for energy. State #regulators OK'd new monthly "#utility fee" up to $24 on top of already climbing residential #ElectricBills.

    The fee restructuring is expected to raise bills of up to 4 million customers statewide of Pacific #Gas & #Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego #Gas & Electric.

    #PublicUtility Commissioner Darcie Houck said “This is a relatively modest charge." #PGE say the fixed #charge will supposedly reduce the per-kilowatt cost of #electricity for all customers and help subsidize greener energy production.

    mercurynews.com/2024/05/09/pge

  5. #California's notoriously docile #PublicUtilitiesCommission voted 4-0 to allow a new fixed #fee on bills for energy. State #regulators OK'd new monthly "#utility fee" up to $24 on top of already climbing residential #ElectricBills.

    The fee restructuring is expected to raise bills of up to 4 million customers statewide of Pacific #Gas & #Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego #Gas & Electric.

    #PublicUtility Commissioner Darcie Houck said “This is a relatively modest charge." #PGE say the fixed #charge will supposedly reduce the per-kilowatt cost of #electricity for all customers and help subsidize greener energy production.

    mercurynews.com/2024/05/09/pge

  6. #California's notoriously docile #PublicUtilitiesCommission voted 4-0 to allow a new fixed #fee on bills for energy. State #regulators OK'd new monthly "#utility fee" up to $24 on top of already climbing residential #ElectricBills.

    The fee restructuring is expected to raise bills of up to 4 million customers statewide of Pacific #Gas & #Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego #Gas & Electric.

    #PublicUtility Commissioner Darcie Houck said “This is a relatively modest charge." #PGE say the fixed #charge will supposedly reduce the per-kilowatt cost of #electricity for all customers and help subsidize greener energy production.

    mercurynews.com/2024/05/09/pge

  7. #Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A #PubliclyOwned grid

    "Making the island’s utility a #cooperative resulted in cheaper and cleaner power. It could hold lessons for communities around the country debating local utility control."

    #EnergyTransition #PublicUtility
    canarymedia.com/articles/clean

  8. #Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A #PubliclyOwned grid

    "Making the island’s utility a #cooperative resulted in cheaper and cleaner power. It could hold lessons for communities around the country debating local utility control."

    #EnergyTransition #PublicUtility
    canarymedia.com/articles/clean

  9. #Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A #PubliclyOwned grid

    "Making the island’s utility a #cooperative resulted in cheaper and cleaner power. It could hold lessons for communities around the country debating local utility control."

    #EnergyTransition #PublicUtility
    canarymedia.com/articles/clean

  10. #Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A #PubliclyOwned grid

    "Making the island’s utility a #cooperative resulted in cheaper and cleaner power. It could hold lessons for communities around the country debating local utility control."

    #EnergyTransition #PublicUtility
    canarymedia.com/articles/clean

  11. #Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A #PubliclyOwned grid

    "Making the island’s utility a #cooperative resulted in cheaper and cleaner power. It could hold lessons for communities around the country debating local utility control."

    #EnergyTransition #PublicUtility
    canarymedia.com/articles/clean

  12. Order Instituting Rulemaking Proceeding to Consider Rules to Implement Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program

    The CPUC, in its commitment to help bridge the digital divide, will hold two virtual public forums for consumers to offer input regarding quality and accessibility of high-speed broadband in their communities.  

    Californians can also make their voice heard in this proceeding, and read the comments of others, on the proceeding’s Docket Card comment section.
    WHEN: Nov. 8, 2023, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. (virtual only)
    #California #publicutility
    cpuc.ca.gov/beadprogram

  13. 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.

    #PublicUtility #PublicPower #Public #Kentucky

    state-journal.com/opinion/gues

  14. CW: UK political disappointments

    If I were to send government officials to high-school-esque detention, I‘d get them to do lines on a chalkboard of “#Energy is a #PublicUtility, not for #profit.”

    Corollary article: theguardian.com/business/2022/

  15. @llebrun a good point to promote in the 100th year of the BBC. Imagine if it had been a commercial entity, all that we would have missed out on. #BBC #PublicUtility
    I've long thought a BBC created social media could have been a real force for good, much like the #BBCMicro