🔥 Proof that vertical #monopoly utilities oppose community solar just to protect profits! ComEd in Illinois (where utilities don’t own power plants) says, “we’re all for [community solar].” pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/06/13/for… Rachel Metea / pv magazine

Not only do we have the extreme consequences of anti-vaccine bullshit, but we chew up valuable public hearing time explaining simple science to ideologues instead of solving other public problems.

Last night was a complete victory for the Stacy Mitchell theory of change

Zach Freed Aww, thanks Zach! Here's a non-paywall version if anyone wants to read: ilsr.org/articles/in-th…

Love this -- NY mayoral candidate embraces the city's small businesses. @ILSR explains why that's a good political strategy.

Our Small Business town hall with Lina Khan is indeed online. We had hundreds of small businesses eagerly turn out for this. Outsized corporate power is the top threat they face. (Much like workers & democracy). It's a vast untapped political opportunity. youtube.com/live/UOMomXHQl…

Obviously Texas has a higher need being a non-integrated grid, but what might account for the slow growth in PJM / MISO? Lower wholesale energy prices? Bad policy? Both?

Big money in politics is the stain on the U.S. republic. I'm reminded of the constitutional amendment proposed by ILSR co-founder David Morris: "money is not speech." ilsr.org/articles/democ…

This. And also a reminder that utilities don't want to build the transmission we need. Because profit. ilsr.org/articles/how-u…

One reason I've been proud to work at Institute for Local Self-Reliance is that our co-founder David Morris called on the U.S. to scale up solar panels in a report he published. In 1975. ilsr.org/dawning-solar-…

People who live near #solar panels like them. Maybe we should be building more: frontiersin.org/news/2025/06/1… h/t Angharad Brewer Gillham and Sarah Mills

For years, restrictive covenants were used to keep Black people from moving into middle class neighborhoods. Now, businesses use them to deprive you of choices. Sounds like both should be illegal.

If a #monopoly utility's next rate increase is much higher than a fine it paid for negligence in starting wildfires, are its shareholders really paying a fine, or its customers? vist.ly/3n7xmif #ThomasElias Chico Enterprise-Record

Minnesota alone has 210 municipal LIQUOR stores. If we can have publicly sold booze in the Midwest, New Yorkers should be able to have a public supply of avocados for their toast.

The Big Beautiful Bill will have a huge, inflationary impact on electric bills. Even the people raising your bills today agree.

Utilities have weaponized a technical utility ratemaking term to stifle competition from community solar. Legislators and regulators focus instead on how to capture and allocate the benefits: utilitydive.com/news/utilities…