David Pomerantz

Exposing efforts by utilities and fossil fuel interests to undermine clean energy with @energyandpolicy. Personal account. DM for Signal info to chat securely.

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I started [gulp] a substack. It’s called Utility Watch, and will feature @EnergyandPolicy's research, with opinions and analysis from me. My first post is on utility profits, and why the politicians increasingly going after them are smart to do so. https://t.co/jCfeOsGxld

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@ts_fisher 🤝

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If you are wondering who paid Rachel Bade for this ad… actually, you probably did!*

Utilities charge their EEI dues in your monthly bills. 🤷‍♂️

See * in next tweet…

[Rachael Bade @rachaelmbade]

A new report shows just how important America’s electric grid is to national security. Every dollar invested there saves consumers almost twice that in the future

#EEI_Partnership

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One thing my 4yo daughter has believed for at least the last half of her life is that everything is better when she is wearing her bathing suit, so she does it as much as we let her.

She is *extremely* wise.

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@grayson_flood I totally agree with that point and folks should be thinking big, accordingly!

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@grayson_flood I'm down for the "bolder" part though! I have a list of what that can look like toward the bottom of that way-too-long post.

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@grayson_flood I'd humbly suggest you give this a read; I mentioned GA Power's specifically as one of many examples of why this is not the good idea it seems. https://t.co/BUw7OARAe1

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@AriPeskoe #3: picking which battles are most worth fighting w a governor who has suddenly lit into them?

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https://t.co/e3VXw5vgHX

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NextEra hometown newspaper ed board, (basically): “Trust us Virginia: don’t let this company anywhere near your electricity customers.”

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https://t.co/UA8gGAqtUd

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NYT: David Pomerantz ... said [NextEra's] record should concern regulators and lawmakers in states where Dominion operates.

“NextEra’s playbook and history in Florida should make Virginians and South Carolinians terrified of this merger."

- I did say this, and it's true!

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@AriPeskoe @Meeenurz @matthewstoller I think independently of the legal question, there will be a big political legitimacy problem for the SCC if she doesn’t recuse. That would probably be true regardless of her prior comments at confirmation, but they don’t help matters.

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@AriPeskoe @Meeenurz @matthewstoller Of course, there's nothing binding about her email at the time or whatever she told state senators privately. The idea she would have pledged to recuse from a single transmission line proceeding involving NEE, but not an acquisition by NEE, would be absurd on its face.

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@AriPeskoe @Meeenurz @matthewstoller Yes. Though as is common in these situations, that's a bit of a different description from Bagot in her email than the various senators' interpretation of it from the time.

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@AriPeskoe @Meeenurz @matthewstoller She was questioned on basically these grounds during her nomination and said she’d recuse.

https://t.co/Syd3LTNvwQ

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Hot takes from my kid's first viewing of The Sound of Music:

- Movies should still have intermissions.
- It's still amazing.

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A classic of the genre.

[Autumn T. Johnson @autumntjohnson]

APS COO testifies on the stand that we “just need to trust the utility” is doing what’s best for customers. 🤨 #energy #aps #acc

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@SeanTrende This is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
https://t.co/xSMUDOrHcC