As Electricity Bills Rise, Activists Are Demanding Public Control of Utilities

https://murica.website/2026/01/as-electricity-bills-rise-activists-are-demanding-public-control-of-utilities/

Don't like your capitalist ripoff public utility? (I'm thinking PG&E especially--new gas explosion in Hayward CA where I grew up) Try socializing it!
#publicutilities #publicpower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/nyregion/central-hudson-utility-takeover.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U8.WvVR.h1l1Nm7o0QXa&smid=url-share

@verdantsquare SHIT LIKE THIS is why #Churches should.not be allowed to own or operate #PublicUtilities and #Infrastructure like #Hospitals, and whx the #ChildfuckerCult needs to be outlawed, with their assets being seized!

Data Centers Devour Electricity. Private Equity Is Buying Utilities to Cash In.

https://murica.website/2025/11/data-centers-devour-electricity-private-equity-is-buying-utilities-to-cash-in/

🔌 Find out how Claroty helps #PublicUtilities organizations reduce their cyber risk with the quickest time-to-value (TTV) and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)–regardless of the scale or maturity of your program. 📄 https://claroty.com/resources/datasheets/ot-cybersecurity-and-nerc-cip-compliance-for-public-power-utilities

#SLG #NERCCIP #NERC #cybersecurity #NetworkProtection #ZeroTrust #NERCCIP0151 #ExposureManagement #AssetDiscovery #ThreatDetection #CPS

Cyber Investigation Underway at Detroit Water Facility After Network Intrusion Attempt #CriticalInfrastructure #WaterTreatment #PublicUtilities #Cyberattack #Michigan https://zba.bz/IMnOD

F*ck me my water bill has gone up by 37.4% in the last 14 months. How did that happen? And I don’t get to switch providers, I just have to suck it up. WTaF?
#water #utilities #publicutilities

Utilities charged with responsibility for wildfires seek to raise rates. Oregon lawmakers question whether they should.

#DemCast #Wildfires #PublicUtilities

https://www.oregoncapitalinsider.com/news/lawmakers-propose-pause-on-rate-hikes-from-utilities-embroiled-in-wildfire-lawsuits/article_73fb663

Obituary for the late Mark Zuckerberg who turned a Harvard campus creeper app, scraping and rating female students' photos, into a global Public Information Utility, who left this life firmly committed to the right of every member of the Public to enjoy their own truth; and to evade their rights established under the Common Carrier clause of the US Code which was enacted to protect citizens from parasitic utilities like those operated by Meta Corp.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title47/chapter5/subchapter2&edition=prelim

#law #justice #AI #satire #1A #freespeech #commonCarrier #publicUtilities #antitrust #regulation #oversight #publicInterest #publicSector #journo #journalism #RIP #obituary #meta #social #factChecking #disinfo #disinformation #propaganda #truth #truthMatters #facts #factsMatter

Public utilities are the target of many #cyber #attacks. I’m researching for a new article. Drop a link if you have some good intel. TIA
#cybersecurity #publicutilities #techwriter #writingCyber

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#CyberCloak #NetworkProtection #DataProtection #AssetManagement #RiskManagement #WaterUtilities #PublicUtilities #Cybersecurity

The Story of Water (2019) (the problems of privatised water)

https://fedi.video/w/jaj3B6YmUd2XG2Vu9xGte1

https://blog.ultranurd.net/2024/07/24/404-parking-not-found/

#dadJoke #http #parking #publicUtilities

@alanferrier It doesn’t get more stupid than selling essential #publicutilities - you have to guarantee their loans, prop them up so they are profitable and buy them back when the assets are exhausted and reinvest to restore a basic standard of service. And we the voting public are 100% to blame.for voting for people who espouse these venal policies.

No surprise here. #FakeAI #DataGrifters and #Crypto #DigitalGrifters are sucking up all the #electricity that we can generate. Is this what #Publicutilities were created for? #GriftersGonnaGrift in the #PNW.
@kuow_bot

From a HN thread about a 2022 proposal for running internet access as a public utility;

"I used to live in a building that managed its own building-wide internet connection. I.e. instead of each unit paying $50-$100 and running a cable modem or dsl router, there was a single net connection, an ethernet port in each unit, and you paid via your building maintenance fees. It came to about $20-25 per unit, so half to a quarter of the individual price."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647212

#PublicUtilities

"While the Attorney General’s Office and other groups called for the commission to order a more significant “remedy” for PNM’s imprudent investment in the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant, the commissioners approved a plan that says the company can’t collect about $85 million related to its investments in the plant."
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/regulators-slash-millions-of-dollars-in-cost-recovery-in-pnm-rate-case/article_59756bba-aa57-11ee-a61f-33bc63dd4ec0.html?utm_source=santafenewmexican.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fyour-morning-headlines%2F%3F123%26-dc%3D1704369613&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
#PublicUtilities #PrivateUtilities
#NewMexico

And ... it took #Optus over 80 minutes to have a human operator engage in the "Message Us " chat support this morning.

The #ComplaintResolution person says they're very busy.
But I can talk with another complaint person!

#NegativeUX

I'm thinking Enshitification has a history back to the privatisation of #PublicUtilities like electricity, gas, sewerage, water, & #TelephoneService.

#Telco #OptusFailure #Privatisation #Enshitification
#JohnMartyn #OverTheHill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwjL3ipBAhg

For those who don't quite understand it, allow me to explain how PG&E (and other utilities) steal from the public to enrich a small number of executives.

For decades, they neglected maintenance on their infrastructure. (This is well documented fact.)

Neglected maintenance doesn't cost anything, and because the company wasn't spending any money on maintenance, it turned a nice profit.

This profit was then sucked up by the PG&E parent company, redistributed to shareholders, and because HEY GREAT JOB MAKING BIG PROFITS, executives were rewarded with nice fat bonuses.

In effect, they were pocketing the money that should have been used for maintenance or redistributing it to investors.

Then, decades go by and that neglect causes disaster after disaster, and they MUST fix it. Those billions that should have been spent over decades but went to bonuses and dividends now come from ratepayers.

The effect is the same as if they'd stolen the money directly.

Nobody went to prison.

#CPUC #PGE #PublicUtilities

#OilAndGas #methane #Utilities #PublicUtilities #flags

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