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Our Power. Our Future. A people-powered campaign for democratically-controlled energy in Chicago. #DemocratizeComEd #DemocratizingIsFeasible💡⚡️

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Today at 10am is the 2023 Summer Preparedness Hearing at City Council. This annual meeting by the Committee on Environmental Protection & Energy focuses on ComEd's reliability and other issues. Tune in at chicityclerk.com and watch this space as we follow along.
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Guess what? Publicly-run utilities with genuine public oversight can provide power to everyone, and do it cheaper, more reliably, and more sustainably. New York’s Power Authority building more green power plants is a great model! 🌱 ⚡️ 💡
Common Wealth
@Cmmonwealth15 Feb 2024
We argued in 🧵 that the state’s structurally lower cost of capital can radically reduce the price of renewables (by ~15%), which, as a systemically significant price, has profound macroeconomic repercussions. But are there tradeoffs?
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This Thursday at 4:00 PM join us at the Hyatt McCormick Place to protest the American Petroleum Institute conference! Fossil fuel CEOs have made billions poisoning our planet while deceiving and manipulating the public about climate change. They're not welcome in Chicago!
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The time is now to demand climate justice for Chicago and all frontline communities already facing the most dire impacts of climate change.
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Stop the American Petroleum Institute Rally and Press Conference

Join a coalition of grass roots organizations including, environmental, climate justice and student groups fighting to end the climate crisis, exposing the American Petroleum Institutes role in...

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People's Gas wants to raise your bill to pay for more fossil fuel infrastructure that will destroy our planet and poison our lungs. Join us on Thursday, Oct 19 to tell the ICC to say NO to utility rate hikes! bit.ly/DCE-Rate-Hikes
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All of this is happening while our planet is hotter than it's been in thousands of years. We need to rapidly end our use of fossil fuels, and paying People's Gas to tear up our streets and build more gas pipelines in our city is incompatible with a livable planet.
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So please join us downtown this Thursday at 11AM, where we will join with @SierraChicago and more to tell the ICC to say NO to rate hikes and City Hall to say YES to clean and affordable electric buildings. Sign up here: bit.ly/DCE-Rate-Hikes
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While nominally being about reliability concerns, this hearing is one of the few opportunities City Council has historically had to directly interface with ComEd leadership. ComEd's executives typically show up in force, so we are looking forward to seeing who shows up this year
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Chair Hadden notes that no other questions for the ComEd executives present, asks for some more information, possibly in graphic form, about future renewables projects in the area, and what role ComEd could play in moving those along. – at Chicago, IL
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With that, the Committee on Environmental Protection and Energy has moved through everything on its agenda. Alder Manaa-Hoppenworth motions to adjourn, and that’s the summer preparedness hearing over for this year. – at Chicago, IL
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