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Ohio Residents Exercise Community Choice to Bill Themselves for Public Solar — Episode 56 of Local Energy Rules Podcast
Residents of Athens, Ohio, recently passed a carbon fee ballot initiative that will add 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour to electricity costs. On this episode...
How Cities are Transitioning to 100% Renewable Energy (Episode 54)
Host John Farrell, ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative Director is joined by Mayor Dale Ross to discuss Georgetown’s switch to renewable power.… Read More
Crashing the Utility Transmission Planning Party — Episode 219 of Local Energy Rules
Shelley Welton discusses why utilities cannot be trusted to coordinate their electricity transmission plans and how an independent planning authority could step in where federal...
Commission Failed Georgians in Nuclear Fiasco — Episode 176 of Local Energy Rules
Patty Durand, candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission, explains how the Commission failed to protect consumers from the Vogtle nuclear power plant, what Durand...
In Santa Fe, Momentum Builds for Locals to Take Charge of Electricity System – Episode 39 of Local Energy Rules Podcast
A widening chasm between what customers want and what Santa Fe’s electric utility delivers is bolstering a campaign to rejigger power production and distribution, possibly...
Island Utility Aims for Two-Thirds Renewable Energy by 2020 — Episode 92 of Local Energy Rules Podcast
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell speaks with David Bissell, CEO of Kauai Island Utility Cooperative. The two talk...
ILSR co-director John Farrell joins Building Local Power to discuss how utilities perpetuate a monopoly model that is damaging our health, environment, and economy.
Tennessee Valley’s Unchecked Authority — Episode 183 of Local Energy Rules
Maggie Shober discusses how the Tennessee Valley Authority operates like a for-profit utility, despite its public ownership. Portions of this interview were released as part...
Public Power Pt. 2: Community Benefits — Episode 165 of Local Energy Rules
Ursula Schryver describes the benefits of consumer-owned utility service and Randy Knight reports on the progress that municipalization brought to Winter Park, Fla. This is...
A Public Utility for New York’s Hudson Valley – Episode 227 of Local Energy Rules
Rep. Sarahana Shrestha has a bill, The Hudson Valley Power Authority Act, that would take the privately-owned Central Hudson Gas & Electric public in order...
