ILSR’s annual scorecard shows which states have the best policies for giving communities control over their electricity and protection from utility abuses.
See where and how you can use your vote to demand more affordable, clean, and safe electricity from utility regulators.
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.
An interactive tool to help consumers, reporters, and policymakers explore the link between excessive utility profit rates and high electric bills.
Interactive resources and examples of how to use local government to promote local clean energy and hold monopoly utilities accountable.
A conversation about competition, mergers, and how to make sure the lowest-income households have access to an Internet connection
In some states, 30 cents of every dollar a customer pays to their electric utility goes to the utility’s shareholders’ profits. How widespread is this...
A conversation about AI policy, emergent systems, distributed knowledge, and why the things that are easiest to measure “might not be the right things to...
BEAD delays, LEO satellites, permitting, affordability, and why mobile networks may be getting worse
What can we expect from a new utility-owned distributed storage program that made headlines when it was announced over 18 months ago?
A conversation about how we organize networks—and who they serve
Who should pay for upgrades to the high voltage transmission network?