@MegToDiffer

Supporting utility regulation in Central states @AdvEnergyUnited. @NRDC, @UCSUSA, @ElectILSenDems, @Energy_Leaders alum. Tweets my own.

 Chicago, IL
Joined February 2019
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It’s crazy that there’s been an entire hole on Chicago southside parkland including partially buried fencing that @chicago @ChicagoParks hasn’t done anything about all summer. Is the park district waiting for a kid to fall in? @yancyforthe5th @senpetersil @SaveThePointChi
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The street is so flooded that a car going down creates a wake and causes waves on the sidewalk. Open “clean catch basin/gutter box” work orders dating back to August 2025 and March 2026. What gives @chicago @LamontJRobinson @ChicagoWater
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🔓 Unlocking Advanced Energy ⚡️

Article · @AdvEnergyUnited
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Replying to @joelgombiner @DavidPomerantz
Sure, there is some risk, but not necessarily to shareholder returns on investment. The return on equity is set/approved by regulators and recovered from captive ratepayers. Even the risk of fuel price volatility is borne by ratepayers unless there is fuel cost sharing.
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Rate of Return Equals Cost of Capital: A Simple, Fair Formula to Stop Investor-Owned Utilities From Overcharging the Public economicliberties.us/our-wor… via @Econliberties

Rate of Return Equals Cost of Capital: A Simple, Fair Formula to Stop Investor-Owned Utilities From...

A new paper shedding light on how investor-owned utilities overcharge ratepayers through excessive rates of return, and offering concrete recommendations to ensure rates are fair and aligned with the...

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Replying to @joelgombiner @DavidPomerantz
These utility profits are mostly guaranteed profits, investing in stocks involves taking on risk. Those returns are not guaranteed. It’s more apt to compare them to guaranteed returns of, say, bonds.
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Stunning stat: 2,860 Chicago pedestrians & cyclists ages 1 to 19 have been hit by cars since 2021. Here's the hotspot map in @chicagotribune on where these crashes occur:
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6 Via RideSmarts on my walk home 7pm on a Tuesday. One of the most walkable neighborhoods in Chicago. 2 students called one from yoga. My least favorite security theater = creating gas-powered car dependence. @UChicago should invest in real transportation & real safety vs 🚗🚗🚗
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MISO's Board approved a historic regional transmission portfolio: "MISO's process is entirely replicable & grid operators can incorporate their own regional needs into planning process updates required under a recent federal directive." -@TedThomasENRGZ utilitydive.com/news/midwest…

Midwest to lead in ‘build, baby, build’

MISO has proven itself as a national leader in regional transmission planning — and other regions should take note.

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Meg Hassett retweeted
Ben Inskeep@Ben_Inskeep7 Jan 2025
A 1,070-MW coal plant, once slated for retirement by 2023 and now the #9 largest GHG polluter in Indiana, appears to be on the verge of executing a long-term agreement to sell a majority of its energy and capacity to an unnamed data center developer.
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A Michigan utility buys power from 1950s-era coal plants whose largest owner happens to be its parent company. It's a bad deal for the power company's customers, consumer watchdogs and enviro groups say. mlive.com/environment/2024/1…

Michigan utility wants to charge customers for pricey coal ‘boondoggle’, watchdogs say

A Michigan utility buys above-market power from Cold War-era coal plants owned by an affiliate when cheaper options are on the table, critics say, and customers are worse off for it.

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BREAKING NEWS: MISO's Board of Directors approved the Tranche 2.1 transmission portfolio. The portfolio includes 24 high-voltage transmission lines that are projected to deliver at least $23.1 billion in net benefits over the first 20 years of service.
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Private jet trips. Massages. Professional sport games. Not the perks of being a millionaire, but instead an executive or staff member at some of the top utilities across the country. And customers are paying the price. New report from EPI: energyandpolicy.org/report-u…

Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury...

Utilities seek to charge customers for lobbying, corporate advertising, and unnecessary expenses that do not benefit customers.

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This actually happens a lot in Chicago because the city departments don’t communicate with each other and aldermanic menu money is spent independently of citywide infrastructure planning.
AJ LaTrace
@ajlatrace13 Nov 2024
Here's a small but visible example of waste in Chicago. Just 8-9 weeks ago, a crew poured a new sidewalk all the way down the 3400 block of Belmont Avenue. Then in the last week or so, that brand new sidewalk got ripped up again. (Left photo: August 7. Right photo: today.)
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"As families make tough choices between paying the power bill or buying groceries, there are mandates and market manipulations keeping expensive coal online and consumers paying the price. - Bishop Marcia Dinkins, @BLAC_Appalachia utilitydive.com/news/pjm-cap…

PJM sees ‘easy button’ to meet power needs, but Appalachians see higher bills and more pollution

Mandates and market manipulations are keeping expensive coal online, and consumers are paying the price.

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Horrifying. The first photo is verified fatalities in residential buildings by age and gender since 10/7/23 and the second is prior conflicts. When ages 0-4, 5-9, and 10-14 are on the bottom of a graph of fatalities, it shouldn’t actually be a pyramid! ohchr.org/sites/default/file…
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On the bright side, the sanctuary districts in Star Trek led to the Bell riots, which were some A+ episodes of Deep Space 9.
delaniac 🌹🌱@ChadNotChud11 Nov 2024
I do think at some point, as a journalist, it’s your responsibility to read between the lines a little bit
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If you want to call me a lefty for thinking my community deserves to drink clean water, go ahead.  If you want to say I'm a progressive for saying polluters should pay to clean up their mess, feel free.  I don't give a sh*t about labels. I care about delivering for my constituents and my community.
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I called on the CEO of our billion-dollar utility monopoly to resign, and we forced them to pay back customers over $60M.  I went after the Wall Street speculators driving up the price of housing. I built a coalition to push my bill to stop Big Pharma from ripping off families.
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I put affordability front and center every day. Most importantly, I told folks exactly who it was that was ripping them off, and I grounded it locally.  It's the billionaires and big corporations making record-breaking profits while the rest of us struggle.
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