John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋

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

@NWSTwinCities Please provide Owlie update

As of 11:15pm, Frosty is standing tall but Owlie is beginning to disappear. Peak snow intensity will continue to increase over the next few hours. #mnwx

An excellent overview of how plug-in solar can expand the bill-reducing benefits of solar to just about anyone by removing red tape so we can find a solar install kit at IKEA, Home Depot, or Ace Hardware: vist.ly/4uemg

I'm pleased to see SF re-up its efforts to take its utility service back from @PGE4Mes, since state regulators have been completely inadequate to hold the utility accountable. vist.ly/4uake

I'm pleased to see SF re-up its efforts to take its utility service back from @PGE4Mes, since state regulators have been completely inadequate to hold the utility accountable. kqed.org/news/12074281/… @KQEDnews h/t @sydneyfjohnson

TVA? Really? If we want to hold up public power models, let's talk about responsive municipal utilities like Burlington and Austin, not agencies with zero local accountability who are backsliding on coal power bc the President told them to: grist.org/energy/the-nat…

The history of solar suggests we get big results from millions of small-scale investments. /END

Also, decentralized energy production avoids the delays associated with building new transmission lines (10-20 years) and the land use conflicts often exploited by anti-solar, pro-fossil demagogues.

As he swerves into my lane, I'd like to share a thread about how mistaken Mr. Yglesias is on solar. 🧵

@mattyglesias Holding up TVA as a model of public power is a terrible idea. Unaccountable governance, conflict with its own municipal customers.... ilsr.org/tennessee-vall…

Worth noting that a Colorado Xcel customer with a $100 monthly bill pays about $142 extra per year just to cover Xcel Energy's excessive regulator-set profit margin: ilsr.org/energy/utility…

There's a lot of room to cut utility profits: ilsr.org/energy/utility…

Yes

The drawbacks of trendlines, illustrated: (also, I love this analysis anyway)

HUGE WIN for San Diego in its utility negotiations -- $10 million fund for low-income solar, paid by the utility. A great lesson for how cities can leverage their power in their relationships with utility companies: vist.ly/4tuvj