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Power companies win challenge over Texas transmission line law

Companies outside of Texas that don't have transmission lines in Texas can now do business in Texas, per a federal judge's ruling.

According to the suit, "NextEra alleged that SB 1938 was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause because it discriminates against interstate commerce on its face, in effect, and in purpose."

@Chron

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/power-lawsuit-transmission-lines-ercot-19880420.php

#Texas #Power #PublicUtility #Electricity #InterstateCommerce

@Radgryd @lulu I know...

TBH, I think #PublicTransport should be free to use and access like #PublicRoads and be maintained as a #PublicUtility with hard #MustProvide carry...

#California's notoriously docile #PublicUtilitiesCommission voted 4-0 to allow a new fixed #fee on bills for energy. State #regulators OK'd new monthly "#utility fee" up to $24 on top of already climbing residential #ElectricBills.

The fee restructuring is expected to raise bills of up to 4 million customers statewide of Pacific #Gas & #Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego #Gas & Electric.

#PublicUtility Commissioner Darcie Houck said “This is a relatively modest charge." #PGE say the fixed #charge will supposedly reduce the per-kilowatt cost of #electricity for all customers and help subsidize greener energy production.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/09/pge-bill-economy-customer-consumer-gas-electricity-bay-area-california/

@rbreich this should just not exist...

Or is regulating healthcare as a #HumanRight or at least essential #MustProvide #PublicUtility too "#communist" for the #USA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d3QLPdHysc

Perfectly normal for a public utility to roll out new #termsandconditions that revoke class action lawsuits from the public, limit the liability of the public utility, collect more data that may or may not include data on children, etc. Top it that all off with no ability to opt out, unless you cancel your electricity. This is fine.

#dataprotection
#privacy
#datarights
#publicutility

#Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A #PubliclyOwned grid

"Making the island’s utility a #cooperative resulted in cheaper and cleaner power. It could hold lessons for communities around the country debating local utility control."

#EnergyTransition #PublicUtility
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/kauai-is-a-clean-energy-leader-its-secret-a-publicly-owned-grid

Order Instituting Rulemaking Proceeding to Consider Rules to Implement Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program

The CPUC, in its commitment to help bridge the digital divide, will hold two virtual public forums for consumers to offer input regarding quality and accessibility of high-speed broadband in their communities.  

Californians can also make their voice heard in this proceeding, and read the comments of others, on the proceeding’s Docket Card comment section.
WHEN: Nov. 8, 2023, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. (virtual only)
#California #publicutility
https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/beadprogram

Kentucky State Senator Gex Williams sees the privitization of a public utility as a "golden opportunity".

The gold would come from the pockets of Kentucky municipal utility customers and taxpayers.

#PublicUtility #PublicPower #Public #Kentucky

https://www.state-journal.com/opinion/guest-columnist-frankforts-golden-opportunity-embracing-broadband-privatization/article_c495a606-5eeb-11ee-80cd-6bd6182cd5c6.html

The #Internet must be a #PublicUtility instead of a Private one that's a Common Carrier for All.

We should look at #PublicControl of the Internet like; #Community-developed Internet, #Municipal Internet, or even Nationalizing the Internet.

The reason for the #Internet is because of #Socialism, not #Capitalism!

https://popularresistance.org/nationalize-the-networks/

@llebrun a good point to promote in the 100th year of the BBC. Imagine if it had been a commercial entity, all that we would have missed out on. #BBC #PublicUtility
I've long thought a BBC created social media could have been a real force for good, much like the #BBCMicro

It's the Billionaires' Internet, and We're Just Posting On It https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7np47/its-the-billionaires-internet-and-were-just-posting-on-it #Vice #RSS #News #Bot #publicutility #JackDorsey #Internet #protocol #Platform #elonmusk #Twitter

நகராட்சி நிர்வாகம், குடிநீர் வழங்கல் , காவல், தீயணைப்பு, சிறைகள், ஆதிதிராவிடர் மாணவ விடுதிகள்! முதல்வர்  ஸ்டாலின் திறந்து வைத்தார். https://patrikai.com/municipal-dept-drinking-water-supply-police-fire-prisons-depts-and-adidravidar-student-hostels-chief-stalin-opened-today/

#PublicUtility #Building #Inauguration @DuraimuruganDmk@twitter.com @katpadidmk@twitter.com @KN_NEHRU@twitter.com @R_Gandhi_MLA@twitter.com @Kayalvizhi_N@twitter.com @arivalayam@twitter.com

"#Platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon should be viewed as essential infrastructure and regulated as public utilities.

This #PublicUtility regulatory approach is a critical complement to the antimonopoly tools in the context of tech platforms."

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/from-private-bads-to-public-goods-adapting-public-utility-regulation-for-informational-infrastructure