ICYMI GA utility regulator Tim Echols: “I am also praying for torrential rain that day. Hail would be even better.” Translation: Please keep voters home and away from me. Voters are ew. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It’s not everyday that you see the illustrious @hankgreen.bsky.social talking about the very subject that constitutes a huge part your life’s work (and let’s be honest, half of my social feeds)… PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS! Hank explores key races in Georgia. Watch here: youtu.be/UgvE_gPi7Kc?...

Big Georgia election with even bigger consequences on utility bills in the state. Story by @alander.bsky.social georgiarecorder.com/2025/10/13/g...

SIGNED! 🥳🥳🥳💪💪💪 A massive victory for holding monopoly utilities accountable to their customers, and for lowering Californian utility bills. Thank you to @governor.ca.gov, @asmmarcberman.bsky.social, @senmcnerney.bsky.social, @earthjustice.org, The Utility Reform Network for all your leadership!

Municipal Utility rates in Georgia are dramatically lower than Georgia Power customers pay.

Florida Politics says Dumping Duke Energy could be bad. AnD ScArY!!! Is this the same Florida Politics that takes utility money in exchange for priority coverage? No conflict or ethical issue there at all? floridapolitics.com/archives/757...

Lots at stake in Georgia! www.wabe.org/campaigns-ai...

Since Jan. 2024, Georgia Public Service Commission incumbents Fitz Johnson & Tim Echols took most of their campaign cash from people & companies tied to the utilities they regulate. The PSC has approved 6 rate hikes since 2022. Full story: energyandpolicy.org/georgia-psc-...

This is some of the nastiest work I've ever seen. Taking customer money collected for federal income taxes and instead sending it to shareholders. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Local utilities, unions, environmentalists, and clean energy advocates don’t usually agree. They do now. Because privatizing TVA would be an unmitigated disaster. Alabama Power customers pay 40% more than folks w/ public power from Huntsville Utilities. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

NEWS: Organizations strongly oppose any effort to privatize TVA and condemn privatization as a reckless corporate power grab that threatens the livelihoods, security, and financial well-being of millions across the Tennessee Valley. energyalabama.org/organization...

NEWS: Current Florida Public Service Commissioner Art Graham has been nominated by Trump to the TVA Board of Directors. www.congress.gov/nomination/1...

President Trump has nominated Lee Beaman, a Republican mega-donor and scandal-ridden auto executive with "no professional experience in nuclear oversight, utility planning, or grid operations" to the TVA Board, story by @taitdl.bsky.social‬ via @energyandpolicy.org‬ ow.ly/lBAQ50Wq7CK 🔌💡

What a shit show Trump has created. TVA will be privatized over my dead body.

Lee Beaman has no apparent energy experience. But he’s Trump’s pick to help run TVA. Beaman would oversee TVA’s $12 billion budget, nuclear fleet, and long-term planning. A doozy of a thread 🧵

Georgia Power wants to hide from the public: 1. Cost of its expansion plan 2. How much power big users will need 3. How much each customer class might need to pay 4. The types of power plants it will need 5. Assumptions it uses 6. Info on major outages 7. Transmission costs 🤡

Another big nuclear trip from TVA. Looks like Sequoyah 1 and 2 went back offline yesterday. Unit 2 had just come back online.

Georgia Power is a monopoly with captive customers. It does not need to redact filings like it’s running a CIA operation. It's just hiding bad decisions. Props to the Southern Environmental Law Center and Georgia Interfaith Power & Light for pushing back. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Georgia PSC District 3 Democratic primary headed to a runoff between Keisha Waites and Peter Hubbard. georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/17/l...

Georgia Power just lost a five-year legal fight attempting to block Nestlé Purina from picking Walton EMC as its electric supplier. Purina wanted to supply its new factory with renewable energy. energyandpolicy.org/georgia-powe...

In less than 2 years, the Georgia Public Service Commission has allowed "Georgia Power to raise rates by an average of $43 per month". georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/17/r...

Virginia’s next Attorney General is supposed to protect ratepayers. Dominion Energy is betting $250,000 that won’t happen.

“Relentless focus on affordability,” says Georgia Power. That focus must be relentlessly ineffective. Georgia’s utility bills are now among the highest in the country. Words are cheap. Bills aren’t.

New rate increase thanks to Duke Energy!

Good reporting here to make sure that folks know Concentric is really just saying whatever Duke Energy tells them to say. “Concentric is just the go-to firm for the utility industry to get the results that are most favorable,” Spatz said. www.tampabay.com/news/busines...

“Shaw and McDonald are accused of violating state regulations by publicly endorsing the proposed three-year rate freeze during Gov. Brian Kemp’s May press conference, which promoted the proposal.” georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/10/a...

Can anyone point me to an example in the last, I don't know, 10 years where a utility has gone out to the market for equity and the markets said no? Even in cases like PG&E and FirstEnergy, utilities mired in scandal and bankruptcy, raised equity. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ah yes, the time-honored tradition of solving one infrastructure challenge by lighting another sector on fire. Want more capacity for data centers? Easy! Just kneecap our manufacturing strategy and the entire economic development plan it was built on. www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

Cavanaugh proved a doormat for the utilities. She supported the rate stabilization and equalization process. That guarantees Alabama Power a profit and shields it from questions about its decisions. Rates went up with hardly a peep from the commission. alabamareflector.com/2025/06/02/g...

Twinkle Cavanaugh OUT at the Alabama Public Service Commission. Heads to USDA. Put out to pasture indeed. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Turns out an Entergy nuclear plant tripping caused rolling blackouts in MISO South. Fill out the form. We’ll try again tomorrow. ☀️🌬️

The oil and gas industry continues to make a mockery of itself. When it can’t blame renewables, it resorts to personal attacks on the one commissioner who has fought to increase capacity.

I was told this couldn’t happen in a place with few renewables. 🤡

Southeastern utilities have made a multi-decade mockery of transmission planning. Now they act all shockedPikachu.gif that someone calls them out on it.

Excellent reporting from @wabe.org and @ejreports.bsky.social with this series about data centers in the South. What’s happening and what’s changed… www.wabe.org/server-south/

If you don’t pay me eleventy billion dollars, it will cost you a billion dollars!!! stpetecatalyst.com/duke-city-ow...

Smart move by Georgia Power to protect its compliant commissioners from electoral challenges. As soon as (if) they get re-elected, boom, rates go back on the climb! www.wabe.org/georgia-powe...

Sick fuck.

The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡

Outgoing director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management says Alabama's environment better off than when he started 15 years ago. He's right. But not because of him. Because the federal government made him. www.alreporter.com/2025/05/08/o...

Trump going to continue his streak of getting liberals elected. georgiarecorder.com/2025/05/08/g...

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Hey Georgia Power, how's that wonderfully designed solar program going? ~sells 1 block (out of 8,000) to 1 customer in 2 years~ 🤡

We are governed by the dumbest among us. “For just $32 million a year, Energy Star […] saves over $40 billion in annual energy costs. That’s a return of $350 for every federal dollar” Only a mouthbreather would look at $1 → $350 and say, ‘Yeah, we should kill that.’ www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/c...

Former North Carolina Utilities Chair Charlotte Mitchell goes to work for Duke Energy's law firm. Her deference to Duke as Chair makes all the more sense now. www.mcguirewoods.com/news/press-r...

PJM prioritizing gas but real data shows that batteries get online a year faster than gas. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Trump-Vance is bad for Alabama. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/t...

$2453/kW for new gas. OOF. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Utilities watching those oil prices collapse knowing what's coming for natural gas.