John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋

"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"

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. vist.ly/5p2xs h/t @KQEDnews Samantha Kennedy for the coverage

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... vist.ly/5p2di

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: vist.ly/5meig

If your electric utility was publicly owned, you'd probably have a lower bill. #PublicPower vist.ly/5mafn

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 gridunlocked.org

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.

I love hearing these stories of using AI agents to get through the barriers that companies have erected to prevent us from getting help: nytimes.com/2026/09/22/techn…. (until websites block the agents)

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.

Are city-owned utilities the answer to out-of-control for-profit monopolies? I was delighted to join Bryan Lee on the Energy Markets Podcast to wrestle with this question on either end of a broad conversation about the corruption in the utility industry. vist.ly/5httk