Private companies with a government-granted monopoly over electricity delivery.
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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Utilities profit by spending more. An independent distribution system operator could change that.
ILSR's short video explains how excessive profits for utility shareholders, also known as return on equity, drive up electric bills.
Solar is ready. Thanks to utilities, the rules to connect it to the grid aren't.
In this webinar, city leaders discuss tools and models for building local energy democracy and fighting corporate utility control.
