Utility Bill Calculator
Utility Bill Calculator
Tool exploring the effect of utility profit rates on electricity bills
Investor-owned utilities use their government-granted monopoly power to gouge customers, sabotage clean energy competitors, harm communities and climate, and evade accountability. Federal and state policymakers can break up utility monopoly power by reasserting public control over distribution of this public good.
Documenting how investor-owned utilities use their monopoly power to sabotage clean energy competitors, harm communities, and evade accountability.
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Featured Resources
Why Your Electric Bill Is Too High
Why Your Electric Bill Is Too High
Short video explaining how excessive utility profit rates contribute to high electric bills
Local Energy Policy Toolkit
Local Energy Policy Toolkit
Strategies for cities and communities to pursue energy democracy
How Utility Profits Drive the Energy Affordability Crisis
How Utility Profits Drive the Energy Affordability Crisis
Article explaining how excessive utility profit rates contribute to the U.S. energy affordability crisis
Who Picks Electric Utility Regulators?
Who Picks Electric Utility Regulators?
Interactive map and explainer of how voters can shape utility regulation
Climate Inaction: How Utility Monopoly Power Crushes Climate Progress
Climate Inaction: How Utility Monopoly Power Crushes Climate Progress
Webinar featuring climate activist Bill McKibben and a panel of energy experts discussing how monopoly utilities block climate progress
More on Monopoly Utilities
Who Picks Electric Utility Regulators?
Who Picks Electric Utility Regulators?
See where and how you can use your vote to demand more affordable, clean, and safe electricity from utility regulators.
How a Referee for the Grid Can Lower Utility Bills — Episode 276 of Local Energy Rules
How a Referee for the Grid Can Lower Utility Bills — Episode 276 of Local Energy Rules
Utilities profit by spending more. An independent distribution system operator could change that.
Why Your Electric Bill Is Too High
Why Your Electric Bill Is Too High
ILSR's short video explains how excessive profits for utility shareholders, also known as return on equity, drive up electric bills.
States Can Stop Utilities From Strangling Local Solar — Episode 273 of Local Energy Rules
States Can Stop Utilities From Strangling Local Solar — Episode 273 of Local Energy Rules
Solar is ready. Thanks to utilities, the rules to connect it to the grid aren't.
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Local Ownership
Local Ownership
When communities get to make their own decisions about clean energy projects.
