In 2012, the world started to install more clean electricity capacity than they did fossil fueled dirty power plant capacity.
In 2025, only 75 GW of coal and 50 GW of methane capacity was added whereas 160 GW of wind and 510 GW of solar capacity was added to our electricity grids.
Regulated monopoly utilities tend to behave better when they face a credible threat of some other model visibly outperforming them. The credible threat from public city-run utilities was the main reason the robber barons who ran electricity monopolies agreed to regulation in the first place.
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Kevin J. Kircher
I'll go on record and say that municipalizing San Francisco's electricity system is a good idea, with or without California state acting to do something about all of PG&E. It would dramatically weaken PG&E's political power; it would spur follow-on action; it would move SF forward on decarb.
Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.
