An alternative to leaving Duke Energy and forming a traditional municipal utility might be creating a self-funding municipal sustainable energy utility like the one Ann Arbor's developing. They will do solar and batteries for households using cheap municipal financing, but alongside their existing private utility, without trying to take it over.
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Leaving Duke Energy and forming a municipal-run utility instead could save residents millions on their electric bills. The estimated savings would average about 7% each year for the first five years, but then residents’ bills would be about 18% lower annually in the following 25 years as benefits accumulated.
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St Petersburgs's legal agreement with Duke is coming up for renewal next summer for the first time in 30 years, creating a rare window of leverage to form a city-run utility.
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@researchfairy @peternlewis Also the same question: Should unelected pressure groups control this thing via officials claiming to act in "the public good"?
There's no real “public”—just individuals with different and conflicting aims. Concepts like the “common good” or “public interest” are excuses to sacrifice others' interests and rights.
#Privatization of force and #nationalization / #municipalization of property are both civil war. The latter is only slower.
I'm having major #Boulder #Municipalization flashbacks from the ballot measure in Maine to wrest the privately owned T&D system from investor owned utilities. Good luck y'all. I'm sure the utilities are going to completely lose their shit. #EnergyTransition
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-campaign-for-public-power-in#details
This November, Maine voters will weigh in on a ballot measure that would replace the state's two big investor-owned power utilities with a single public, nonprofit utility called Pine Tree Power. I talked with state Senator Nicole Grohoski about the rationale behind the measure, what voters could get out of it, and what other states can learn from it.
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