John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋

Distributed energy nerd | Anti-monopoly policy guy @ ILSR | Making clean power local + fair | 📍Minnesota dad energy 🔌💡

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

What the #Monopoly #Utility Model Really Costs Us –– a thread on my new report from @ILSR 🧵

Care about #CleanEnergy? #Climate? #Affordability? #Equity? There's something for you >>> #EnergyTwitter

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TO ALL MY UNKNOWN TEXT SENDERS: YES I KNOW WHERE MY POLLING PLACE IS AND YES I WILL VOTE ON TUESDAY.

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[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The most interesting about this graphic is that it was created and shared by Al Jazeera.

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"Consumer Reports found that Americans blame their higher electric bills on utility companies seeking to maximize profits and on the rapid buildout of data centers"

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That's because it's just gambling marketed as prediction.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Polymarket got the Brazilian election completely wrong.

The glorified gambling platform had Flavio Bolsonaro's odds at over 80% all the way up to the day voting took place.

Lula ended up with 51.8% of the vote.

https://t.co/FqOyzFYjzu

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Polymarket got the Brazilian election completely wrong.

The glorified gambling platform had Flavio Bolsonaro's odds at over 80% all the way up to the day voting took place.

Lula ended up with 51.8% of the vote.

https://t.co/FqOyzFYjzu

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Coordinated home solar and batteries: "it doesn’t just compensate the people who supply power ...“It also helps the neighbor who doesn’t have solar and batteries” https://t.co/oO8Dfttm78
@CommonChargeOrg

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Winter Park, Fla, paid less than half what Progress Energy said their grid was worth in 2002. Expect a lot of profit-motivated inflation in utility quotes. https://t.co/fJoKGPkUWJ h/t @KQEDnews Samantha Kennedy for the coverage

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Notably, an investor in Delmarva's parent company Exelon would have earned over 10% per year over the past decade. Sounds pretty high for a company with no competition... https://t.co/mFWeMoUh6t

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Why is the Bed Scrunchie helpful to understanding how Amazon jacks up prices everywhere, even on competitor websites? https://t.co/6sNLLw27NN

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Happy Tuesday! Rooftop solar in New England is helping reduce reliance on natural gas! https://t.co/qNhbXYnmq7

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Shame on Big Tech for their lies, but double shame on the Indiana public regulator –– with the duty to protect the public –– for signing secret, sweetheart deals for Big Tech and paid for by ordinary customers.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Today, the IURC approved a deal between AES Indiana and a Google data center with secret terms and secret, discounted rates.

It will shift $74 million in transmission network upgrades onto all AES Indiana customers -- directly contradicting the Ratepayer Protection Pledge.

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Publicly owned utilities pay back more to their communities than for-profit ones. Learn more about #PublicPower from ILSR's podcast series about communities trying to go public: https://t.co/z5AsX4gQzV

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@charlierybak Sports gambling is ruining sports.

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Wait until he finds out that, being born in the Mediterranean, Jesus wasn't a white guy. 🤯

[Max Nesterak @maxnesterak]

instant New York Times bestseller

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And people still wonder why communities are concerned about data center water use?

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The average household water bill has gone up about 62% over the last ten years. And when your water is privately owned, it's even worse.

The typical family whose water is privately owned pays almost twice as much as a family who has a public water supply, per @foodandwater.

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@walkerorenstein I'm guessing because they think that if Dems are up 6 points in TX and 4 in OH, then Flanagan is up by 10 or more.

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Learn which communities are fighting to make their utility public: https://t.co/ymtb4CsOoD

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If your electric utility was publicly owned, you'd probably have a lower bill. #PublicPower https://t.co/79pRYn7YpD

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@AlisonTakemura @CanaryMedia Gas stoves kept pumping out pollution even when turned off: About a third of fossil-fueled kitchens produced NO2 levels outside of business hours that exceeded health standards. The culprit was pilot lights.

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You wouldn't sit in your running gas car in your garage, so why do you accept poisoning yourself in your own kitchen with a gas stove? https://t.co/uv3xT5bX2w h/t @AlisonTakemura @canarymedia