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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

@charlierybak Sports gambling is ruining sports.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

@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.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

@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.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

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

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

Rising electricity demand is driving up prices. Faster solar #interconnection = more affordable power, sooner. States that cut red tape now help their residents save before the final #solartaxcredit deadline. #GridUnlocked https://t.co/hc9V0cyLLq

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

One of the best news stories of 2026

[Jeff St. John @jeffsaintjohn]

After a federal judge ruled that EPA's killing of the $7B Solar for All program was illegal, nonprofits and companies are ready to relaunch solar projects to help low-income residents—if the Trump administration obeys a court order to give them the money:
https://t.co/14mgi4y8Mf

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

Still one of the best "make you think" ads of all time

[Simon Mahan @SimonMahan]

Remember this ad from Nissan about using electric vehicles, and how silly it'd be if we powered our computers on liquid fuels. Silly, right?

Except, some data centers are being powered by diesel power plants. I've not seen much discussion around fuel for compute vs other uses.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

For-profit utilities cost more, clearly shown in this state-issued analysis of privatizing Santee Cooper in S.C. So when investor-owned utilities claim that it's expensive to switch to public power, they're lying.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

I love hearing these stories of using AI agents to get through the barriers that companies have erected to prevent us from getting help: https://t.co/yUNVmWQDZ3. (until websites block the agents)

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

Funny how the Supreme Court is so obsessed with the President's ability to fire agency heads and so little with his oath of office to "faithfully execute" his role to implement laws passed by Congress.

[Hal Singer @halsinger]

"Under the Trump administration, the EPA has stopped estimating the public health benefits of reducing pollution in the cost-benefit analyses necessary for clean-air regulations. Instead, the agency has estimated only the costs to businesses of complying with the rules."

Translation: Public health benefits get zero weight in any cost-benefit analysis under the Trump administration. So long as the coal industry stands to profit from planet-warming pollution, then they have the right to pollute with impunity. This is your government on libertarianism.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth.

Massie alleges that Hegseth has waged the war against Iran illegally, among other "high crimes and misdemeanors."

He is also asserting that Hegseth initiated the conflict unlawfully, defied Congress' order to withdraw from the conflict, and incurred unnecessary civilian casualties.

[John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell]

There is literally no better way to make sure Americans seek out and watch the Kimmel-Talarico interview. It's helpful when the authoritarian in charge is this dumb.