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Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility

The US’s first state-run public power company could be created when Maine votes later this year – but utilities are fighting it

Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups

Donations have helped utilities increase electricity prices, hinder solar schemes and helped elect sympathetic legislators

US utilities shut off power to millions amid record corporate profits – report

Largest utilities spent billions on stock buybacks, dividend payments to shareholders and executive salaries, analysis finds

Utilities are some of the powerful companies around

These guides on utility corporate power are MUST-READS for anyone who supports energy democracy: http://bit.ly/utilitiesplaybook Amazing work from @SolarNeighbors & @EnergyDemocTour!

Entergy Resisted Upgrading New Orleans' Power Grid. Residents Paid The Price

NPR - The day after Wilma Banks lost power, the stale summer air inside her New Orleans apartment became suffocating...

In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Terry Dunn couldn't fathom why Alabama's residents — among the poorest in the U.S. — pay some of the nation's most expensive electricity bills.

Twitter - @twittlesis

Utility companies are using their monopoly power and money extracted from captive communities to lobby to weaken an already insufficient climate agenda...

The People's Utilities Playbook

Solar United Neighbors - Electric utilities have expanded into almost every aspect of our lives to become one of the most powerful and concentrated industries on Earth...

Utilities Continue to Profit from Pandemic Misery & Obstruct Energy Transition

Hardly a day passes where we don’t read another horror story about utility companies and how they are failing us. Gouging captive customers. Gobbling up bailout money. Stalling on renewable energy. The list goes on.